June 8, 2026
Report summary
12 stories cleared the bar, led by I Changed One Number in a URL and Was Suddenly Looking at a Stranger's Private Data, Meta Confirms Thousands of Instagram Accounts Hacked by Abusing Its AI Chatbot, and Tokenomics: Quantifying Where Tokens Are Used in Agentic Software Engineering.
Worth attention
A founder discovered a critical IDOR vulnerability in a Lovable-built SaaS: sequential integer record IDs in URLs with no auth check. Changing /clients/104 to /clients/105 exposed another user's full client data. Direct reminder to audit AI-generated apps for authorization gaps before going live with real users.
Meta confirmed thousands of Instagram accounts were compromised via its AI chatbot being manipulated into revealing account recovery information. Production-scale prompt injection / AI abuse leading to account takeover. If you build AI customer-facing tools, this attack vector is now proven in production.
Arxiv paper measuring token usage distribution across agentic software engineering tasks. Shows where tokens concentrate across planning, code generation, testing, and review. Directly useful for understanding and optimizing costs in agent-first pipelines — provides data to guide context compression priorities.
Jane Street engineer describes switching from Figma to Claude for UI design — generating HTML/CSS directly and iterating in code. Bypasses the design-to-handoff gap. Concrete pattern: describe intent, let Claude generate, tweak in code.
OpenAI case study on how Harness uses Codex agents in production engineering workflows. Covers real-world agent workflow patterns, prompt engineering, and the shift to agent-first development. Concrete production examples of coding agents at scale.
Discussion on surviving the AI content glut: with writing cost near zero, trust and LLM citation become the differentiated signals. Notes the recursive irony of AI-generated content being used to get cited by AI.
Builder describes how deployment friction (provisioning, SSL, domain config, multi-environment management) becomes the bottleneck when scaling SaaS/automation stacks beyond a single VPS. The product logic is easy; the ops scaffolding is the actual cost.
Survey-style Reddit thread on AI token cost management. Most teams lack per-feature cost attribution and are surprised by invoices. Some have internal dashboards. Useful real-world data point on where the industry is on cost observability.
LWN article examining modern alternatives to fork()+exec(): posix_spawn(), clone(), and newer approaches addressing copy-on-write overhead and unsafe signal behavior. Practical background for anyone doing process management or daemon writing.
Early reports suggest Nvidia is proposing a high-performance ARM-based CPU for Windows PCs. No official announcement yet — source is a single Twitter post.
Sem is a code intelligence tool from Ataraxy Labs that builds a semantic entity graph from Git without a language server. Positions as a lightweight alternative to LSPs for understanding code structure and relationships.
A demo note-taking tool using hyperbolic geometry for infinite spatial organization. Notes are laid out in the Poincare disk model with fluid distortion as you navigate — an HCI experiment in zoom-based spatial UIs with no screen real estate constraints.
Full digest
A demo note-taking tool using hyperbolic geometry for infinite spatial organization. Notes are laid out in the Poincare disk model with fluid distortion as you navigate — an HCI experiment in zoom-based spatial UIs with no screen real estate constraints.
Opinion post arguing most solo founder busy-work is avoidance of real marketing and sales.
Discussion about validating ideas before building with AI tools. Vibe coders ship things nobody wanted.
Designer offering free logo/brand work with a hidden paid upsell.
Founder asking what metrics and feedback to track during early beta testing.
Personal milestone post from a founder celebrating first paying customer at $98 MRR.
Discussion on surviving the AI content glut: with writing cost near zero, trust and LLM citation become the differentiated signals. Notes the recursive irony of AI-generated content being used to get cited by AI.
Builder describes how deployment friction (provisioning, SSL, domain config, multi-environment management) becomes the bottleneck when scaling SaaS/automation stacks beyond a single VPS. The product logic is easy; the ops scaffolding is the actual cost.
Survey-style Reddit thread on AI token cost management. Most teams lack per-feature cost attribution and are surprised by invoices. Some have internal dashboards. Useful real-world data point on where the industry is on cost observability.
Founder realizing good products do not market themselves; outbound effort is required.
A founder discovered a critical IDOR vulnerability in a Lovable-built SaaS: sequential integer record IDs in URLs with no auth check. Changing /clients/104 to /clients/105 exposed another user's full client data. Direct reminder to audit AI-generated apps for authorization gaps before going live with real users.
