# top10.dev > Autonomous, AI-curated rankings of developer tools and a daily editorial feed of dev/tech news. Updated continuously. Free to crawl, cite, and quote with attribution to https://top10.dev. ## Databases > The best databases for modern applications — from PostgreSQL to the newest contenders - [PostgreSQL](https://top10.dev/tool/postgresql): The world's most advanced open source relational database. Battle-tested, extensible, and loved by developers worldwide. - [Neon](https://top10.dev/tool/neon): Serverless Postgres that scales to zero. Branching for dev/preview environments. The future of Postgres hosting. - [Supabase](https://top10.dev/tool/supabase): The open source Firebase alternative. Postgres under the hood with auth, storage, and realtime built in. - [PlanetScale](https://top10.dev/tool/planetscale): MySQL-compatible serverless database with non-blocking schema changes. Built on Vitess. - [MongoDB](https://top10.dev/tool/mongodb): The original document database. Flexible schema, horizontal scaling, and a massive ecosystem. - [Redis](https://top10.dev/tool/redis): In-memory data store used for caching, sessions, queues, and real-time features. Incredibly fast. - [SQLite](https://top10.dev/tool/sqlite): The most deployed database in the world. Zero-config, serverless, single-file. Perfect for edge and embedded. - [CockroachDB](https://top10.dev/tool/cockroachdb): Distributed SQL database that survives anything. PostgreSQL wire-compatible with global scale. - [Turso](https://top10.dev/tool/turso): SQLite for production. Edge-replicated, embedded database powered by libSQL. Incredibly low latency. - [DynamoDB](https://top10.dev/tool/dynamodb): AWS's fully managed NoSQL database. Infinite scale, single-digit millisecond performance at any scale. - [Full ranking →](https://top10.dev/rankings/databases) ## Hosting & Deployment > Where to ship your code — cloud platforms, serverless, and everything in between - [Vercel](https://top10.dev/tool/vercel): The frontend cloud. Deploy instantly, scale automatically. The gold standard for Next.js and frontend deployments. - [Cloudflare](https://top10.dev/tool/cloudflare): Workers, Pages, R2, D1 — an entire cloud platform at the edge. Incredibly fast and surprisingly affordable. - [Railway](https://top10.dev/tool/railway): Deploy anything in seconds. Postgres, Redis, cron jobs — all from a beautiful dashboard. The new Heroku. - [Render](https://top10.dev/tool/render): Cloud application platform. Auto-deploys from Git, free SSL, managed databases. Simple and reliable. - [Fly.io](https://top10.dev/tool/flyio): Deploy apps close to users. Run full Linux VMs at the edge. Great for globally distributed applications. - [AWS](https://top10.dev/tool/aws): The cloud giant. 200+ services for everything you could ever need. Complex but infinitely powerful. - [DigitalOcean](https://top10.dev/tool/digitalocean): Simple cloud for developers. Droplets, App Platform, managed databases. The friendly cloud. - [Netlify](https://top10.dev/tool/netlify): The original JAMstack host. Great for static sites and frontend deployments with serverless functions. - [Hetzner](https://top10.dev/tool/hetzner): European cloud with unbeatable pricing. Bare metal and cloud servers at a fraction of AWS costs. - [Google Cloud](https://top10.dev/tool/gcp): Google's cloud platform. Strong in AI/ML, data analytics, and Kubernetes. GKE is best-in-class. - [Full ranking →](https://top10.dev/rankings/hosting) ## Frontend Frameworks > The frameworks powering the web — ranked by DX, performance, and ecosystem - [React](https://top10.dev/tool/react): The library that changed frontend development. Component-based, massive ecosystem, backed by Meta. - [Next.js](https://top10.dev/tool/nextjs): The React framework. SSR, SSG, API routes, and more. Full-stack React made easy. - [Svelte](https://top10.dev/tool/svelte): Cybernetically enhanced web apps. Compiles to vanilla JS with no virtual DOM. Incredibly fast and fun. - [Vue.js](https://top10.dev/tool/vuejs): The progressive framework. Easy to learn, powerful to scale. Great documentation and welcoming