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A Merchant Center disapproval wiped 40% of our SKUs the day a 6-week promo launched
Three days into November, a disapproval cascade pulled 40% of active SKUs from Shopping and Performance Max simultaneously — on day one of a promotional window we'd spent six weeks building. No feed changes on our side triggered it. Here's the part most guides miss: Google's automated review threshold for certain policy categories (health claims, price accuracy, before/after imagery) tightens as platform ad volume increases heading into Q4. I've watched this happen across accounts running ₩50M–₩120M/month in combined Google spend, three years in a row, with zero feed-side changes preceding it. Same feed that sailed through August catches 15–20% disapprovals on recheck in September. The products didn't change. The enforcement did. When it hits during a live window, fix order matters more than fix speed. Price mismatches go first — not because they're the most dramatic, but because they cascade silently. One bestseller disapproved during a flash sale means Performance Max quietly reallocates budget to lower-performing products. By the time ROAS visibly drops, you've lost 48 hours of peak traffic. The specific failure mode I've seen twice on Cafe24 with direct API feeds: a site-wide price update propagates to the feed before the landing page CDN cache clears. Google crawls the feed, sees the new price, crawls the landing page, sees the old cached price. Mismatch. Disapproval. Fixing it is one line — force a manual fetch and verify sale_price_effective_date formatting — but finding it at 2am during a live sale is a different problem. Prohibited content disapprovals are deprioritized by most teams because they're rare. That's exactly wrong. A single escalation during Black Friday week can trigger account-level review, not just product suspension. Pull the SKU yourself within the hour if you can't fix the content immediately. Suspending your own SKU is recoverable. A suspended account during peak is not. GTIN and identifier issues — despite getting the most attention in s
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2026-06-15 14:23
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Docker Security Best Practices for Beginners
Docker is a game-changer for developers—making it easier to package, ship, and run applications. But with great power comes great responsibility. Whether you're running containers in development or production, security should never be an afterthought . In this post, I'll walk you through beginner-friendly Docker security practices that will help you build safer containers from the start. No enterprise jargon—just practical, actionable tips. Why Care About Docker Security? Containers may feel isolated, but they share the host OS kernel. This means: A compromised container could lead to host compromise. Vulnerabilities in container images can be exploited. Misconfigured containers can unintentionally expose sensitive data or ports. Docker Security Best Practices for Beginners This post is a follow-up to my previous article, Docker Like a Pro: Essential Commands and Tips , where we explored fundamental Docker commands and tips. Building upon that foundation, this guide focuses on essential security practices to help you build safer containers from the start. Docker has revolutionized the way developers build, ship, and run applications. However, with great power comes great responsibility. Whether you're running containers in development or production, security should never be an afterthought. In this post, I'll walk you through beginner-friendly Docker security practices that will help you build safer containers from the start. No enterprise jargon—just practical, actionable tips. Why Care About Docker Security? Containers may feel isolated, but they share the host OS kernel. This means: A compromised container could lead to host compromise. Vulnerabilities in container images can be exploited. Misconfigured containers can unintentionally expose sensitive data or ports. 1. Use Official Images When Possible Start by pulling images from Docker Hub’s verified publishers or official repositories. Use this: docker pull node:18 Not this (could be outdated or malicious): doc
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2026-06-15 14:22
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Load Nova
Dispatchers AI Co-Pilot and Dashboard that care about speed Discussion | Link
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Kickbacks.ai
Get paid to wait for Claude Code to finish Discussion | Link
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2026-06-15 14:04
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Show HN: AwsmAudio – a WebAudio editor with native MCP
Hey y'all, So - the main idea of this is to make a WebAudio synthesis/sequencer tool which humans can use via the UI, but where the big unlock is for agents to drive with MCP It's semi decent as "make a groovy jazz track", especially for retro sounds - but the real use case is more like "make a jetpack whoosh effect I can control via code at runtime - where the sound changes based on character health or how much fuel is left" In other words, the target audience is not musicians (except maybe of
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2026-06-15 13:56
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Anthropic Releases and Temporarily Suspends Claude Fable 5
On June 9, 2026, Anthropic launched Claude Fable 5, a model designed for long-horizon tasks, but it was taken offline shortly after due to a U.S. government export directive. It shares architecture with Claude Mythos 5, supporting extensive token usage. The model includes mandatory data retention requirements, which have affected its deployment with partners like Microsoft. By Andrew Hoblitzell
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2026-06-15 13:01
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Apple Foundation Models
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2026-06-15 12:55
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Orbio raises $21 million to automate hiring and onboarding for frontline workers
Orbio announces $21 Million Series A in round led by Dawn Capital.
