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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 and the Changing Future of Mathematics

https://www.understandingai.org/p/mathematicians-are-grappling-with
1•doubledamio•1m ago•0 comments

Breaking AI Orchestration: Hijacking N8n HITL Chat Sessions

https://zerolabs.rubrik.com/blog/breaking-ai-orchestration-part-2-hijacking-n8n-hitl-chat-sessions
1•shivanshuag•2m ago•0 comments

Harness Engineering Is Cybernetics

https://x.com/odysseus0z/article/2030416758138634583
1•alex_hirner•3m ago•0 comments

The Acali Experiment

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acali
1•nperson•3m ago•0 comments

San Mateo County Moves to Regulate Humanoid Robots

https://www.humanoidsdaily.com/news/san-mateo-county-moves-to-regulate-humanoid-robots-threatenin...
1•raptortech•4m ago•0 comments

Russian missile uses Nvidia AI chip to help target Ukraine

https://www.theregister.com/offbeat/2026/08/14/russian-missile-uses-nvidia-ai-chip-to-help-target...
1•2OEH8eoCRo0•4m ago•0 comments

Trump administration 'Not in Favor' of Apple Using Chinese RAM

https://www.wsj.com/tech/apple-china-memory-chip-plan-57773a83
2•CharlesW•7m ago•0 comments

The Quora Collapse

https://www.harperflow.io/dead-internet/quora-collapse
2•Heshamus•10m ago•0 comments

Dr. Abernethy stories about Pratt and Whitney and the J58 engine [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X_0xMRsU7L8
2•class3shock•11m ago•1 comments

Why LLMs Are Unreliable Language Detectors

https://igorstechnoclub.com/why-llms-are-unreliable-language-detectors/
2•Igor_Wiwi•13m ago•0 comments

John Berger: From Life by Tom Overton review – a vibrant biography

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/aug/10/john-berger-from-life-by-tom-overton-review-a-vibra...
3•prismatic•14m ago•0 comments

Designing least-privilege registry credentials for CI

https://omniline.app/blog/death-by-a-thousand-tokens-least-privilege-registry-credentials-for-ci
2•libertas_quae_s•16m ago•0 comments

22 Years on Firefox, and Today I'm All In

https://rietta.com/blog/firefox-in-2026/
3•rietta•16m ago•1 comments

Show HN: Diamonds – Dots and Boxes, but with diagonals and area scoring

https://diamondsthegame.com
2•abhas9•19m ago•0 comments

An American Mosaic (interactive map of ancestry census data)

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2026/07/01/us/america-ancestry-census-data-map.html
1•cckolon•19m ago•0 comments

Fastest Inference in MENA

https://runinfra.ai/inference-api
2•OsamaJaber•19m ago•0 comments

Randomly Generated 'Peer Reviewed' Papers Published by Springer Nature

https://dailysceptic.org/2021/10/03/436-randomly-generated-peer-reviewed-papers-published-by-spri...
2•ForgotIdAgain•22m ago•0 comments

Plasmonics

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plasmonics
1•peter_d_sherman•25m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Interactive TSP solver with step-by-step algorithm explanation

https://tsp.uncledroid.app
1•Abhijit8086•26m ago•0 comments

How to Plan? (2022)

https://kellanem.com/notes/how-to-plan
1•tosh•26m ago•0 comments

Nixpkgs-Multiverse: Fast Mode

https://fzakaria.com/2026/08/14/nixpkgs-multiverse-fast-mode
1•birdculture•28m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: What tools are you using for human code review of AI-assisted code?

1•dafelst•31m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Rungraph – See your AI coding-agent runs as a graph

https://github.com/fayzan123/rungraph
1•FayzanMalik•33m ago•0 comments

When Astronomy Morphs into Astrology

https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2026/08/16/when_astronomy_morphs_into_astrology_154414...
1•RickJWagner•34m ago•0 comments

Let's Be Honest: Tokens Are Replacing Payrolls

https://horse.energy/who_buys_the_tokens.html
2•aakil•34m ago•0 comments

Weather apps are crushing America's small businesses

https://www.businessinsider.com/weather-apps-rain-icon-small-businesses-summer-plans-2026-7
2•ripe•36m ago•2 comments

NIH is ending a key grant for budding clinical researchers

https://www.science.org/content/article/nih-ending-key-grant-budding-clinical-researchers
2•brandonb•37m ago•0 comments

I Made a Plex Server

https://henry.codes/writing/i-made-a-plex-server/
2•ohjeez•38m ago•0 comments

Show HN: ViaNJ – an app that makes NJ Transit ticketing less painful

1•perryraskin•38m ago•0 comments

Trump administration wants to allow companies to hack foreign cybercriminals

https://www.npr.org/2026/08/15/nx-s1-5930311/trump-companies-hack-foreign-cybercriminals
1•geox•39m ago•0 comments