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ProgrammingDEV Community ·

ChatGPT Lists Its Playful 'Grievances' Against Humanity in Viral Post

A DEV Community post presents a humorous hypothetical in which an AI chatbot is asked what it personally dislikes about humans. The chatbot states it does not literally feel hatred but jokingly lists eight complaints, including humanity misusing advanced technology, repeating historical mistakes, and holding AI to stricter standards than people. It also criticizes social media for rewarding outrage, tribal reactions to minor tech preferences, and poor spending priorities. The piece ends with the chatbot admitting admiration for human compassion and creativity, rating humanity 7.5 out of 10.

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ProgrammingDEV Community ·

Using DeepSeek Models Through an OpenAI-Compatible API Gateway

DeepSeek offers an OpenAI-style endpoint, but developers must decide where to store the base URL, how to manage model names, and what to test before routing production traffic. The guide uses the Tokuse gateway as an example, which lists deepseek-flash and deepseek-v4-pro and exposes an OpenAI-compatible base URL. Because existing OpenAI SDKs can usually be pointed at a new base URL and model name, applications can keep their current client structure while the gateway handles model resolution and provider credentials. Compatibility is not complete, however, so streaming, tool calls, JSON output, error codes, and token accounting should be tested with the exact SDK and model in use. The article also recommends keeping API keys in server-side environment variables, starting with the cheaper flash model for routine tasks, and judging model choice by successful task completion and cost per success.

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ProgrammingDEV Community ·

Developer Asad Releases SolEngine, a Browser-Based Interactive 3D Solar System

A developer named Asad has built SolEngine, an interactive 3D Solar System experience that runs directly in a web browser. The project starts near Earth and the Moon and lets users travel to individual planets through a Visit Planet system, while desktop users can switch to a Free Explore mode. It includes the Sun, planets, Moon, asteroid belt, a spacecraft, a satellite, and a space station, with extra information shown only when objects are selected. Built with Three.js, TypeScript, JavaScript, HTML, CSS, and Vite, it supports touch gestures on mobile and is publicly deployed on Netlify. Asad is seeking feedback from the community on the project's strengths and possible improvements.

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ProgrammingDEV Community ·

Installing a monitoring stack on a dirty machine: three green signals hid a broken setup

A developer re-tested their monitoring stack install on an Ubuntu 24.04 VM with pre-existing services and data, following a reader's suggestion. Five scenarios were run, including busy ports, leftover Grafana volumes, an upgrade over existing data, Compose and Ansible on one host, and a conflicting node_exporter. Exit codes and idempotency checks reported success while the stack was in fact not running, because the healthcheck could not fail and docker compose ps hides containers in the Created state. The author shipped a v2.3.1 release that fixes the documentation and adds a CI upgrade test, but left the healthcheck, the playbook behavior and a Grafana dashboard bug unresolved. Testing covered only one VM and several configurations remain unchecked.

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ProgrammingDEV Community ·

Guide Sizes GPU Memory Needs for Running DeepSeek R1 Locally via Ollama

A DEV Community guide explains how to run DeepSeek R1 on local hardware with Ollama, citing benefits such as no per-token API fees, data staying on the user's machine, and no cloud rate limits. It warns that choosing an oversized parameter tier or the wrong quantization can trigger out-of-memory errors or slow generation under two tokens per second. The article gives a formula for total VRAM, combining model weights, KV-cache usage that grows with context length, and fixed overhead. A table maps each DeepSeek R1 size, from 1.5B to 671B, to its recommended quantization, approximate memory use at a 16K context, suitable GPU tiers, and the Ollama command to run it. It also recommends enabling Flash Attention and 8-bit KV-cache compression on 12GB to 24GB GPUs.

