How I built the writing app I needed in 2 hours for free – with Ollama and VS Code

I'm not a developer, but I was able to use locally-installed AI to create a writing app suited to my needs. Here's how.

From Asking 'Where Do I Save JSON?' to Building an English Analysis Engine

From the question, 'Where do I save JSON?''Where do I save JSON?'Around November 2025, the question I typed into the ChatGPT ...

Automatically save 'what changed and when' in your AI-managed work folders to git every night

When the contents of a folder change daily due to AI or automation, a morning will eventually come when you find that 'what ...
HackerNoon

I Tested Hindsight, the Open-Source Memory Layer for Coding Agents

I self-hosted Vectorize's Hindsight v0.10.2, called it from Node/TS, poked its MCP endpoint and Cursor CLI wiring. What worked, and what I couldn't test.
shattered.io

Apex Legends Tier List Alert Bot: 12 Steps, 75 Min [2026]

Build a Python bot that reads Apex Legends patch notes and pings Discord the moment the Season 30 Marked tier list shifts. 12 steps, full code.
Security Boulevard

What continuous offensive security testing is and how to implement it

IntroductionContinuous offensive security testing (COST) is a model for running adversary-style tests whenever something material changes, such as a release, a new internet-facing asset, or a change ...
Security Boulevard

Suspected TraderTraitor Group Uses Trojanized Terraform Provider to Deliver Cross-Platform Malware

IntroductionIn July 2026, Zscaler ThreatLabz uncovered a campaign linked to TraderTraitor (also tracked as Jade Sleet, UNC4899, Pressure Chollima, and Slow Pisces), an advanced persistent threat actor ...
xenospectrum

Windows ML Adds Experimental GGUF Support via llama.cpp, but Not for NPUs

Microsoft's experimental Windows ML update adds a path for running GGUF models. Official documentation and packages show no NPU support, limited generation controls, different distribution ...
BIOENGINEER

New Simulator Lets Researchers Cut the Cords on Federated Learning Clients Mid-Run

A new open-source simulator called FLInterrupt makes sudden client dropouts a controllable experimental variable in federated ...
quantumzeitgeist

NVIDIA NeMo Relay traces how AI agents complete tasks

NVIDIA NeMo Relay traces agent behavior to pinpoint inefficiencies—like repeated searches or truncated reads—that impact ...
HackerNoon

AI Code Refactoring Doesn't Have to Be a Guessing Game

I gave an AI agent one prompt and scored the codebase after every commit. Health 50 to 61, 10,000 lines gone, and a hard stop ...
RS Web Solutions

TikTok WordPress Toolkit May Facilitate AWS, SMTP, and API Credential Theft Attacks

Discover how the TikTok WordPress Toolkit could enable hackers to steal AWS, SMTP, and API credentials, posing serious security risks to users.