Top Articles of the Day | 25-Sep-2026

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AI & Data Product Programming

AI & Data

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7 Agent Eval Mistakes That Cost Me Weeks (And the One-Line Fixes That Ended Them)

Dev.to 5 min read 22 reactions

You've been there. You run the eval, the number comes back, and something about it doesn't sit...

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Early rogue AI agent activity and attempts to hack found on urlquery.net

Hacker News 1 min read 254 points

We found evidence on urlquery that AI agents were active earlier than previously reported and attempted hacks against public data providers.

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I Pulled Nine Years of My Own Dev.to Data. The Numbers Were Not What I Expected.

Dev.to 8 min read 13 reactions

There is an API. It will tell you things about your writing that the dashboard will not. I have been...

Product

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Consistently bad habits...

Dev.to 4 min read 25 reactions

Ever find yourself working when you shouldnt be? I know I do... Infact, I'm supposed to be a jobless...

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I Reviewed 20 WordPress Security Audits to Find Our Own Blind Spots

Dev.to 7 min read 9 reactions

A WordPress site can look perfectly healthy while quietly carrying security weaknesses you would...

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What does a JWT actually prove? Less than your API assumes

Dev.to 6 min read 8 reactions

View source on one of our generated widgets and you can find a tenant id, a connector handle and the...

Programming

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Why Heat Pump Calculations Fail: Modeling DOE Appendix M1 HSPF2 Derates, Sub-Zero COP Decay, and Fuel Parity in TypeScript

Dev.to 6 min read 1 reactions

Most HVAC tools assume static heat pump efficiencies. Here is how to model real-world DOE Appendix M1 HSPF2 external static pressure losses, non-linear ambient COP degradation, and fuel break-even math in pure, deterministic TypeScript.

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Your useEffect Data Fetch Might Show Stale Data If a User Navigates Quickly

Dev.to 4 min read 1 reactions

This is a genuinely common race condition, and it's specifically the kind that only shows up under...

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I got tired of lining up comment dividers by hand, so I automated it

Dev.to 3 min read 1 reactions

This is a personal preference thing, but I like to write code top-down. Because of the way hoisting...

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