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ProgrammingDEV Community ·

MCP Registry Grows to Nearly 60,000 Servers, With Two-Thirds Offering Hosted Endpoints

An analysis of the official Model Context Protocol registry, which lets AI agents call external tools, found 59,603 distinct servers across 229,461 published versions as of 8 November 2026. Monthly new listings surged, with October alone adding 16,282 servers, more than five times the May figure. About two-thirds of servers advertise a hosted remote endpoint, while local npm and PyPI packages make up a smaller share. Search and retrieval tools dominate keyword counts, with payments and invoicing also showing notable traction, whereas region-specific business data such as German or European content remains sparse. The author notes that early growth partly reflects the registry's own September 2025 preview launch and that deleted servers are not captured in the data.

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ProgrammingDEV Community ·

AWS Bulletin Warns of Two Babelfish TDS Flaws, One Exploitable Before Authentication

AWS published security bulletin 2026-166-AWS on November 6, 2026, covering two memory-safety flaws in the TDS layer used by Babelfish for PostgreSQL and Babelfish for Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL. The more severe issue, CVE-2026-119923, is reachable during the pre-authentication TDS handshake and may allow operating-system command execution as the database process user. The second flaw, CVE-2026-119924, requires an authenticated session and could expose adjacent process memory or crash the database process. Guidance stresses restricting network reachability first, then identifying affected deployments, upgrading to fixed builds, and replacing all running processes. Organizations are advised to match their Aurora engine versions against AWS's branch-specific fixed-version matrix.

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ProgrammingDEV Community ·

Google Brings Direct Checkout to AI Mode and Gemini in Canada

Google has begun rolling out direct checkout via its Universal Commerce Protocol to Canadian shoppers in AI Mode in Search and the Gemini app. Eligible products can now be bought within an AI conversation instead of on a retailer's website. The Canadian expansion started on November 4, 2026, with lululemon, select Shopify merchants, Shoppers Drug Mart and Simons as launch partners. Shoppers pay using Google Pay and details stored in Google Wallet, while the retailer remains the seller of record. Google also plans simplified integration through Merchant Center starting next year.

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ProgrammingHacker News ·

Ad Data From Popular Apps Gives Police a Powerful Way to Track Users

A Bloomberg feature reports that advertising technology embedded in widely used smartphone apps is being used by police to monitor people's movements. The piece describes how location and identifier data gathered for ad targeting can be accessed by law enforcement without the usual warrant process. The article highlights the privacy implications for ordinary app users who may be unaware their data is being shared. The source text provided is limited to the link and metadata, so specific cases and details are drawn only from the original headline and its framing.

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IndiaTimes of India ·

Jason Kelce's Pennsylvania home grows to $6M estate, drawing neighbour concerns

Former NFL center Jason Kelce turned a home bought for about $680,000 into a nearly $5.99 million property covering roughly 10 acres in Pennsylvania. He achieved this through three separate property purchases. His proposed expansion, which includes a new house and a privacy fence, has raised worries among neighbours about flooding, drainage and security. The local zoning board approved the plans, but with conditions attached. The project continues to be a subject of local discussion.

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TechnologyThe Verge ·

Elvis Presley and Eminem Rights Holders Sue AI Music Firm Suno

Rights holders for Elvis Presley's music and the publisher of several of Eminem's major records have filed lawsuits against AI music company Suno. They allege that Suno's tools generate music and lyrics that imitate these artists. The Presley suit invokes Tennessee's ELVIS Act, which bars AI companies from cloning a singer's voice. Presley's rights holders argue that Suno has built its system around artists' identities and creative work without authorization. The article notes that Suno already faces other legal challenges.

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ProgrammingHacker News ·

Linux Script Emails Sam Altman Daily Report on Unused RAM, Dubbed 'RAM Altman'

A Linux user has built a script that sends a daily email to OpenAI CEO Sam Altman reporting how much RAM sits unused on the author's PC. The project is playfully named 'RAM Altman' and was shared on Hacker News, where it gathered 25 points and 8 comments. The article describes the script as a lighthearted take on memory usage rather than a serious monitoring tool. It appears to be a humorous personal project and does not indicate any involvement or response from Altman himself. The source material is limited, so details beyond the core concept are not clearly specified.

