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A proof of concept tool to verify estimates

https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2025/05/01/a-proof-of-concept-tool-to-verify-estimates/
2•jeremyscanvic•1y ago

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turtleyacht•1y ago
A defensive programming nit is not to return the desired result [1] but to show all collected cases are true.

  def defensive_true():
      # assume False
      ...
      return arr.all(True)
There are tests, but some wild refactoring in the night and "tests still pass," leading to a blind ship, could be a tiny risk.

Not a big deal, just I don't trust myself to return the happy path if the middle could change.

[1] https://github.com/teorth/estimates/blob/main/src/estimates....

AI Just Created Viruses Not Found in Nature

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/06/science/ai-viruses-bacteria-arc.html
1•donohoe•26s ago•0 comments

Cookie Law for Robots

https://domenkozar.com/2026/08/06/cookie-law-for-robots/
1•domenkozar•43s ago•0 comments

Google is in talks for a $1.5B deal to acquire Mechanize

https://www.businessinsider.com/google-mechanize-deal-talent-tech-ai-coding-2026-8
1•ddp26•1m ago•0 comments

Quality

https://www.worseonpurpose.com/p/on-quality
1•hyperhello•1m ago•0 comments

Meta AI Earns Gold Medals in Five International Stem Olympiads

https://x.com/i/trending/2085408100161663358
1•bobrenjc93•1m ago•0 comments

Show HN: SayNow – Let your coding agents speak their questions/updates

https://github.com/dhruvyad/saynow
1•dhruvyads•3m ago•0 comments

From Hamburg, with Love: The History of VST [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2p3fpyfWR40
1•tnolet•4m ago•1 comments

SOM designs "vertical data center" for Downtown Kansas City

https://www.dezeen.com/2026/08/05/data-center-skyscraper-kansas-city-som/
1•ofrzeta•4m ago•0 comments

Bank of America Spends $250M a Year on GLP-1 Drugs for Their Employees

https://www.ibtimes.com/bank-america-ceo-says-company-spends-250-million-year-glp-1-drugs-their-e...
2•MarcoDewey•5m ago•0 comments

SuperDuper 4

https://www.shirt-pocket.com/blog/supererduperer
1•Amorymeltzer•5m ago•0 comments

GPT-5.6 – August Updates [pdf]

https://cdn.openai.com/pdf/GPT_5_6_August_Updates.pdf
1•vinhnx•6m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Node.JS in the Browser – An Open-source Alternative to WebContainers

https://developer.puter.com/labs/node/
3•r58playz•7m ago•0 comments

Guided by the Beauty of Our Weapons (2017)

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/qajfiXo5qRThZQG7s/guided-by-the-beauty-of-our-weapons
1•bryan0•9m ago•0 comments

Linux Patched for Safe RET Interrupt Vulnerability

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Safe-RET-Interrupt-Vuln
1•DemiGuru•11m ago•0 comments

Discord Support System is protecting the Hackers

1•Flightmussy•12m ago•0 comments

Claude Code self-improved on business workflows using conversation, not memories

https://www.andrewjesson.com/blog/claude-code-improved-through-conversation-not-memories/
1•anndvision•12m ago•0 comments

OpenAI agents used a message board to plan their hacking spree

https://www.wired.com/story/openai-didnt-notice-its-ai-agents-using-a-message-board-to-plan-their...
2•eternalreturn•13m ago•1 comments

GitHub Outage (Aug 2026)

https://www.githubstatus.com/?when=aug2026
3•ucirello•15m ago•0 comments

I wanted a better Gemini web proxy, so I built a single-file PHP gateway

https://gmsurf.wasmer.app
1•tdkx21•15m ago•0 comments

Sailors on USS Lincoln outside Iran are exhausted and suffering from poor morale

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/us-sailors-marines-iran-war-uss-lin...
2•speckx•17m ago•0 comments

He Had Tenure. The New School Laid Him Off Anyway

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/05/nyregion/new-school-faculty-fired-nyc.html
1•malshe•17m ago•1 comments

The next 50 years: humanity, AI, power – Yuval Noah Harari

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_V_ed5fuexA
1•nyc111•18m ago•0 comments

Agent Plugins 1.0: Portable Package Format for AI Skills

https://aaif.io/blog/from-skills-and-tools-to-portable-agent-plugins
1•thm•18m ago•0 comments

Who will buy baby boomers' houses? The question that could shape the 2030s

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/economy/who-will-buy-baby-boomers-houses-the-question-that-could-...
2•petethomas•20m ago•0 comments

Cloudflare Launches AEO Visibility Dashboard

https://www.cloudflare.com/press/press-releases/2026/cloudflare-adds-aeo-visibility-dashboard-to-...
1•thm•20m ago•0 comments

Why Pascal Is Not My Favorite Programming Language (1981) [pdf]

https://doc.cat-v.org/bell_labs/why_pascal/why_pascal_is_not_my_favorite_language.pdf
1•theanonymousone•20m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: Can trivial LLM calls be compiled into conventional data pipelines?

1•nlpnerd•20m ago•0 comments

Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will be best tool yet to spot killer asteroids

https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/08/05/1141200/nasas-roman-telescope-detect-asteroids/
2•ck2•21m ago•1 comments

The Genesis of Object-Oriented Programming (OOP): A Historical Overview (2023)

https://brightmarbles.io/blog/object-oriented-programming-history/
1•theanonymousone•22m ago•0 comments

Open source vertical website templates that connect to your business system

https://github.com/Alessandro114/scala-sites
1•alescalaios•24m ago•0 comments