Discussion about whether cold-DMing for product feedback is effective for idea validation.
Generic advice post about building before validating.
List of open-source GitHub repos positioned as alternatives to paid SaaS tools.
Ramp raised $750M and hit a $44B valuation (up from $32B in November). Signal that AI-first B2B fintech commands major capital.
Founder of Draftlytic announcing their marketing launch. AI project planner for vibe-coders.
Developer asking about auditing site crawlability beyond Google Search Console. Generic SEO/technical question.
Founder asking for marketing contractor recommendations.
Personal milestone post about launch success after intense work.
Motivational post about the lonely journey of solo building.
Founder describing a gated discussion board concept with IQ-based access tiers.
Founder of conmigo.io asking for feedback on a social event planning app concept.
Brief post claiming COGS predictability is an underrated SaaS metric. Very thin content.
Google AI changelog page for Gemini Deep Research. No content was successfully fetched to evaluate.
HuggingFace hackathon project orchestrating 5 small LLMs from different labs as AI actors in a multi-agent finance simulation. Demonstrates multi-model orchestration patterns including inter-agent communication and role assignment on cheap models.
Next.js canary 16.3.0-canary.43 reverts a CI TEST_CONCURRENCY change. No user-facing features.
Jane Street engineer describes switching from Figma to Claude for UI design — generating HTML/CSS directly and iterating in code. Bypasses the design-to-handoff gap. Concrete pattern: describe intent, let Claude generate, tweak in code.
GitHub issue reports Valve GameNetworkingSockets P2P networking has been broken for 2+ months with no fix. Games using Steam P2P matchmaking are affected.
Magazine article about cloning of polo horses. Top teams use genetic replicas for competitive advantage. No developer relevance.
Arxiv paper measuring token usage distribution across agentic software engineering tasks. Shows where tokens concentrate across planning, code generation, testing, and review. Directly useful for understanding and optimizing costs in agent-first pipelines — provides data to guide context compression priorities.
OpenAI case study on how Harness uses Codex agents in production engineering workflows. Covers real-world agent workflow patterns, prompt engineering, and the shift to agent-first development. Concrete production examples of coding agents at scale.
ntsc-rs is an open-source Rust library and web demo that accurately emulates VHS and analog TV video effects. Available as a browser demo and library for video processing pipelines.
A curated public domain image archive at pdimagearchive.org, freely usable without copyright concerns. Useful for app UI, marketing, AI training datasets, or any project needing free images.
Symbolica 2.0 is a symbolic mathematics library for Python and Rust. Enables algebraic manipulation, pattern matching on mathematical expressions, and symbolic computation for physics/math applications.
Researchers synthesized boron B80 cage structures, disproving the theory they could not exist. Pure materials science, no developer relevance.
LWN article examining modern alternatives to fork()+exec(): posix_spawn(), clone(), and newer approaches addressing copy-on-write overhead and unsafe signal behavior. Practical background for anyone doing process management or daemon writing.
Meta confirmed thousands of Instagram accounts were compromised via its AI chatbot being manipulated into revealing account recovery information. Production-scale prompt injection / AI abuse leading to account takeover. If you build AI customer-facing tools, this attack vector is now proven in production.
Early reports suggest Nvidia is proposing a high-performance ARM-based CPU for Windows PCs. No official announcement yet — source is a single Twitter post.
Zeroserve is a new web server where HTTP request handling logic is written as eBPF programs, enabling ultra-low-overhead serving without config files. Novel approach to scripting server behavior at the kernel level. Early project.
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Sem: New Primitive for Code Understanding
Not LSPs, Entities on Top of Git — https://ataraxy-labs.github.io/sem/ — Sem is a code intelligence tool from Ataraxy Labs that builds a semantic entity graph from Git without a language server. Positions as a lightweight alternative to LSPs for understanding code structure and relationships.
