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Top Articles of the Day | 11-Sep-2026

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

AI & Data

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Database Scaling, Explained by Breaking Things: Indexing, Replication, Caching
Dev.to 5 min read 11 reactions

System design interviews have a standard question: "your database is slow, what do you do?" The...

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The Hidden Cost of File Format Chaos: How a Universal File Converter Can Simplify Your Workflow
Dev.to 4 min read 5 reactions

File conversion seems like a small task—until it starts happening repeatedly. A client sends a DOCX...

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Model IoT Data Before You Store It: Device, Measurement, Timestamp
Dev.to 4 min read 5 reactions

When an IoT payload lands in a database, it is tempting to focus on the value first. 72.4 ...

Product

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AI Is Already Better at Coding Than Most Software Developers
Dev.to 5 min read 75 reactions

...but let me say this right away: coding was never the most valuable part of software...

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More questions about whether researchers can trust OpenAI with unpublished math
Hacker News 757 points

@tristanbuckmaster@mastodon.social 1/3 I want to record a number of points that I realized after reading up on the controversy. In fact it recalls an exchange I had with OpenAI after its non-sofic-group announcement. It exposes a serious, unanswered question about whether researchers can trust Ope

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Down Is Kind, Slow Is Fatal: Circuit Breakers and the Three Links Around Them
Dev.to 18 min read 17 reactions

Hello, I'm Maneshwar, and I'm building LiveReview — a blast-radius aware AI code review built for...

Programming

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TS Evidence Graph: Make Every SKILL Instruction 100% Enforced
Dev.to 8 min read 10 reactions

TL;DR Write the rules into AGENTS.md or a skill file and the agent still will not follow...

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Generalizing Transactions in NestJS: A Domain Port over TypeORM and MongoDB
Dev.to 11 min read 5 reactions

Extracting a concrete transaction executor into a domain port, and testing that it generalizes by running the same use cases and the same suite over PostgreSQL and MongoDB.

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