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Title	Company	Words	HN Points
The August 17 outage, and the work ahead	GitHub	773	643
Protocol-Aware Deterministic Simulation Testing	TigerBeetle	2,591	12
Popular Rust Crates Compromised in Build-Time Supply Chain Attack	Socket	1,322	9
We Taught sqlc to Invalidate Our Caches	exe.dev	909	3
GHSA-864f-rcv7-6rh4: Critical Type Confusion Vulnerability in isolated-vm	Endor Labs	2,423	2
How to feed Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Bases with live web data using Bright Data	Bright Data	8,869	-
Annotation Workflow in FiftyOne: Pool to Trained Detector	Voxel51	7,514	-
Best MCP Server Deployment Platforms for Enterprises in 2026	Arcade	5,627	-
MiniMax H3 Anime Video Generator: 15 Seconds, 4:3, and the Title Card Veo 3.1 Botched	Atlas Cloud	4,935	-
Wan 3.0 Document to Video: I Audited Every Frame	Atlas Cloud	3,988	-
Cut your vLLM cold starts from 5 minutes to 90 seconds on Runpod Serverless	RunPod	3,945	-
Making sense of MCP auth	Prefect	3,469	-
AI translation quality evaluation: Looking beyond human review	Lokalise	3,302	-
Is Wan 3.0 Open Source? 33 Repos Checked, 0 Weights Found	Atlas Cloud	3,283	-
The 7 best Salesforce alternatives in 2026	Zapier	3,264	-
Inngest Python SDK: Durable Background Jobs for FastAPI, Flask, and Django	Inngest	3,258	-
Vantage Launches the Token Cost Allocation Specification	Vantage	3,253	-
The 6 best Replit alternatives in 2026	Zapier	3,247	-
Wan 3.0 VRAM Requirements: Why 80GB Isn't Enough, and What Actually Runs Today	Atlas Cloud	3,232	-
7 Best Jira Alternatives for Test Management	TestMu AI	3,163	-
Building AI SRE Agents, Part 2: Leave the Laptop, Earn Trust	Komodor	3,065	-
Best embedded integrations platform for AI agents and RAG	Nango	3,046	-
Temporal Agent Harness: An early look at durable agent infrastructure	Temporal	2,904	-
Cross-Border Data Transfers Under GDPR: What Regulated Industries Must Know	Duality	2,844	-
Top 8 Google Analytics alternatives for product teams that need true behavioral insights	Mixpanel	2,823	-
What is neural text to speech? Neural TTS explained	ElevenLabs	2,822	-
What to Check Before Tuning a Qdrant Collection	Qdrant	2,770	-
Human Out of the Loop Testing: Autonomy Levels and Exit Criteria	TestMu AI	2,727	-
Self-hosted vs managed ClickHouse	Tinybird	2,710	-
The 6 best Boomi alternatives in 2026	Zapier	2,682	-
Best AI voice agents for CX: how to evaluate them for customer experience	Vapi	2,663	-
Agent-to-Agent Protocol Testing: How to Verify Your A2A Implementation	TestMu AI	2,662	-
The 5 Best Programmatic SEO Tools in 2026, Compared End to End	Prismic	2,622	-
cnfast vs cn(): Is the 7x Speedup Real in React?	LogRocket	2,586	-
Domo arigato, Mux Roboto: stream.new's road to Robots	Mux	2,581	-
Secure GraphRAG: Wiring Microsoft Copilot Studio to Neo4j with per-user Okta SSO	Neo4j	2,569	-
Zapier Testing: How to Test Zaps Before They Fail Silently	TestMu AI	2,552	-
Top AI Baby Face Generators Compared: What the Free Tiers, Prices, and Fine Print Actually Say	Atlas Cloud	2,549	-
Build multi-agent teams that remember every customer with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore	n8n	2,541	-
How to Build Game Sprite Atlases with MiniMax H3 from Single Images	Atlas Cloud	2,531	-
MCP vs API: How they work together and when to use each	CircleCI	2,504	-
The Deepfake Watchlist: Week of August 14-20, 2026	Resemble AI	2,498	-
Entity accuracy in speech-to-text: why word accuracy isn't enough	AssemblyAI	2,465	-
Building an AI-Powered Incident Bot with Octopus Deploy	Octopus Deploy	2,449	-
Best voice agent API for contact centers: How to choose in 2026	AssemblyAI	2,405	-
DigitalOcean Inference Router, Now Cache-Aware: Why the Cheapest Model Isn't Always the Best Deal	DigitalOcean	2,384	-
How technical leaders are managing rising AI costs in 2026 [Survey]	Retool	2,364	-
Context Compounding: Why Enterprise AI Should Get Smarter Every Time Your Team Uses It	Prem AI	2,334	-
ClickHouse cluster operations in production	Tinybird	2,322	-
Which platform is best for running AI-generated code securely at scale?	Northflank	2,293	-
Make.com Testing: How to Test Scenarios Before They Break	TestMu AI	2,213	-
Machine-Speed Credential Abuse: What the ChainDrop npm Worm Changes	GitGuardian	2,211	-
How to Send and Receive iMessages Programmatically: Exploring Your Options	Linq	2,201	-