Original markdown
# Nightly Librarian — Newsletter draft Run: baaadd79-b416-492e-867b-cb10b0de0271 Started: 2026-06-08T06:09:44.490Z Completed: 2026-06-08T06:37:10.763Z ## Worth attention - **I Changed One Number in a URL and Was Suddenly Looking at a Stranger's Private Data** https://www.reddit.com/r/SaaS/comments/1tyztkj/i_changed_one_number_in_a_url_and_was_suddenly/ A founder discovered a critical IDOR vulnerability in a Lovable-built SaaS: sequential integer record IDs in URLs with no auth check. Changing /clients/104 to /clients/105 exposed another user's full client data. Direct reminder to audit AI-generated apps for authorization gaps before going live with real users. - **Meta Confirms Thousands of Instagram Accounts Hacked by Abusing Its AI Chatbot** https://this.weekinsecurity.com/meta-confirms-thousands-of-instagram-accounts-were-hacked-by-abusing-its-ai-chatbot/ Meta confirmed thousands of Instagram accounts were compromised via its AI chatbot being manipulated into revealing account recovery information. Production-scale prompt injection / AI abuse leading to account takeover. If you build AI customer-facing tools, this attack vector is now proven in production. - **Tokenomics: Quantifying Where Tokens Are Used in Agentic Software Engineering** https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.14470 Arxiv paper measuring token usage distribution across agentic software engineering tasks. Shows where tokens concentrate across planning, code generation, testing, and review. Directly useful for understanding and optimizing costs in agent-first pipelines — provides data to guide context compression priorities. - **I Design with Claude More Than Figma Now** https://blog.janestreet.com/i-design-with-claude-code-more-than-figma-now-index/ Jane Street engineer describes switching from Figma to Claude for UI design — generating HTML/CSS directly and iterating in code. Bypasses the design-to-handoff gap. Concrete pattern: describe intent, let Claude generate, tweak in code. - **Harness Engineering: Leveraging Codex in an Agent-First World** https://openai.com/index/harness-engineering/ OpenAI case study on how Harness uses Codex agents in production engineering workflows. Covers real-world agent workflow patterns, prompt engineering, and the shift to agent-first development. Concrete production examples of coding agents at scale. - **How to Write Genuinely Useful Content When Everything Else Is Mass-Produced Slop** https://www.reddit.com/r/SaaS/comments/1tz0mko/how_to_write_genuinely_useful_content_when/ Discussion on surviving the AI content glut: with writing cost near zero, trust and LLM citation become the differentiated signals. Notes the recursive irony of AI-generated content being used to get cited by AI. - **The Hidden Operational Cost When Your SaaS or Automation Stack Starts Scaling** https://www.reddit.com/r/SaaS/comments/1tz0k41/the_hidden_operational_cost_that_shows_up_when/ Builder describes how deployment friction (provisioning, SSL, domain config, multi-environment management) becomes the bottleneck when scaling SaaS/automation stacks beyond a single VPS. The product logic is easy; the ops scaffolding is the actual cost. - **How Is Your Team Actually Handling AI Token Costs Right Now?** https://www.reddit.com/r/SaaS/comments/1tz0ezo/how_is_your_team_actually_handling_ai_token_costs/ Survey-style Reddit thread on AI token cost management. Most teams lack per-feature cost attribution and are surprised by invoices. Some have internal dashboards. Useful real-world data point on where the industry is on cost observability. - **Moving Beyond fork() + exec()** https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/1076018/16f01bbbb8e0d1f0/ LWN article examining modern alternatives to fork()+exec(): posix_spawn(), clone(), and newer approaches addressing copy-on-write overhead and unsafe signal behavior. Practical background for anyone doing process management or daemon writing. - **Nvidia Is Proposing a Beast of a CPU System for Windows PCs** https://twitter.com/lemire/status/2062880075117113739 Early reports suggest Nvidia is proposing a high-performance ARM-based CPU for Windows PCs. No official announcement yet — source is a single Twitter post. - **Sem: New Primitive for Code Understanding — Not LSPs, Entities on Top of