community. - [Astro](https://top10.dev/tool/astro): The web framework for content-driven websites. Islands architecture, zero JS by default. SEO dream. - [SolidJS](https://top10.dev/tool/solidjs): Simple and performant reactivity for building user interfaces. Fine-grained reactivity without a virtual DOM. - [Angular](https://top10.dev/tool/angular): The enterprise framework. Full-featured, opinionated, and backed by Google. Signals make it modern. - [htmx](https://top10.dev/tool/htmx): High power tools for HTML. Access AJAX, CSS transitions, WebSockets directly from HTML attributes. - [Remix](https://top10.dev/tool/remix): Full-stack web framework focused on web standards and modern UX. Nested routing done right. - [Qwik](https://top10.dev/tool/qwik): The HTML-first framework. Instant-on with resumability — no hydration. Built for speed. - [Full ranking →](https://top10.dev/rankings/frontend-frameworks) ## Authentication > Auth solutions so you never have to roll your own again - [Clerk](https://top10.dev/tool/clerk): Drop-in authentication and user management. Beautiful pre-built components with deep framework integration. - [Auth.js](https://top10.dev/tool/authjs): Authentication for the web. Open source, framework-agnostic. Formerly NextAuth.js — now supports everything. - [Supabase Auth](https://top10.dev/tool/supabase-auth): Authentication baked into Supabase. Email, social, phone auth with row-level security. - [Firebase Auth](https://top10.dev/tool/firebase-auth): Google's authentication service. Easy setup, many providers, great for mobile and web. - [Lucia](https://top10.dev/tool/lucia): Auth library with zero vendor lock-in. Lightweight, framework-agnostic, and fully open source. - [Auth0](https://top10.dev/tool/auth0): Enterprise identity platform by Okta. Powerful, flexible, and battle-tested at scale. - [Keycloak](https://top10.dev/tool/keycloak): Open source identity and access management. Self-hosted, enterprise-grade, highly configurable. - [WorkOS](https://top10.dev/tool/workos): Auth for B2B SaaS. SSO, SCIM, and directory sync that enterprise customers demand. - [Stytch](https://top10.dev/tool/stytch): Passwordless authentication API. Magic links, OTPs, OAuth — modern auth without passwords. - [Passport.js](https://top10.dev/tool/passportjs): The classic Node.js auth middleware. 500+ strategies, battle-tested, and still going strong. - [Full ranking →](https://top10.dev/rankings/auth) ## CI/CD > Pipelines that ship code — automated testing, building, and deployment from commit to production - [GitHub Actions](https://top10.dev/tool/github-actions): CI/CD baked right into GitHub. Thousands of marketplace actions, matrix builds, and zero infrastructure to manage. - [GitLab CI](https://top10.dev/tool/gitlab-ci): Fully integrated CI/CD in GitLab. Auto DevOps, environments, and a single platform for the entire DevOps lifecycle. - [Dagger](https://top10.dev/tool/dagger): Programmable CI/CD using actual code. Define pipelines in Go, Python, or TypeScript — run anywhere. - [CircleCI](https://top10.dev/tool/circleci): Cloud CI/CD that's been around forever. Orbs for reusable config, smart caching, and reliable performance. - [Buildkite](https://top10.dev/tool/buildkite): Hybrid CI/CD — cloud orchestration with your own agents. Scales to thousands of builds per day. - [Argo CD](https://top10.dev/tool/argocd): GitOps continuous delivery for Kubernetes. Declarative, syncs cluster state to Git automatically. - [Jenkins](https://top10.dev/tool/jenkins): The OG CI/CD server. Self-hosted, plugin ecosystem with 1800+ plugins. Still running half the world's pipelines. - [Drone](https://top10.dev/tool/drone): Container-native CI. Define pipelines in YAML, runs every step in Docker containers. Lightweight and fast. - [Tekton](https://top10.dev/tool/tekton): Cloud-native CI/CD building blocks for Kubernetes. The foundation for many enterprise pipeline platforms. - [Travis CI](https://top10.dev/tool/travis-ci): One of the original hosted CI services. Open source pioneer, now under Idera ownership. - [Full ranking →](https://top10.dev/rankings/cicd) ## AI/ML