Critical Check Point flaw lets unauthenticated attackers gain root via stack overflow

A critical pre-authentication vulnerability, CVE-2026-91843, has been discovered in Check Point Security Management and Log Servers, allowing unauthenticated attackers to execute arbitrary code as root. The flaw exists in the login process, meaning no credentials are required for an attacker to exploit it by sending a crafted network request that triggers a stack overflow. CERT-In has catalogued the issue as CIVN-2026-0465 with a critical severity rating. Affected products span multiple versions including R82.20, R82.10, R81.20, R81.10, and several end-of-support R80/R81 release trains. Check Point has released patches via advisory sk1000155, and administrators are advised to apply updates immediately while restricting network access to management interfaces in the interim.

Developer Uses Jev Decision Model to Fix Repetitive Game Recommendations on likethisgame.com

A developer running likethisgame.com discovered that popular titles like Black Myth: Wukong were being recommended across unrelated game genres, appearing on one in every ten pages. The root cause was a flawed candidate selection process that defaulted to popular games when no similar titles could be found, causing the same 20 games to appear regardless of genre. To fix this, the developer integrated Jev, a decision model from TypeSafe accessed via OpenRouter's Decisions API, to rate how well candidate games fit each other before passing the results to the recommendation model. Rather than replacing the language model, Jev was used upstream to score and filter candidates, improving the relevance of the final recommendation lists. The developer tested changes incrementally using side-by-side comparisons, keeping only the adjustments that showed measurable improvement.

Software Architecture Is Learned Through Bugs, Not Blueprints, Dev Argues

A software developer writing on DEV Community argues that real architectural thinking is rarely taught formally but is instead earned through repeated failures and hard-won debugging sessions. The author distinguishes between clean code, which is about readability, and architecture, which is about what happens when two features interact or a core assumption breaks. They describe how seemingly sound features can collide unpredictably at runtime, producing bugs that tutorials never cover. The turning point came when they stopped patching symptoms and started asking a single guiding question: what owns this, and what happens when the underlying assumption fails. The author now recommends building a minimal version first, letting architectural needs emerge organically, while applying that one ownership question before shipping anything.

Elderly Man Dies After Sunlounger Dispute Turns Violent on Greek Beach

An 82-year-old man has died following a physical altercation with a 76-year-old man over a sunlounger at a beach in Greece. The confrontation escalated into a fight between the two elderly individuals, resulting in fatal injuries to the older man. Eyewitnesses described the incident as extremely chaotic, with screaming audible from a considerable distance along the beach. Authorities are investigating the circumstances surrounding the deadly dispute.

Building offline-first apps without a backend shifts, not removes, hard problems

A developer building a fully local app — with SQLite as the sole database and no server, accounts, or sync — shares key lessons from the experience. Without a backend, the device becomes the only source of truth, meaning data errors are permanent and every bug risks data integrity. A critical mistake involved computing period summaries on demand, which caused historical records to silently change whenever underlying figures were corrected; the fix was to freeze and store summaries once a period closed. Backup also requires deliberate design: soft-deleted rows must be retained, device-specific settings like theme should be excluded, and every table must be explicitly listed in the backup routine to prevent silent data loss on restore. The developer concludes that going backend-free eliminates hosting and security overhead but moves all database, schema, and backup responsibilities onto a device the developer does not control.

How Offloading Native Builds to EAS Made One Developer's Releases More Reliable

A React Native developer has never compiled their app locally, instead relying entirely on Expo Application Services (EAS) for native builds while using Expo Go for day-to-day development. Local builds were avoided because they depend on machine-specific variables like JDK version and Gradle cache, none of which are version-controlled, making failures hard to diagnose. A tight monthly build-credit quota unexpectedly improved discipline, pushing type-checking and linting locally before any remote build is triggered, and encouraging batching of native changes. The developer also discovered that adding Android package-visibility settings via app.json is silently ignored, and the correct approach is a config plugin that modifies the Android manifest during prebuild. The broader takeaway is that a reproducible, file-defined build environment outweighs the perceived speed advantage of building natively on a local machine.

How HTTP Health Checks Can Silently Catch Failing Cron Jobs

Cron jobs and scheduled tasks can fail silently for days or weeks without anyone noticing, posing risks for critical processes like backups. A straightforward solution involves configuring jobs to send an HTTP request to a monitoring service each time they complete successfully. If the expected check-in does not arrive within a set interval, the monitoring service triggers an alert — acting as a 'dead man's switch' for automated tasks. This approach requires no agent installation and works across Linux cron, Windows scheduled tasks, database scripts, and automation platforms like n8n, Make, and Zapier. A tool called Doyouok has been built around this concept, offering a free tier for teams wanting lightweight monitoring without a complex infrastructure.

Why ChunkLoadError Happens After React/Next.js Deployments and How to Fix It

React and Next.js applications split JavaScript into smaller files called chunks, which browsers load on demand rather than all at once. When a new version is deployed and old chunk files are removed from the server, users who still have the previous version open in their browser encounter a ChunkLoadError because their runtime requests files that no longer exist. Simply refreshing the page resolves the error temporarily by loading the new version, but it does not address the underlying deployment architecture problem. The root cause is a version mismatch between the JavaScript runtime running in the user's browser and the assets now available on the server. Proper solutions include keeping old assets available during transitions, using immutable versioned files, and adopting atomic or rolling deployment strategies to prevent serving broken states to active users.