What Is an AI Gateway, and Why It Matters Now	CData	2,199	-
paper clearings: How We Develop a Hosted Platform with Disposable Local Clouds	Paper Compute Company	2,162	-
How to localize Figma designs using Figma's AI agent and Lokalise MCP	Lokalise	2,133	-
Pipedream Testing: How to Test Workflows and Code Steps	TestMu AI	2,127	-
Power Automate Testing: How to Test Cloud Flows	TestMu AI	2,075	-
ClickHouse operating models	Tinybird	2,073	-
What to Know About the PCI Self Assessment	Basis Theory	2,071	-
What it takes to build smarter voice agents: lessons from Retell and Super	AssemblyAI	2,040	-
Three questions to answer before you renew your MDM	Fleet	2,021	-
ECK 3.5: Dynamic namespaces, pause orchestration, and mTLS everywhere	Elastic	2,019	-
The Best Auth Providers for Fast-Moving B2B Startups (2026 Guide)	PropelAuth	2,011	-
Best runtime platforms for AI applications and production infrastructure	Northflank	2,006	-
CrowdStrike Named Strongest Overall Leader in 2026 Frost Radar™: Cloud Workload Protection Platforms	Crowdstrike	1,981	-
How to Curate Robot Episode Data at Scale?	Encord	1,953	-
From Feature Flagging to Feature Management: Migrating from GitLab to Unleash	Unleash	1,921	-
Here's What Your Baby Could Actually Look Like, According to AI	Atlas Cloud	1,897	-
Upsun Cloud vs Kinsta for managed WordPress at scale: when you need more than a WordPress host	Upsun	1,827	-
2026 Blueprint for Secure, Scalable Multi-MCP Deployment in Large Enterprises	CData	1,811	-
Build an AI medical note-taker with one API	AssemblyAI	1,780	-
GS1 Sunrise 2027: How to Verify 2D Barcodes on the Production Line	Roboflow	1,773	-
6 Workato Alternatives for Enterprise Automation	n8n	1,770	-
Shopify powers observability for global-scale commerce with ClickHouse	ClickHouse	1,755	-
What is a Data Warehouse?	Starburst	1,749	-
Fast like a cache, priced like storage: Benchmarking Aerospike on Feast	Aerospike	1,748	-
Safer Kubernetes rollouts with minReadySeconds	Gremlin	1,722	-
How (and why) I monetized a game with a rewarded ad and no paywall	RevenueCat	1,628	-
POSETTE Talk Recap - Postgres Isn't Slow. Your Storage Is	ClickHouse	1,623	-
Don’t Break the Agent: Lessons in Token Optimization	JFrog	1,617	-
The tariff shock that turned treasury from backroom to boardroom	Airwallex	1,608	-
Open-weight models are fast on Neon AI Gateway. Here's why	Neon	1,578	-
How v0 authenticates to Snowflake without exposing the user's OAuth token	Vercel	1,532	-
Turn every branch into a production-like environment, automatically	Upsun	1,507	-
Grafana 13.2 release: easier ways to query and explore your data	Grafana Labs	1,501	-
The pull request outlived its obituaries and got a bigger job	CodeRabbit	1,473	-
Build an iMessage Clone With Stream's Agent Skills	Stream	1,465	-
Runtime Quality Foundation: Catch What Single-Column Monitoring Misses	Acceldata	1,440	-
Introducing Octen Extract: A Fetch API That Tells You What the Page Is	Octen	1,436	-
Better together: The durability layer for your AWS agentic stack	Temporal	1,431	-
How to Migrate from LaunchDarkly to Unleash	Unleash	1,430	-
A Practical Guide to Building the Right Agent Evals	Confident AI	1,428	-
How Poke Gives Every User Their Own Database, Without Them Ever Knowing	Turso	1,423	-
AI Norms & Values, Part 1 of 3: How We Do Business at Honeycomb	Honeycomb	1,414	-
What's New in Acceldata 26.7.0 & 26.8.0	Acceldata	1,405	-
Five monetization trends from global pricing leaders	Stripe	1,399	-
ArmBench-ASR: A Benchmark for Armenian ASR	Hugging Face	1,388	-
Data Products V2 and the Python SDK: The Consumption Surface for Trusted Data	Acceldata	1,384	-
La IA no solo reemplaza empleos, reescribe la descripción del puesto	Fleet	1,380	-
Base Optimization Stack: From Open Weights to Frontier On-Device Inference Speed	Hugging Face	1,338	-
Detect vulnerabilities in LLM applications with Datadog’s AI-native SAST	Datadog	1,333	-
Sync Speech-to-Text API: a technical walkthrough of one-request transcription	AssemblyAI	1,331	-
Sandboxes with a hardware boundary	Boxd	1,326	-
Datadog Synthetic Monitoring Pricing: The Per-Test Trap	OpenObserve	1,320	-
Introducing Firecrawl Developer Index: A Specialized Index for Coding Agents	Firecrawl	1,310	-
Up to 3.2x Faster Inference with LFM2.5-DSpark	Hugging Face	1,304	-
How task containers give AI agents real infrastructure without idle cost	Upsun	1,301	-