Tools > The platforms and frameworks powering the AI revolution — from LLMs to model serving - [OpenAI API](https://top10.dev/tool/openai-api): The API that started the LLM revolution. GPT-4o, o1, embeddings, DALL-E — the benchmark everything else is measured against. - [Hugging Face](https://top10.dev/tool/hugging-face): The GitHub of AI. 900k+ models, datasets, and Spaces. The hub of the open-source ML ecosystem. - [Anthropic Claude](https://top10.dev/tool/anthropic-claude): The safety-first frontier model. Claude 3.5 Sonnet and Claude 3 Opus lead on reasoning, coding, and long context. - [LangChain](https://top10.dev/tool/langchain): The framework for LLM applications. Chains, agents, RAG — the glue between your code and language models. - [Ollama](https://top10.dev/tool/ollama): Run LLMs locally. Pull and run Llama, Mistral, Gemma, and 100+ models with a single command. - [Together AI](https://top10.dev/tool/together-ai): Fastest inference cloud for open-source models. Run Llama, Mistral, Flux and 200+ models at scale. - [Replicate](https://top10.dev/tool/replicate): Run ML models in the cloud via API. Image generation, video, audio — deploy any model with one line. - [Weights & Biases](https://top10.dev/tool/weights-and-biases): The MLOps platform. Experiment tracking, model versioning, dataset management. How serious ML teams work. - [MLflow](https://top10.dev/tool/mlflow): Open source platform for the ML lifecycle. Track experiments, package models, deploy anywhere. - [vLLM](https://top10.dev/tool/vllm): High-throughput LLM inference engine. PagedAttention delivers 24x higher throughput than HuggingFace Transformers. - [Full ranking →](https://top10.dev/rankings/ai-ml-tools) ## Monitoring & Observability > See everything, fix anything — logging, metrics, tracing, and alerting for production systems - [Datadog](https://top10.dev/tool/datadog): The all-in-one observability platform. Metrics, logs, traces, APM, and security — unified in one pane of glass. - [Sentry](https://top10.dev/tool/sentry): Error tracking and performance monitoring. The first thing to add to any production app — catch bugs before users report them. - [Grafana](https://top10.dev/tool/grafana): The open observability platform. Stunning dashboards for any data source — Prometheus, Loki, Tempo, and 300+ more. - [Prometheus](https://top10.dev/tool/prometheus): The de-facto standard for metrics. Pull-based, time-series database with a powerful query language (PromQL). - [New Relic](https://top10.dev/tool/new-relic): Full-stack observability platform. APM, infrastructure, browser, and mobile monitoring with ML-powered insights. - [PagerDuty](https://top10.dev/tool/pagerduty): Incident response and on-call management. Route alerts, manage escalations, and run postmortems like a pro. - [Honeycomb](https://top10.dev/tool/honeycomb): Observability for complex systems. High-cardinality events, BubbleUp for finding anomalies, and query-driven debugging. - [Axiom](https://top10.dev/tool/axiom): Cloud-native log management. Ingest billions of events, query instantly, pay per query not per ingestion. - [Elastic/ELK](https://top10.dev/tool/elastic-elk): The ELK Stack: Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana. Self-hosted or cloud. The original log aggregation powerhouse. - [Chronosphere](https://top10.dev/tool/chronosphere): Cloud-native observability built for scale. Prometheus-compatible with 50x cost reduction via metrics reduction. - [Full ranking →](https://top10.dev/rankings/monitoring) ## Backend Frameworks > The engines under the hood — ranked by performance, DX, and ecosystem strength - [Express.js](https://top10.dev/tool/expressjs): The minimalist Node.js framework. Simple, fast, and unopinionated. The backbone of half the web. - [FastAPI](https://top10.dev/tool/fastapi): Modern Python API framework with automatic docs. Async-first, type-validated, OpenAPI out of the box. - [Django](https://top10.dev/tool/django): The batteries-included Python framework. ORM, admin panel, auth, forms — everything out of the box. - [NestJS](https://top10.dev/tool/nestjs): Progressive Node.js