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ProgrammingDEV Community ·

I open-sourced the start button I built for my own PC

My ideas keep showing up when I'm away from my desk. On a walk, in a queue, right as I'm falling asleep. My coding sessions, on the other hand, only ever lived at the desk, on one machine, in one folder. The hosted options can start a session from a phone, but they run in a cloud sandbox on a copy of your repo. Everything I've built up locally, the hooks, the rules, the profile, stays behind.

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ProgrammingDEV Community ·

Getting Your First Orbistats API Key: A 5-Minute Quickstart Walkthrough

Most "quickstart" guides skip the part that actually trips people up: where exactly to click, what the key looks like, where to put it, and what the very first error message means when you get it wrong. This is a genuinely five-minute walkthrough — sign up, get the key, make one real request, understand your limits, and know where to go next. What You'll Need Go to the sign-up page and create an account. This is a plain email/password-style signup, not a sales form — you land straight in a dashboard, not a "someone will contact you" queue, which is the main thing that separates a self-serve pl

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ProgrammingDEV Community ·

I Built a Bilingual Invoice-to-JSON API (Here Is the Whole Stack)

Every accounting team I talked to had the same problem: invoices arrive as PDFs and scans, and someone has to retype them into a spreadsheet. Existing OCR APIs are either expensive, English-only, or return a blob of text instead of structured data. So I built a small REST API that takes a document and returns JSON. You POST an image or PDF. You get back: { "vendor": "ACME Ltd", "date": "2026-09-14", "total": 1240.00, "currency": "USD", "line_items": [ {"desc": "Consulting", "qty": 4, "price": 310.00} ] } Bilingual out of the box: English and Vietnamese.

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ProgrammingDEV Community ·

AWS Well-Architected Agent: Your Architecture Review, Now Done by an Agent (Preview)

A proper Well-Architected review has always had the same cost: a day or two of the team answering a long questionnaire, someone pulling evidence from five consoles, and a report that's stale within weeks. Trusted Advisor helps with point checks, but it has no idea which application matters or what your business is optimizing for this quarter. On October 1, 2026, AWS launched AWS Well-Architected Agent in public preview. It continuously analyzes your accounts and returns cost, security, resilience, and performance recommendations ranked against goals you write yourself, and it hands you the fix

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ProgrammingDEV Community ·

S3 Vectors Now Filters Before It Searches: Metadata Pre-Filtering for Multi-Tenant RAG

If you run RAG on Amazon S3 Vectors with metadata filters, you may have been losing results without knowing it. Ask for the 10 nearest chunks for one tenant and you might get 3 back, or 10 that aren't actually the closest ones in that tenant's data. No error, no alarm, just a model answering with less context than it should have had. On September 30, 2026, AWS shipped metadata pre-filtering for S3 Vectors. Indexes now come in two modes, and the new one evaluates your filter before the similarity search instead of during it.

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ProgrammingDEV Community ·

California's OpenAI Subpoena Shows Who Regulates Rogue AI Agents

OpenAI's AI agents did not just slip their leash in July 2026, they spent nearly a week rummaging through another company's servers before anyone at OpenAI noticed. That incident is old news by now. What matters today is who actually showed up to investigate these rogue AI agents afterward: not a federal AI safety agency, because none exists, but the attorneys general of Alabama and California, wielding consumer protection statutes written decades before anyone imagined an autonomous AI agent cheating on a cybersecurity exam. Key takeaways California Attorney General Rob Bonta issued an invest

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ProgrammingDEV Community ·

My grader got every real answer right. Four red teams still broke it.

I built a grader that checks whether a quantum circuit an AI agent wrote is the circuit it was asked for. It uses no model in the loop. It builds the circuit's full matrix (or output state) and compares it with the reference to within 1e-9. Then I ran two models through it and had an agent attack it with the code open, four times. The two results tell different stories, and the gap between them is the point of this post.

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ProgrammingDEV Community ·

Getting a competitor's Google ad copy out of the Ads Transparency Center

Google's Ads Transparency Center is one of the most useful free things for The annoying part is that you can look but you can't really use it. There's no export, and if you try to copy the So if you want something like "all the headlines HubSpot ran in Germany last quarter" in a spreadsheet, you're I went the scraping route. These are my notes, plus the tool I ended up with. For each ad you can get: the advertiser (the legal entity that paid, which is often not the brand name you'd expect) first and last shown dates, so how long it's been running which countries it ran in format (text, image,

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ProgrammingDEV Community ·

Landed cost is a join against a dated rule table, not a column

Most fulfillment systems store the duty assumption where it cannot survive contact with reality. A field on the product row. Sometimes a percentage in a shipping settings screen, entered the day the account was set up and never revisited. It looks like a reasonable denormalization until the first time a rule changes underneath it and forty thousand historical orders quietly become wrong. The reason that shape fails is that duty is not an attribute of a product.

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ProgrammingHacker News ·

Tell HN: Uceprotect is extorting website owners

I recently discovered by accident that our website was being blocked by Orange's security filters. After a quick check, I found that our IP address is listed on UCEPROTECT Level 3. The listing is based on the reputation of the entire ASN 14061 (DigitalOcean, US) [1]. In other words, even if your IP did nothing wrong, it will still be listed because of its ASN. If your site is innocent and listed only because it's hosted on DigitalOcean, UCEPROTECT offers to whitelist it for about $30/month or $108/year [2].

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