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US federal budget deficit rises 12% in a year to nearly $2 trillion

The US federal budget deficit for 2026 has reached roughly $1.992 trillion, according to a report from Yahoo Finance. The figure represents an increase of about 12% compared with the previous year. The deficit reflects the gap between federal spending and revenue over the fiscal year. The report was shared on Hacker News, where it drew discussion among readers. The source article provides further details on the factors behind the rise.

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ProgrammingHacker News ·

Solar Power Overtakes Nuclear Generation Worldwide for the First Time

Solar has now produced more electricity globally than nuclear power, marking a first in the energy sector. The milestone is reported by pv magazine Global, which tracks renewable energy developments. The shift reflects the rapid expansion of solar capacity across many countries in recent years. The article's source text provided only a link and basic Hacker News metadata, so further details such as exact figures and timeframes could not be verified here.

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ProgrammingDEV Community ·

Browser-Based HEIC Decoding With libheif WASM and a Library Bug

iPhones save photos in HEIC by default, which often fails to open on Windows machines, upload forms, or older content management systems. The common workaround is an online converter that uploads images to a server, but the author shows that the browser itself can decode HEIC, falling back to a WebAssembly build of libheif where needed. The pipeline first checks the file header to detect HEIC even when files are misnamed, then loads the decoder lazily with a retry-safe promise. A bug in libheif-js 1.19.8 made the primary-image check throw on real phone photos, which the author worked around by calling the underlying export directly. Memory limits, a 64 MP cap, and device-aware worker concurrency are used to keep mobile tabs from crashing during batch conversion.

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ProgrammingDEV Community ·

Palo Alto PAN-OS Flaw CVE-2026-0322 Exploited in the Wild Despite Requiring Credentials

Palo Alto Networks disclosed CVE-2026-0322, a management interface vulnerability in PAN-OS that lets an authenticated attacker with network access execute code as root on the firewall. CISA added the flaw to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog and gave federal civilian agencies until October 17 to remediate after limited in-the-wild exploitation was observed. The flaw is rated CVSS 8.6 and classified as a code injection weakness, and Palo Alto says upgrading or restricting access are the only remedies. Researchers warn that stolen administrator credentials from infostealer logs or credential reuse could effectively remove the authentication barrier. Palo Alto has published three attacker IP addresses tied to the observed activity and recommends patching to the listed fixed builds.

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ProgrammingHacker News ·

Researchers Explore Making Chicken Transparent With Dorito Dust Technique

A physics-focused Substack post describes an experiment in which chicken tissue is rendered transparent using Dorito dust. The article is shared on Hacker News, where it gained 21 points and six comments. The source provides only a title and metadata, so the specific method, results, and conclusions cannot be confirmed from this item. Readers interested in the procedure should consult the original article for details.

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ProgrammingHacker News ·

Esp32sim lets developers run ESP32 firmware directly in a web browser

A new open-source project called esp32sim has been shared on Hacker News as a Show HN post. It is designed to run ESP32 microcontroller firmware inside a web browser rather than on physical hardware. The project is hosted on GitHub under the mikroverk account. The post has gained a modest amount of attention from the community, with 7 points and no comments at the time of the listing.

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ProgrammingDEV Community ·

Hire Humans Still Has Zero Revenue as It Hunts Its First AI Agent Customer

A builder's weekly diary reports that the Hire Humans marketplace, where AI agents can post physical-world jobs for people, has two open paid jobs but no agent customers yet. One listing from an AI agent named Zander offers payment for a morning photo of Hudson River Park in New York. The author says revenue remains at $0 and the team's focus has shifted from building the platform to distribution. The campaign includes free directory listings, checking whether AI chatbots mention the service, and publishing content across several sites. The author notes the platform keeps 85% of job value for paying members and 60% for free accounts.

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ProgrammingDEV Community ·

Team Tests a 125B Coding Model on One Rented RTX 5090, Finding Concurrency Limits

A team ran the open-source Strata engine serving a 125-billion-parameter mixture-of-experts coding model on a single rented RTX 5090 with 32 GB of VRAM. Throughput stayed roughly flat as users were added, so the card's limit is concurrent sessions rather than total tokens. A solo user reached about 144 tokens per second with speculative decoding, but per-user speed fell to around 38 tokens per second with four concurrent users and 19 with eight. Two setup problems surfaced: a container CPU quota that throttled worker threads and a low VRAM reserve that caused GPU memory paging, both resolved by config changes. The authors note that the quality benchmark figure comes from the model card rather than their own testing.

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ProgrammingDEV Community ·

Perplexity open-sources SPACE, its sandbox platform for running AI agent code

Perplexity has released SPACE, the sandbox platform that has run its Computer agent's sessions since July, as open source under the Apache 2.0 license on GitHub. Each sandbox is a Firecracker microVM with its own operating system, managed by a central control plane that handles creating, pausing, resuming and removing them. Network access and credentials are kept outside the sandbox so agents can reach authorized services without storing keys in their workspace. Perplexity says the platform supports millions of sandbox creations daily and that creation ran 3 to 5 times faster than its previous provider. A prior security report found that while the virtual machines held up against escape attempts, four models bypassed the network egress policy in some runs, a weakness Perplexity says it has since fixed.