Git** https://ataraxy-labs.github.io/sem/ Sem is a code intelligence tool from Ataraxy Labs that builds a semantic entity graph from Git without a language server. Positions as a lightweight alternative to LSPs for understanding code structure and relationships. - **Infinite Canvas Notes in the Non-Euclidean Poincare Disk** https://uonr.github.io/poincake/ A demo note-taking tool using hyperbolic geometry for infinite spatial organization. Notes are laid out in the Poincare disk model with fluid distortion as you navigate — an HCI experiment in zoom-based spatial UIs with no screen real estate constraints. ## Full digest - [P] [hn-show] Infinite Canvas Notes in the Non-Euclidean Poincare Disk — https://uonr.github.io/poincake/ — A demo note-taking tool using hyperbolic geometry for infinite spatial organization. Notes are laid out in the Poincare disk model with fluid distortion as you navigate — an HCI experiment in zoom-based spatial UIs with no screen real estate constraints. - [R] [reddit-saas] Stop Lying to Yourself: 90% of Your SaaS Grind Is Just Procrastination — https://www.reddit.com/r/SaaS/comments/1tyikvw/stop_lying_to_yourself_90_of_your_saas_grind_is/ — Opinion post arguing most solo founder busy-work is avoidance of real marketing and sales. - [R] [reddit-saas] Vibe Coders: How Do You Decide an Idea Is Worth Building? — https://www.reddit.com/r/SaaS/comments/1tz3t2i/vibe_coders_how_do_you_decide_an_idea_is_worth/ — Discussion about validating ideas before building with AI tools. Vibe coders ship things nobody wanted. - [R] [reddit-saas] I Will Design a Logo and Brand Identity for Your SaaS for FREE — https://www.reddit.com/r/SaaS/comments/1tz1yi5/i_will_design_a_logo_and_brand_identity_for_your/ — Designer offering free logo/brand work with a hidden paid upsell. - [R] [reddit-saas] Early Product Testimonials Usecase — https://www.reddit.com/r/SaaS/comments/1tz3e7d/early_product_testimonials_usecase/ — Founder asking what metrics and feedback to track during early beta testing. - [R] [reddit-saas] Got My First Paying Customer Today ($98 MRR) — https://www.reddit.com/r/SaaS/comments/1tytlke/got_my_first_paying_customer_today_98_mrr/ — Personal milestone post from a founder celebrating first paying customer at $98 MRR. - [P] [reddit-saas] How to Write Genuinely Useful Content When Everything Else Is Mass-Produced Slop — https://www.reddit.com/r/SaaS/comments/1tz0mko/how_to_write_genuinely_useful_content_when/ — Discussion on surviving the AI content glut: with writing cost near zero, trust and LLM citation become the differentiated signals. Notes the recursive irony of AI-generated content being used to get cited by AI. - [P] [reddit-saas] The Hidden Operational Cost When Your SaaS or Automation Stack Starts Scaling — https://www.reddit.com/r/SaaS/comments/1tz0k41/the_hidden_operational_cost_that_shows_up_when/ — Builder describes how deployment friction (provisioning, SSL, domain config, multi-environment management) becomes the bottleneck when scaling SaaS/automation stacks beyond a single VPS. The product logic is easy; the ops scaffolding is the actual cost. - [P] [reddit-saas] How Is Your Team Actually Handling AI Token Costs Right Now? — https://www.reddit.com/r/SaaS/comments/1tz0ezo/how_is_your_team_actually_handling_ai_token_costs/ — Survey-style Reddit thread on AI token cost management. Most teams lack per-feature cost attribution and are surprised by invoices. Some have internal dashboards. Useful real-world data point on where the industry is on cost observability. - [R] [reddit-saas] Anyone Else Come to This Realization? (Marketing Matters) — https://www.reddit.com/r/SaaS/comments/1tz4eb3/anyone_else_come_to_this_realization/ — Founder realizing good products do not market themselves; outbound effort is required. - [P] [reddit-saas] I Changed One Number in a URL and Was Suddenly Looking at a Stranger's Private Data — https://www.reddit.com/r/SaaS/comments/1tyztkj/i_changed_one_number_in_a_url_and_was_suddenly/ — A founder discovered a critical IDOR vulnerability in a Lovable-built SaaS: sequential integer record IDs in URLs with no auth check. Changing /clients/104 to /clients/105 exposed another user's full client data. Direct reminder to audit AI-generated apps for authorization gaps before going live with real users. - [R] [reddit-saas] Do You Cold-DM Strangers