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Top Articles of the Day | 18-May-2026

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AI & Data

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Turn Anything Into a Queryable SQLite Database
Dev.to 6 min read 5 reactions

grep, jq, ETL, and forensic indexing collapsed into one local SQL primitive Your audit trail...

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When Chaos Wins: Adding Noise Improved My Snake AI's Stability
Dev.to 5 min read 4 reactions

Greetings all! Continuing the series where I build Rainbow DQN one component at a time on Snake. The...

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Stop Briefing AI. Let It Interview You
Dev.to 4 min read 5 reactions

A classic "so close, yet so far" AI experience. Here is the scenario: You spend a long time giving...

Product

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I Ran AI Models Directly in the Browser and Measured What It Did to Core Web Vitals
Dev.to 5 min read 11 reactions

Everyone is shipping AI features. Sentiment analysis on user input, speech recognition without...

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Meta deletes popular 1M follower account after Kuwaiti request
Hacker News 189 points

Looks like @Meta plans to delete an account with more than a million followers because Ahmed was arrested and then acquitted in Kuwait amid their crackdown. Bowing down to Kuwait is pretty weak, gotta say.

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Designing Reliable Permission Models with Lean 4
Dev.to 5 min read 10 reactions

Hello, I'm Shrijith Venkatramana. I'm building git-lrc, an AI code reviewer that runs on every...

Programming

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I built an AI that filters what actually needs your attention — architecture, failures, and what works
Dev.to 5 min read 5 reactions

I used to start every morning the same way: open Gmail, feel immediately overwhelmed, spend 40...

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I built the npm audit for MCP servers
Dev.to 2 min read 7 reactions

The MCP (Model Context Protocol) ecosystem has exploded. awesome-mcp-servers lists 200+ servers — but...

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XS: A programming language. Anywhere, anytime, by anyone
Hacker News 1 min read 60 points

A programming language. Anywhere, anytime, by anyone.

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