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The fraud that pays in full

1+ hour, 16+ min ago  (591+ words) Two credit accounts land on a risk analyst's desk in the same month. Both sit near their respective limits. Both have stopped paying. Both are sliding into delinquency. On this month's statement, they are indistinguishable. One is a family that…...

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dev.to > abxdev12 > the-last-spark-1om5

The Last Spark

7+ hour, 1+ min ago  (464+ words) An AI Passionoid Skills This is a submission for Weekend Challenge: Passion Edition What I Built I built The Last Spark, an AI-powered passion learning web app where users can pick a passion like Cybersecurity, Football, Cooking, Programming, Music, or…...

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dev.to > eliofbm > san-franciscos-gravity-is-back-366-of-477-yc-2026-startups-are-in-one-city-5ame

San Francisco's Gravity Is Back: 366 of 477 YC 2026 Startups Are in One City

3+ day, 10+ hour ago  (601+ words) If you could pick only one counterintuitive number from the YC 2026 batches, make it this one: out of 477 real-ish company records, 366 list San Francisco as their location — roughly 77%. For comparison: New York City has 24. London 10. Boston 7. Los Angeles 4. Fully remote?...

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dev.to > truman_99/99/99999 > from-the-fantasy-of-local-models-to-a-truly-controllable-sports-agent-3glo

From the Fantasy of Local Models to a Truly Controllable Sports Agent

4+ day, 6+ hour ago  (1664+ words) Looking back, this project did not begin as a fully designed AI agent project. In fact, I had not even decided from the outset that I wanted to build a sports question-answering system. The original idea was much simpler. The…...

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dev.to > henry_dan_81513dd35a2f540 > the-database-was-fixed-months-ago-the-website-disagreed-39bh

The Database Was Fixed Months Ago. The Website Disagreed.

1+ week, 2+ day ago  (703+ words) The problem is that this kind of data rots quietly. Laws moved constantly through 2025 and 2026: one US state opened its first dispensaries three weeks before I ran this audit, a Caribbean nation decriminalized this year, and one country famous for…...

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dev.to > futureisnowtech > vetting-deep-tech-talent-how-to-identify-real-engineering-competence-1ngf

Vetting Deep Tech Talent: How to Identify Real Engineering Competence

1+ week, 3+ day ago  (359+ words) Vetting deep tech candidates is incredibly difficult... especially in fields like Machine Learning and Quantum Computing where the academic credentials can look extremely intimidating. It is easy to get blinded by a resume that lists a Ph.D. from Stanford, three…...

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dev.to > manpreet_brar_264e408885a > how-i-built-a-real-time-whale-tracker-for-polymarket-in-a-weekend-36gc

How I Built a Real-Time Whale Tracker for Polymarket in a Weekend

2+ week, 2+ hour ago  (217+ words) Prediction markets just hit $3.6B in volume. I wanted to know what the biggest traders were betting on — in real time. So I built WhaleTrack. Here's how it works under the hood. Polymarket has a public leaderboard. But it only shows…...

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dev.to > manpreet_brar_264e408885a > i-built-a-free-whale-tracker-for-polymarket-heres-what-i-learned-21bi

I built a free whale tracker for Polymarket — here's what I learned

2+ week, 1+ day ago  (219+ words) The problem: I kept missing big moves on Polymarket because I had no way to see what the biggest traders were betting on in real time. So I built WhaleTrack — a free, no-signup tool that shows you exactly what top…...

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dev.to > kingsongeuc > bus-one-wheel-last-mile-range-math-that-actually-matches-reality-3nf8

Bus + one-wheel last mile: range math that actually matches reality

2+ week, 1+ day ago  (274+ words) I started treating a one-wheel like a folding bike replacement for a 3 km bus gap. The spreadsheet looked fine. Real life did not.## What broke my first estimates*Sticker range is not commute range.* Hills, cold mornings, and stop-and-go ate…...

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dev.to > inferhaven > building-haven-bench-in-the-open-and-the-flaky-ci-ghost-it-flushed-out-1426

Building haven bench in the open, and the flaky CI ghost it flushed out

2+ week, 4+ day ago  (1057+ words) A debugging story from building InferHaven in the open: how a benchmark feature flushed out a flaky-CI race that had nothing to do with it. I shipped a tokens/sec benchmark for local models. The unit tests were green, and…...

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