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2026-06-15 12:01
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AI Builder Notes - Week of June 14, 2026
AI Builder Notes - Week of June 14, 2026 My thoughts and my twitter’s feeds thoughts This week was all about the ‘loop’ and Fable . The Loop The best way I can describe it is: design the flowchart. Think of the deterministic flowchart on how you want your agents to work. Aim to have: more deterministic bits - this keeps things more predictable more verification bits - this is agent feedback more agent tool calls - this, on a frontier LLM, makes it perform better. The ‘loop’ is essentially: goal -> agent acts -> verifier checks -> state/memory updates -> policy decides next action -> repeat/stop/escalate now the specific implementation of this - will differ based on what you’re working on. Fable Fable capabilities are absolutely insane, I tried it myself and it is entirely worth it for you to spend 2 minutes looking at this. There are a few projects that I fire up a new model into to see what’s it gonna do. A project I wanted to build was a way to teach and demonstrate ‘spin’ in table tennis, every frontier model before Fable fumbled hard. But Fable outshined them with ease: https://srijanshukla.com/artifacts/spin-lab/ If you personally did not experience a big shift in capability, you are probably not asking it a complex enough or ambitious enough task. Fable came, and Fable was taken away. The United States Government(USG) was reported with a jailbreak or sorts - which Anthropic considers not significant. The USG anyway banned Fable just after few days of release. Big drama. Fable was very pricey $$$$ Hence, people developed some patterns of work on those few golden days of Fable being available. - use Fable as planner/architect/taste/spatial/front-end judge. - use GPT-5.5/DeepSeek/Kimi as executor/worker. Other things Openrouter released their Fusion feature as a model on their platform, accessible via API. Fusion is basically council-of-LLMs pattern - providing results that can rival the frontier Fable 5 solo. Google Open Knowledge Format - https://github.com/Goo
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2026-06-15 11:45
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I tracked every GitHub traffic spike for my open source LLM proxy for 7 weeks. Then I did the exact same thing again, and it worked again.
When I shipped Trooper , a privacy-aware LLM proxy written in Go, I didn't have a marketing plan. I had GitHub traffic analytics and a habit of checking them obsessively. Seven weeks later, I have something more useful than a viral moment: a ranked table of every traffic spike, what caused each one, and proof that the exact same playbook that worked at launch still works when you have something new to say. What is Trooper? Trooper sits between your app and your LLM provider. When your cloud quota runs out, it automatically falls back to a local Ollama instance with zero code changes on your end. It also tracks session context, so your agents don't go blind between calls. It's not a chatbot wrapper. It's plumbing. Which makes the distribution story more interesting, because plumbing doesn't go viral the way demos do. The Data GitHub gives you 14-day rolling windows for clones and views. I screenshotted them obsessively and tracked every spike. Here's the full ranked table: Rank Date Clones Unique Cloners Views Unique Visitors Driver 🥇 1 May 13 375 173 1,113 ~140 Reddit wave peak 🥈 2 May 10-12 312 137 974 133 Reddit launch spike 🥉 3 Jun 10 289 124 749 101 "Escalate the model" r/ollama post 4 Jun 11 268 112 840 95 Decaying from Jun 10 spike 5 Jun 12 240 99 739 74 Decaying from Jun 10 spike 6 Jun 9 175 102 802 100 Organic 7 Apr 25 174 71 664 113 Early Reddit posts 8 Jun 7 171 110 876 110 Organic recovery 9 Jun 6 163 104 755 102 Organic recovery 10 May 29-30 122 73 610 83 LinkedIn post 11 May 25 76 48 495 53 Claude Code integration chat What I learned 1. Reddit is the only thing that moved the needle, and community fit matters more than size The #1 and #2 peaks were both Reddit-driven. On May 10-11, I posted across r/ollama, r/LocalLLM, r/ClaudeCode, and r/Gemini simultaneously. Total views across those posts: ~7,000. r/ollama alone drove nearly 4,000 of those views. Not r/LocalLLM. Not r/ClaudeCode. r/ollama , the smallest of the four communities. The reason: Trooper so
