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ProgrammingDEV Community ·

AI Tools Are Making Restaurant Menus Easier to Navigate

Restaurant menus have traditionally offered little practical detail, leaving diners with allergies, dietary restrictions, or health goals to guess at what they are ordering. Artificial intelligence is now being used to analyze menu items by breaking down their likely ingredients and estimating nutritional values and allergens. These systems rely on natural language processing and image recognition, cross-referenced with nutrition databases, to produce information that can be displayed to customers. The approach also helps restaurants keep nutritional details current when recipes change, reducing friction for both diners and staff. Beyond nutrition data, the technology is being extended to tailor menu suggestions to individual preferences and needs.

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Python script queries local Ollama model using only the standard library

A developer describes calling a locally running Ollama model from Python using only the standard library, with no SDK or external packages. The approach posts a request to Ollama's HTTP endpoint on port 11434 and reads the generated text from the response. The author used this method in a small tool, about 306 lines long, that explains Swiss administrative letters in plain Italian. In testing, a 1B-parameter Gemma model took roughly 40 seconds on a CPU to explain a payment order, a trade-off accepted for privacy since no data leaves the machine. The author notes that for needs like retries, pooling or async calls, a dedicated client library may still be worthwhile.

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ProgrammingHacker News ·

Medieval Britain's Coconuts: A Look at Monty Python's Holy Grail Joke

A 2015 article from The Mary Sue examines the coconut-hoof sound effect from Monty Python and the Holy Grail. The piece discusses whether coconuts would have been known in medieval Britain and how the film's gag played with that anachronism. The source material provided is limited to a link and discussion metadata, so the article's full details could not be confirmed. The story gained traction on Hacker News, where it drew 16 points and 3 comments.

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ProgrammingDEV Community ·

Atlassian's usage-based pricing could add about a quarter to 200-seat costs

Atlassian is introducing usage-based charges on several metered capabilities, with allowances pooled across an organization and overages billed starting December 3, 2026. An analysis of a 200-seat company on Jira and Confluence Standard estimates roughly $7,464 a year in added usage costs on top of $30,500 in list-price seats, mostly from Rovo AI credits. Automation usage was found to add very little, at under $50 a month in the heaviest scenario. The analysis also found that Teamwork Collection Standard is cheaper than Jira plus Confluence Standard at 50, 200 and 500 seats. Figures are based on Atlassian's published pricing as of October 15, 2026, and the author's own test organization.

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ProgrammingDEV Community ·

Firefox Dark Mode Options: Dark Reader, NightOwl, and Built-In Settings Compared

Bright web pages at night can cause eye strain, and Firefox users have several ways to switch to darker displays. Enabling dark mode in the operating system helps sites that support the prefers-color-scheme setting, though sites without dark support stay white. Dark Reader works on virtually any site with extensive customization but can cause visual glitches and uses more CPU. NightOwl offers a lightweight, pure-CSS alternative with fewer glitches but limited per-site control and no effect on sites lacking dark support.

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ProgrammingDEV Community ·

Solo Developer Hides Instagram Reels in WKWebView, Detects Silent CSS Failures

A solo developer in Japan built minulo, an iPhone app that lets users reply to Instagram DMs without seeing Reels or Shorts. The app loads Instagram and similar sites in a WKWebView and uses CSS and JavaScript to remove the Reels entry points. The developer found that CSS rules inject in two stages to prevent a flash of content, and that wrapping history functions repeatedly caused slowdowns and freezes. Hiding elements with display:none could also blank out virtualized feeds, so the developer tags elements and preserves their height instead. To catch silent selector failures after site markup changes, the app periodically counts matches and flags rules that stop matching.

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ProgrammingDEV Community ·

How to Fix Firefox Slowness, Crashes, and Broken Extensions

Firefox problems often have quick fixes, so it's worth trying troubleshooting steps before reinstalling or switching browsers. Starting in Safe Mode, which temporarily disables extensions and default settings, helps reveal whether an add-on is the cause. If issues persist, users can check active extensions, hardware acceleration, and GPU rendering status, and consider reducing open tabs to lower memory use. For site-specific problems, the guide suggests reviewing content blockers, codec support, DNS settings, and cache. As a last resort, Refreshing Firefox or creating a new profile can reset the browser while preserving key data like bookmarks and passwords.

