The signal in the feed.

The Underhanded C Contest

After $18B IPO, Bending Spoons founder says success comes from minimizing luck

The co-founders of Bending Spoons, the Italian company quietly buying beloved, ailing Internet brands, learned big lessons from their own startup's failure.

Opening up 'Zero-Knowledge Proof' technology to promote privacy in age assurance

Docker Security Dispatch — Issue 4: Miasma, Phantom Gyp, and AI Routing 🪱️

Welcome to the fourth issue of Docker Security Dispatch, written from the beautiful city of...

ZCode – Harness for GLM-5.2

Article URL: https://zcode.z.ai/en Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48753715 Points: 163 # Comments: 196

WhatsApp usernames are already raising impersonation red flags

Meta says usernames improve privacy, but critics question whether its safeguards can prevent impersonation.

Chip Off the Old Block

I built a CSS Minifier and Beautifier — browser-only, compression stats, 80 tests

Most CSS minifiers send your code to a server. I built a free, browser-only CSS Minifier and Beautifier that processes everything locally and shows you compression stats. https://devnestio.pages.dev/css-minifier/ Minify: removes comments, whitespace, trailing semicolons before closing braces Beautify: reformats minified CSS back to readable indented form Stats: before/after bytes, bytes saved, compression percentage, rule count Options: keep comments, keep last semicolon Swap input/output for qu

I built a Robots.txt Generator — visual bot picker, AI crawler presets, download, 84 tests

Writing robots.txt by hand means remembering the exact syntax and knowing which bot names to use. I built a free, browser-only Robots.txt Generator with visual bot selection and AI crawler presets. 👉 https://devnestio.pages.dev/robots-txt-gen/ Bot chips — toggle Googlebot, Bingbot, GPTBot, CCBot, anthropic-ai, Applebot, or any custom user-agent Allow/Disallow rules — add paths with quick buttons Templates — Allow all, Block all, Block AI crawlers, SEO-friendly, WordPress standard Crawl-delay an

I built a browser-only JSON to TypeScript Interface Generator — nested objects, arrays, options, 86 tests

When integrating a new API, the first thing I do is convert the JSON response to TypeScript interfaces. I built a free, browser-only JSON to TypeScript Interface Generator that handles nested objects, arrays, null, and union types. 👉 https://devnestio.pages.dev/json-to-typescript/ Auto-detect types — string, number, boolean, null, nested object interfaces, T[] arrays Nested interfaces — generates sub-interfaces for nested objects automatically Array handling — infers item type from first elemen

I built a browser-only HTTP Cookie Inspector — parse Set-Cookie, security score, XSS/CSRF flags, 84 tests

HTTP cookies are everywhere in authentication, sessions, and tracking — but reading Set-Cookie headers manually is tedious. I built a free, browser-only HTTP Cookie Inspector that parses cookie strings and gives you a security analysis. 👉 https://devnestio.pages.dev/cookie-inspector/ Parse Set-Cookie strings — extract all attributes at a glance Attribute cards — name, value, expires/max-age, domain, path, Secure, HttpOnly, SameSite Security score (0–100) — +25 for Secure, +25 for HttpOnly, +25

Working With Massive JSON Responses

Working With Massive JSON Responses Without Losing Performance Every developer eventually encounters it. You make an API request expecting a few hundred objects, and instead receive a response that's tens—or even hundreds—of megabytes. Suddenly your browser freezes, your editor becomes sluggish, and your application consumes gigabytes of memory. Large JSON responses aren't unusual anymore. Analytics platforms, cloud providers, search engines, AI services, ecommerce catalogs, IoT systems, and dat