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2026-06-15 11:42
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Run GLM-5.2 Locally: The Open Model Nobody Can Ban
On June 9, Anthropic shipped Claude Fable 5 — the most capable coding model the industry had ever seen. Three days later, the U.S. government ordered it offline for every user on Earth . No warning. No transition period. One directive, and the frontier vanished overnight. 📖 Read the full version with charts and embedded sources on ComputeLeap → The same week, Z.ai (Zhipu AI) released GLM-5.2 — a 744-billion-parameter coding model with a one-million-token context window, MIT-licensed open weights arriving within days. The timing was not lost on the developer community. ℹ️ The message landed clearly on Hacker News: as user Reubend put it, they're "grateful to Chinese labs for being open with their work" — especially after "the Fable 5 fiasco." Open weights aren't just a cost play anymore. They're insurance. This guide walks you through actually running GLM-5.2 on your own hardware — the VRAM you need, the quantization that fits, and the exact commands for llama.cpp, Ollama, and LM Studio. No API keys. No cloud dependency. No one can pull the plug. What GLM-5.2 Actually Is GLM-5.2 is the third major iteration in Z.ai's GLM-5 line, purpose-built for agentic coding and long-horizon software engineering . Here is what you are working with: Spec Value Architecture Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) Total Parameters 744 billion Active Parameters ~40 billion per token Context Window 1,000,000 tokens Max Output 131,072 tokens Training Data 28.5 trillion tokens License MIT (open weights) Thinking Modes High and Max The MoE architecture is the key to local viability. Only ~40 billion parameters fire per token — the rest sit idle. That is what makes aggressive quantization work: you are compressing 744B weights, but inference only touches a fraction of them at any given time. GLM-5.2 supports two thinking-effort presets: High and Max. Z.ai recommends Max as the default for coding work — it produces longer reasoning chains before generating output. The model launched on June 13 on Z.ai's C
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2026-06-15 11:40
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🐍 When to choose ansible roles over playbooks
When to choose ansible roles over playbooks depends on the need for reusable structure, clear separation of concerns, and scalable maintenance across many environments. In a deployment that touches 1,200 servers, the early design decision determines whether the codebase remains maintainable or devolves into ad‑hoc tasks that require weeks of debugging. 📑 Table of Contents 📦 Modularity — Why Structure Matters 🧩 Reusability — When Scaling Demands Roles 🔧 Example: Deploying a Database Across Multiple Environments ⚙️ Dependency Management — How Requirements Influence Choice 🔗 Role Dependency Example 📁 File Layout — Organizing Artifacts for Maintenance 📊 Performance & Execution — Impact on Runtime 🔍 Comparison – Roles vs. Playbooks 🟩 Final Thoughts ❓ Frequently Asked Questions When should I still use a flat playbook? Can I mix roles and tasks in the same playbook? How do I test a role without affecting production? 📚 References & Further Reading 📦 Modularity — Why Structure Matters Roles enforce a predictable directory hierarchy that isolates tasks, variables, handlers, and files. What this does: # roles/webserver/tasks/main.yml - name: Install Nginx apt: name: nginx state: present - name: Deploy configuration template: src: nginx.conf.j2 dest: /etc/nginx/nginx.conf mode: '0644' notify: Restart Nginx # roles/webserver/handlers/main.yml - name: Restart Nginx service: name: nginx state: restarted tasks/main.yml: defines the ordered steps the role performs. handlers/main.yml: runs only when notified, preventing unnecessary restarts. The directory roles/webserver groups all related artifacts, making the role portable. Because the role encapsulates its logic, a playbook can invoke webserver without repeating internal steps. This eliminates duplication and aligns with the DRY principle. Key point: Enforced structure turns a loose collection of tasks into a self‑contained unit that can be shared across multiple playbooks. 🧩 Reusability — When Scaling Demands Roles Roles enable r
