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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•8mo ago

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turtleyacht•8mo 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....

The most precise mechanical indicators ever made – The Mikrokator [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_HIKmxHcxkg
1•eigenform•52s ago•0 comments

Convex Triggers

https://stack.convex.dev/triggers
1•handfuloflight•2m ago•0 comments

Confy, a nice config manager for nearly all x86 systems

https://github.com/Phluxjr23/confy
1•phluxjr•10m ago•0 comments

Waymo Has Come for the Kids

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/05/us/waymo-kids-los-angeles.html
1•lxm•12m ago•0 comments

MirrorMate: Self-hosted personalized AI in a mirror

https://github.com/orangekame3/mirrormate
1•thunderbong•14m ago•0 comments

Someone tried to hack into my SendGrid account

https://moth.monster/blog/sendgrid-phishing/
1•chesapeake•16m ago•0 comments

The data center rebellion is here, and it's reshaping the political landscape

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2026/01/06/data-centers-backlash-impact-local-communities...
1•zerosizedweasle•22m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: I want to know how everyone solves the problem of lacking creativity?

1•nmr521521•24m ago•0 comments

Logitech Apple Developer Certificate has expired;

https://old.reddit.com/r/logitech/comments/1q5wxug/comment/ny3d45f/
3•seemaze•27m ago•2 comments

Paper2md – convert papers to Markdown to be used for LLM context

https://github.com/angelotc/paper2md
1•telecomhacker•27m ago•1 comments

The data center boom is concentrated in the U.S.

https://spectrum.ieee.org/data-center-growth
30•pseudolus•28m ago•15 comments

A viral Reddit post alleging fraud from a food delivery app turned out to be AI

https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/06/a-viral-reddit-post-alleging-fraud-from-a-food-delivery-app-tur...
1•Aeglaecia•31m ago•1 comments

Aldrich Ames, most damaging CIA traitor in agency history, dies at 84

https://www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2026/01/06/aldrich-ames-dead-cia-traitor/
6•AndrewKemendo•34m ago•2 comments

Most websites don't need cookie consent banners

https://block81.com/blog/why-most-websites-dont-actually-need-cookie-consent-banners
7•pickup191•35m ago•1 comments

Many schools no longer assign full novels but excerpts on school-issued laptops

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/jan/06/many-schools-are-assigning-excerpts-of-nove...
5•asukachikaru•41m ago•0 comments

Sam Altman to Elon Musk on Recruiting from Tesla

https://twitter.com/TechEmails/status/2008661639546237159
4•eezurr•41m ago•3 comments

The Invisible Commons: An Open Source History in the Style of Kenneth Clark

https://code-and-civilisation.vercel.app/posts/civ-new-episodes/civ-14-the-invisible-commons/
1•akira_f•42m ago•0 comments

PassSeeds – hijacking Passkeys to unlock new cryptographic use cases

https://backalleycoder.com/posts/passseeds-an-experiment-in-hijacking-passkeys-to-unlock-cryptogr...
9•csuwldcat•49m ago•8 comments

World 'may not have time' to prepare for AI safety risks

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jan/04/world-may-not-have-time-to-prepare-for-ai-safe...
1•abdelhousni•50m ago•0 comments

Letting prisons jam contraband phones is a bad idea, phone companies tell FCC

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/01/letting-prisons-jam-contraband-phones-is-a-bad-idea-p...
2•nobody9999•51m ago•0 comments

The paradox of failed resolutions

https://jillianhess.substack.com/p/the-paradox-of-failed-resolutions
2•nobet•54m ago•0 comments

The modern peril of the availability heuristic

https://www.behavioraleconomics.com/the-modern-peril-of-the-availability-heuristic/
2•ohpissoff•55m ago•0 comments

We Recreated Steve Jobs's 1975 Atari Horoscope Program and You Can Run It

https://blog.adafruit.com/2026/01/06/we-recreated-steve-jobss-1975-atari-horoscope-program-and-yo...
3•ptorrone•55m ago•0 comments

Beautiful Terminal Calendar

https://github.com/rtvkiz/cal
2•ritvikarya98•56m ago•0 comments

Microsoft wants to resurrect Three Mile Island. It will never happen

https://thehill.com/opinion/energy-environment/5667831-microsoft-constellation-nuclear-challenges/
3•RickJWagner•57m ago•1 comments

Cursor's Context Engineering Practice

https://cursor.com/blog/dynamic-context-discovery
2•shenli3514•1h ago•0 comments

Website with a DMCA Takedown

https://priyatham.in/en/post/hosting-dmca/
8•vasquezempereur•1h ago•1 comments

Electronic Nose for Indoor Mold Detection and Identification

https://advanced.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/adsr.202500124
13•PaulHoule•1h ago•2 comments

SQL Server SSMS scroll indicator 2.5x harder to grab

https://developercommunity.microsoft.com/t/Scroll-bar-indicator-is-too-thin-leadin/11023206#T-N11...
3•yiren•1h ago•1 comments

Show HN: SMTP Tunnel – A SOCKS5 proxy disguised as email traffic to bypass DPI

https://github.com/x011/smtp-tunnel-proxy
3•lobito25•1h ago•0 comments