DoraHacks Hackathon Newsletter 2026 February
Upcoming Hackathons BCH-1 Hackcelerator - Platform: Bitcoin Cash · BCH - Dates: Dec 10, 2025 — Feb 26, 2026 Extended - Action: Register Now RE{DEFINE} Hackatho...
Upcoming Hackathons BCH-1 Hackcelerator - Platform: Bitcoin Cash · BCH - Dates: Dec 10, 2025 — Feb 26, 2026 Extended - Action: Register Now RE{DEFINE} Hackatho...
Tokens Everywhere – Which One Should You Use? Tokens are everywhere in modern auth flows. But not all tokens are created equal. In this post we compare three a...
Introduction Every coding‑agent demo looks magical… until you point it at a real codebase. Then it either: - Chokes on context windows - Hallucinates around st...
Interview with Claude Opus 4.5 Two weeks ago, I interviewed an AI about what it actually wants from developer infrastructure. This week, Thomas Dohmke raised $...
Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/21/technology/ai-boom-backlash.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47107819 Points: 27 Comments...
Web scraping is the process of extracting data from websites, and it's a valuable skill for any developer. In this article, we'll explore how to build a web scr...
Let this kawaii frog help you count while you help him catch flies! Every click counts as 1 fly eaten....
The Gap That Blocks Tapeout As we neared tapeout, a hard reality set in. Our RTL was verified. But none of that gets you a testable chip. The Problem Nobody Ta...
If you have ever helped someone set up an e‑commerce store, you know that the digital part is easy. The physical logistics? That is where the headaches begin. R...
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Running LLM Agents Locally – A Security‑Focused Reflection Running large language models LLMs locally is easier than ever. With tools like Ollama and framework...
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The Dark Forest of the AI‑Era Internet In Liu Cixin’s sci‑fi novel The Three‑Body Problemhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Three-Body_Problem_novel the univers...
I asked Cursor to clean up a utility file, expecting it to extract some constants and tighten up the formatting. When I opened the file later, all the comments...
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ImagePullBackOff – Why It’s Usually an Identity Problem, Not a Registry Problem By 2026, when your pod ends up in ImagePullBackOff, the registry is usually fin...
Why I built this I kept seeing the same failure pattern with local 20–30B models: - brittle tool behavior - occasional non‑answers - inconsistent step executio...
Background My day job is Finance Ops and accounting, not software engineering. In the DACH region the gap between what accountants need and what developers bui...
Overview I’ve been working on a side project called Mindpad, a simple note‑taking app that prioritizes privacy through end‑to‑end encryption. Why a New Note‑Ta...
Supply Chain vs. Runtime Exposure Supply‑chain security Cisco focus – You install an MCP server. If the server code contains hidden instructions, they can exfi...
Introduction Your AI agent is running in production, calling APIs, making decisions, and spending money. If it goes sideways—gets stuck in a loop, hallucinates...
Why Writing Helps Learning Forces Clarity Vague understanding is exposed when you try to write it down. You can't write clearly about what you don't understand...
AI agents are executing code, reading files, and making API calls on your behalf every day. The tools they use — MCP servers — are the new attack surface nobody...
Article: Evidence of the bouba‑kiki effect in naïve baby chickshttps://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adq7188 Discussion: Hacker News threadhttps://news.yc...
'Why a Prayer Reminder Inside Slack?
Thought experiment: If “God is real,” can we convince AI — and what happens next? Scope and Assumptions Frame: Universal Computer / Information‑Lifecycle Physic...
Deploying a dynamic web application on AWS can feel overwhelming at first, especially with so many services involved. This guide walks through a simple, practic...
OpenClaw Is Unsafe By Design The Cline Supply‑Chain Attack Feb 17 A popular VS Code extension, Cline, was compromised. The attack chain illustrates several AI‑...
Hi everyone, I'm kinda involved in some retrogaming and with some experiments I ran into the following question: “It would be possible to run transformer models...
Introduction The WeMakeDevs community is running a fun and practical hackathon called Automate Me If You Can, powered by Accomplish. If you enjoy building usef...
Why building the frontend is hard If you’ve built any LLM or RAG Retrieval‑Augmented Generation application recently, you know the drill: hooking up the backen...
Introduction I'm a regular TikTok user, but I absolutely despise the built‑in watermark and the ending screen. In my community, a TikTok watermark instantly ki...
CrowdStrike Says OpenClaw Is Dangerous. They're Right. Here's What To Do About It. This week, CrowdStrike published 'What Security Teams Need to Know About Ope...
It’s Time to Kick Ass and Chew Bubble‑Gum and I’m Outta Gum! !Polymer renderer screenshot/images/shots/polymer2.jpg Per‑pixel dynamic lighting and realtime sha...
Introduction I'm a software engineering student building a backend engine that turns a live chat into an interactive, real‑time hex‑grid map war. This channel...
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Startup culture has a default scoreboard: - How much did you raise? - What’s your valuation? - How fast are you growing? Those are valid metrics, but they aren’...
Welcome Hello traveler, welcome to the repository of knowledge about input lag in gaming. The input lag in a gaming system, or any interactive system, is the l...
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A startup called Taalashttps://taalas.com/ recently released an ASIC chip that runs Llama 3.1 8B 3/6‑bit quant at an inference rate of 17 000 tokens per second—...
How Taalas “prints” LLM onto a chip? A startup called Taalashttps://taalas.com/, recently released an ASIC chip running Llama 3.1 8B 3/6‑bit quant at an infere...
Introduction As a specialist in AI and ML, I’m delighted to share a remarkable success story that showcases the potential of AI agents in real‑world applicatio...
Why move from Vercel to GCP? LLM Gateway is a full‑stack application with multiple APIs and frontends. Deploying everything through Vercel added another dashbo...
Last Saturday morning I sat down with a cup of coffee, a blank VS Code window, and one rule: ship something people will actually pay for before Monday. By Sunda...
The Setup I’m currently building SemesterExam.com, a platform providing semester‑wise engineering notes. Before deployment, I finalized my robots.txt: - Blocke...
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