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2026-06-15 11:39
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Making "files never leave your browser" verifiable with DevTools and CSP
"Files never leave your browser" is becoming standard copy for PDF tools, image editors, and document converters. But a trust claim and a verifiable fact are different things. Here's how to turn "zero upload" into something any user can audit in about two minutes, and how to enforce it at the browser level so it isn't just a promise. Step 1: Read the Network panel Open DevTools → Network, enable "Disable cache", reload. While processing a file, filter by "Fetch/XHR" and "Doc". A genuinely client-side tool should show only HTML/CSS/JS/WASM asset loads — no POST requests, no GETs carrying file content in query parameters. The non-obvious trap: third-party analytics, Google Fonts, and CDNs all show up as outbound requests. If you claim zero uploads, those count too. The honest move is to self-host fonts and scripts and drop analytics entirely, so the request list is genuinely short enough to eyeball. The Network panel is the human-readable check. The next part is what actually makes it hold. Step 2: Enforce egress with CSP connect-src This is the piece people get backwards, so it's worth stating precisely. CSP's connect-src is an egress allowlist the browser enforces before the request is sent . A fetch /XHR to an origin that isn't on the list is blocked by the browser and never leaves the machine. You'll see it fail in the console as a CSP violation, with no entry in the Network tab going out to that origin. This includes no-cors requests. no-cors is sometimes assumed to be an escape hatch, but it isn't one for this purpose. All no-cors does is let you issue a cross-origin request while making the response opaque (you can't read the body). It does not bypass connect-src : if the target origin isn't in your connect-src allowlist, the no-cors request is blocked exactly the same way — it never goes out. So you can't smuggle a file out to a third party with no-cors under a tight CSP. That's what makes CSP the actual proof, not just documentation. Tighten connect-src to 's
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2026-06-15 11:23
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Why we open sourced our Slack agent (and what we learned about the AI coworker space)
We open sourced Centaur last month—a Slack agent we built for our own investing and engineering work. Over the past few months it's grown to 100-150 daily power users across a few organizations, handling both judgment-heavy tasks like investment research and raw horsepower work like searching massive codebases. The interesting part isn't just our internal use. We've been running a small Slack Connect with external orgs using it, and the feedback has been consistent: most SaaS tools don't cut it because companies need too much customization and their critical integrations aren't supported out of the box. Our roadmap is getting clearer as we tackle the tricky parts of multi-org collaboration. We're working on scoping Slackbot access by channel, which would finally let different organizations' agents coexist safely in the same space—almost like an Enterprise Matrixbook. But the real challenge isn't the vision, it's execution. Keeping costs low while staying self-hostable for smaller teams has forced us to rethink everything. The hard problems only become obvious once you're deep in the implementation. That said, I do think Slack has won in one sense: it's the best place for a coworker agent to emerge, rather than a standalone application. Curious whether others are seeing this pattern too.
