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Verschlimmbesserung: The Word Your Software Updates Need

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Verschlimmbesserung: The Word Your Software Updates Need

An attempted improvement that only makes things worse. It is time we start naming this phenomenon in software engineering.

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An attempted improvement that only makes things worse. It is time we start naming this phenomenon in software engineering. Source: geekyschmidt.com (105 points, 67 comments) Hacker News discussion

Hilariously fast volume computation with the divergence theorem (2018)

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Hilariously fast volume computation with the divergence theorem (2018)

The following presents a fast algorithm for volume computation of a simple, closed, triangulated 3D mesh. This assumption is a consequence of the divergence theorem. Further extensions may generalise to other meshes as well, although that is presently out of scope.

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The following presents a fast algorithm for volume computation of a simple, closed, triangulated 3D mesh. This assumption is a consequence of the divergence theorem. Further extensions may generalise to other meshes as well, although that is presently out of...

Luanti removed from Google Play due to baseless AI copyright notice

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Luanti removed from Google Play due to baseless AI copyright notice

Luanti has been removed from Google Play due to a DMCA notice from Tracer.AI. We have filed a counter-notice, but this isn't the first time.

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Luanti has been removed from Google Play due to a DMCA notice from Tracer.AI. We have filed a counter-notice, but this isn't the first time. Source: luanti.org (436 points, 136 comments) Hacker News discussion

Show HN: Sesame - a local-first, open-source password manager

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Show HN: Sesame - a local-first, open-source password manager

An open source password vault for Windows. Import passwords, 2FA codes, and recovery details. Sesame never receives your vault. Free download.

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An open source password vault for Windows. Import passwords, 2FA codes, and recovery details. Sesame never receives your vault. Free download. Source: usesesame.app (36 points, 35 comments) Hacker News discussion

I accidentally turned LLM memory into program analysis

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I accidentally turned LLM memory into program analysis

Why I stopped trying to give LLM agents a better memory and instead built Lemmalog, a Datalog engine that maintains an agent's knowledge as analysis state, with provenance, retractions and incremental evaluation, plus what happened when I benchmarked it on LongMemEval and LoCoMo.

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Why I stopped trying to give LLM agents a better memory and instead built Lemmalog, a Datalog engine that maintains an agent's knowledge as analysis state, with provenance, retractions and incremental evaluation, plus what happened when I benchmarked it on...

Autonomous Mathematical Discovery in an Open-World Multi-Agent Environment

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Autonomous Mathematical Discovery in an Open-World Multi-Agent Environment

We study autonomous mathematical discovery in the Station, an open-world multi-agent environment in which AI agents from different model families pursue a shared research goal without a central coordinator or scripted pipeline. Agents choose their own research directions, conduct experiments, collaborate, and build a shared scientific literature. Across 12 construction problems from the AlphaEvolve catalogue and two additional case studies, the Station obtained results novel relative to the prior literature on five problems: a new infinite family of finite-field Kakeya sets, new exact...

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We study autonomous mathematical discovery in the Station, an open-world multi-agent environment in which AI agents from different model families pursue a shared research goal without a central coordinator or scripted pipeline. Agents choose their own...