... without actually understanding what triggered the failure. So I changed the order. Now my first request is: Reproduce the failure before changing anything. I ask the agent to: identify the exact failing scenario reproduce it locally show the expected vs actual behavior identify the smallest failing case explain what it thinks is happening only then propose a fix That extra step has been useful because it separates: I found some code that looks suspicious from: I can actually reproduce ... ... problem this code causes

... benchmark. Who I am hoping to hear from: Teams where extraction is already part of a real process and somebody still does not fully trust the output. Teams that have had a wrong value slip through quietly and cause trouble later. That case is the whole test. Not teams whose pipeline works fine and nobody checks anything afterwards. That is a good place to be, and you probably do not need this. Comment here or email me at oisidonut@gmail.com ... ... helps if you say what your team does, what kind of documents you process, roughly how many, what you use today, and which kind of mistake causes

... product. We were happy with the growth. September Said 'largest PC manufacturer' went through a reorganisation. The opportunity disappeared. That was that. We kept building and reached 400 users. October A large AI community discovered Ting. An Instagram post caused a huge spike in traffic and brought a wave of VCs to us. We took the calls but told them we weren t raising. Another lesson: always be ready to raise, especially as an AI startup. These conversations can take ... ... market: I speak Portuguese, Mariana is Portuguese and my wife is Brazilian. We ran a test in Portuguese. We recruited 100s of Brazilian users in three weeks, mainly thanks to Ting on WhatsApp. IYKYK . December Based on competitors

... When we started building Aseel, we didn't want to build just another marketplace. Aseel brings together different ways for people to make an impact, from supporting communities and causes to discovering products made by talented people from places that don't always get much attention online. One thing we've learned is that the technology is only one part of the challenge. You have to make it simple for someone who wants to help, simple for communities receiving support ...

... days ago, an old client I once helped set up backups for messaged me in an absolute panic: Emergency! Help, our server has been hacked! Their project happened to be a typical WordPress build, but the root cause highlights a much broader issue that applies to almost any tech stack. They were relying on popular "security" modules that simply changed the admin login URL to a custom path a classic case of security by obscurity. Spoiler: It didn't help ... ... system accounts. Lockdown: Planted auto-starting backdoors and injected their own SSH keys for the system user. The Fail: Attempted to deploy a crypto miner... but the server was only saved because it literally ran out of disk space, causing

... After speaking with founders over the past few weeks, I've noticed a common pattern. Most failed launches weren't caused by poor engineering. They were caused

... dev/staging and a separate, higher-quality pool for production. 5. Implement retry with backoff in test fixtures We wrapped our external request helpers with retry logic (3 retries, exponential backoff) so that transient proxy failures don't cause false negatives in CI. This alone cut our flaky test rate by over 60%. We built Pxyedge with developers in mind a reliable proxy layer that you can actually depend on in CI/CD. 80M+ verified residential IPs, automatic rotation, and transparent ... ... pricing with no surprises. If you're tired of flaky tests caused

... companies? or are you neutral and think your info doesn't matter that much? Not just words from dictation apps, but other personal details like schedules from a productivity app, or computer details from coding agents. Asking this cause I personally don't mind my app data being sent to companies, as long as they're not passwords, or important personal info. But this brings us to another question, where is the line? Comment from Galina Linardi(@galina__linardi ... ... Comment from Dale Mooney(@dalemooney): Rabnoor's distinction is the right one. I'd add the mechanism that makes it decisive inside a company, rather than just principled. If you're the person who signs a tool off, cloud versus

... fear: a paused customer silently getting their access back. We fire every delivery ordering (plus duplicates) at your handler, prove whether a stale event can re-entitle a canceled/paused subscription, and reduce the failure to the two events that cause it, e.g. "deliver paused, then a stale activated." Not "send a webhook." Reproduce the ugly delivery conditions that break production billing. Receipts that read like a doctor's note: symptom, cause

... publishing, you may need the shipper decisive, pragmatic, and comfortable with imperfection. When talking to users, you may need the investigator someone who listens, asks simple questions, and avoids defending the product. When facing rejection, you may need the competitor someone who treats the result as feedback rather than as a judgment of personal worth. This is different from asking: What would Steve Jobs do? Blindly imitating another person can be superficial. The useful part is identifying the specific qualities ... ... repeat before beginning Todd Herman describes these objects as a form of activation: a concrete signal that helps someone enter the identity they have chosen for that particular field. The deeper insight is that many problems are not caused

... weird visual glitch. When scrolling the product grid with the mobile cart sidebar open, the background page continued to scroll behind it. Even worse, the sticky header kept flickering and overlapping with the cart slide-out overlay. It caused a broken user experience, and sometimes the navigation menu would lock up completely. The issue was caused

... CSS/JS links were commented out 40/100 5694025 04:10:52 UTC New HTML with broken syntax was created 35/100 Vigil's Investigation: "The deletion of indexolderbcvvvededehdeh.html in commit df9f721 (deployed at 04:07:00 UTC) caused a 404 Not Found error likely due to a broken redirect/reference on the root page, or a CDN propagation delay." Evidence: Check [1] at 04:10:01 UTC 404 error recorded Commit df9f721 deployed 3 minutes before the error Commits after the error ... ... 3b24abd) were correctly ruled out Root Cause