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2026-06-15 11:19
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Hermes-Crew Hybrid: A Hybrid Architecture for Secure Multi-Agent AI Workflows
Hermes-Crew Hybrid: A Hybrid Architecture for Secure Multi-Agent AI Workflows I built a hybrid system that combines a central orchestrator (Hermes) with temporary CrewAI micro-crews, protected by 3 layers of security. Here's what it does and why it matters. The Problem Multi-agent AI systems are powerful but dangerous. When you chain multiple agents together, a single compromised agent can poison the entire workflow. Existing solutions are either too heavy (enterprise PKI infrastructure) or too light (basic regex filters). The Solution: 3-Layer Security Layer 1 — Pre-execution (MCP Tool Auditor): Before any agent can register a tool, it's audited for malicious instructions. Layer 2 — Runtime (Agent Fixer Stage): Every output from every agent passes through a 3-stage pipeline (normalization → pattern matching → embeddings) in under 1ms. Layer 3 — Pre-commit (Code Safety Hook): Before any git commit lands, the diff is analyzed by CrewAI + Ollama local. Malicious code gets rejected automatically. Architecture Hermes (Director) │ ├── MCP Tool Auditor → verifies tools before registration │ ├── Execution: venv (fast) / Docker (isolated) / auto (smart) │ ├── Agent 1: Researcher │ ├── Agent 2: Analyst │ └── Agent 3: Writer │ ├── Security Gateway (Agent Fixer Stage) → filters output (<1ms) │ └── Consolidator → parses output + generates Obsidian notes What Makes It Different 1. Portable by design. Zero hardcoded paths. Every user configures their own .env . 2. Multi-model via LiteLLM. Works with Ollama local, OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, Groq, OpenRouter — any provider. 3. Local-first. Everything runs on the user's machine. No cloud dependencies required. 4. Obsidian integration. Every analysis generates a structured note with YAML frontmatter. Code Safety Hook in Action When you run git commit with malicious code: ❌ [ COMMIT RECHAZADO] Code Safety detected risks: → CrewAI detected vulnerabilities: VERDICT: FAIL → Agent Fixer Stage detected anomalies: High threat score: 1.05 Fo
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2026-06-15 11:16
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What is SRE? A Beginner's Guide to Site Reliability Engineering
Why This Matters: The 2 AM Problem It's 2 AM. Your phone rings. Your production database is down. Customers can't log in. Revenue is dropping by the second. You call the Ops team. They restart the server. Downtime: 45 minutes. Cost: $100K in lost sales. Root cause? Unknown. This happens thousands of times a week at companies worldwide. The question isn't "Will your system break?" It's " When it breaks, are you ready? " That's where SRE comes in. What is SRE? (The Real Definition) SRE (Site Reliability Engineering) = Applying software engineering principles to build reliable, scalable infrastructure and systems. It's not just about keeping servers running. It's about: Reliability : Systems that don't break unexpectedly Scalability : Systems that handle growth without collapsing Infrastructure : Automating how systems are built, deployed, and monitored Measurability : Knowing exactly how your system is performing at any moment Traditional operations manages infrastructure reactively — when something breaks, you fix it. SRE manages infrastructure proactively — you engineer it so it rarely breaks, and when it does, it heals itself. The Key Insight: Reliability is Engineered, Not Hoped For Here's the critical shift in thinking: Old mindset : "Let's build this system and hope it doesn't break." SRE mindset : "Let's measure what 'reliable' means, design the system to achieve that, and automate the monitoring and recovery." But reliability isn't just uptime. It includes: Uptime : Is the system available? Latency : How fast does it respond? (A slow system is effectively broken) Error rate : What percentage of requests fail? Throughput : Can it handle the traffic? User experience : Does the system meet user expectations? All of these are engineered and measured. A Simple Analogy: The Bridge Imagine you're managing a bridge. Traditional approach : Engineers patrol daily, react to problems, work around the clock fixing issues SRE approach : Engineers design monitoring that aler
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2026-06-15 11:15
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I scraped Chrome Web Store reviews to find abandoned extensions that still have 100k+ users
