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Meet Necoz! 😸 Small. Simple. Useful.

Focuses on community-driven open source

Meet Necoz! 😸 Small. Simple. Useful.

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That's a Wrap on Hacktoberfest 2026! 🎃👻

Over 115k participants and 500+ global meetups

That's a Wrap on Hacktoberfest 2026! 🎃👻

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Prompt Pad: What Are Open-Weight Models?

Prompt Pad: What Are Open-Weight Models?

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One word in a chat took my shop offline. I built it that way.

One word in a chat took my shop offline. I built it that way.

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A Maintainer's Advice on Contributing to Open Source in 2026

A Maintainer's Advice on Contributing to Open Source in 2026

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Building a free embeddable widget that earns attribution honestly: iframe + credit line design

Building a free embeddable widget that earns attribution honestly: iframe + credit line design

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Fast Compose: Run Jetpack Compose code instantly without compiling

Fast Compose: Run Jetpack Compose code instantly without compiling

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Select first, then act: a tour of HUME

Select first, then act: a tour of HUME

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Localhost is not authentication: fixing a CWE-306 webhook in an AI agent framework

Localhost is not authentication: fixing a CWE-306 webhook in an AI agent framework

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The detailed conditions I knew on the day I measured were gone when I looked at the graph later

The detailed conditions I knew on the day I measured were gone when I looked at the graph later

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How we moved our agents from personal terminals into team channels

How we moved our agents from personal terminals into team channels

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Product #45 · WeChat Red Packets (2014): How a 9-Person Team Coded a Thousand-Year Tradition and Completed a Decade of Bank-Card Onboarding in One Night

Product #45 · WeChat Red Packets (2014): How a 9-Person Team Coded a Thousand-Year Tradition and Completed a Decade of Bank-Card Onboarding in One Night

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Open models vs Claude: Kimi K3, GLM 5.3 and DeepSeek V4 Pro against Sonnet 5.5 and Opus 5.5

Open models vs Claude: Kimi K3, GLM 5.3 and DeepSeek V4 Pro against Sonnet 5.5 and Opus 5.5

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Mining 14,351 Chess Puzzles with Stockfish 18 (and the Illegal-FEN Trap in chess.js)

Mining 14,351 Chess Puzzles with Stockfish 18 (and the Illegal-FEN Trap in chess.js)

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PM #52 · Marissa Mayer: Guarding the Most Valuable Blank Page on Earth with 41 Shades of Blue and Building Silicon Valley's APM Factory

PM #52 · Marissa Mayer: Guarding the Most Valuable Blank Page on Earth with 41 Shades of Blue and Building Silicon Valley's APM Factory

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