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Why did my benchmark stop at N=22? A debugging story in nine bugs

Submission for DEV's Summer Bug Smash — Smash Stories track. There was a file in my repo called run_benchmark_1_22.py. Not 1 to 24, which is what the harness was written to do. Not 1 to 26, which is how many Mersenne e

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Dev.to

My benchmark's Python column was N/A for a year — CPython's 4300-digit limit, and eight other bugs

Submission for DEV's Summer Bug Smash — Clear the Lineup track. The codebase a2a-benchmark is my multi-language A2A (Agent-to-Agent) performance suite: four agents — Python and Go behind Gemini tool-calling v

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Dev.to

I spent a week trying to intercept Slack push notifications from a Chrome extension. Here's why it's impossible.

After I published my last article about building a Chrome extension that speaks browser notifications aloud, a commenter asked a question I didn't have a good answer to. He pointed out that a lot of web apps — Slack, Gm

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Dev.to

How to Summarize PDFs Programmatically in 2026 (+ a Free No-Code Option)

You've got a folder of PDFs and you want summaries — not by hand. Here are three approaches that actually work in 2026, roughly from "most control" to "least effort," plus an honest note on when you shouldn't build this

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Dev.to

Turn redacted HarnessDelta findings into native CI review artifacts

A specialist check is most useful when its findings arrive where a team already reviews code. For coding-agent configuration, that usually means a SARIF upload, an inline workflow annotation, or a GitLab Code Quality art

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Dev.to

Find the pauses. Plan the words: audio-description timing from SRT and WebVTT

Audio-description planning has an awkward scheduling problem before anyone writes a line: where might narration fit, and roughly how many spoken words can each opening carry? Caption files already contain one useful—but

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TechCrunch

Microsoft patches bug in video game Age of Empires II

The vulnerability in the decades-old game could have allowed hackers to take over victims’ computers with a malicious game invite.

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The Verge

Our ‘explosive diarrhea parasite’ future

Bryan, a food broker from Michigan, wasn't sure if he'd be able to make it to urgent care in time. He started feeling off on Thursday, and by Saturday, he was having to use the bathroom every 15 to 30 minutes. "It's no j

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Hacker News

I Left Google DeepMind

Article URL: https://turntrout.com/why-i-left-google-deepmind Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48925271 Points: 29 # Comments: 3

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The Verge

Something’s glowing on the Pixel 11’s camera bar

A new teaser for Google's upcoming Pixel 11 lineup reveals that the phones will feature some kind of glowing orb on the camera bar, as reported by 9to5Google. Google's store page for the Pixel 11 has a short video that s

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TechCrunch

Apple quietly reveals how its Maps ads will differ from Google’s

Apple has published the policies governing its upcoming Maps advertising business, revealing a strategy that differs from Google’s. The new rules prohibit home services businesses like plumbers, electricians, locksmiths,

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Hacker News

Murati's Thinking Machines Releases Open-Weights 975B Parameter LLM

Article URL: https://thinkingmachines.ai/inkling/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48924929 Points: 93 # Comments: 18

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