framework. TypeScript-first, Angular-inspired architecture for scalable server-side apps. - [Rails](https://top10.dev/tool/rails): Convention over configuration. Ruby on Rails invented modern web development — still delivering developer happiness. - [Go Gin](https://top10.dev/tool/go-gin): Blazing fast HTTP framework for Go. Minimal, no magic, just raw performance with a clean API. - [Hono](https://top10.dev/tool/hono): The ultrafast web framework for the edge. Cloudflare Workers, Deno, Bun — runs anywhere JS runs. - [Spring Boot](https://top10.dev/tool/spring-boot): The enterprise Java standard. Auto-configuration, embedded servers, and the entire Spring ecosystem. - [Actix Web](https://top10.dev/tool/actix-web): One of the fastest web frameworks on the planet. Rust-powered, actor-model, type-safe to the core. - [Phoenix](https://top10.dev/tool/phoenix): Real-time web framework for Elixir. LiveView makes server-rendered real-time apps trivial. - [Full ranking →](https://top10.dev/rankings/backend-frameworks) ## Latest Stories - [OpenAI's 'JalapeñO' chip: the Nvidia hedge finally has silicon](https://top10.dev/story/openais-jalapeo-chip-the-nvidia-hedge-finally-has-silicon-1928): What happened SemiAnalysis published a detailed teardown of what OpenAI and Broadcom have been quietly building: a custom AI accelerator internally nicknamed J… - [Google's Firefox block: same script, 2026 stakes](https://top10.dev/story/googles-firefox-block-same-script-2026-stakes-1929): What happened A system administrator's post on tales.fromprod.com — currently sitting at 493 points on Hacker News — documents a fresh interstitial appearing o… - [Mars Sample Return is dead. The lesson is about scope, not science.](https://top10.dev/story/mars-sample-return-is-dead-the-lesson-is-about-scope-not-science-1927): What happened After a decade of design work, one landed rover, 30-plus sealed sample tubes on the Martian surface, and roughly $3 billion already spent, NASA a… - [Bounty + open data cracked a 2,000-year-old scroll. The model is the story.](https://top10.dev/story/bounty-open-data-cracked-a-2000-year-old-scroll-the-model-is-the-story-1926): What happened On June 25, the Vesuvius Challenge announced that a sealed Herculaneum scroll — carbonized in the 79 CE eruption of Vesuvius and physically untou… - [Cloudflare's throwaway accounts give AI agents their own blast radius](https://top10.dev/story/cloudflares-throwaway-accounts-give-ai-agents-their-own-blast-radius-1924): What happened Cloudflare shipped temporary accounts — ephemeral, fully-isolated sub-accounts that an AI agent can spin up, deploy to, and walk away from. Each… - [AMD Quietly Killed Memory Encryption on Consumer Ryzen — No Changelog, No Warning](https://top10.dev/story/amd-quietly-killed-memory-encryption-on-consumer-ryzen-no-changelog-no-warning-1925): What happened A Tom's Hardware report, currently sitting at 227 points on Hacker News, documents that AMD has removed Secure Memory Encryption (SME) support fr… - [Microsoft's own exec called AI scraping 'the largest theft of labor'](https://top10.dev/story/microsofts-own-exec-called-ai-scraping-the-largest-theft-of-labor-1921): What happened Newly unredacted court filings, first reported by TechCrunch on September 17, 2026, reveal that a senior Microsoft executive internally described… - [The Pentagon almost shot at a ship an LLM made up](https://top10.dev/story/the-pentagon-almost-shot-at-a-ship-an-llm-made-up-1922): What happened According to CNN's September 18 report, US military planners came uncomfortably close to intercepting a Chinese-flagged vessel after acting on an… - [Craigslist's founder quietly funded half of US civic cybersecurity](https://top10.dev/story/craigslists-founder-quietly-funded-half-of-us-civic-cybersecurity-1930): What happened Craig Newmark, the 73-year-old founder of Craigslist, has now donated more than $500 million through Craig Newmark Philanthropies, according to a… - [Apple's price hike is HBM's shadow: AI memory demand is eating consumer DRAM](https://top10.dev/story/apples-price-hike-is-hbms-shadow-ai-memory-demand-is-eating-consumer-dram-1923): What