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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....

If the Universe Is a Hologram, This Long-Forgotten Math Could Decode It

https://www.quantamagazine.org/if-the-universe-is-a-hologram-this-long-forgotten-math-could-decod...
1•Bluestein•47s ago•0 comments

My GPT-6 Astra Review

https://somethingbig.ai/astra-review
1•mellosouls•2m ago•0 comments

With Astra, ChatGPT is nearly 2x faster at computer use

https://twitter.com/AriX/status/2095671700771762341
1•tosh•2m ago•0 comments

A Case Study on Emergent Cheating and Whistleblowing in Autonomous Research

https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.04170
1•sbulaev•5m ago•0 comments

Google engineer unplugged fiber and took down a chunk of the G-Cloud

https://www.theregister.com/off-prem/2026/09/04/google-engineer-unplugged-every-fiber-they-could-...
2•nonfamous•6m ago•0 comments

The Download: rethinking child safety and fossil-fueled farming

https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/09/03/1143385/the-download-rethinking-child-safety-online-f...
1•joozio•10m ago•0 comments

First open-source knowledge enterprise world model

https://github.com/deeplethe/utopia
2•andreabat•11m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: How has AI changed your QA validation workflows?

1•Austin_Conlon•13m ago•1 comments

Is It Even Possible to Understand Quantum Mechanics?

https://www.wired.com/story/is-it-even-possible-to-understand-quantum-mechanics/
1•beardyw•13m ago•1 comments

OpenAI commits $1B to critical-infrastructure AI initiative

https://axios.com/2026/09/03/openai-critical-infrastructure-cyber-ai-models
1•utiiiD•18m ago•0 comments

Open-weight AI agents can use 10k× more energy than simple queries

https://bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-09-03/ai-s-environmental-impact-per-task-balloons-with-m...
1•utiiiD•19m ago•0 comments

An audio end-of-turn gate before LLM invocation in a local voice-agent pipeline

https://www.reddit.com/r/LLMDevs/comments/1w6w7cu/i_added_an_audio_endofturn_gate_before_llm/
3•aufklarer•19m ago•0 comments

Tunisia swelters as power cuts disrupt water supplies

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/8/31/tunisia-swelters-as-power-cuts-disrupt-water-supplies
1•littlexsparkee•21m ago•0 comments

Marin 535B-A23B

https://openathena.ai/blog/marin-535b-launch-note/
1•tosh•24m ago•0 comments

Hackers Had a Live Feed of Every ID Verification Company Scanned for over a Year

http://www.techdirt.com/2026/09/03/hackers-had-a-live-feed-of-every-id-this-verification-company-...
10•beardyw•25m ago•1 comments

Minds – Paul S. Rosenbloom, 2026

https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262053259/on-minds/
1•__patchbit__•27m ago•0 comments

Show HN: VM-1, a Raspberry Pi 5 based videomixer and videoplayer

https://vm-1.com/
2•clockdiv•27m ago•0 comments

KupujemProdajem searches 5.6M ads at ~10 ms with Manticore Search

https://medium.com/@s_nikolaev/how-kupujemprodajem-searches-5-6-million-ads-at-10-ms-with-mantico...
1•snikolaev•27m ago•0 comments

Power-hungry data centers are expanding in Europe

https://www.politico.eu/article/power-hungry-data-centers-are-expanding-in-europe-so-is-the-resis...
1•biscuit1v9•28m ago•0 comments

Hacker News: I got hacked

https://www.google.com/
1•teeaye82•28m ago•1 comments

Show HN: Interactive map of the Japanese address system

https://japanmap.fyi
1•vkuikka•30m ago•0 comments

Nvidia's $12,930,300,000 acquisition of Hugging Face contains an easter egg

https://twitter.com/etnshow/status/2095526554365247839
1•tosh•35m ago•0 comments

Why do developers continue to write code by hand?

https://orchidfiles.com/why-write-code-by-hand/
1•theorchid•35m ago•0 comments

Andrew Ng: The Biggest Opportunities in AI Aren't Where You Think [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o-wv_szZ0V0
1•duck•36m ago•0 comments

Nano LM Studio

https://github.com/Kosev-Lex/NanoLM-Studio
2•presencefactor•41m ago•1 comments

Show HN: AI game builder and editor built with Rails and Godot

https://app.fusionery.com/
1•websitescenes•43m ago•0 comments

Who is accountable for Frontier AI Companies agent's criminal actions?

2•pykul•43m ago•0 comments

Limiting Overshoot – Navigating exceedance of 1.5°C and pathways towards return

https://www.unep.org/resources/limiting-overshoot-navigating-exceedance
2•bryanrasmussen•43m ago•0 comments

Signal Beta adds support registrations without a phone number

https://community.signalusers.org/t/registration-without-a-phone-number/2222?page=10
2•ErenayDev•46m ago•2 comments

Septabee, a unique, free DAW [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lW8Z98pXuSE
2•alok-g•54m ago•1 comments