Building a cache-first dashboard — explicit fetch and a "closes-but-keeps-running" notice

When we shipped a cross-site dashboard in v1.6.2 — a single view that shows plugin-update status across multiple WordPress sites — we hit a UX wall almost immediately. Opening the dashboard meant waiting 24.5 seconds, every time. And the wait got longer as more sites were added. A user put it bluntly: "It launches a heavy operation the moment I open it. I wasn't mentally prepared for that." This post walks through the slightly unusual async-UX combination we landed on for that page — cache-first display, explicit fetch, and a "closes-but-keeps-running" notice.

Gold Rate Today, June 27: Check 18, 22 and 24 carat gold prices in Chennai, Mumbai, Delhi, Kolkata and other cities

Ferreira, Milne run through MI New York to give Super Kings third win

It was the lowest-scoring of the MLC 2026 games so far, with 259 runs scored in 39 overs, and lifted Texas Super Kings to the top of the table

How to Match Orders in 100 Lines of Ruby

Order matching has dropped in Shitcoin Swap in ~100 lines of Ruby. Most crypto exchanges reach for an existing matching engine or a Uniswap-style AMM. We wrote our own — not because we're smarter, but because the problem is simpler than people think, and understanding every line of your matching logic pays off if things go sideways at 3 AM. Two tables, one idea: Account — holds a balance of one asset. Each user gets one account per asset.

MemStrata Beats RAG comprehensively on mutating code content - http://arxiv.org/abs/2606.26511

I've spent the last several months building an AI memory system on nights and weekends, and the most valuable thing I learned has nothing to do with AI. It's this: the moment you let what you hope is true override what you measured, you stop doing engineering and start doing marketing. I caught myself doing it more than once. I had a headline result I loved - and the data quietly didn't support it. I had a clever feature I'd already written up as the fix - and when I finally measured it, it made things 25% worse.

How I auto-generate 800+ App Store screenshots across 39 languages and 3 devices

App Store screenshots are the highest-leverage marketing asset an app has — and the most painful to maintain. Now multiply that pain by 39 languages and 3 device classes. Doing that by hand is not "tedious," it's impossible to keep in sync. So I built a pipeline that turns one command into ~800 finished, captioned, device-correct screenshots for Cadento, my SwiftUI focus timer. Here's the architecture.

I shipped a Pomodoro app in 39 languages as a solo dev — here's how i18n actually went

Most indie apps ship in English, maybe add a handful of "big" languages later, and call it done. I went the other way: Cadento, my SwiftUI Pomodoro/focus timer, launched in 39 languages on day one — including ones most apps never touch, like Catalan, Croatian, Malay, Hebrew, Thai, and Ukrainian. This post is the honest version of how that went: the setup that made it possible, the things that broke, and whether it was worth it. Cadento is built with SwiftUI + SwiftData, targets iOS 18 / watchOS 11, and has Live Activities, widgets, an Apple Watch app, an activity heatmap, and iCloud sync. App

Breaking the SQL Barrier: How to Build a Natural Language Database Assistant

Tags: #DataEngineering #AI #Python #HuggingFace #Streamlit For decades, SQL has been the universal language for extracting insights from databases. But there's a catch: it creates a bottleneck. Business analysts, product managers, and marketers often have to wait for data teams to write queries for them. What if we could skip the code and just talk to our databases in plain English? Thanks to the rapid advancements in Artificial Intelligence and Large Language Models (LLMs), this is now entirely possible.

A Skeptical Review of Critical Code Studies

Is Code Really a “Social Text”? A Skeptical Review of Critical Code Studies TL;DR: A sharp academic review takes aim at Mark C. Marino’s Critical Code Studies (MIT Press, 2020). The verdict? Lots of hype, some interesting cases, but little real code analysis.

Oracle layoffs: 500+ employees get emails from leadership, calls them 'proposed impacted employee'

Oracle has begun a second round of layoffs in Romania, notifying around 500 to 520 employees on June 25 with emails headed "collective dismissal-you are a proposed impacted employee." The cuts span OCI, Database Technologies, Oracle Health and several other units, and were reportedly planned months ago. They form part of Oracle's global drive to shed payroll and fund its debt-heavy AI data centre push.