Developer Completes JUnit 5 Course and Launches Portfolio in Week 14 of 100DaysOfCode

A developer participating in the #100DaysOfCode challenge completed Week 14 by finishing a JUnit 5 software testing course, scoring 70% on the final exam. The week involved studying advanced JUnit 5 features including parameterized tests, dynamic tests, dependency injection, and integrations with tools like Mockito, Spring, and Selenium. After completing the course, the developer shifted focus to building a new personal portfolio using Next.js, Tailwind CSS, and Motion, completing the Hero and About sections. Alongside portfolio work, they also began reading about Docker and refreshing their understanding of containerization concepts. With only a few days remaining in the 100-day challenge, the developer reflected on the importance of balancing learning, revision, and hands-on building.

Delhi High Court Strengthens Bench With 7 New Judge Appointments

The Delhi High Court has received seven new judges as part of a broader judicial appointment drive. The appointments are among a total of 14 judges designated across four different high courts in India. The move is aimed at addressing vacancies and strengthening judicial capacity in these courts. Such appointments are typically made by the President of India on the recommendation of the Supreme Court collegium.

Nobody pays for FOSS, we can force them to

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Ogre Battle 64 Fan Recompilation Project Nears Completion at 99%

A community-driven project to recompile Ogre Battle 64, the classic Nintendo 64 strategy RPG, has reached 99.05% completion. The effort, hosted on GitHub, aims to produce a native PC port by decompiling and reconstructing the game's original source code. Such recompilation projects allow games to be run natively on modern hardware without emulation. The project has attracted attention on Hacker News, reflecting broader interest in game preservation efforts.

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Beginner Developer Learns Python Decision-Making and Loops Through Real-World Problems

A Python beginner documented their learning journey, progressing from basic print statements to using conditional logic and loops to solve practical problems. They explored if-elif-else statements to build a grade classifier and a nested login verification system. Using for loops, they automated repetitive tasks like greeting multiple users and summing a list of financial transactions. A while loop was applied to calculate how many months it would take to reach a savings goal, illustrating a direct connection between coding and personal finance. The learner concluded that programming is fundamentally about breaking real-world problems into step-by-step instructions a computer can execute.

Music History Podcast No Dogs in Space Returns with Punk-Focused Season 4

Popular music history podcast No Dogs in Space has returned after a more than two-year hiatus with its fourth season, titled Punk 2.0. Hosts Carolina Hidalgo and Marcus Parks chose punk rock as the season's focus, citing it as the area where their passion and expertise are strongest. The season opened this week with the first episode of a multi-part series on the New York Dolls. The band's frontman David Johansen hails from Staten Island, New York. The new season marks a deliberate return to basics for the long-running show.

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A Beginner's Breakdown of How Python Data Types and Variables Actually Work

A beginner Python learner shares how understanding core concepts like variables, data types, and user input transformed their learning experience. The writer explains that variables act as labeled containers storing information, while data types — such as integers, strings, floats, and booleans — determine how Python processes that data. A key insight was that the integer 7 and the string "7" behave differently in operations, illustrating why data types matter in programming. Using the input() function made programs interactive, and f-strings offered a cleaner way to format and display output. The author, who has an accounting background, found particular motivation in building a simple money transfer calculator that connected programming concepts to real-world financial use.

Builder.io Open-Sources Agent-Native Framework to Unify AI and UI Actions

Builder.io has released Agent-Native, an open-source full-stack TypeScript framework aimed at fixing the fragmented way AI is typically integrated into web applications. Most existing AI implementations rely on isolated chat sidebars that lack shared context with the main app, forcing users to manually re-explain what they see on screen. Agent-Native addresses this by introducing a single unified 'Action' primitive that simultaneously serves React UI components, LLM tool calls, REST endpoints, and Model Context Protocol servers. The framework also enables real-time shared state, so any action taken by an AI agent is instantly reflected in the user interface without page reloads. By eliminating duplicate logic between frontend and AI tooling, Agent-Native aims to let human users and AI agents collaborate within the same application layer.

Dart's shared_map Package Lets Isolates Share State Without Complex Plumbing

Dart isolates are designed to share no memory, which eliminates concurrency bugs but makes sharing data across isolates traditionally cumbersome. Developers typically had to either copy entire data structures across isolate boundaries or hand-write verbose message-passing boilerplate using SendPort and ReceivePort. The open-source package shared_map, built by Dart engineer Graciliano M. Passos, offers a cleaner alternative by providing a synchronized Map that works transparently across isolates. It works by creating a main SharedMap instance, serializing it into a lightweight reference token, and reconstructing a proxy inside worker isolates that automatically syncs all reads and writes back to the source. The package carries a perfect pub.dev score, has zero dependencies, and supports all Dart platforms including iOS, Android, web, and server environments.