dsh-web Offers All-in-One Plugin Bundle for DeepSeek Harness Web Developers

The dsh-web project has released an all-in-one plugin package for DeepSeek Harness Web, letting developers install task automation, SSH management, remote browser access, image analysis, and interface extensions through a single path. The recommended package, @linxin666/dsh-web-all, installs via DSH's official profile mechanism, keeping plugins outside the core source tree so they can be added or removed without modifying the host. A companion marketplace at dsh-market.com catalogs plugins, skins, and virtual pets, with a built-in workshop panel that can browse and install assets directly. While the bundle reduces manual assembly work, operators must still manage dependencies and trust decisions across npm packages, Git repositories, and external maintainers. Known limitations include missed cron triggers when the host is offline and potential startup failures if an outdated skin loader references a missing package.

Free Slack Bot Sends Automated Islamic Prayer Time Reminders to Your Workspace

A free Slack application called Prayer Times Bot delivers automated, location-based prayer time notifications for all five daily prayers directly within a user's workspace. The bot supports over 100 cities worldwide and uses the Aladhan API to ensure accurate prayer times and automatic timezone adjustments for distributed teams. Users can customize which prayers to receive alerts for, select a preferred channel or DM, and choose between English or Arabic notifications. Each notification can optionally include a Hadith for a moment of reflection, and the bot is installable across multiple workspaces via OAuth. The tool aims to eliminate the need for phone alarms or manual reminders, allowing Muslim professionals to observe prayer times without disrupting their workflow.

Bitcoin approaches $80,000 as analysts watch for critical consolidation phase

Bitcoin is trading close to the $80,000 mark, drawing close attention from market analysts. Experts suggest that a period of consolidation at current levels could actually reinforce the strength of the ongoing rally. However, analysts also warn that thin trading volume above $80,000 could lead to sharper and more volatile price swings. The next pullback, whenever it occurs, is being closely watched as a key indicator of the rally's durability.

15 Common Node.js Interview Questions With Concise Answers for 2026

A developer guide published on DEV Community outlines 15 frequently asked Node.js interview questions along with brief, focused answers. The topics covered range from core concepts like the event loop, streams, and single-threaded architecture to practical areas such as async/await, JWT authentication, and password storage. The guide also addresses scaling strategies, including the use of the cluster module, Redis caching, and PM2 for utilizing multiple CPU cores. It distinguishes between CommonJS and ES Modules, and explains differences between Promise methods like all, allSettled, race, and any. The resource targets developers preparing for Node.js interviews and is part of a larger 64-question guide ranging from beginner to advanced levels.

Laptop Battery Fire on American Airlines Flight Injures Passenger

A laptop computer caught fire mid-flight on an American Airlines aircraft after its lithium battery began emitting smoke. Flight attendants responded quickly by placing the burning device inside a fireproof containment bag to prevent the fire from spreading. At least one passenger sustained injuries as a result of the incident. The injured passenger received medical treatment after the plane landed.

Claude Code Plugin Unlocks Export-Blocked Kindle Highlights

A developer has published a Claude Code plugin on GitHub designed to recover Kindle highlights that are blocked from standard export. The tool, shared under the repository 'claude-plugins' by user l3a0, addresses a common frustration among Kindle users who cannot easily extract their annotations. The plugin leverages Claude Code's skill system to work around the export restrictions imposed on certain Kindle content. The project was shared on Hacker News, where it received minimal engagement at the time of reporting.

Meet Edward Kang, 17, who trained AI to screen for autism and ADHD

Scientists discover why astronauts struggle to poop in space

Thane Man Arrested 36 Years After Allegedly Attacking Cricket Umpire With Bat

A 55-year-old man named Pasi, residing in the Mira Road area of Thane, has been arrested after evading law enforcement for nearly 36 years. He was wanted in connection with an attempt to murder case involving an attack on a cricket umpire with a bat. The incident dates back approximately three and a half decades, during which Pasi had remained at large. Authorities finally tracked him down at his current residence in the Mira Road locality of Thane district.

