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379 postsShow HN: A Real-Data Simulator for a Strait of Hormuz Closure Scenario
An open interactive simulator models a Strait of Hormuz closure using real oil trade data and a network-based economic model.
If ZFS Scrubs Hurt Production, Your Pool Design Is Broken
Painful ZFS scrubs signal undersized pools, not a scrub problem — how special VDEVs offload metadata to fix it.
Why warm npm installs are slow: materializing 1M files, not downloading
Why warm npm/yarn installs stay slow: materializing ~1M files, not fetching, is the bottleneck. A clonefile-based fix cuts install time 5x.
CommitBrief — AI code reviews, right in your terminal
A provider-agnostic, local-first CLI that reviews your staged changes, a historic range, or a whole GitHub pull request. Zero telemetry, no server. Free and open source.
commitbrief.comAI Coding Agents Are Absorbing the Leaves, Not the Whole Tree
SWE-bench and METR data track fast AI coding gains, but verification cost — not raw difficulty — still defines where agents stop.
SynthCut: An Open-Source Video Editor Built for AI Agents
SynthCut is an open-source, MCP-driven video editor where AI clients control local FFmpeg edits offline, with multi-track editing and OTIO support.
Brookmd: a Rust-powered streaming Markdown renderer for every platform
Brookmd is an open-source Rust core for streaming Markdown rendering across web, React Native, Swift, and Kotlin with a shared JSON wire format.
New Test Measures 'Reward-Seeking' Behavior in AI Models
Apollo Research and OpenAI unveil Contrastive SDF, a method measuring whether AI models shift behavior based on beliefs about grader preferences.
Trigger-tree tracks which docs your AI coding agent actually reads
trigger-tree is a local, zero-token tool that reveals which docs Claude Code or Codex agents actually read — and which ones they miss.
How Replit's Snapshot Engine Makes AI Coding Agents Safe
Replit's Bottomless Storage Infrastructure uses copy-on-write and git-based versioning to make AI coding agents safe, reversible, and sandboxed.
Open, structurally chunked EU AI Act corpus released for legal RAG
An open, 933-chunk SQLite dataset splits the EU AI Act by its real legal structure, with embeddings and EUR-Lex links for RAG and legal engineering.