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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....

Reddit Calls Anthropic a 'Freeriding Pirate'

https://runtimewire.com/article/reddit-calls-anthropic-a-freeriding-pirate-and-cites-ruling-behin...
1•ryanmerket•1m ago•0 comments

Starship's Thirteenth Test Flight

https://www.spacex.com/launches/starship-flight-13v
1•JumpCrisscross•1m ago•0 comments

Hannah Fry Wins the Leelavati Prize in 2026 for Mathematics Outreach

https://www.maths.cam.ac.uk/features/professor-hannah-fry-wins-leelavati-prize
1•agnishom•2m ago•0 comments

SpaceX launches Starship on successful test flight

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/spacex-launches-starship-on-successful-test-flight/
1•JumpCrisscross•2m ago•0 comments

US moves to regulate hidden car handles

https://www.semafor.com/article/07/23/2026/us-moves-to-regulate-hidden-car-handles
1•jmsflknr•5m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Maps of >100 theories for how society works inc. Graham / Thiel / Smith

https://society.clearerthinking.org/
1•bestOfSocrates•6m ago•0 comments

IBM Acquiring HRL Laboratories

https://newsroom.ibm.com/2026-07-23-ibm-to-acquire-hrl-laboratories-to-power-the-future-of-quantum
1•osnium123•7m ago•1 comments

Midjourney Releasing v8.2

1•endmund•15m ago•1 comments

Pliny the Liberator claims universal jailbreak of models

https://twitter.com/elder_plinius/status/2080767011614015543
1•dnw•18m ago•0 comments

Trump's Plan for Science: More Money for A.I., Less for Universities

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/22/us/politics/trump-research-funding-artificial-intelligence.html
3•cratermoon•24m ago•1 comments

22 Years of Rails

https://twitter.com/rails/status/2080580838530355432
1•vinnyglennon•34m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Codebeat – turn any function into a song (no signup)

https://www.codedswitch.com/codebeat
1•Asume21•36m ago•0 comments

A Great Deal of Information About Hacker News

https://vale.rocks/posts/hacker-news
2•OuterVale•44m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Jolta – Automatic per-project JDK switching (like Volta, for Java)

https://oneappplatform.github.io/jolta/
1•pdxdave•55m ago•0 comments

Ukraine' Simple But Effective Protection Against Russian Starlink Jamming (2023)

https://www.technology.org/2023/08/01/did-russia-learn-to-jam-starlink-satellites-ukraine-is-alre...
4•pinkmuffinere•57m ago•0 comments

Exercise Erased Half the Molecular Signature of Muscle Aging

https://www.gethealthspan.com/research/article/exercise-molecular-signature-muscle-aging?zp_type=...
2•bilsbie•1h ago•1 comments

Evaluation of a pentapropellant upper stage (1970) [pdf]

https://ntrs.nasa.gov/api/citations/19700022572/downloads/19700022572.pdf
2•Eridanus2•1h ago•0 comments

Show HN: Modelfac

1•IceRay•1h ago•1 comments

Wine 11.14 – Run Windows Applications on Linux, BSD, Solaris and macOS

https://www.winehq.org/announce/11.14
2•neustradamus•1h ago•0 comments

Show HN: git clone https://git.swerdlow.dev

https://git.swerdlow.dev/
2•benswerd•1h ago•3 comments

Creative Focus

https://herbertlui.net/creative-focus/
5•herbertl•1h ago•0 comments

OpenAI did not notice Hugging Face hack for a week

https://www.reuters.com/business/its-ai-agent-spent-days-hacking-company-sources-say-openai-did-n...
9•himaraya•1h ago•1 comments

The SharePoint zero-day panic this week is a marketing event

https://tensorust-site.vercel.app/
1•Shmungus•1h ago•0 comments

The computer has been surprising us

https://iwhalen.com/computer-surprise/
4•iwhalen•1h ago•0 comments

Claude used my pipeline to find a counterexample to the Jacobian conjecture

4•JGPTechCo•1h ago•1 comments

The final frontier – 01005 passives (2012)

http://siliconexposed.blogspot.com/2012/06/final-frontier-01005-passives.html
1•gregsadetsky•1h ago•0 comments

The Shape of Apps

https://parakeet.co/blog/the-shape-of-apps/
3•wpm•1h ago•0 comments

Bonsai – a toolkit for building AI chat apps with branchable conversations

https://github.com/Joaoha/Bonsai
2•joaoha•1h ago•0 comments

In desperate need of money so im willing to make anything

1•lowke•1h ago•1 comments

Ask HN: How would I restore this 101 year old postcard?

3•Waterluvian•1h ago•1 comments