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Ephemeral Testing

https://lemire.me/blog/2026/10/05/ephemeral-testing/
17•ibobev•1h ago

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CBLT•20m ago
I just reduced our AI-in-CI bill this month (while keeping or improving our KPIs), but now we have new and exciting ways to spend tokens right around the corner!
aliasxneo•16m ago
I've been doing this for a long time now. I have the agent report its "user story" from how it went about building said thing and the tweaks/hacks it had to make in the process. This is the "output" of the test I read and then use to formulate the next set of changes.
hugs•9m ago
i call this (new?) type of test the "vibe check"

ChatGPT is adding real cartoonists' signatures to fake New Yorker cartoons

https://www.niemanlab.org/2026/10/chatgpt-is-adding-real-cartoonists-signatures-to-fake-new-yorke...
129•rdmuser•1h ago•36 comments

Beam: Reflection's 501B open-weight model

https://reflection.ai/blog/introducing-beam
286•Philpax•5h ago•76 comments

Example.com Just Launched the Biggest Redesign in Decades

https://www.debugbear.com/blog/example-dot-com-redesign-history
50•jgx0•1h ago•28 comments

Find the flattest route between any two points in SF

https://flattensf.com/
89•ishan0102•2h ago•28 comments

Dust: Pretraining Transformers Without Backpropagation

https://qlabs.sh/research/dust
81•E-Reverance•3h ago•9 comments

Ephemeral Testing

https://lemire.me/blog/2026/10/05/ephemeral-testing/
19•ibobev•1h ago•3 comments

Opus 5.5 agents discover two room-temperature magnetic semiconductor candidates

https://www.vals.ai/blogs/room-temperature-magnetic-semiconductors
184•outlier99•3h ago•140 comments

Worth Building

https://armstr.ng/writing/worth-building
24•colinarms•1h ago•10 comments

Friendship ended with Deno, now Node is my best friend

https://dbushell.com/2026/10/03/deno-to-node/
18•ibobev•1h ago•0 comments

AI Tutoring with Khanmigo in a Two-Year School Experiment

https://edworkingpapers.com/ai26-1551
7•bryan0•27m ago•1 comments

Is mathematics over, or just graduating?

https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vTSh-pyNP3Gi99WMmsinnLmE9V5CDI0HEm6WGbIPMNt3V5SGlClHF...
20•nvtop•13h ago•22 comments

Using Blu-ray M-Disk as backup of last resort

https://smyck.net/2026/10/03/holocron-the-backup-of-last-resort/
51•hukl•1d ago•49 comments

Web Search API

https://developers.cloudflare.com/changelog/post/2026-10-02-introducing-web-search-api/
476•tosh•13h ago•220 comments

Competitive Programmer's Handbook (2018) [pdf]

https://cses.fi/book/book.pdf
105•vinhnx•2d ago•21 comments

DEDA – Tracking Dots Extraction, Decoding and Anonymisation Toolkit

https://github.com/dfd-tud/deda
23•greyface-•1d ago•1 comments

Learning Jazz Pianist Style with Cross-Attention Conditioning

https://almostimplemented.github.io/jazz-pianist-style/
9•ishan0102•1h ago•1 comments

Testing 12 different Zigbee temperature/humidity sensors

https://smarthomescene.com/reviews/best-selling-zigbee-temperature-sensors-tested/
18•walrus01•1d ago•4 comments

Anthropic reported diary entry to police, woman faces felony charge

https://www.techspot.com/news/114091-florida-woman-used-claude-diary-anthropic-reported-shoot.html
503•emptybits•18h ago•439 comments

Texas city demands $2M for public records on Flock usage

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/10/texas-city-demands-2m-for-public-records-on-flock-usage/
60•01-_-•2h ago•6 comments

Global Solar Atlas: summary of solar power potential globally

https://globalsolaratlas.info/
7•stratts•1h ago•4 comments

Samon: Designing a Zen Garden Raking Puzzle

https://gwern.net/doc/design/2026-10-03-gwern-samon.html
4•networked•52m ago•1 comments

Making a GTK application in Haskell, part 1

https://floreal.tech/blog/2026/making-a-gtk-app-in-haskell-part-1/
126•Vosporos•10h ago•31 comments

The Future of Mathematics

https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2026/10/05/the-future-of-mathematics/
87•smilelamp•5h ago•44 comments

Better Space-Time Trade-Offs for LSM-Tree Based Key-Value Stores [pdf]

https://nivdayan.github.io/dostoevsky.pdf
8•ibobev•2h ago•0 comments

Graphical UI

https://www.graphicalui.com/
23•handfuloflight•2h ago•0 comments

The lamps in my house

https://arslan.io/2026/10/05/the-lamps-in-my-house/
118•farslan•10h ago•62 comments

Linux containers in 500 lines of code (2016)

https://blog.lizzie.io/linux-containers-in-500-loc.html
91•mkornaukhov•10h ago•21 comments

Apple and a hacker's future

https://stratechery.com/2026/apple-and-a-hackers-future/
197•maguay•14h ago•179 comments

Qualcomm licenses patents on Huawei’s LogicFolding chip tech

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-10-05/qualcomm-licenses-patents-on-huawei-s-logicfol...
172•0xedb•16h ago•113 comments

Incident with Actions

https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/3q1yb5m7ltvb
93•hising•4h ago•63 comments