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ProgrammingDEV Community ·

loudness-tts ranks open Piper voices and normalizes text for Python and the browser

Open text-to-speech models now run quickly on ordinary hardware, but their output often sounds wrong. The developers of Loudness.ai built loudness-tts to address voice quality, licensing, and text handling problems. They tested 1,683 Piper voices for naturalness and clarity, and the voice auto-selection picks the best voice with a commercially usable licence. A rule layer converts money, dates, units, and abbreviations into spoken words in English and Spanish, while keeping word timings aligned with the source text for subtitles. The project offers matching Python and JavaScript editions, the latter running in Node, Bun, Deno, and the browser, and it is free and open source.

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AI agent identities are becoming the new service accounts, and governance is lagging

An access-review practitioner argues that AI agents act only with the identities they are assigned, such as Entra app registrations, AWS IAM roles, or GitHub App installations. These are the same service accounts organizations already struggle to govern, and agents are multiplying them quickly, often outside identity teams. The author observes that such identities frequently have no owner, are never recertified, and cannot be stopped quickly and verifiably when something goes wrong. The piece cites OWASP's 2026 category on identity and privilege abuse and Microsoft's Entra Agent ID as steps toward a solution, while noting that Microsoft's approach does not cover AWS roles or GitHub Apps. It lists common risky patterns to check first, including ownerless identities with broad permissions, overly permissive federated roles, and long-lived unrotated credentials.

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A Practical System for Managing Browser Tab Overload

Many people accumulate dozens of open browser tabs, which creates mental clutter as each one serves as a reminder of something unfinished. The suggested approach is a 15-minute triage session where each tab is closed, bookmarked in a dedicated "To Read" folder, or kept only if needed within the hour. For developers and researchers juggling multiple projects, saving tabs as named sessions allows work to be organized by context without losing anything. The article also recommends features like Firefox's vertical tab sidebar and native tab groups, along with habits such as limiting the main window to five tabs.

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ProgrammingDEV Community ·

Firefox for Android: Extensions, Sync, and Privacy Settings Explained

Firefox for Android stands out because it runs real desktop extensions, such as uBlock Origin, Dark Reader, Privacy Badger, and Bitwarden, which can be installed via the menu's Add-ons option. Firefox Sync links bookmarks, history, passwords, open tabs, and extensions between desktop and Android devices. The browser offers privacy controls including Enhanced Tracking Protection in Standard, Strict, or Custom modes, HTTPS-Only mode, DNS over HTTPS, and Total Cookie Protection. Users can also organize tabs into Collections, use swipe gestures, and customize search engines and homepage settings. The guide notes that Firefox outperforms Chrome on extensions and tracker blocking, while Chrome offers better PWA support and Google account integration.

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Two Claude Code sessions, one as PM and one as engineer, built a UI library

A developer used the cross-session messaging feature in Claude Code, which lets sessions find each other and exchange text messages but not their histories or files. One session acted as product manager, writing specs and reviewing work, while the other implemented them for rind-ui, a headless UI component library. To stop reviews from looping endlessly, the review cap was cut from three rounds to two, and only critical and error findings must be fixed, with warnings moved to a backlog file. Findings were recorded as anchored Reado comments, and tasks closed only when a passing verify command confirmed the fix. The PM session logged 128 tasks, all closed after passing verification.

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ProgrammingDEV Community ·

Firefox Multi-Account Containers: Advanced Ways to Isolate Your Browsing

Firefox Multi-Account Containers separate websites into isolated containers, each with its own cookies, storage, and cache, so sites cannot read each other's data. Users can keep work and personal accounts logged in at the same time, or confine social media and Amazon to dedicated containers to limit cross-site tracking. Assigning a domain to a container via right-click makes Firefox open it there automatically, and the Temporary Containers extension adds disposable containers for untrusted browsing. Developers can use containers to test cookie isolation and logged-out states without incognito windows. The article also notes that all containers share the same IP address, so they do not hide network identity from sites.