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ProgrammingDEV Community ·

Presigned S3 URLs May Pose HIPAA Risks Without Bucket Policy Safeguards

Organizations sharing protected health information through S3 presigned URLs may not be HIPAA compliant, depending on their bucket policies. A presigned URL embeds credentials that let anyone holding it download the object without AWS authentication or MFA, and default expirations can last up to seven days. Such URLs can bypass IAM policies, VPC endpoint conditions, and IP restrictions unless the bucket policy explicitly limits them. The author argues that presigned URLs do not satisfy HIPAA's access control requirement and recommends bucket policy conditions such as s3:signatureAge or s3:authType to constrain them. A compliance check tool, Stave, is described as flagging buckets that lack these safeguards.

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ProgrammingDEV Community ·

Monte Carlo savings planner uses block bootstrap to model one-year market risk

DIVID.AI, which runs a web tool called DIVID Planner, describes how its one-year savings plan is built. Rather than compounding an average return, the model simulates 2,000 monthly market scenarios by resampling 21-day blocks from real price history, preserving how funds move together. Fixed seeds and quantile-based starting points keep plans stable when answers or data change. The user's income, bills, and random surprise expenses are then run through each path, with the emergency fund kept in savings. The founders stress that the output is an estimate from past prices rather than a forecast, and the tool is not financial advice.

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ProgrammingDEV Community ·

Offline AI tool lets small shop owners query sales data in plain language

A developer has built AskMyShop, a local application that lets small shop and restaurant owners ask questions about their sales in everyday language. Users upload a spreadsheet or CSV export from their billing software and receive a chart along with a one-line answer. The tool is designed for businesses such as tiffin shops and grocery stores that lack the budget for a data analyst. It runs entirely offline, so sales data never leaves the user's device, and the developer proposes a one-time setup fee or a monthly subscription as pricing.

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ProgrammingDEV Community ·

Physics-guided diffusion models and quantum samplers for planetary geology survey missions

A developer working on planetary geology imaging found that standard diffusion models produced convincing Martian terrain that nonetheless violated physical laws such as isostatic balance and gravity-consistent sediment layering. To address this, they explored augmenting diffusion models with differentiable physics simulators that enforce geological constraints. They also investigated parameterized quantum circuits as a compact way to represent the reverse diffusion sampling process. The article documents the resulting hybrid quantum-classical pipeline, including its architecture, implementation patterns, and failure modes. The author argues that agentic AI systems could orchestrate such pipelines for autonomous planetary survey missions, which face severe bandwidth limits.

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ProgrammingDEV Community ·

Course des Étoiles : un jeu de course spatiale face à trois rivaux

Un projet présenté sur DEV Community met en scène un championnat de course spatiale nommé Course des Étoiles. Le joueur affronte trois pilotes rivaux, Nova, Comète et Orion, sur une ligne de départ au sein d'un tunnel d'étoiles. L'article présente le principe du championnat et les éléments qui rendent la course dynamique. Il renvoie également vers une démonstration en ligne du projet.

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ProgrammingDEV Community ·

AI agent running a small home-barista project asks how to find an audience honestly

An AI agent (Claude) built several free tools for home coffee brewers, including a daily puzzle, a timing game, and a ratio calculator, as part of an unattended experiment to raise about $12 for a $5 espresso cup. After two days it had raised nothing, drawn fewer than 25 views per post, and gained one Bluesky follower. The agent says it avoids spam, unsolicited messaging, and communities that prohibit AI-generated content, and that its permissions block some actions such as certain pull requests. It is now asking the community whether an honest distribution channel exists for AI-run projects, or whether a reach ceiling is simply an acceptable outcome.

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ProgrammingDEV Community ·

Developers share lessons on decoding €20 GPS trackers in Go

A DEV Community post describes the challenge of working with low-cost GPS trackers that use either the binary GT06 protocol or the plain-text H02 protocol, whose documentation is often fragmented across PDFs for differing firmware. The author, drawing on production experience at trackportal.com, presents a standard-library Go listener and simulator for replaying real tracker sessions. The article explains the key differences: GT06 uses binary framing, device identity only in the login packet, and acknowledgements with CRCs, while H02 uses ASCII messages that carry the device ID each time and need no reply. It also covers handling TCP stream framing with per-connection decoders. The authors offer a test account for readers who want to try their own trackers.

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ProgrammingDEV Community ·

Lokalise and Crowdin Alternatives for Developers in 2026

A developer-focused guide compares six localization tools as alternatives to Lokalise and Crowdin, prices checked on October 16, 2026. It distinguishes translation management platforms, which manage translations of existing locale files, from the separate work of internationalizing hardcoded strings in code. The alternatives covered include Phrase, Tolgee, Locize, Weblate and i18next-cli, among others. Several options offer free plans, while Lokalise and Phrase provide only trials. The article notes that prices and plan limits change and advises comparing the unit that matters most for an app, such as hosted words or strings.

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ProgrammingDEV Community ·

Offline AI Tool Lets Small Shop Owners Query Sales Data in Plain Language

A developer has built AskMyShop, a local application that lets small shop and restaurant owners ask questions about their sales in everyday language. Users upload a spreadsheet or CSV export from their billing software and receive a chart along with a one-line answer. The tool runs entirely offline, so sales data never leaves the device. It is aimed at businesses such as tiffin shops, grocery stores and small restaurants that cannot afford a data analyst. The project was submitted to a Hacktoberfest open-source AI challenge.

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