... Integration Correlate incidents with recent commits and deployment activity. Evidence-based Vigil AI Instead of generating generic AI responses, Vigil now investigates incidents using: Monitoring failures Historical incident patterns GitHub commit summaries Deployment timing Infrastructure context No hallucinated root causes If there isn't enough evidence, Vigil simply says: "Cause

... gets misused the most? Comment from Riya Pariyar(@riya_pariyar): governance gets misused the most, and i think it's because it's the least tangible of the three. safety and compliance both have clearer failure modes. something either causes harm or it doesn't. something either meets the regulation or it doesn't. governance is murkier. it's about visibility, ownership, accountability over time. and because it's harder to point to a specific failure, teams deprioritise it until ...

... they are not always faithful to real UI behavior. Some issues only appear in a headed browser: - focus and keyboard edge cases - OAuth or identity-provider flows - browser permission prompts - clipboard behavior - native dialogs - layout differences caused by real window chrome - animations and timing that behave differently under headless mode - visual regressions that require human-like inspection - flows where a developer or tester needs to watch the run live When the test agent is evaluating a real product UI, visibility ... ... worker. For UI testing, a remote headed browser is not just a convenience. It changes the debugging loop. Instead of asking "what did the script think happened?", you can ask "what did the user actually see?" ### Harness Code vs

... median points needed to break the top 5 and top 10 on each day. Check the full report here: https://app.databox.com/shared/a... The short version: Saturday is the easiest day. Only 266 median points to crack top 5, vs 360 on Wednesday. That's a 35% harder climb on the worst day vs

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... agree or not, saving bookmarks in the bookmark bar in our browser is not cool cause it make things cluttered, I used to save a lot of sites in the bookmark bar until it get too weird, for simplifying this purpose I created an app called "My important stuffs" and connect it to one of my existing domain thats validity is upto may 2027, If you guys love or use or recommend this FREE app it will give ... ... boost to keep it free forever. Its my first journey and im not thinking about make any money from it cause

... useful first ofc) Comment from Umut Muhaddisoglu(@umut_muhaddisoglu1): What I'm building: FaultFixer, a totally free error reporting tool that catches all frontend/backend errors, AI analyzes them so that you have an opinion for the root-cause and has an awesome MCP integration that allows users to get the detected errors inside the AI dev tools (Claude, Codex, Cursor..) so that fixing them is just a prompt away. Who it's for: A must have for anyone building sites/apps ... ... verified AI disclosure. others will not. over time the receipts with agent transparency outperform on credibility because the alternative

... values. What we still want to fix Tolerant liveness is the right default, but the multi-second event-loop freezes are still a problem on their own. They make every other latency budget worse, even when they no longer cause kills. The follow-up work falls into a few buckets: Move CPU-heavy synchronous work (large JSON serialization, certain native driver paths) off the main event loop, either into worker threads or into separate processes. Reduce the number of synchronous ... ... stack of services we build. When a Node.js process dies silently, suspect something outside the process. A blocked event loop can t run your SIGTERM handler, your process.on('exit'), or your unhandledRejection handler. If the logs are empty, the cause

... actual insight, and it's bigger than it looks: making the notification say why it's waiting is what turns a ping into a triage. "Done" makes you tab back to find out what "done" means. "Needs approval vs finished vs

... This is learned helplessness applied to data. Martin Seligman's original research on learned helplessness showed that when people repeatedly find they cannot control outcomes, they stop trying even when control becomes available. The behavior persists long after the cause is gone. Most people using Google Drive, email, or Slack to send sensitive files aren't naive. They're fatigued. They know something is off. They've just run out of alternatives

... endpoint completely hangs, drops a blank 500 error, or an unhandled promise rejection silently swallows the exact context you need. You're left digging through thousands of lines of raw, unformatted JSON logs trying to guess the root cause. I got so sick of chasing network paradoxes that I spent the last few months building Inspekt (launching right here on the dashboard in 8 hours!). I tore down the traditional proxy setup and rebuilt it entirely as a native telemetry ... ... comments all day! Comment from Claus Larsen(@claus_larsen): One recurring version of this in AI tooling is a provider failure that looks like an app bug: the SDK returns a generic timeout or 500, but the real cause

... Riyaz Hossaini(@riyazhossaini): @milescward Thank you this is exactly the kind of gap we want to solve. A person s online identity should not be reduced to job titles, achievements, or polished professional updates. What they care about, the causes they support, and the communities they contribute to are often just as important. I really like your idea of passion causes

... astonishing 25% of new product launches tracked in key categories during 2023 and 2024 were already inactive by the end of 2024 . But here is what the failure data actually says. What really kills launches The number one cause of product failure is not bad execution. It is not lack of funding. It is "no market need." That accounts for 42% of failures . Almost half. People build things that solve a problem that does not exist, or that nobody ... ... make economically. Marketing promises a ship date logistics cannot hit . Before you go to market, make sure your product data is ready. The gap between "product is ready" and "product data is ready" is one of the most common causes