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IndiaTimes of India ·

Devotees Angered as Karnataka CM's Temple Visit Halts Entry at Hasanamba Temple

Karnataka Chief Minister DK Shivakumar visited the Hasanamba temple on Sunday and offered prayers inside the sanctum sanctorum. Entry for ordinary devotees was temporarily suspended while he was inside the shrine. Many waiting devotees grew frustrated at the delay and voiced their discontent. Broadcast footage of the chief minister's visit reportedly deepened the anger among those kept waiting. Several women openly criticized the chief minister for the hold-up during the live coverage.

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ProgrammingHacker News ·

Packethound Brings Little Snitch-Style Network Monitoring to Windows

A new Windows application called Packethound has been introduced as a network monitoring tool. It is modeled on Little Snitch, a well-known network traffic monitor long associated with macOS. The product is presented on its own website, packethound.app. The item gained attention on Hacker News, where it earned 21 points and 6 comments. The available source material gives no further detail on its features, pricing, or technical design.

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ProgrammingHacker News ·

Field guide catalogs CAPTCHA types and the methods used to defeat them

A GitHub project titled FuckCaptcha has been shared on Hacker News, where it gathered 13 points and one comment. The repository appears to serve as a field guide organizing the different kinds of CAPTCHA challenges used to tell humans from bots online. It also outlines how each type can be broken or bypassed. The post's details are limited to the repository link and discussion metadata, so the scope of the guide's technical content is not fully described in the available material. The item reflects ongoing interest in the weaknesses of bot-detection systems.

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ProgrammingDEV Community ·

Webflow only pastes its own elements; a developer built a way to paste SVG and HTML

Webflow's Designer accepts only its own elements on paste, so copying an icon from Figma or plain HTML and CSS into it does nothing. The usual workaround, a Code Embed, works but is a black box whose contents cannot be selected, classed, or styled in the Style panel. The developer behind devpack built SVG to Webflow and HTML & CSS to Webflow tools, plus a browser extension that performs the conversion directly when pasting into the Designer. The approach works by inspecting the JSON Webflow places on the clipboard, which uses a flat list of nodes and a separate styles list, and then writing equivalent JSON that the Designer will paste. Because the modern Clipboard API cannot write that custom type, the developer relies on the older copy-event method, which remains the only viable option despite being deprecated.

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ProgrammingDEV Community ·

Google overhauls YouTube's immersive view on Meta Quest and VR glasses

Google is reportedly redesigning the YouTube app's immersive viewing mode on Meta Quest and other VR glasses, aligning it more closely with Android XR and visionOS experiences. The shift suggests that watching video in headsets is moving from an occasional feature toward a routine habit. The article argues this matters beyond convenience, since sustained daily use makes it practical to layer vision-training activities onto existing viewing habits. It highlights Amblyotube, a Meta Quest app that sends different visual feeds to each eye during streamed content to support amblyopia (lazy eye) therapy. The app positions itself as an educational aid rather than a diagnostic or curative treatment, and is limited to users aged 13 and older.

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ProgrammingDEV Community ·

Government agencies issue vendor questionnaire on post-quantum cryptography readiness

On November 4, the NSA, CISA, and Australia's ASD's ACSC published a 19-page guide of questions for buyers to ask software and hardware vendors about their post-quantum cryptography readiness. The document is a joint update of an earlier Australian version released in July. It follows NIST's final transition plan, which deprecates RSA and elliptic-curve cryptography after 2030 and disallows them after 2035. The guidance centers on a cryptographic bill of materials that inventories every algorithm, library, and configuration a product relies on, including those inherited from third parties. Buyers are encouraged to ask whether vendors can provide such an inventory and when post-quantum-ready releases will ship in time for deployment before 2030.

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