Is your coding agent uploading all your code?	Arize	1,297	-
Filenames are the wrong index for Claude Code @ mentions	Sourcegraph	1,295	-
Trust is the infrastructure autonomous finance runs on	Airwallex	1,289	-
How to migrate from Heroku to a multicloud PaaS in 2026	Upsun	1,283	-
From signals to systemic risk: Building Risk AI	Datadog	1,266	-
Agent Foundations: Building Blocks of Engineering Success	Rescale	1,255	-
Agent Foundations: Building Blocks of Engineering Success	Rescale	1,255	-
Your next BI tool shouldn't be a BI tool	Hex	1,251	-
Qwen 3.8 Max Scores 58.7 on the Tuesday Work Index	Surge AI	1,250	-
AI lectures with Dr. Brumley Part 5 \| Defense using AI: The compliance clock is running	Bugcrowd	1,237	-
Video Client SDK 2.35.1 Release: Promises and Scalable Layer Selection	Vonage	1,228	-
The prompts only the Postman AI Engineer can answer	Postman	1,208	-
Everyone Feels Faster. Almost Nobody Can Prove It.	GitKraken	1,203	-
De-Risking COBOL Modernization: A Practical Engineering Roadmap	Foundational	1,162	-
Ecommerce MCP prompts: how to talk to your store’s data	Mixpanel	1,157	-
How APRF Helps You Understand Your Email Reputation	Resend	1,145	-
Universal-3.5 Pro for pre-recorded audio: code-switching and contextual prompting in action	AssemblyAI	1,145	-
What is DBOS Conductor?	DBOS	1,141	-
Introducing the Sigma CLI: Manage Sigma from your terminal or coding agent	Sigma	1,140	-
From all-or-nothing to task-based OAuth consent	Cloudflare	1,119	-
Heaps of Built-in's: How JavaScript Sandboxes work	Endor Labs	1,114	-
IBM Sovereign Core and Duality help organizations collaborate on sensitive data without exposing it	Duality	1,100	-
How a senior PM uses LogRocket’s MCP to catch bugs before they become support tickets	LogRocket	1,097	-
[Customer Success Story] Five Years of Advancing Perception AI: How an Autonomous Robot Service Company Built a Multi-Sensor Data Labeling Pipeline	Superb AI	1,086	-
Best Cloud Cost Tools for Platform Engineering Teams	Vantage	1,074	-
Business Glossary: Give Your Data Estate a Shared Business Language	Acceldata	1,017	-
Firecrawl + Eden AI: Add Live Web Data to Your AI Stack With One Key	Firecrawl	991	-
Socket Now Protects the Firefox Extension Ecosystem	Socket	986	-
AI Gateway updates: New Terraform provider, localhost MCPs, and more	Barndoor	959	-
We deleted a dashboard we trusted	Frigade	946	-
How to get started with Qwen3.8-27B on Runpod Serverless	RunPod	943	-
Ready for Go 1.27 on Day One - The JetBrains Blog	JetBrains	919	-
Agentic finance starts with a read-only assistant	Lago	894	-
Does AI make document management cool now?	Vertesia	855	-
Aerospike now available as a Feast online store	Aerospike	831	-
Why Yugabyte Joined the Agentic AI Foundation	Yugabyte	771	-
Build custom flows in minutes with the Flow Creator agent	GitLab	770	-
Introducing PII Redaction for LiveKit Observability	LiveKit	757	-
LangSmith Preview Builds: Test agent changes before production	LangChain	750	-
Introducing Scheduler support for Nylas Agent Accounts	Nylas	743	-
The search multiplier: Driving revenue, productivity, and AI at scale	Elastic	740	-
Can incumbent AI governance vendors close the gap?	Speakeasy	714	-
Introducing Cube's Claude Connector and Skills	Cube	677	-
AI for RevOps: Where It Helps and Where It Doesn't Yet	Lago	662	-
When your backlog outgrows your team, GitLab scales remediation	GitLab	651	-
PyCharm for AI-assisted Django Workflows - The JetBrains Blog	JetBrains	643	-
[Webinar] Voice AI that connects	Twilio	609	-
You Aren’t As Behind As You Think	GitKraken	594	-
How Bystreet Completed 1M+ Scrapes with Context.dev Without Any Issues	Context.dev	584	-
Run agentic software delivery inside the boundaries you already trust	GitLab	516	-
Introducing FigmaTrace: A comprehensive training dataset for Figma design workflows	Patronus AI	493	-
NanoClaw brings on-demand agent teams to Slack's Add to Slack	Nanoclaw	449	-
Conversation History vs Agent Memory: What Should Survive a Session?	Supermemory	407	-
5x Faster Headless Test Creation Within Your IDE: How AURA Turns Days of Test Authoring Into Minutes	Sauce Labs	384	-
New in the Linq API: @mentions, custom backgrounds, and more	Linq	379	-
Rust crates arrayref & append-only-vec compromised via malicious proc-macro1 dependency	Semgrep	260	-
Elastic Stack 9.5.2 released	Elastic	121	-

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