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Top Articles of the Day | 03-Aug-2026

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AI & Data

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Stop Asking AI to Be Correct: Build a Verification Loop Instead
Dev.to 8 min read 5 reactions

AI doesn't need to be perfectly trustworthy if its important outputs are independently...

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RAG Is Not Enough: What Retrieval Still Gets Wrong in 2026
Dev.to 7 min read 4 reactions

RAG retrieval problems didn

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Microsoft Up 15%. Me? 100% Down.
Dev.to 3 min read 6 reactions

hey there, so i wanted to share something with you. this is a bit personal but i have been watching...

Product

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Best AI Code Review Tools for GitHub in 2026
Dev.to 5 min read 45 reactions

Hello Devs 👋 AI coding assistants have dramatically accelerated code generation. Whether you're...

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Karpathy’s Pelican
Hacker News 484 points

We're starting to leave the territory where you'd test an LLM by e.g. "create an svg of pelican on a bicycle". As one idea to generalize it, I was interested what Opus 5 would do if I gave it the first paragraph of the Lord of the Rings, a 1M token budget (~$10) and asked for

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Stratagems #21: The AI Thought P Was Still Alive. P Was Already Gone.
Dev.to 9 min read 32 reactions

Keep the shell. Preserve the presence. The ally doesn't suspect; the enemy doesn't move. — The 36...

Programming

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Show HN: Bor – Open-source policy management for Linux desktops
Hacker News 3 min read 172 points

Bor v0.8.0 is out. This release adds three new policy types — Thunderbird, Microsoft Edge for Business, and Firewalld zones — alongside a full web UI overhaul, finer-grained RBAC, and a dedicated security hardening pass. The complete changelog is on the GitHub release page. Thunderbird policy type M

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Porting 16 BLoC & Signal Benchmark Apps to BlocSignal: Elevating Flutter UX & DX
Dev.to 2 min read 6 reactions

We ported 16 official example apps from felangel/bloc and rodydavis/signals.dart to showcase how BlocSignal simplifies Flutter state management with synchronous frame updates, computed() derivations, and streamless Mutex concurrency.

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Day 1 of microservices
Dev.to 2 min read 5 reactions

To keep myself updated with current technologies, I have started learning Microservices architecture,...

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