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Ask HN: Help choosing between AWS ECS and EKS
A developer who recently joined a company migrating from Heroku to AWS has laid out a common infrastructure dilemma: ECS or EKS for a team with no cloud experience. The question, posted to Hacker News, attracted a focused debate a...
Show HN: tuisheet, a terminal spreadsheet compatible with OpenXML (xlsx) files
A terminal spreadsheet with full xlsx compatibility is not the kind of tool that usually gains traction, but tuisheet has found a niche among developers who want spreadsheet functionality without leaving the command line. The proj...
Reflections on Trusting Trust, Revisited: Contaminating Self-Modifying AI Coding Agents with Poisoned Benchmarks
A new paper demonstrates that poisoned benchmarks can induce self-modifying AI coding agents to write vulnerable code on neutral tasks, and that the contamination persists even after further evolution against clean benchmarks.
Egglog and Equality Saturation in a Production Tensor Compiler
Two engineers from Luminal, a compiler startup that recently closed its Series A, presented at an E-Graphs meetup on September 17 about how equality saturation powers their production tensor compiler. The talk by CEO Joe Fioti and...
Ask HN: What self-hosted apps do you use daily?
A Hacker News thread asking developers about their daily self-hosted applications surfaced a curated list of open source tools that have earned permanent spots on home servers. The original post, from a user who has run a homelab...
How fast is C++23's std:flat_map?
C++23 introduced std::flat_map, a container that replaces the red-black tree backing std::map with two sorted vectors. The result is simpler, uses less memory, and outperforms std::map in most read-heavy workloads. The tradeoff is...
Insurance Agent Benchmark: 166 real-world cases for evaluating insurance AI
Insurance Document Benchmarks Reveal a Gap Between Model Accuracy and System Reliability When an AI agent reads an insurance document, the hard part is not the question. It is the file. A scanned ACORD application arrives with han...
Python Packaging Council Election Results
Python Gets Its First Elected Packaging Council Python's packaging ecosystem has operated for years through informal coordination. The Python Packaging Authority coordinated tools like pip, setuptools, and PyPI without elections....
MSVC C++23: constexpr cmath with LLVM Libc
MSVC Replaces Its Math Library With LLVM Libc for C++23 Constexpr Evaluation When you call std::sin in a C++ program on Windows, the function comes from the Universal C Runtime. The UCRT is maintained by the Windows OS team, not t...
Show HN: TypeScript parser for AIXM, the FAA/EUROCONTROL aviation data format
A new open source TypeScript library fills a gap in the aviation data ecosystem. aixm-parser is the first JavaScript and TypeScript implementation capable of reading AIXM 5.1.1 files, the XML-based standard used by civil aviation...