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Top Articles of the Day | 17-Apr-2026

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AI & Data

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Qwen3.6-35B-A3B: Agentic coding power, now open to all
Hacker News 1,165 points

Qwen Studio offers comprehensive functionality spanning chatbot, image and video understanding, image generation, document processing, web search integration, tool utilization, and artifacts.

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Why Token Counting in Multi-LLM Systems Is Harder Than You Think
Dev.to 2 min read 15 reactions

When we set out to build our adaptive context window management component, we ran into a problem that...

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Part 1: What We Built - A Tiny AI System for Support Ticket Classification
Dev.to 5 min read 6 reactions

Why this series exists If you are a backend engineer, you already know how to build...

Product

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Congrats to the 2026 WeCoded Challenge Winners!
Dev.to 3 min read 47 reactions

The results are in! We are thrilled to announce the winners of the 2026 WeCoded Challenge. Over the...

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EU age verification app hacked, 2 minute How to posted
Hacker News 1 min read 33 points

Hacking the #EU #AgeVerification app in under 2 minutes. During setup, the app asks you to create a PIN. After entry, the app *encrypts* it and saves it in the shared_prefs directory. 1. It shouldn't be encrypted at all - that's a really poor design. 2. It's not cryptographically tied to the vau

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Gotta Automate 'Em All: Pokémon help me do my work
Dev.to 7 min read 10 reactions

I finally caved and bought a Switch 2. If I'm being honest with myself, it was only a matter of time...

Programming

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MiniClaw: A Tiny LLM Agent for Mini Micro
Dev.to 8 min read 27 reactions

Agents are all the rage these days. Claude Code was one of the first, and perhaps still the most...

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`gh skill`: GitHub's New CLI Command Turns Agent Skills Into Installable Packages
Dev.to 3 min read 31 reactions

I've been using SKILL.md files in my local Claude Code setup for months. Custom instructions for...

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Launch HN: Kampala (YC W26) – Reverse-Engineer Apps into APIs
Hacker News 1 min read 91 points

Zatanna maps human-only software workflows and exposes them as reliable APIs your AI agents and internal tools can call in production. No browser automation scripts to maintain.

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