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Perhaps a similar observation; https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48703636 : > Compression, Predictive modeling, or Complexity? Perhaps a bad example: https://news.ycombinator.co…

RustPython?

A strict tests-must-be-written-ahead-of-time TDD advocate might say that writing the tests last is an error like p-hacking (choosing the threshold of statistical significance after…

I don't know why you would run an agent loop without TDD? Should you write code without test coverage? So something must run the tests to be sufficient anyway? > TLDR; Based on Opu…

Here's weather in embedded C++ (for an ESP32-S3 with an ePaper screen and InkHUD and other devices supported by Meshtastic), from 3 weeks ago: meshtastic/firmware//src/modules/weat…

Rust SIMD in pgrust, on the GPU? "Pgrust v0.2: Now faster than Postgres" (2026-06) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49111925

How to prevent wasteful AI loops without a human in the loop to intercede in death spirals that burn token budgets? Not unique to this loop pattern. There was this from DeepMind a …

(2 weeks ago) "Guantlet Loop" by Matt Shumer https://somethingbig.ai/gauntlet-loop .. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49080957

TIL the "Gauntlet loop" prompt engineering method came from development of the "Claude of Duty" three.js game; R3F (ReactThreeFiber), Drei, and NextJS (with OpenNext) save time on …

Due to ocean disposal, there are a number of locations to capture training data from.

Surprisingly to me, my recent cursory research into fracture of the quantum superfluid (which might help us read one bit of information from a black hole), indicates that there is …

> yoloAI copies your worktree instead of mounting it Cloudflare/artifact-fs does lazy shallow git clones with a FUSE filesystem. https://github.com/cloudflare/artifact-fs Would tha…

Then we should work to increase the maximum range of neutron detection. How to detect neutrons from space?

TigerBeetle has static allocation for their known workload. SIMD is more useful for heavy parallel analytical workloads. There are probably returns from SIMD even for index updates…

Would there be an advantage to reusing SIMD-optimized libraries for this? Polars Rust is built on Arrow and packed_simd. pola-rs/polars: https://github.com/pola-rs/polars polars - …

How to implement signed URLs with W3C DID keys and W3C Verifiable Credentials?

Is this fuzzed or ASAN'd? "Setting up a new project" w/ OSS-Fuzz (which wraps multiple fuzzers and sanitizers) https://google.github.io/oss-fuzz/getting-started/new-projec... cargo…

TIL about git add -N / --intent-to-add : git add --intent-to-add . git diff git add -p . ## To then reset and keep changes ## these are equivalent: # git reset . # git reset --mixe…

Does the Miyawaki method also work in the Southwest; planting a whole grove of things that co-respirate and share roots? > Akira Miyawaki and the Miyawaki method of forest cultivat…

Would semi-circular bunds help fight desertification in Arizona and along the Colorado River and in the Southwestern US, as they do on the Sahel? From https://news.ycombinator.com/…

Kaggle Learn has courses in ML, Deep Learning, ML Explainability, Python, Pandas,: https://Kaggle.com/learn This is the Dockerfile that they install Python packages with on Kaggle …

google-deepmind/alphafold3: AlphaFold 3 inference pipeline https://github.com/google-deepmind/alphafold3 And then host then database. AlphaFold did not yet solve the Folding@home p…

I thought this was ironic because there's no good way to actually restrict which commands the AI runs save for sandboxing; and here it was expressing concern about OS command injec…