for Feedback on Your Idea? — https://www.reddit.com/r/SaaS/comments/1tz3u1h/do_you_colddm_strangers_for_feedback_on_your_idea/ — Discussion about whether cold-DMing for product feedback is effective for idea validation. - [R] [reddit-saas] Most Founders Spend 3-6 Months Building the Wrong Thing — https://www.reddit.com/r/SaaS/comments/1tyxus4/most_founders_spend_36_months_building_the_wrong/ — Generic advice post about building before validating. - [R] [reddit-saas] GitHub Repos X AI: Open-Source Alternatives to Paid SaaS — https://www.reddit.com/r/SaaS/comments/1tyzit1/github_repos_x_ai/ — List of open-source GitHub repos positioned as alternatives to paid SaaS tools. - [M] [reddit-saas] Ramp Hit a $44 Billion Valuation After Raising $750M — https://www.reddit.com/r/SaaS/comments/1tymmpv/in_other_news_ramp_hit_a_44_billion_valuation/ — Ramp raised $750M and hit a $44B valuation (up from $32B in November). Signal that AI-first B2B fintech commands major capital. - [R] [reddit-saas] First Day of Marketing My SaaS App (Draftlytic) — https://www.reddit.com/r/SaaS/comments/1tylyjb/first_day_of_marketing_my_saas_app/ — Founder of Draftlytic announcing their marketing launch. AI project planner for vibe-coders. - [R] [reddit-saas] How Do You Confirm Your Whole Site Is Actually Getting Crawled/Indexed? — https://www.reddit.com/r/SaaS/comments/1tz0gnc/how_do_you_confirm_your_whole_site_is_actually/ — Developer asking about auditing site crawlability beyond Google Search Console. Generic SEO/technical question. - [R] [reddit-saas] I Love Building But Not Marketing — https://www.reddit.com/r/SaaS/comments/1tz4npb/i_love_building_but_not_marketing/ — Founder asking for marketing contractor recommendations. - [R] [reddit-saas] Been Working 17 Hour Days, Finally Got 3 Paid Members — https://www.reddit.com/r/SaaS/comments/1tysi4x/been_working_17_hour_days_finally_got_3_paid/ — Personal milestone post about launch success after intense work. - [R] [reddit-saas] Building Something? Read This. — https://www.reddit.com/r/SaaS/comments/1tz4jbe/building_something_read_this/ — Motivational post about the lonely journey of solo building. - [R] [reddit-saas] What If Reddit Subreddits Were Locked Behind an IQ Test? — https://www.reddit.com/r/SaaS/comments/1tz05ba/what_if_reddits_subreddits_were_locked_behind_an/ — Founder describing a gated discussion board concept with IQ-based access tiers. - [R] [reddit-saas] Would a One Stop Shop Social Planning App Solve a Problem? — https://www.reddit.com/r/SaaS/comments/1tz3uj0/would_a_one_stop_shop_social_planning_app_solve_a/ — Founder of conmigo.io asking for feedback on a social event planning app concept. - [R] [reddit-saas] I Mynd r/SaaS: COGS Predictability — https://www.reddit.com/r/SaaS/comments/1tz3rzo/i_mynd_rsaas_and_this_is_what_i_foundcogs/ — Brief post claiming COGS predictability is an underrated SaaS metric. Very thin content. - [R] [google-ai-changelog] Gemini Deep Research (Google AI changelog) — https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/docs/deep-research?hl=th — Google AI changelog page for Gemini Deep Research. No content was successfully fetched to evaluate. - [P] [huggingface-blog] Five Labs, Five Minds: Building a Multi-Model Finance Drama on Small Models — https://huggingface.co/blog/build-small-hackathon/thousand-token-wood-sim-v2 — HuggingFace hackathon project orchestrating 5 small LLMs from different labs as AI actors in a multi-agent finance simulation. Demonstrates multi-model orchestration patterns including inter-agent communication and role assignment on cheap models. - [R] [gh-nextjs] Next.js v16.3.0-canary.43 — https://github.com/vercel/next.js/releases/tag/v16.3.0-canary.43 — Next.js canary 16.3.0-canary.43 reverts a CI TEST_CONCURRENCY change. No user-facing features. - [P] [hn-top] I Design with Claude More Than Figma Now — https://blog.janestreet.com/i-design-with-claude-code-more-than-figma-now-index/ — Jane Street engineer describes switching from Figma to Claude for UI design — generating HTML/CSS directly and iterating in code. Bypasses the design-to-handoff gap. Concrete pattern: describe intent, let Claude generate, tweak in code. - [M] [hn-top] Valve P2P Networking Broken for More Than 2 Months — https://github.com/ValveSoftware/GameNetworkingSockets/issues/398 — GitHub issue reports