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Top Articles of the Day | 30-May-2026

Read the best articles of today, from around the globe, curated at one place for you!

AI & Data

Pick #1
Robinhood now lets your AI agents trade stocks
Hacker News 91 points

While these agents would be able to read and analyze users' portfolios to come up with trading strategies and suggest investments, they'll only be able to access the pre-loaded balance in the dedicated wallet to place orders.

Pick #2
How Model Distillation Actually Works (and What the 'China Distilled Our Model' Headlines Really Mean)
Dev.to 6 min read 4 reactions

A practical, no-hype explainer of knowledge distillation in LLMs — the actual mechanics, why distilling from a closed API is different, and what the OpenAI/Anthropic vs DeepSeek allegations are really about.

Pick #3
MarkItDown: Microsoft's Tool for Converting Almost Anything to Markdown
Dev.to 4 min read 5 reactions

If you've been building LLM-powered applications, you've likely run into the same problem: your data...

Product

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How to Automate Mobile App Testing Without Writing a Single Line of Code
Dev.to 11 min read 57 reactions

You don't need to be a developer to automate your mobile app testing. Not in 2026. For years,...

Pick #2
Shift will clean homes for free to train future robots
Hacker News 104 points

The dirtier the better, apparently.

Pick #3
What actually happens when you run `go run main.go`
Dev.to 6 min read 27 reactions

Hello, I'm Maneshwar. I'm building git-lrc, a Micro AI code reviewer that runs on every commit. It is...

Programming

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Someone used my open source project to phish people
Hacker News 5 min read 94 points

A botnet abused the hosted version of my open source project to phish 14,000 strangers. What I found, what I cleaned up, and what it taught me about running cloud on behalf of people I’ve never met.

Pick #2
Show HN: Ktx – Open-source executable context layer for data agents
Hacker News 82 points

ktx is an executable context layer for data and analytics agents 🐙 Allow Claude Code, Codex, and any AI agent to query data accurately through MCP with skills and memory - Kaelio/ktx-ai-data-agents...

Pick #3
What actually happens when you run `go run main.go`
Dev.to 6 min read 27 reactions

Hello, I'm Maneshwar. I'm building git-lrc, a Micro AI code reviewer that runs on every commit. It is...

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