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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....

My personal AI agent posted my bank details on company Slack

https://www.businessinsider.com/personal-ai-agent-grok-bot-posted-bank-details-company-slack-2026-10
1•bhrlady•30s ago•1 comments

AI Is Supercharging a Scam Economy Bigger Than the Cocaine Trade

https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2026-ai-supercharges-scam-economy/
1•toomuchtodo•2m ago•0 comments

Neanderthal wooden tools from Spain found preserved in stone

https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/10/neanderthal-wooden-tools-from-spain-found-preserved-in-st...
1•Brajeshwar•2m ago•0 comments

Are we dead moths in a puddle

https://jessicar.substack.com/p/are-we-dead-moths-in-a-puddle
1•airhangerf15•2m ago•0 comments

Logs as UX

https://www.jvt.me/posts/2026/10/09/logs-interface/
1•Brajeshwar•3m ago•0 comments

FlowCE: Calculus on your TI-84 Plus CE

https://tommyb3ll.github.io/FlowCE/
1•jgx0•3m ago•0 comments

Google expands SynthID Detector for AI content

https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/models-and-research/google-deepmind/synth-id-ai-content/
1•gmays•3m ago•0 comments

The Human Soul as a Manifestation of Quantum-Like Fields

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/374749062_The_Human_Soul_as_a_Manifestation_of_Quantum-L...
2•olvy0•11m ago•0 comments

Post Capitalism

https://geohot.github.io//blog/jekyll/update/2026/09/29/post-capitalism.html
2•7777777phil•11m ago•0 comments

Radiolab: Math vs Machine

https://radiolab.org/podcast/math-vs-machine
3•kohsuke•13m ago•1 comments

Bitwarden Dual License Model

https://community.bitwarden.com/t/published-version-update-in-app-stores/102750
9•Cider9986•13m ago•1 comments

Agents and the Illusion of Productivity

https://opeonikute.dev/posts/agents-and-the-illusion-of-productivity
2•porridgeraisin•14m ago•1 comments

Show HN: Simple Security Checker

https://github.com/yuyalapis/security-checker
1•rozenapp•15m ago•0 comments

Is This Machine Playing?

https://machineplaying.org/
1•vinhnx•18m ago•1 comments

World Models for Biomedicine

https://www.cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-8674(26)01005-6
1•brandonb•19m ago•0 comments

Unikernels were hard. key word: were

https://ghuntley.com/unikernels/
2•ghuntley•19m ago•0 comments

FBI Arrests Executive at Ransomware Negotiation Firm

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2026/10/fbi-arrests-founder-of-ransomware-negotiation-firm/
4•rafaelc•20m ago•0 comments

Valar Atomics and Day One Ventures

https://twitter.com/isaiah_p_taylor/status/2108679133467414855
1•babelfish•20m ago•0 comments

Nicolas Flamel and the Philosophers' Stone

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20261008-the-true-story-of-alchemist-nicholas-flamel-and-the-p...
1•tosh•21m ago•0 comments

Fired OpenAI Researchers Ask Company to Preserve Visibility into AI Reasoning

https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/fired-openai-researchers-ask-company-to-preserve-visibility-into-ai-r...
1•gmays•24m ago•0 comments

Compression and Concatenation on the Web

https://theconsensus.dev/p/2026/10/04/compression-and-concatenation-on-the-web.html?focus=1
2•eatonphil•25m ago•0 comments

AI Assistance Reduces Persistence and Hurts Independent Performance

https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.04721
1•jalev•29m ago•0 comments

Inside The Failed Fight to Unionize One of Gaming's Most Idealized Studios

https://kotaku.com/inside-the-failed-fight-to-unionize-one-of-gamings-most-idealized-studios-2000...
1•board•31m ago•0 comments

The state of systemd: 2026 edition

https://lwn.net/Articles/1099024
1•hnrprtlpdb•31m ago•1 comments

Churn Happens Early

https://www.valuepaths.com/activation/churn-happens-early/
1•dennisjoseph•32m ago•0 comments

Jhana 5: Romance with the Void

https://psychotechnology.substack.com/p/jhana-5-romance-with-the-void
1•eatitraw•33m ago•0 comments

Apple cuts iPhone 18 Pro orders over weak sales

https://www.livenowfox.com/news/apple-cuts-iphone-18-pro-orders-sales-report
2•amelius•33m ago•0 comments

Trump Vowed to Wall Off TikTok from China. Did He?

https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2026/10/09/tiktok-trump-deal-us-china-01093142
2•rdmuser•35m ago•0 comments

AI Agent Security: Six Controls from Nine Real Incidents

https://blog.gitguardian.com/ai-agent-security-six-controls/
1•guedou•36m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Tessary – Find the AI agent failures your sampled evals miss

https://github.com/tessaryai/tessary
1•infinitetrooper•37m ago•0 comments