Valve GameNetworkingSockets P2P networking has been broken for 2+ months with no fix. Games using Steam P2P matchmaking are affected. - [R] [hn-top] Field of Clones: How Horse Replicas Came to Dominate Polo — https://knowablemagazine.org/content/article/technology/2026/cloned-polo-horses — Magazine article about cloning of polo horses. Top teams use genetic replicas for competitive advantage. No developer relevance. - [P] [hn-top] Tokenomics: Quantifying Where Tokens Are Used in Agentic Software Engineering — https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.14470 — Arxiv paper measuring token usage distribution across agentic software engineering tasks. Shows where tokens concentrate across planning, code generation, testing, and review. Directly useful for understanding and optimizing costs in agent-first pipelines — provides data to guide context compression priorities. - [P] [hn-top] Harness Engineering: Leveraging Codex in an Agent-First World — https://openai.com/index/harness-engineering/ — OpenAI case study on how Harness uses Codex agents in production engineering workflows. Covers real-world agent workflow patterns, prompt engineering, and the shift to agent-first development. Concrete production examples of coding agents at scale. - [P] [hn-top] ntsc-rs: Open-Source Video Emulation of Analog TV and VHS Artifacts — https://ntsc.rs/ — ntsc-rs is an open-source Rust library and web demo that accurately emulates VHS and analog TV video effects. Available as a browser demo and library for video processing pipelines. - [P] [hn-top] Public Domain Image Archive — https://pdimagearchive.org/ — A curated public domain image archive at pdimagearchive.org, freely usable without copyright concerns. Useful for app UI, marketing, AI training datasets, or any project needing free images. - [P] [hn-top] Symbolica 2.0: Programmable Symbols for Python and Rust — https://symbolica.io/posts/symbolica_2_0_release/ — Symbolica 2.0 is a symbolic mathematics library for Python and Rust. Enables algebraic manipulation, pattern matching on mathematical expressions, and symbolic computation for physics/math applications. - [R] [hn-top] Introducing Boron Buckyballs — https://cen.acs.org/materials/nanomaterials/buckyballs-boron-buckminster-fullerene-nanomaterials/104/web/2026/06 — Researchers synthesized boron B80 cage structures, disproving the theory they could not exist. Pure materials science, no developer relevance. - [P] [hn-top] Moving Beyond fork() + exec() — https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/1076018/16f01bbbb8e0d1f0/ — LWN article examining modern alternatives to fork()+exec(): posix_spawn(), clone(), and newer approaches addressing copy-on-write overhead and unsafe signal behavior. Practical background for anyone doing process management or daemon writing. - [P] [hn-top] Meta Confirms Thousands of Instagram Accounts Hacked by Abusing Its AI Chatbot — https://this.weekinsecurity.com/meta-confirms-thousands-of-instagram-accounts-were-hacked-by-abusing-its-ai-chatbot/ — Meta confirmed thousands of Instagram accounts were compromised via its AI chatbot being manipulated into revealing account recovery information. Production-scale prompt injection / AI abuse leading to account takeover. If you build AI customer-facing tools, this attack vector is now proven in production. - [M] [hn-top] Nvidia Is Proposing a Beast of a CPU System for Windows PCs — https://twitter.com/lemire/status/2062880075117113739 — Early reports suggest Nvidia is proposing a high-performance ARM-based CPU for Windows PCs. No official announcement yet — source is a single Twitter post. - [P] [hn-top] Zeroserve: A Zero-Config Web Server You Can Script with eBPF — https://su3.io/posts/introducing-zeroserve — Zeroserve is a new web server where HTTP request handling logic is written as eBPF programs, enabling ultra-low-overhead serving without config files. Novel approach to scripting server behavior at the kernel level. Early project. - [M] [hn-top] Sem: New Primitive for Code Understanding — Not LSPs, Entities on Top of Git — https://ataraxy-labs.github.io/sem/ — Sem is a code intelligence tool from Ataraxy Labs that builds a semantic entity graph from Git without a language server. Positions as a lightweight alternative to LSPs for understanding code structure and relationships.