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193 startup ideas and counting
AI in Code Review? More Like a Recipe for Disaster.
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The Code Works. What Could Possibly Go Wrong? Sylwia Laskowska Posted on Jun 10 The Code Works. What Could Possibly Go Wrong? # ai # webdev # d
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A Google I/O recap blog without a clear business model won't change the world.
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Congrats to the Google I/O 2026 Writing Challenge Winners! Jess Lee for The DEV Team Posted on Jun 11 Congrats to the Google I/O 2026 Writing Challe
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From Hidden Ruins to Ruined Hopes: A Tourists' Trap in the Making
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Teenagers Stayed Overnight at Their School and Found Hidden Ancient Roman Ruins Cool Finds These Italian Teenagers Stayed Overnight at Their School. They Found Ancient Roman
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A homelab dev platform that’s stuck in the garage.
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My Homelab AI Dev Platform Published Jun 14, 2026 - 4 min read My Homelab AI Dev Platform AI Platform Share Index OpenCode AI Dev Platform Workflow I set
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Curl Summer of Bliss: A Recipe for Disaster in Disguise
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curl summer of bliss cURL and libcurl , Security curl summer of bliss June 15, 2026 Daniel Stenberg 10 Comments The curl project will not accept or otherwise handle a
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Potential Breakthrough, But Founder Unprepared for Reality
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Copper transport drug restores memory and clears toxic Alzheimer's proteins
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Typst: A Clunky Step in the Wrong Direction for Document Processing.
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Typst 0.15.0 Changelog 0.15.0 Typst 0.15.0 (June 15, 2026) This section documents all changes to the Typst language and compiler between Typst 0.14.2 and 0.15.0. If you are
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Fantasy M&A with Zero Groundwork
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Fox to buy Roku
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A price adjustment without any value proposition is like a server without power.
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Hetzner Price Adjustment The price adjustment applies to new orders and cloud instance rescales starting from 15 June 2026; 8 AM CEST . For orders placed before 15 June 2026, but
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A backdoor in a LinkedIn job offer
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TinyWind: Innovative idea with zero execution plan.
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TinyWind: A pixel pirate sailing game with real wind physics (380k+ kms sailed)
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A half-baked idea overshadowed by existential doubts.
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Ask HN: Has anyone replaced Claude/GPT with a local model for daily coding? Ask HN: Has anyone replaced Claude GPT with a local model for daily coding? | Hacker News Hacker News n
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CrankGPT: A Hand-Cranked Dream That Won't Start.
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CrankGPT What do climate change , wealth concentration , and your flabby arms have in common? A human-powered , fully local and private AI solution.
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A tech demo in search of a market.
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levy-street/world-of-claudecraft World of Claudecraft — a WoW-Classic-style MMO Join the community Discord A vanilla-WoW-flavored micro-MMO you can host and play: Play it o
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IP Addresses Are So 2020 – Meet Iroh's Key-Based Future
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Iroh 1.0 Iroh 1.0 - Dial Keys, not IPs June 15, 2026 by b5 Dial keys. Not IPs. It s a simple idea really, and it s the right abstraction for the future of the internet. IP a
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Innovative AI-driven observability tool, yet faces crowded market and unclear demand.
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superloglabs/superlog — Open-source observability tool that uses AI agents to self-heal your software Website · Code · Skills · Helpers · Discord About Superlog i
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An elegant idea buried in a sea of redundancy.
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plannotator/effective-html — Agent skill for elegant and simple html plans, architecture diagrams, or whatever else you can think of. HTML skills for pragmatic visual artifacts
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Apple CoreAI Models: A complex, niche toolset with no clear market demand.
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apple/coreai-models — Model export recipes, Python primitives, and Swift runtime utilities for on-device AI Core AI Models Model export recipes, Python primitives, and Swift run
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AI-driven PPT generator struggles with market fit and differentiation
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GordenSun/GordenSuperPPTSkills — AI PPT赛道终结者,史上最最最强 PPT Skill!!! 使用GPT生成豪华的图片格式PPT,然后转换为完全可编辑的PPTX文件。 Gorden Super PPT Skills(技能包) AI PPT赛道终结者,史上最最最强 PPT Skill!!! 使用GPT生成豪华的图
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A niche tool with grand ambitions but a questionable market.
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nevertoday/zhongguo-traditional-colors — 中华传统色演示、色卡浏览与颜色知识科普开源项目 Chinese Traditional Colors 简体中文 | English | 日本語 If you design interfaces, write visual content, build course
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A solution in search of a problem, buried in technical jargon.
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JimLiu/baoyu-design — Run Claude Design locally as an Agent Skill — Cursor, Claude Code & more. Produce polished UI mockups, prototypes, decks & wireframes as self-contained HTML,
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From GitHub Gists to Chaos: An Inadequate Solution for a Massive Problem
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lenucksi/aur-malware-check — Detection tools for the June 2026 atomic-lockfile AUR supply-chain attack. Consolidated from community Gists. AUR Malware Check - June 2026 Campaign
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A risky hack to unlock Apple AI features on Chinese Macs.
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SkyBlue997/enableMacosAI — 国行 Mac 一键开启完整 Apple 智能(���侧 + Private Cloud Compute 云端)· macOS 27 / Apple Silicon RegionSpoof — 在国行 Mac(macOS 27)上开启完整 Apple 智能 一个极简内核扩展(kext),在 IOReg
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A half-baked exploit with zero commercial viability.
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MSNightmare/RoguePlanet — RoguePlanet Windows Defender Vulnerability RoguePlanet RoguePlanet Windows Defender Vulnerability Welcome back everyone !!! The exploit is a race c
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