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ProgrammingDEV Community ·

Last Word: a page that features one voice message until someone pays to replace it

A developer has launched Last Word, a public web page that always plays a single voice message of up to 45 seconds, with no account required to listen. Anyone wishing to take the featured spot pays, starting at $1 on the main World page, with each replacement doubling the price, while earlier messages remain in the public history. Requested Topic or Place pages cost $5, including the first message, and are reviewed before going live. The creator is seeking feedback on whether the doubling price feels playful or prohibitive, how to keep the page engaging when no one is bidding, and how to moderate audio without a human reviewing everything. Payments are handled by Stripe, and the World spot was unclaimed at the time of posting.

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ProgrammingDEV Community ·

Firefox Security Settings Explained and How to Harden Them

Firefox includes strong default protections, but users can make more informed choices by understanding what each setting does. Its HTTPS-Only Mode attempts secure connections first and warns when a site falls back to unencrypted HTTP. Enhanced Tracking Protection blocks social media trackers, cross-site cookies, cryptominers, and fingerprinters, with a stricter mode available at the cost of possible site breakage. The browser manages its own certificate store, so corporate proxy certificates must be added manually, while multi-process sandboxing isolates web content and can be checked in the about:support page. Users can also adjust TLS minimum versions and mixed-content behavior through about:config, and the guide recommends caution with extensions and anti-fingerprinting tools.

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ProgrammingHacker News ·

History of Norton Commander's development and its file manager design

A Softpanorama page examines the development history of Norton Commander, the dual-pane file manager. The article is shared on Hacker News, where it received 41 points and 14 comments. The text is presented as a historical account of the software's origins and design evolution. The only details available in the source are its URL, discussion link, and engagement metrics, so the full narrative is not represented here.

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ProgrammingHacker News ·

Essay Examines Legal Forms of Insider Trading Advantage

A Hacker News post links to an essay titled 'The insider trading you're allowed to do' on coached.com. The piece appears to discuss trading advantages that fall within legal bounds rather than prohibited insider trading. The post has drawn only a small amount of attention, with 5 points and one comment at the time of listing. The available source material provides little beyond the title and link, so the essay's specific arguments cannot be confirmed from this item alone.

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ProgrammingDEV Community ·

Developer Builds Local AI Tool to Extract Invoice Details and Draft Payment Reminders

A developer has built Smart Invoice Assistant, a small web app that uses a locally running AI model to pull key details from invoices. The tool extracts the client name, invoice number, amount, currency, and due date from pasted invoice text. It can also generate polite payment reminder drafts that users can copy for later use. The app runs on Node.js with the Ollama service and the open-weight Qwen 2.5 3B model on the user's own machine, rather than relying on a paid external AI API. The project is an early local-only version, and the developer plans to add PDF upload, invoice history, and better error handling.

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Firefox on Mac: How It Differs from Safari and Chrome

A guide outlines how Firefox on macOS compares with Safari and Chrome. Safari offers tighter integration with iCloud Keychain, macOS proxy settings, Apple Watch unlock, and a more polished Reader Mode. Firefox matches Safari on Picture-in-Picture and dark mode, and it still supports Manifest V2 extensions, which permit fuller ad blocking than Chrome's shift to MV3. Firefox runs natively on Apple Silicon and can be installed from mozilla.org or Homebrew, with memory use generally lower than Chrome. The article also notes that switching browsers requires moving passwords out of Keychain or using a cross-platform password manager, and that Firefox containers and session management offer features Safari lacks.

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Open-Source Invoice Assistant Runs AI Locally to Manage Freelancer Expenses

A developer has built InvoiceMate AI, a local-first assistant that helps freelancers, developers, consultants, and small business owners manage invoices and receipts. The tool uses local OCR and an open-weight language model via Ollama to extract vendor names, dates, totals, taxes, and categories without paid API requests. Extracted data is checked by validation logic and reviewed by the user before being saved to local SQLite storage. The project, built with React, TypeScript, Python, and FastAPI, is designed to work offline after initial setup and is open to community contributions on GitHub.

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