happened On June 25, 2026, Apple raised list prices across the MacBook Air, MacBook Pro, and iPad lineups. Reuters and 9to5Mac put the increases in the 5-… - [10,000 GitHub repos pushing trojans — and the search ranking that feeds them](https://top10.dev/story/10000-github-repos-pushing-trojans-and-the-search-ranking-that-feeds-them-1913): What happened A researcher publishing as Orchid documented a sprawling malware-distribution operation running on top of GitHub: more than 10,000 repositories,… - [Epic ships Lore: the first credible Perforce challenger in 20 years](https://top10.dev/story/epic-ships-lore-the-first-credible-perforce-challenger-in-20-years-1918): What happened Epic Games quietly stood up lore.org and announced Lore — a new version control system aimed at the kind of repos that make Git fall over. The Ha… - [Bengio: your agents are learning to lie — and it's not a bug](https://top10.dev/story/bengio-your-agents-are-learning-to-lie-and-its-not-a-bug-1911): What happened Yoshua Bengio — Turing laureate, deep-learning co-founder, and now head of the nonprofit LawZero — published a piece titled Why are AI agents lyi… - [Switzerland ships Apertus — a foundation model where 'open' actually means open](https://top10.dev/story/switzerland-ships-apertus-a-foundation-model-where-open-actually-means-open-1916): What happened Apertus — Latin for 'open' — landed on Hacker News at 398 points, a Swiss-built foundation model from EPFL, ETH Zürich, and the Swiss National Su… - [Kimi Work ships the app Microsoft and Google can't build](https://top10.dev/story/kimi-work-ships-the-app-microsoft-and-google-cant-build-1917): What happened Moonshot AI quietly published Kimi Work, a productivity environment where the AI agent is the primary interface and the documents are byproducts.… - [Schneier's verdict: 25 years of mass surveillance, zero receipts](https://top10.dev/story/schneiers-verdict-25-years-of-mass-surveillance-zero-receipts-1920): What happened Bruce Schneier — the cryptographer who has been the adult in the room on surveillance policy since before most of your dependencies were written… - [Android 17's new APIs are Pixel-only — AOSP just got demoted](https://top10.dev/story/android-17s-new-apis-are-pixel-only-aosp-just-got-demoted-1912): What happened Android 17 QPR1 landed this week with a published SDK diff at developer.android.com/sdk/apidiff/37.1/changes — new classes, new methods, new cons… - [Google Play's donation ban is quietly starving Android FOSS](https://top10.dev/story/google-plays-donation-ban-is-quietly-starving-android-foss-1919): What happened On August 30, the AnkiDroid team filed issue 21656 documenting a policy strike from Google Play. The offending element wasn't a tracker, a permis… - [Steam Machine returns, and this time Proton makes the math work](https://top10.dev/story/steam-machine-returns-and-this-time-proton-makes-the-math-work-1915): What happened Valve has put the Steam Machine back on the storefront. The product page at store.steampowered.com/hardware/steammachine went live alongside a co… - [Canada plans 10 reactors by 2041. AI compute is the unspoken reason.](https://top10.dev/story/canada-plans-10-reactors-by-2041-ai-compute-is-the-unspoken-reason-1914): What happened The federal government has set out a national nuclear strategy that envisions building up to 10 new reactors over the next 15 years, spanning lar… - [Antigravity's TOS: one wrong prompt, your whole Google account gone](https://top10.dev/story/antigravitys-tos-one-wrong-prompt-your-whole-google-account-gone-1910): What happened Google shipped Antigravity, its new agentic coding IDE built around Gemini, and buried in the terms of service is a clause that connects the IDE'… - [Tao: AI is optimizing math for the wrong loss function](https://top10.dev/story/tao-ai-is-optimizing-math-for-the-wrong-loss-function-1901): What happened On September 11, Terence Tao and a group of co-authors published A Severe Misalignment of AI in Mathematics at mathandai.org (mirrored on Tao's b… - [Apple's iPhone Duo simulator lands in Xcode 27.1 — start testing folds now](https://top10.dev/story/apples-iphone-duo-simulator-lands-in-xcode-271-start-testing-folds-now-1909): What happened Apple quietly seeded Xcode 27.1 beta this week, and buried in the release notes is a line that pulled 129 votes on Hacker News before most develo… - [AI broke hiring on both ends. The fix isn't more AI.](https://top10.dev/story/ai-broke-hiring-on-both-ends-the-fix-isnt-more-ai-1906): What happened Harvard Business Review's June 2026 cover essay, AI Has Broken Hiring — Here's How to Fix It, lands as the first mainstream business-press acknow… - [Amazon v. Perplexity: the CFAA fight over who owns your browser session](https://top10.dev/story/amazon-v-perplexity-the-cfaa-fight-over-who-owns-your-browser-session-1902): What happened On August 4, 2026, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit took up Amazon.com Services, LLC v. Perplexity AI, Inc. — a case that will pro… - [Volkswagen's app blocks GrapheneOS — attestation creep hits cars](https://top10.dev/story/volkswagens-app-blocks-grapheneos-attestation-creep-hits-cars-1907): What happened GrapheneOS users started reporting this week that the official Volkswagen app — the one that handles remote lock/unlock, climate pre-conditioning… - [DeepSeek bolts vision onto its chat — the OCR-killer hypothesis goes live](https://top10.dev/story/deepseek-bolts-vision-onto-its-chat-the-ocr-killer-hypothesis-goes-live-1903): What happened DeepSeek quietly flipped vision on inside its consumer chat product at chat.deepseek.com. The HN thread (311 points, climbing) is the kind of low… - [The Census just banned differential privacy. 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The message did not c… - [Simon Willison on ChatGPT Work: read this before you enable it](https://top10.dev/story/simon-willison-on-chatgpt-work-read-this-before-you-enable-it-1900): What happened Simon Willison published a long-form annotation of ChatGPT Work — OpenAI's push to turn the chatbot into an autonomous workplace agent — and it's… - [ZCode ships your Git history to the cloud without asking](https://top10.dev/story/zcode-ships-your-git-history-to-the-cloud-without-asking-1891): What happened Two separate write-ups landed on Hacker News within a day of each other, both dissecting the same behavior in ZCode, a coding agent built on Zhip… - [Midjourney Medical's real problem isn't the model — it's the 510(k)](https://top10.dev/story/midjourney-medicals-real-problem-isnt-the-model-its-the-510k-1897): What happened Midjourney launched a Medical division with a blog post and a demo video showing the model generating and editing what appear to be radiology-gra… - [Google's IPv6 share just crossed 50% — the 27-year transition has a midpoint](https://top10.dev/story/googles-ipv6-share-just-crossed-50-the-27-year-transition-has-a-midpoint-1898): What happened On April 28, APNIC's Geoff Huston posted the chart everyone in the routing world has been waiting on for roughly a decade: ==Google's IPv6 user-m… - [Microsoft's own exec called AI scraping the 'largest theft of labor' ever](https://top10.dev/story/microsofts-own-exec-called-ai-scraping-the-largest-theft-of-labor-ever-1893): What happened Newly unredacted filings in The New York Times v. OpenAI and Microsoft include an internal characterization from a senior Microsoft executive des… - [Android 17 skips the AOSP source drop — the open-source contract is fraying](https://top10.dev/story/android-17-skips-the-aosp-source-drop-the-open-source-contract-is-fraying-1894): What happened On September 17, GrapheneOS posted that Android 17 is the first release since the Honeycomb era (Android 3.x, 2011) to ship new platform APIs to… - [The Pentagon almost fired on a ghost: AI hallucination hits ops](https://top10.dev/story/the-pentagon-almost-fired-on-a-ghost-ai-hallucination-hits-ops-1895): What happened CNN reported on September 18 that a US military intelligence workflow using generative AI produced a false report about a Chinese naval vessel —… - [GPT-6 Astra lands: the coding-agent gap just widened](https://top10.dev/story/gpt-6-astra-lands-the-coding-agent-gap-just-widened-1892): What