How I Hacked GTK4 and Python to Build the Ultimate "Kawaii" Linux OS

How I Hacked GTK4 and Python to Build the Ultimate "Kawaii" Linux OS If you’ve seen the recent screenshots floating around Reddit (with people asking if their meme packages are broken or if they are having a stroke), I have a confession to make. It is not a Photoshop mockup. It is 100% real. Welcome to Kawaiintu OS (Neo Moebuntu). I wanted to see how far I could push modern Linux customization to create an uncompromisingly "Kawaii" (cute/moe) environment.

Your AI Voice Agent Is a Black Box. Here's How to Open It.

When your AI agent types, you can see everything it does. LangChain traces every The moment that same agent picks up a phone, the lights go out. A voice agent's entire interaction lives inside an .mp3. The transcript, the So most teams do the only thing they can: they listen to a handful of calls by their behavior drifts. You tweak a This series is about closing that gap.

How to Talk to Any Database Using AI: Building a Text-to-SQL App

In today’s data-driven world, getting information out of a database usually requires knowing SQL. But what if you could just ask your database a question in plain English and get the answer instantly? Thanks to Large Language Models (LLMs) and Artificial Intelligence, this is no longer science fiction. In this article, I will show you a real-world example of how to build a Text-to-SQL Query Generator using Python, Streamlit, and Hugging Face. The Magic of Text-to-SQL Instead of writing: SELECT Salary FROM employees WHERE Name = 'Bob'; A user can simply ask: "What is the salary of Bob?" Buildin

"Lone Voice Of Silence": Sonia Gandhi's Gaza Op-Ed Draws BJP Criticism

The BJP accused the Rajya Sabha MP of trying to misinform the people and mixing up foreign policy with vote bank.

The idea you haven't told anyone about

Five months ago I had an idea for XEdge and didn't tell anyone for weeks. Not because it was bad. Because saying it out loud made it real, and real meant I'd have to actually try. I think a lot of people are sitting on something like that right now. Not lacking ideas — lacking the nudge to say it out loud to someone who won't laugh.

Veteran Tamil actor-director K Bhagyaraj dies at 73

Tamil cinema mourns the loss of K. Bhagyaraj, a versatile filmmaker and actor, who passed away at 73. Known as a "one-man studio," Bhagyaraj excelled as a director, writer, composer, and actor, leaving behind a legacy of popular films like 'Mundhanai Mudichu'. His ability to master multiple roles in his productions was a rare feat. He also ventured into writing and editing, and was set to return to directing.

OpenTTD 16.0-Beta1

Article URL: https://www.openttd.org/news/2026/06/25/openttd-16-0-beta1 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48695149 Points: 29 # Comments: 2

Forget Temple Run, Delhi footpaths turn into real-life obstacle course for pedestrians

Delhi's footpaths, meant for safe pedestrian movement, are largely unusable. Reporters found markets, hospital zones, office hubs, and educational areas where pavements are blocked by shops, parked vehicles, vendors, and construction. This forces pedestrians onto busy roads, making walking a dangerous and difficult ordeal, despite the Supreme Court recognizing it as a fundamental right.

Prompting Is Dead. Long Live Looping.

For the last two years, everyone has been obsessed with one thing: Prompt engineering. People wrote 2,000-word prompts, created prompt libraries, sold prompt courses, and believed that the perfect prompt was the secret to great AI. It isn't. The future isn't about writing better prompts. The future is about building better loops.

'Siya Goyal's wig remark, forced marriage, secret relationship': Twist after twist in murder case

A Lohagad Fort fall has escalated into a murder probe, with police arresting a fiancée and her alleged partner for the realtor's death. Investigators suggest a complex motive involving a secret relationship, reluctance to marry, and family pressure. Evidence points to a conspiracy, with conflicting accounts from the accused on who masterminded the alleged crime. The investigation continues.