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What if The Million Dollar Homepage was built in 2026?(merca.earth)
2 points by cremer 3mo ago|0 comments
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by cremer 4mo ago
careful what you wish for, x87's extended precision is what wrote the original bug: 80 bits in registers,64 on a spill, so the value depended on register pressure ARM and WASM dropped it for a reason, and more bits would not help anywa
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by cremer 4mo ago
his predicates paper opens with "Computational geometers despise floating-point arithmetic" same trick as the CG title: write the sentence a frustrated reader would write, then aren it.. if you like those the Triangle paper is the
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Floats Don't Agree with Themselves(docs.merca.earth)
37 points by cremer 4mo ago|34 comments
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Show HN: 1990s Game Dev Algorithms for Distributed Systems(docs.merca.earth)
12 points by cremer 5mo ago|0 comments
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by cremer 5mo ago
Redis sorted sets are probably the most widely deployed example. Redis uses a skiplist for range queries and ordered iteration paired with a hash table for O(1) lookups. Together they cover the full API at the right complexity for each oper
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by cremer 5mo ago
Barely anyone mentioned the "AI agent angle", I mean the situation when an AI agent runs "cat readme.txt" a file with embedded instructions becomes a prompt injection attack. It is the same vulnerability class out-of-ban
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by cremer 5mo ago
The real risk is not that "LLM SQL" is wrong, it is in fact that a man who asked for it can't recognize when it is wrong. Writing a query and knowing when JSON silently doubled your rows are different skills and LLMs are able
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by cremer 5mo ago
The numbered forms are most useful as a teaching device, not an engineering specification. Once you have internalized 2NF and 3NF violations through a few painful bugs, you start spotting partial and transitive dependencies by feel rather t