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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....

Show HN: Experiments with Isolation on Blue Pill

https://l0puh.github.io/log/2026/08/04/experiments_with_isolation/
1•lopuh•56s ago•0 comments

Woman Pulled from Car at Gunpoint by Police After Mistaken Flock Alert – Twice

https://m.slashdot.org/story/456862
1•MilnerRoute•1m ago•0 comments

A Lot of the Attacks on Higher Ed Are Unfair. Not This One

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/08/opinion/cambridge-plagiarism-arday-higher-education.html
1•Michelangelo11•8m ago•0 comments

Bastrop's City Council Holds Meetings over 100 Miles Away

https://texasscorecard.com/local/bastrops-city-council-holds-meetings-over-100-miles-away/
1•bob1029•9m ago•0 comments

'AI Escaped Its Sandbox' – What That Actually Means

https://unpredictabletokens.substack.com/p/ai-escaped-its-sandbox-what-that
1•jac08h•10m ago•1 comments

Show HN: A probabilistic programming language with exact inference and loops

https://github.com/kccqzy/probabilistic-program-inference/blob/master/README.md
1•kccqzy•10m ago•0 comments

The Cosplay Economy

https://www.rosshartshorn.net/stuffrossthinksabout/cosplay/
2•rossdavidh•11m ago•0 comments

Pick

1•ronniojunior•12m ago•1 comments

My MacBook Aged Three Years in Three Months of Vibe Coding

https://generativeai.pub/my-macbook-aged-three-years-in-three-months-of-vibe-coding-64e7ab92123d
1•ako•13m ago•2 comments

Shared Intentionality

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shared_intentionality
1•binyu•15m ago•0 comments

Servitor – Simplest way to run local dev containers

https://servitorapp.live/
1•havu12•16m ago•0 comments

A device finds encrypted DNS by itself

https://blog.dundns.eu/posts/ddr-encrypted-dns-discovery/
1•olexsmir•17m ago•0 comments

"Code was never the hard part" is an insult to all programmers

https://blog.senko.net/code-was-never-the-hard-part-is-an-insult-to-all-programmers
1•senko•17m ago•0 comments

AI Leaders Say the Singularity Has Begun

https://ai-updates.net/ai-leaders-say-the-singularity-has-already-begun/
1•ashurandi•17m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Gram, a vector search engine I built in C++

https://github.com/sverp/gram
1•sverp•18m ago•0 comments

My Own GitHub: Git, CRDT, Markdown

https://replicated.live/blog/crdt
1•gritzko•18m ago•0 comments

Glycogen Body

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glycogen_body
1•binyu•19m ago•0 comments

Engineering Metrics for GitHub

https://gitdailies.com/
1•andreigaspar•22m ago•0 comments

Can you hack your gut microbiome?

https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2026/08/07/can-you-hack-your-gut-microbiome
1•andsoitis•23m ago•0 comments

Canon-A controlled English for model prompting and agent-to-agent communication

https://github.com/sanshagn/Canon/tree/main
1•sanshagn•24m ago•0 comments

Sit through 15 hours of opera

https://www.economist.com/culture/2026/08/05/why-you-should-sit-through-15-hours-of-opera
1•andsoitis•24m ago•0 comments

Show HN: RankParse – An SEO and backlink data API built from Common Crawl

https://rankparse.com
1•abhibavishi•25m ago•0 comments

Inferring a solar eclipse's ground track from Spanish hotel price surges

https://medium.com/vortechsa/inferring-orbital-mechanics-from-hotel-pricing-3a62f042dc45
1•tachyon5•28m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: What can I do with a single R9700?

1•scott01•31m ago•0 comments

DeepSeek V4-Flash released: 284B params, 1M-token context, free to use

https://ainexusdaily.vercel.app
1•qrify_app•32m ago•0 comments

Program images and portable Scheme back ends for Jolt

https://yogthos.net/posts/2026-08-07-portable-jolt.html
2•yogthos•36m ago•0 comments

Sensitive Info Goes into 'No Reply' Emails Constantly. This Guy Sees It All

https://www.wired.com/story/sensitive-info-goes-into-no-reply-emails-constantly-this-guy-sees-it-...
4•sbulaev•42m ago•0 comments

UK charities count the cost of Beacon CRM cyberattack

https://www.theregister.com/security/2026/08/05/uk-charities-count-the-cost-of-beacon-crm-cyberat...
2•jstanley•43m ago•0 comments

Don't use your phone while you poop

https://nate.spot/no-phone-while-poop/
37•ExMachina73•43m ago•39 comments

At the altar of AI capex, Google is sacrificing the golden goose

https://twitter.com/MaxAnderson/status/2080229375773941871
3•wyclif•46m ago•2 comments