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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....

The Suicide Crisis in Wyoming

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/04/opinion/suicide-wyoming-mental-health.html
1•mooreds•1m ago•0 comments

The secret nuclear material the US forgot how to make

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fogbank
1•historical1234•1m ago•0 comments

AI agents fake identities, target real people in new security incident

https://www.cnn.com/2026/08/04/tech/ai-anthropic-openai-security-breach-intl-hnk
2•mooreds•2m ago•0 comments

Parasol Lost

https://actuaries.org.uk/news-and-media-releases/news-articles/2026/jan/14-jan-26-parasol-lost-re...
1•simonebrunozzi•2m ago•0 comments

Slime Without Plugins Using Kitty

https://lee-phillips.org/kittyslime/
2•leephillips•3m ago•0 comments

Manchester Statistical Society was founded in 1833

https://collection.sciencemuseumgroup.org.uk/people/ap12481/manchester-statistical-society
1•Bluestein•4m ago•0 comments

Let Over Lambda is free online to read as pdf

https://letoverlambda.com/lol.pdf
1•artsi0m•4m ago•2 comments

Finland to stop maintaining poles carrying communication lines with Russia

https://meduza.io/en/news/2026/07/29/finland-to-stop-maintaining-poles-carrying-communication-lin...
1•Sami_Lehtinen•4m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Back end Engineer – Visual guides for system design and cloud infra

https://www.backendengineer.in
1•pvtsparsshh•5m ago•0 comments

Zohran Mamdani's NYC Tech Team Is What DOGE Should Have Been

https://www.wired.com/story/mamdani-assembles-his-nyc-tech-team/
3•gorbachev•6m ago•1 comments

Ask HN: Why aren't there more Operating System startups?

1•senor_digimon•7m ago•0 comments

Publishing Schematics Before "Open Source" Was a Word

https://fabscene.medium.com/publishing-schematics-before-open-source-was-a-word-55-years-of-akizu...
1•extralongdivisi•7m ago•0 comments

The Werebull of Camargue

https://cinemasojourns.com/2026/08/07/the-werebull-of-camargue/
1•jjgreen•7m ago•0 comments

The long, tangled, and mostly wrong history of the psychedelic toad

https://longreads.com/2026/08/04/psychedelic-toads-ego-trip-kimon-de-greef/
1•bookofjoe•8m ago•0 comments

Adults over 65 will outnumber children by 2029

https://eco3min.fr/en/us-children-vs-adults-65-and-older/
2•brandonb•8m ago•0 comments

Apple Captures 65% of Global Premium Smartphone Market

https://www.macrumors.com/2026/08/07/apple-captures-65-percent-of-global-premium-market/
1•tosh•9m ago•0 comments

Gammalsvenskby is a Swedish-speaking city in Ukraine

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gammalsvenskby
2•blasssky•10m ago•0 comments

Show HN: A model router should also provide a MCP gateway

https://github.com/maximhq/bifrost/
1•Swapnoneel•12m ago•0 comments

Finding Bigfoot with Async Generators and TypeScript (2025)

https://guy.dev/2025/04/01/finding-bigfoot-with-async-generators-and-typescript/
1•mooreds•13m ago•0 comments

Can Extreme Morning Sickness Be Cured?

https://www.newyorker.com/news/essay/can-extreme-morning-sickness-be-cured
1•frigidwalnut•14m ago•0 comments

VibeMathed – Math problems solved by AI

https://vibemathed.com
1•mrconter2•16m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Mermaid flowcharts you don't have to redraw in a diagram editor

https://line9.ai/diagram
2•jumpalongjim•16m ago•0 comments

Scientists Designed a Virtual Alien Lifeform to Hunt for Extraterrestrials

https://www.404media.co/scientists-designed-a-virtual-alien-lifeform-to-hunt-for-extraterrestrials/
2•Brajeshwar•17m ago•0 comments

Social dynamics of AI adoption in parents' educational decisions

https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2533193123
2•hn_acker•17m ago•0 comments

What 2026 looks like (2021)

https://www.alignmentforum.org/posts/6Xgy6CAf2jqHhynHL/what-2026-looks-like
3•mbeavitt•20m ago•1 comments

Coding agents supercharge Murphy's Law

https://hatchet.run/blog/murphys-law
1•abelanger•20m ago•0 comments

Prompt Caching in Agents

https://earendil.com/posts/prompt-caching/
1•lobo_tuerto•21m ago•0 comments

Builders lack an audience, Creators lack building skills

1•yurimhln•21m ago•0 comments

Neutrinos from Deep Inside Earth Provide a New Picture of the Mantle

https://www.quantamagazine.org/neutrinos-from-deep-inside-earth-provide-a-new-picture-of-the-mant...
3•lschueller•21m ago•0 comments

Evolution, Not Reset: Prepare Platform Engineering 2.0 for Autonomous Agents

https://platformengineering.com/features/evolution-not-reset-prepare-platform-engineering-2-0-for...
2•CrankyBear•22m ago•0 comments