28 years later, J&K reopens probe into Ganderbal massacre of 23 Pandits

‘Hathi chale bazaar…’: BPSC controller’s remark amid Bihar teachers’ protests sparks row

How a Per-Project Token Quota System Stopped One Batch Job From Starving Others

Three projects sharing a single LLM gateway and a 10-million-token allowance ran into trouble on day nineteen when a batch summarization job consumed 7.1 million tokens in four hours, causing all other projects to fail with quota errors. The root cause was a shared token pool with no per-project attribution, meaning any single consumer could exhaust the entire allowance unchecked. To fix this, a per-project quota layer was built in Python, assigning each project its own daily token budget and per-minute request limit, with all limits summing to 9 million to preserve a 10 percent safety buffer. The system runs a pre-check before each upstream request using a conservative token estimate, rejecting over-budget requests with a 429 response, then reconciles actual usage from the API response afterward. This two-step approach ensures that a single bad estimate causes only a minor overshoot rather than a runaway consumption event.

J&K CM asks police to take poster threatening Kashmir Pandit employees seriously

Inaudible sounds used to fingerprint browsers catch AliExpress red-handed

Is the technique outdated? Yes. Is it still creepy? Also yes.

Developer Builds UrbanLease Appliance Rental Platform, Shares Key Technical Lessons

A developer built UrbanLease, a web platform allowing users to rent home appliances with features including rental history, payments, and separate user and vendor portals. Early in development, the project was migrated from SQLite to MySQL to better handle growing data complexity, requiring fixes to tables, columns, and database relationships. Feeling the initial version lacked differentiation, the developer added a rule-based smart recommendation system that filters and ranks appliances based on user inputs like budget and rental duration. A second feature, an appliance condition history log, was introduced to show prospective renters details such as past rentals, maintenance records, and service history. The developer noted that building a functional product is only part of the process, emphasizing that meaningful features should solve real problems rather than simply add more pages.

Oceans hit highest temperature on record

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Gurgaon Waterlogging Strands Commuters, Exposes Recurring Infrastructure Gaps

A commuter in Gurgaon missed their train to New Delhi Railway Station after heavy rainfall triggered severe waterlogging and traffic gridlock. Despite spending approximately two hours in transit, the traveler managed to cover only around 500 metres due to choked roads. The flooding rendered progress virtually impossible for an extended period, disrupting travel plans and causing financial losses. This pattern of infrastructure failure repeats with every significant downpour in the city, highlighting a persistent drainage and urban planning problem. Residents continue to bear the consequences of what critics describe as an unresolved civic challenge.

Study Shows Full-File AI Code Rewrites Consume 11x More Tokens Than Simple Generation

A developer burned through a 10-million-token free AI coding allowance in two days by repeatedly requesting full-file rewrites, prompting a structured investigation into token costs. Using MonkeyCode, an open-source AI coding platform offering 10 million free tokens and a free server, a reproducible benchmarking harness was built to measure real token consumption across common coding tasks. Results showed that a full-file rewrite costs roughly 3,300 tokens per run, compared to just 300 for a simple code generation task — an 11x difference. The benchmark covered five task types: code generation, debugging, test writing, refactoring, and full-file rewriting, with token estimates based on a four-characters-per-token heuristic. The findings highlight that deliberate task selection, rather than defaulting to rewrites, can stretch a 10-million-token allowance to cover tens of thousands of meaningful coding operations.

AI-Written Tests Can Pass While Missing Critical Bugs, Mutation Testing Reveals

A developer merged an AI-generated 14-test suite for an ISO date parser without review, only to discover the tests failed to catch broken new timestamp formats added a week later. The tests repeatedly validated the same happy-path scenarios with minor input variations, leaving key edge cases completely uncovered. Experts warn that a fully green AI-generated test suite does not guarantee meaningful coverage, and that false confidence from such suites can be more harmful than having no tests at all. Mutation testing — which introduces deliberate code bugs to check whether tests detect them — offers a measurable way to assess suite quality, with a score below 50% indicating largely decorative tests. A workflow using the open-source MonkeyCode platform, which currently offers free server access and a 10-million-token allowance, is proposed to automate this audit on every agent-generated suite.

PM Modi to Engage Students via Khelo India Samvad on August 27

Prime Minister Narendra Modi is scheduled to interact with students on August 27 under the 'Khelo India Samvad' initiative. The programme appears to be part of a broader sports-focused outreach effort targeting younger demographics, particularly Gen Z. Both BJP and AAP have been leveraging sports engagement as a political strategy in Punjab. The initiative reflects growing competition between parties to connect with student and youth communities through sports platforms.