I've shipped 4 Chrome extensions and 2 VS Code extensions. The advice that always sounds smart — "find a popular extension the dev abandoned, rebuild it better" — is miserable in practice. You open the Web Store, see 100k users and a 4.4 rating, think you found gold, then burn a weekend reading reviews only to realize half the complaints are unfixable traps (sync died, login broke, backend gone). So I built a small pipeline to do the boring part automatically. The method Scrape public Chrome Web Store metadata — users, rating, last-updated date. Filter: 20k–300k users, 18+ months without an update, rating 3.3–4.4 (good enough to prove demand, bad enough to prove pain). Pull up to 50 recent reviews per candidate via public CWS data. Score each one: score = log10(users)10 + months_stale0.5 + feature_request_count2 - trap_count1.5 The key part is trap_count — I subtract points for complaints about sync/login/server issues, because those are unfixable without inheriting someone else's dead backend. High "demand" with high trap count is a mirage. One example Extension Manager — 100k users, 4.4★, last updated ~25 months ago. Looks healthy until you read the 1–2★ reviews: "The site-specific rules feature simply does not work… the core feature advertised is broken." "It won't save any changes made… extensions are re-enabled automatically." A user even posted an RCE report: the dev parses JSON with a Function(str)() fallback — executing arbitrary code from untrusted input. That's not "build a clone." That's "fix the rules engine, kill the eval, add local backup, ship something 100k people already want." The counterintuitive part The highest-scoring extension in my list (200k users, abandoned ~4 years) is actually the worst business opportunity — it's a simple toggle utility whose users will never pay, and the original asks for camera/mic permissions (adware-grade). Raw download counts would put it at the top of your build list. Revenue potential buries it. That gap between "
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2026-06-15 11:10
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How to Automate Publishing to CSDN and WeChat MP Using Playwright (When APIs Fail)
Overview Today's focus was on automating article publishing to CSDN and WeChat MP (微信公众号) using Playwright, after CSDN deprecated its public Open API. Key achievements include: injecting Markdown content into CSDN's dynamic editor, handling title input quirks, implementing QR code login for WeChat MP, updating the Dev.to API publisher, and consolidating platform configs into a single YAML file. We also fixed session log capture after a Claude Code update changed the log file path. Problems and Solutions 1. CSDN Open API Deprecation → Browser Automation Background : In early 2026, CSDN silently shut down its public Open API. All endpoints returned 404/403. We needed a fallback to keep publishing to China's largest developer platform. Solution : Use Playwright to simulate a real user login and article creation. The approach: Launch a headless Chromium browser. Navigate to CSDN's login page. Perform one-time manual login via QR code. Serialize cookies to csdn_cookies.json . On subsequent runs, load the cookies and skip login. Go to the editor, inject Markdown content via DOM manipulation, fill the title, and click publish. Code snippet : import asyncio from playwright.async_api import async_playwright async def publish_to_csdn ( title : str , content_md : str ): async with async_playwright () as p : browser = await p . chromium . launch ( headless = True ) context = await browser . new_context ( storage_state = " csdn_cookies.json " if exists else None ) page = await context . new_page () await page . goto ( " https://mp.csdn.net/mp_blog/creation/editor " ) # Inject content await page . evaluate ( f ''' () => {{ const editor = document.querySelector( ' .editor-content ' ); if (editor) {{ editor.innerHTML = ` { escaped_content } `; editor.dispatchEvent(new Event( ' input ' , {{ bubbles: true }})); }} }} ''' ) # Fill title await page . fill ( ' #title-input ' , title ) await page . click ( ' button:has-text( " 发布 " ) ' ) await page . wait_for_url ( " **/mp_blog/manage/ar
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2026-06-15 11:05
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LLM Gateway Chat
One balance. Every model. Chat, image, video & audio. Discussion | Link
2026-06-15 10:43
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AI Has Amnesia. Here's Every System Built to Fix It
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2026-06-15 10:16
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