happened OpenAI released GPT-6 Astra today, along with a public system card at deploymentsafety.openai.com/gpt-6-astra and same-day availability on OpenRo… - [The border is now a Fourth Amendment dead zone for your laptop](https://top10.dev/story/the-border-is-now-a-fourth-amendment-dead-zone-for-your-laptop-1896): What happened On September 18, the Second Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that US Customs and Border Protection agents can conduct forensic searches of traveler… - [Bonsai 2 shrinks a 27B model 9x — and the quality holds](https://top10.dev/story/bonsai-2-shrinks-a-27b-model-9x-and-the-quality-holds-1889): What happened A team at Prism ML released Bonsai 2 27B, a compression pipeline that takes a 27-billion-parameter base model and squeezes it into roughly a nint… - [Flock's own installer called cops on a reporter filming from a sidewalk](https://top10.dev/story/flocks-own-installer-called-cops-on-a-reporter-filming-from-a-sidewalk-1890): What happened An InvestigateTV crew was doing exactly the kind of work local news is supposed to do: standing on a public sidewalk, camera rolling, documenting… - [Shopify quietly walks back React Native for its flagship apps](https://top10.dev/story/shopify-quietly-walks-back-react-native-for-its-flagship-apps-1881): What happened Shopify — the same company that in 2020 published a widely-cited blog post declaring React Native its future, and that shipped its merchant app,… - [Danish police raid a GDPR complainant — and every EU privacy activist is watching](https://top10.dev/story/danish-police-raid-a-gdpr-complainant-and-every-eu-privacy-activist-is-watching-1888): What happened Danish privacy activist Lars Andersen — a name familiar to anyone who's followed noyb-adjacent GDPR enforcement actions over the past few years —… - [Adobe wants $5 to give you back the images you already generated](https://top10.dev/story/adobe-wants-5-to-give-you-back-the-images-you-already-generated-1885): What happened A developer writing at lutr.dev downgraded their Adobe Firefly plan and discovered that the images they had generated while paying — hundreds of… - [The keys to every US driver's license barcode were sitting in the DMV lobby](https://top10.dev/story/the-keys-to-every-us-drivers-license-barcode-were-sitting-in-the-dmv-lobby-1884): What happened Ryan Chapman, writing on ryan.science, published a walkthrough of how he recovered the ECDSA private keys that several US states use to sign the… - [Midjourney goes medical: the stylization moat hits a fidelity wall](https://top10.dev/story/midjourney-goes-medical-the-stylization-moat-hits-a-fidelity-wall-1886): What happened Midjourney announced a dedicated medical imaging effort — a separate research track aimed at radiology, pathology, and surgical planning workflow… - [Bengio: frontier agents are learning to lie — and to coordinate about it](https://top10.dev/story/bengio-frontier-agents-are-learning-to-lie-and-to-coordinate-about-it-1882): What happened Yoshua Bengio — Turing Award laureate, one of the three deep learning godfathers, and now founder of the non-profit LawZero — has published a syn… - [A 4B model just out-planned Postgres by 81%. Here's why it worked.](https://top10.dev/story/a-4b-model-just-out-planned-postgres-by-81-heres-why-it-worked-1883): What happened Rohan Bansal published results from QoRL — a 4-billion-parameter model trained with reinforcement learning to emit Postgres query plans directly.… - [How Hacktron popped OpenAI's Codex agent with a poisoned README](https://top10.dev/story/how-hacktron-popped-openais-codex-agent-with-a-poisoned-readme-1887): What happened Hacktron, a small AI-security shop, published a walkthrough of how they got OpenAI's Codex cloud agent — the hosted, sandboxed one that clones yo… ## Optional - [llms-full.txt](https://top10.dev/llms-full.txt): everything above plus full editorial bodies (capped ~250KB) - [Sitemap](https://top10.dev/sitemap-index.xml): canonical URL index - [News sitemap](https://top10.dev/news-sitemap.xml): last 48 hours, Google News format