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Gemini Live audio

Tool: Gemini Live audio Google released Gemini 3.8 Live and 3.8 Live Extended Thinking today - two new speech-to-speech models that are a similar shape to OpenAI's GPT-Live family. I pointed GPT-6 Astra Extra High at…

Paste your Stripe webhook handler here: 7 checks that run in this post

The most-viewed Stripe question on Stack Overflow right now is not a subtle one. It is Webhook payload must be provided as a string or a Buffer — 25,121 views, 13 answers. Right behind it: NextJS Stripe Webhook Raw Body…

django-ox: Database Based Django Task Backend

Call for Volunteers: Django Fundraising Working Group

PyCoder’s Weekly: Issue #752: Dict Performance, Hypothesis, Lazy Imports, and More (2026-09-15)

#752 – SEPTEMBER 15, 2026 View in Browser » Sets and Dictionaries Can Have Quadratic-Time Performance A rough first approximation is that a dict has O(1) performance, but that only holds true for smaller containers.…

Building Scalable Digital Products: Lessons from Founding Tecxon Technology

Introduction Hey DEV Community! 👋 I'm Mohd Asif (Akky), a Full Stack Web Architect, UI/UX Designer, and Tech Entrepreneur based in NCR, India. Over the past 8+ years, I have been building high-performance web systems,…

IA escreve código melhor que você — e daí?

Tem um debate rolando que eu acho meio desonesto: "IA já programa melhor que a maioria dos devs". É verdade. Mas estamos medindo a coisa errada. Pega o ChatGPT, Claude, Copilot — todos conseguem cuspir um componente…

I built 59 free browser-based dev tools in vanilla JS — here's what I learned

I've been quietly building Antigravity Tools — a collection of 59 free, browser-based developer utilities — and today I'm sharing everything I built and learned. Why vanilla JS? No React, no build step. The main…

#496 A lake house in Seattle

Topics include Pandas Should Go Extinct, Pydantic-pint puts real-world units in your Pydantic models, How Libraries Run Rust Inside Python (With PyO3), and AWS acquires DuckLabs.

Django Weblog: DjangoCon Europe 2027 is heading to Innsbruck, Austria! 🏔️⛷️🚠🇦🇹

We’re delighted to announce that DjangoCon Europe 2027 will take place in Innsbruck, Austria, from February 17–21, 2027! Photo by Nicole Baster on Unsplash Each year, DjangoCon Europe brings together people from across…

The Star Rating That Never Reaches Your Server

You build a <star-rating> custom element. Five clickable stars, a nice hover state, a value property. You drop it into a signup form next to the real inputs. It looks identical to everything around it. You submit the…

From 1,256ms to 96ms: Fixing INP in a Massive React Dropdown

The Scenario In Subito's design system, we rely heavily on a custom MultiSelect component. We use it across our marketplace as a standard checkbox-style filter: you search, tick a few boxes, and hit Apply. Under the…

How I Got a Next.js Project to 100% SEO on Lighthouse

I recently went through the SEO setup of MockData and wanted to see how far I could push the technical side of it. The goal wasn't to rank #1 on Google. I just wanted to make sure search engines could properly…

I Built an Adaptive Hand Cricket Game Using React, MediaPipe, and TensorFlow.js

I wanted to build something fun, not another CRUD app or chatbot. So I built Adaptive Hand Cricket: a browser-based game where you play hand cricket through your webcam, your hand gestures are recognized in real time,…

ClinAgent: A ReAct-Based Agent for Conversational Access to Clinical Trial Information

arXiv:2609.13860v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Querying clinical trial registries remains a manual and error-prone process, requiring researchers to navigate large volumes of semi-structured data without support for…

Echo-CoPilot: A Multiple-Perspective Agentic Framework for Reliable Echocardiography Interpretation

arXiv:2512.09944v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Echocardiography interpretation requires integrating multi-view temporal evidence with quantitative measurements and guideline-grounded reasoning, yet existing…

Solar Intelligence

arXiv:2609.13648v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Solar energy decision support is fragmented across dashboards that provide data without explanation, research papers are slow to parse, and general-purpose language models…

NoteVQA: Benchmarking VLMs on Real-Life Questions from Human Communities

arXiv:2609.15695v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-language models (VLMs) increasingly power consumer-facing AI search, yet evaluating them on the diversity of everyday visual questions remains challenging. Existing…

GraMRAG: Orchestrating Multi-Agent Multi-Step Reasoning via Graph Memory with Reinforcement Learning

arXiv:2609.14066v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Although existing multi-agent Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) systems have demonstrated promise on complex multimodal reasoning tasks, they remain fundamentally…

K-Bench: A Benchmark for LLM Unlearning in Agentic Deployments

arXiv:2609.12808v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Unlearning benchmarks such as TOFU and MUSE certify forgetting by reading the model's final answer, where a model that refuses to answer already counts as having…