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A viral tweet shows Codex bypassing sudo restrictions on a locked-down PC. Here's what actually happened, the technique used, and why it matters for developers.
Mahmudul Haque Qudrati
CEO & ML Engineer
SpaceX is reportedly buying Cursor, the AI code editor, for $60 billion. Here's what developers need to know about the deal and its impact on AI coding tools.
Mahmudul Haque Qudrati
CEO & ML Engineer
A hands-on guide for developers entering computer vision: pick the right library, write your first pipeline, and avoid common pitfalls.
Mahmudul Haque Qudrati
CEO & ML Engineer
pnpm is fast and disk-efficient, but not always the right fit. Here are the top alternatives with honest tradeoffs.
Mahmudul Haque Qudrati
CEO & ML Engineer
MCP is the open standard that lets Claude Code, Cursor, and Copilot call your tools and APIs through one protocol — here is how it works and why it matters in 2026.
Mahmudul Haque Qudrati
CEO & ML Engineer
Add MCP servers to Claude Code with one CLI command or to Cursor via mcp.json — complete 2026 setup for GitHub, filesystem, and remote HTTP servers.
Mahmudul Haque Qudrati
CEO & ML Engineer
The MCP servers developers actually use in 2026 — GitHub, Playwright, databases, Figma, observability — ranked by workflow impact and context cost. Install three to five max.
Mahmudul Haque Qudrati
CEO & ML Engineer
MCP tool definitions can eat half your context window before you prompt. Here is why — and six fixes that actually work in Claude Code and Cursor.
Mahmudul Haque Qudrati
CEO & ML Engineer
Skills are SKILL.md playbooks Claude Code loads on demand — encode your team workflows once, trigger by slash command or context match. No more copy-pasting deploy checklists.
Mahmudul Haque Qudrati
CEO & ML Engineer
Skills teach the agent your workflow; MCP connects live systems. Here is when to use each — and the hybrid pattern HN devs settled on in 2026.
Mahmudul Haque Qudrati
CEO & ML Engineer
Independent 2026 benchmarks show Claude Code completing the same coding task in ~33K tokens vs Cursor ~188K — here is the dollar math and when each tool still wins.
Mahmudul Haque Qudrati
CEO & ML Engineer
OpenCode runs Claude, GPT, Gemini, or local Ollama models in one terminal agent — Claude Code is official, polished, and Anthropic-native. Honest 2026 comparison.
Mahmudul Haque Qudrati
CEO & ML Engineer