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If you sell a desktop app on Gumroad, it hands every buyer a license key. But Gumroad stops there — checking that key inside your app is entirely up to you. Here's how to do it properly in Node/Electron, plus the three traps that catch almost everyone. We'll use gumroad-license-lite, a tiny, zero-dependency, MIT-licensed helper (you can npm install it or just copy its ~120 lines). Turn on license keys in Gumroad On your product, enable "Generate a unique license key

Most of the code in Quorum was written by directing Claude Code, an AI coding agent. That is not the interesting claim, and on its own it is not even a good one. An agent left to run unsupervised produces fast, plausible, locally-correct code that drifts into an incoherent system. The interesting part is the discipline that turned agent speed into a coherent, correct, multi-region database application. That discipline was an append-only architecture decision log. The failure mode of

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Ever wanted to turn a simple PHP host into a gateway for your local network? I built host2gateway to do exactly that. ProfiDE / <a href="https://github.com/ProfiDE/host2gateway" rel="noope

Quorum is an incident command plane built on Amazon Aurora DSQL. The failover story lives in another post. This one is about a narrower question that turned out to be the foundation: when several responders write to the same incident at the same moment, across regions, during the worst minutes of an outage, how do you guarantee the record never forks into two conflicting truths. The answer is two design choices that are really one choice seen from two angles: event sourcing, and DSQL's

We've all been there: staring at a clunky, 10-year-old hospital web portal, clicking through endless nested menus just to book a simple check-up or download a PDF lab result. It's tedious, error-prone, and frankly, a waste of human potential. But what if you could just tell an AI, "Book me a dermatologist for next Tuesday and save my blood test results to my health folder," and it just... did it? In this tutorial, we are diving deep into the world of autonomous agents ,

The laptop was never the interesting part of coding agents. It was just the first convenient runtime. Your laptop has the repository, the shell, the secrets, the package cache, the local database, the half-working dev server, and whatever credentials you forgot were still loaded in the background. So the early version of agentic coding naturally ran there. It was close to the work. It had all the messy context. It was also a very strange place to run something that might edit co

Every time you tap "Book Ride," a system makes dozens of decisions in under two seconds: Which driver? What route? What's the real ETA? This article breaks down exactly how the dispatch algorithm works — from the greedy approach that fails at scale, to the bipartite graphs, batched matching, and surge pricing mechanics that power Uber, Lyft, Grab, and Gojek today. Why

fix(gateway): accept file-only input on /v1/responses (parity with image-only) (#93011) * fix(gateway): accept file-only input on /v1/responses (parity with image-only) * fix(gateway): preserve file-only model context --------- Co-authored-by: Vincent Koc

Hobby users can now create up to 100 Blob stores, up from 5. This gives teams more flexibility to organize data by project, environment, or region as applications grow. Storage, operations, and transfer limits still apply. Learn more in the Blob documentation . Read more

It can be surprisingly difficult to create or adapt solutions to other countries and cultures. In many respects, just translating the text is the easiest part of it, since most modern development frameworks identify “resources” – menu items, messages, imagery and so on – with an arbitrary identifier and allow you to provide associated content by region.[[video:1244]]A point that Alan Dix makes in the clip is that you also have to be aware of how much space that text in different languages requir

Somewhere between bulk demographic analyses and detailed anthropological studies lasting months or years lies the important and challenging area of user research. It’s challenging for a number of reasons: you can’t just ask users what they want – particularly for novel solutions, verbal communication is fraught with complexities and understanding the bigger picture of how our interventions fit into users’ lives requires patience and effort. We need to actively engage with our users, putting a he

The US government yanked Anthropic's newest models days after launch, while state attorneys general opened formal process against OpenAI. That turns frontier capability into something investors have to discount: a model can be state-of-the-art on Monday and policy-frozen by Friday. The market still wants the upside, but the asset now has a kill-switch.

A blog is a long-running argument with yourself about what you actually believe. I've been meaning to start one for years. This is mine. It will be about FinOps and Pulumi (my day job), AI tooling and agent design, infrastructure war stories that deserve to exist outside Slack threads, and occasionally brisket and ham radio, because a blog without a person behind it is just SEO. Up next: a story about a third-grade peanut butter sandwich assignment, and why it explains most of w

Why AI hasn’t replaced software engineers, and won’t Arvind Narayanan and Sayash Kappor take on the question of AI job losses through the lens of a profession that is uniquely suited to AI disruption - software engineering. In this essay, we argue that there is enough evidence to reject the narrative that once AI capabilities reach a certain threshold, it will cause mass

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I run a lot of agentic coding sessions in parallel, each in its own git worktree. Every worktree points at the same local Postgres though, so the moment one branch runs a migration it changes the schema out from under the others. I'd end up with agents tripping over each other, or me babysitting which branch "owned" the DB at any given moment. I made this to fix it. I hope you might find it helpful too. Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48534293 Points: 1 # Comments: 0

fix(agents): preserve fresh usage after compaction (#93084) * fix(compaction): preserve fresh usage after compaction Co-authored-by: HollyChou Co-authored-by: 吴杨帆 * fix(compaction): satisfy stale usage timestamp narrowing * fix(clownfish): address review for ghcrawl-156678-autonomous-smoke (1) Co-authored-by: HollyChou <128659251+Hollychou924@users.noreply.git

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Hello everyone, I’m sharing the 6th edition of the TLBIC (Time-Limited Local Basic Income Credit) proposal. In this version, I added a foundational “question”—a prompt addressed both to us as humans and to the AI systems that may eventually evolve toward ASI. If, in your own work or conversations with AI, you ever find a moment where such a question feels meaningful, I would be glad if it proves useful. My hope is simply that something in this document resonates with you or sparks reflection. As

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Job hunting sucks. That grind of digging through LinkedIn and Indeed, sifting through endless spammy emails from headhunters who try to get the biggest possible audience, clicking "Quick Apply" to silent response, and trying to figure out which of all of these jobs are even real. My wife hit all of this when she started job hunting a few months ago, so I built her a tool to take the worst part of it off her plate. It turned into this. Oh, and she got an offer letter from a major company in just

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The GUI democratized computing. The prompt interface democratized the GUI. Continue reading on UX Collective »

Cordium is a FOSS, self-hosted, identity-based, general-purpose sandbox platform that I've been working on for a long time now that is built on Kubernetes and Octelium, my main project. The key differentiator here for Cordium, when compared to other dev environments (e.g. GitHub Codespaces) and sandbox platforms (e.g. E2B, Daytona, etc.), is that Cordium automatically provides identity-based, secretless secure access to resources/infrastructure (e.g. APIs, SSH, databases, k8s, etc.) without havi

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Hey everyone, I built an open-source full-stack pipeline (Django + React) that constructs a Knowledge Graph from raw text, detects thematic communities, and uses hybrid search to solve the "lost in the middle" problem in standard vector retrieval. The Pipeline: Ingestion & Chunking: Raw text is cleaned, parsed, and split into overlapping chunks to preserve local context. Graph Construc

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