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Learnings from 100K Lines of Rust with AI

Learnings from 100K Lines of Rust with AI

đź’Ą Explore this must-read post from Hacker News đź“– đź“‚ **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: In the past few months, I’ve been stress-testing how far AI coding agents can take us when building real, production-grade distributed systems. The result: a Rust-based multi-Paxos consensus engine that not only implements all the features of Azure’s Replicated State Library (RSL) [1] — which underpins most major Azure services — but also modernizes it for today’s hardware. The entire project took me ~3 months, with 100K lines of Rust code written in ~4 weeks and performance optimization from 23K operations/sec to 300K ops/sec achieved…
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There’s No Earthly Way of Knowing Which Direction We Are Going…

There’s No Earthly Way of Knowing Which Direction We Are Going…

✨ Check out this must-read post from Hacker News đź“– đź“‚ **Category**: âś… **What You’ll Learn**: Book on Truth in the Age of A.I. Contains Quotes Made Up by A.I.: The author of a nonfiction book about the effects of artificial intelligence on truth acknowledged on Monday that he had included numerous made-up or misattributed quotes concocted by A.I.The author, Steven Rosenbaum, whose book “The Future of Truth” was released this month to great fanfare, incorporated more than a half-dozen misattributed or fake quotes in sections of the book reviewed by The New York Times.The Times asked Mr. Rosenbaum about…
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Infomaniak secures its independence and its DNA for the long term • Infomaniak

Infomaniak secures its independence and its DNA for the long term • Infomaniak

🔥 Check out this trending post from Hacker News đź“– đź“‚ **Category**: âś… **What You’ll Learn**: Since 1994, Infomaniak has followed the same path: privacy, environmental responsibility, and local roots. Thirty-two years on, these commitments are no longer just promises. On 20 May 2026, our founder Boris Siegenthaler transferred the majority of Infomaniak’s voting rights to a Swiss public-interest foundation: the Infomaniak Foundation. An irrevocable move, rare in Europe, that places the company beyond the reach of any takeover and sets its DNA in stone. For you, our customers, this means one thing: your cloud will remain Swiss, independent, and…
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Everything in C is undefined behavior

✨ Check out this must-read post from Hacker News đź“– đź“‚ **Category**: âś… **What You’ll Learn**: If he had been a programmer, Cardinal Richelieu would have said “Give me six lines written by the hand of the most expert C programmer in the world, and I will find enough in them to trigger undefined behavior”. Nobody can write correct C, or C++. And I say that as someone who’s written C and C++ on an almost daily basis for about 30 years. I listen to C++ podcasts. I watch C++ conference talks. I enjoy reading and writing C++. C++ has…
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Testing MiniMax M2.7 via API on three real ML and coding workflows – Andrey Lukyanenko

Testing MiniMax M2.7 via API on three real ML and coding workflows – Andrey Lukyanenko

đź’Ą Read this must-read post from Hacker News đź“– đź“‚ **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: Testing MiniMax M2.7 via API on three real ML and coding workflows I recently got access to some MiniMax M2.7 API credits, so I decided to plug this model directly into Claude Code and run it on three workflows I do regularly. The same tasks were run using Claude Opus 4.7 as the comparison baseline. The three workflows: scaffolding an entry for an active Kaggle competition, drafting and auditing knowledge-base notes for my Obsidian vault, and updating an old PyTorch project that became outdated. I…
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India’s hottest district shuts at 10 am as mercury breaches 48 degrees Celsius mark

India’s hottest district shuts at 10 am as mercury breaches 48 degrees Celsius mark

🔥 Read this trending post from Hacker News đź“– đź“‚ **Category**: âś… **What You’ll Learn**: So intense is the heat that by 10 every morning, Banda shuts down. Lakhan Gupta, a jeweller in Attara town, leaves home at 6am to finish most of his work before the heat settles. By 9, he is back. By 10, the road outside is empty. The shutters of his shop remain open, but customers rarely come before evening.Silence and empty streets at Banda’s Babulal Chauraha amid scorching temperatures. (HT PHOTO) (HT_PRINT)“Since April, I have sold almost nothing,” Gupta says. “After 10am, Banda becomes deserted. At…
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Your Evals Will Break and You Won’t See It Coming

✨ Explore this trending post from Hacker News đź“– đź“‚ **Category**: đź’ˇ **What You’ll Learn**: May 17, 2026 We're good at evaluating the models we have. We're much worse at evaluating the models we're about to build — especially if they cross into a new capability regime. Most benchmarks, safety evals, and red-teaming protocols implicitly assume the next model is a stronger version of the current one. If it's a different kind of thing, our entire evaluation infrastructure breaks silently. I think this is the most important unsolved problem in how we understand LLMs. And I think the answer is…
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fivethirtyeightindex

fivethirtyeightindex

🚀 Discover this trending post from Hacker News đź“– đź“‚ **Category**: âś… **What You’ll Learn**: 2008-03-01Frequently Asked Questions, Last Revised 8/7/08Nate Silver2008-03-03Pollster Ratings v1.0Nate Silver2008-03-07A Reality Check on South Dakota?Nate Silver2008-03-07Summary Results, 3/7/2008Nate Silver2008-03-08Still in Beta Test ModeNate Silver2008-03-09538 versus IntradeNate Silver2008-03-09FAQNate Silver2008-03-09RegionsNate Silver2008-03-09Still in Beta Test ModeNate Silver2008-03-10Moving beyond the Big ThreeNate Silver2008-03-11Plenty of Democrats in Red StatesNate Silver2008-03-11Some "New" North Carolina pollsNate Silver2008-03-11The Clinton voters who won't vote for ObamaNate Silver2008-03-12Carolinas Down, 48 to GoNate Silver2008-03-12New Pennsylvania, Michigan polls are good news for McCainNate Silver2008-03-12Pollster Ratings v2.0Nate Silver2008-03-13Does Obama benefit from an active primary campaign?Nate Silver2008-03-13Swing State AnalysisNate…
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Minnesota to ban prediction markets like Kalshi, Polymarket : NPR

Minnesota to ban prediction markets like Kalshi, Polymarket : NPR

đź’Ą Check out this awesome post from Hacker News đź“– đź“‚ **Category**: đź’ˇ **What You’ll Learn**: Minnesota has enacted the most far-reaching crackdown on massively popular services like Kalshi and Polymarket. Steve Karnowski/Associated Press hide caption toggle caption Steve Karnowski/Associated Press Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz has signed the nation's first law banning prediction market sites from operating in the state, and in response, the Trump administration has sued, teeing up a legal battle over the most far-reaching crackdown on popular services like Kalshi and Polymarket. It comes as states confront a growing standoff with the Trump administration over how to…
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Railway Status

✨ Check out this awesome post from Hacker News đź“– đź“‚ **Category**: đź’ˇ **What You’ll Learn**: Railway Service Disruption Major Outage Edge Network Investigating We are investigating a widespread service disruption affecting Railway. Users may be experiencing errors including "no healthy upstream", "unconditional drop overload", login failures, and inability to access the dashboard. We are actively investigating and will provide updates as soon as possible. May 19, 22:29 UTC Identified We have identified the cause of the disruption. Access to our upstream cloud provider has been restored and we are working on a fix. The Railway dashboard and services running…
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