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The previous article, Microsoft Foundry Agent Identity Governance: Agent Identities, Blueprints, and Managed Identities mapped the relationships among User Identity, Agent Identity, Agent Identity Blu...
If you've searched "install Hadoop on WSL," you've probably found guides from 2020–2023, most written for WSL1 or old Hadoop 3.2/3.3.0 builds. This guide is different: it's WSL2-specific, uses the c...
If you've spent any time doing digital footprinting or target enumeration, your workflow probably looks like this: Fire up Sherlock to see where a handle exists across social media. Realize Sherlock d...
Every large language model, image generator, and modern recommender shares one idea at its core: self-attention. Strip away the math and it's surprisingly intuitive. The 2017 paper that introduced it ...
Introduction: The Problem & The Mission Across rural and semi-urban India, access to timely healthcare advice is hindered by high patient-to-doctor ratios, geographical distances, and language barrier...
Article URL: https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2026/08/msg00002.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49309050 Points: 18 # Comments: 13
Article URL: https://uecker.codeberg.page/2026-07-14.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49308685 Points: 27 # Comments: 3
Article URL: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/08/suspecting-court-of-using-ai-man-injected-prompts-in-filings-to-try-to-win-case/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49308553 Po...
Article URL: https://chenxiachan.github.io/thoughtdag/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49307700 Points: 47 # Comments: 12
Article URL: https://conic.al/writing/the-other-sean-byrne-doesnt-exist/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49307592 Points: 212 # Comments: 103
Discord bots can look surprisingly complicated when you see them in action. A bot can respond to messages, tell stories, remember parts of conversations, and stay online around the clock. When I first
A trading research agent can write strategy code, run a backtest, inspect the results, and keep revising the strategy. The harder problem is making sure that this loop doesn't turn into an uncontrolle
I can recall the time when I first put on the Oura Ring and checked my readiness score the next morning as if I were checking an exam score. I saw something like 62 and I really started to panic. Was
Many PDF documents contain colorful charts, presentations, marketing materials, scanned pages, or graphics that aren't always ideal for printing or archiving. In some cases, converting a document to g
Plus, how to style skeleton UIs, how to enable diagonal scrolling, how images can overflow themselves, and yet, still more. Basically, how to do a lot of really cool (CSS) stuff. What’s !important #...
I have seen legacy migrations considered successful because the old framework disappeared from the repository. Six months later, the team was still dealing with the same coupling, the same unclear bus
New EU guidelines, why AI sparkles aren’t enough, when AI labels are required, and what the rules mean for AI-powered features and products.
The warning is correct. And the recommended fixes you've probably seen are wrong. Here's what you can do instead to properly fix the issue. Blocked aria-hidden: The Warning is Right, and Every Fix You...
When tasked with building a highly interactive, tactile web experience, the architecture must serve the art direction. In this article, Alexey Kopytin explains their architectural rationale for buildi...
Border images are an overlooked feature. One neat fact is that border image slices can run across entire borders on an element, and animating it creates beautiful effects. Animating CSS border-image o...
Smashing Magazine’s in-person conferences are back and returning to the wonderful city of Freiburg next month, September 7–10. SmashingConf Freiburg 2026, September 7-10 originally handwritten an...
There's a lot of nuance to the <dialog> element, a seemingly little piece of web architecture. I've got some notes from digging into it. Using and Styling the Dialog Element originally handwritten and...
The gap between “you need a library for this” and “the browser does this” keeps closing. A practical guide to auditing your dependencies and finding what the web platform can now handle for yo...
Whether you’re enjoying some well-earned time off this August or are jumping headfirst into a new project, how about some new desktop wallpapers to accompany you on all those big and small adventure...
As AI reshapes product design, it could give designers greater autonomy or expose the gaps that autonomy makes harder to hide. Exploring both the bull and bear cases, Andy Budd examines what happens w...
