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dev.to > tirthsuba15 > trails-jac-hacks-sf-2jcl

Trails - Jac Hacks SF

23+ hour, 29+ min ago   (588+ words) Team: Tirth Suba and Aarnav Gutti At JacHacks SF, we built Trails, a research system inspired by how ants find food. Ants leave chemical trails behind them. Useful paths get stronger as more ants use them, while bad paths slowly…...

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dev.to > kielltampubolon > three-prs-to-rowboat-in-24-hours-one-of-them-taught-me-more-than-the-others-48cb

Three PRs to Rowboat in 24 Hours, One of Them Taught Me More Than the Others

1+ day, 34+ min ago   (452+ words) Last month I wrote about how I use coding agents to build things. This week I pointed the same setup at someone else's codebase. Rowboat (rowboatlabs/rowboat, 17.5k stars) had its good first issues picked clean, so I had to work…...

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dev.to > yvanlloic > lenexus-wants-to-map-everything-that-could-take-your-business-down-1f68

Lenexus wants to map everything that could take your business down

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (23+ words) Some ideas feel obvious in hindsight, but nobody had really executed them well until now. Lenexus, a... Tagged with ai, opensource, architecture, discuss....

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dev.to > managerfx > my-thermostat-was-speaking-an-industrial-protocol-just-not-to-me-2a0p

My Thermostat Was Speaking an Industrial Protocol. Just Not to Me.

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (1471+ words) A senior software engineer who knew nothing about hardware, a BACnet MS/TP thermostat, and an RS-485 bus. How I ended up with an ESP32-S3 gateway on a DIN rail, wired into Home Assistant, in 15 evenings. Tagged with bacnet, esp32, iot, ai....

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dev.to > disnoire > comparator-contract-violations-in-aircraft-stand-sorting-hjc

Comparator contract violations in aircraft stand sorting

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (249+ words) Third post about the engineering inside an airport slot coordination platform. The first two —... Tagged with java, algorithms, datastructures, backend....

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dev.to > argenkiwi > omarchy-and-the-5-300p

Omarchy and the 5%

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (311+ words) DHH said in his latest interview with Lex Fridman that people usually use only 5% of the features a given piece of software and that now coding agents let you build the just the 5% that you need, which allows you to…...

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dev.to > scott_lee_yo > how-argus-was-built-2joo

How Argus was built

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (901+ words) Argus is an agent that watches San Francisco's civic apparatus and acts on what it finds. Following one issue through city government is a seven-step chore: watch a dozen publishers that share no format or schedule, notice when an agenda…...

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dev.to > jon_at_backboardio > the-matrix-wasnt-a-battery-farm-it-was-a-gpu-cluster-made-of-human-brains-23e5

The Matrix Wasn't A Battery Farm. It Was A GPU Cluster Made Of Human Brains.

2+ week, 1+ day ago   (1045+ words) Nvidia is worth more than most countries because we cannot figure out how to do cheap inference. There are eight billion units walking around that do it on 20 watts. I rewatched The Matrix recently and got stuck on the same…...

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dev.to > sulimanmukhtar > solanas-90-rent-cut-the-economics-of-simd-0437-g18

Solana's 90% Rent Cut: The Economics of SIMD-0437

3+ week, 22+ hour ago   (568+ words) Every account on Solana carries a refundable SOL deposit — and the network just cut the price of that deposit by 90%. Here is what rent actually is, exactly what SIMD-0437 changes, and what the cut means for reclaims, airdrops, ZK compression,…...

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dev.to > punchhlineintheface > mapping-art-styles-with-multimodal-models-using-scott-mcclouds-big-triangle-48im

Mapping Art Styles with Multimodal Models Using Scott McCloud’s Big Triangle

3+ week, 4+ day ago   (147+ words) This project maps visual styles onto Scott McCloud’s Big Triangle (Reality – Language – Picture Plane) from Understanding Comics using multimodal models. It plots 365 different looks on an interactive Style Atlas and compares several models on how closely their placements match expected…...