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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....

Redesigning the Inference Chip

https://zartbot.github.io/blog/arch/jalapeno/en.html
1•__patchbit__•48s ago•0 comments

Show HN: Randomly Sample Locations on Streets

https://github.com/geosensing/geo-sampling
1•neehao•1m ago•0 comments

Cross-class friendships are strong predictors of upward mobility

https://www.ft.com/content/ce3139ac-e88e-4c0d-ab92-b36e79052836
1•marojejian•5m ago•0 comments

Should We Have Kept the American Empire?

https://www.maximum-progress.com/p/should-we-have-kept-the-american
1•vinnyglennon•5m ago•0 comments

Ancient 'Who owns Linux?' case now has one foot deep in the grave

https://www.theregister.com/software/2026/08/24/ancient-who-owns-linux-case-now-has-one-foot-very...
1•Tomte•7m ago•0 comments

Monetizing the Golden Age of Short Selling

https://www.alphanume-research.com/p/monetizing-the-golden-age-of-short
1•alphanume•15m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Flint – A C/C++ build system and package manager written in pure C

https://github.com/mainak55512/flint
1•mbhatt99•17m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Tinysandbox-JS-Runtime - JS in WASM in v8

https://github.com/danthegoodman1/tinysandbox/tree/main/tinysandbox-js-runtime
1•dangoodmanUT•17m ago•0 comments

Seattle light rail became first floating passenger train

https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/transportation/how-seattle-light-rail-became-worlds-fir...
1•k-ian•18m ago•0 comments

Coyote vs. Acme (also, for free, my take on The Odyssey)

https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2026/08/30/coyote-vs-acme-also-for-free-my-take-on-the-ody...
1•Tomte•19m ago•0 comments

The baffling science of SSRIs: how do they work?

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-02570-w
1•cwwc•20m ago•0 comments

Who Are We Now?

https://jessitron.com/2026/08/30/who-are-we-now/
1•ingve•21m ago•1 comments

Reward Guided Speculative Decoding

https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.04118
1•E-Reverance•22m ago•0 comments

'They shot all their weapons; they trashed their ships; they ran out of money'

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/aug/27/trump-iran-war-navy-budget
5•cwwc•23m ago•0 comments

Revise, a zero code, desktop ML platform, revolutionizing ML model creation

https://www.revise.live/
2•Aadi_Ajmire•23m ago•0 comments

Show HN: AbracadaNames – a multilingual, data-driven wall of first names

https://abracadanames.com/
1•PopFlamingo•25m ago•0 comments

Superhuman AI coding still makes software worse

https://www.williamangel.net/blog/2026/08/29/superhuman-AI-coding-still-makes-software-worse.html
1•datadrivenangel•26m ago•1 comments

Anubis' Design

https://anubis.techaro.lol/docs/design/how-anubis-works
2•gurjeet•27m ago•0 comments

Debian: Retiring from the Project (Vv221)

https://lists.debian.org/debian-project/2026/08/msg00041.html
4•tosh•34m ago•1 comments

Show HN: Text Logo – create text logos and wordmarks in the browser

https://textlogo.app
1•paidx•35m ago•0 comments

Rotating Boxes

https://openprocessing.org/@3ur3k4/2847445
2•bookofjoe•36m ago•0 comments

Markets do not punish firms for maintaining DEI [pdf]

https://democracypolicylab.berkeley.edu/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/folsz_grumbach_dei.pdf
2•anigbrowl•36m ago•0 comments

Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die: Sam Rockwell Lifts an Absurdist AI Sci-Fi Satire

https://apnews.com/article/good-luck-have-fun-dont-die-review-8c9e0815b189a2395bedf58c704cc239
3•walterbell•39m ago•0 comments

Being kicked out of the tech industry

https://www.jacky.wtf/essays/2026/kicked-out/
5•signa11•40m ago•1 comments

Google's Obedience to Trump's "Lake America" Order Follows a Depressing Pattern

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/08/google-lake-ontario-america-maps-rename-capitulation/
18•cdrnsf•43m ago•6 comments

'You'll Never Catch Him '

https://www.nybooks.com/online/2026/08/30/youll-never-catch-him-coyote-vs-acme-road-runner/
2•johntfella•44m ago•0 comments

Build a Reasoning Model Scratch 1: Motivation and Code Setup [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kh9mqTzjuEQ
1•pretext•45m ago•0 comments

The State of Django 2026: Boring is so back

https://blog.jetbrains.com/pycharm/2026/08/the-state-of-django-2026-boring-is-so-back/
3•ferryth•48m ago•1 comments

Article will now be used to start Phase2 of "shut down open source"

https://twitter.com/chamath/status/2094098122637214107
2•bilsbie•49m ago•0 comments

Pure-Rust Headless Browser: 5× Faster, 80% Less Memory Compared to Chromium

https://www.reddit.com/r/browsers/comments/1w2mzsu/i_built_a_headless_browser_for_ai_agents_entir...
2•syumei•49m ago•0 comments