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What Mutation Testing Frameworks Do When a Timeout Kills Them

Code: Megapixel99/assay-checks assay audits mutation harnesses: the scripts that deliberately break your code and check that a test notices. It looks for seven properties, each one a way a harness can report success without having run anything, and its README admits in writing that the seven have a hole underneath them. SIGKILL cannot be caught, blocked or handled, so no handler runs and no finally runs. The ordinary way to be SIGKILLed is a timeout rather than an impatient person; s...
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Harness en Microsoft Agent Framework: cómo construir un agente de investigación autónomo en C#

Introducción Cuando empezamos a construir agentes con LLMs, tarde o temprano llegamos al mismo problema: un solo prompt no alcanza para tareas complejas. Necesitamos que el agente itere , llame herramientas varias veces, decida cuándo ya terminó y todo esto sin que nosotros tengamos que escribir el ciclo while a mano ni reinventar aprobaciones de herramientas, observabilidad o manejo de contexto. Microsoft Agent Framework resuelve esto con el Agent Harness : una capa de runtime "batte...
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Translating Full Books with LLMs: Our Chunking Strategy for Long-Form Context

How we built a pipeline that preserves context across 100k+ token books using Python, FastAPI, and Claude's context window. The Problem: Books Don't Fit in a Prompt When we started building LectuLibre, our AI-powered book translation service, we assumed we could just send an entire book to a large language model and get a translation back. After all, Claude 3.5 Sonnet advertises a 200k token context window. But a typical novel is 80,000–120,000 words, which is roughly 100,000–15...
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Why LLM Cascades Fail for Interactive Apps — Use Router

Stop Defaulting to Cascades: Why Router-First Wins for Interactive Apps (LLM routing vs cascading) The question of "LLM routing vs cascading" is not just academic—it's an operational decision that changes latency profiles, cost predictability, and user experience for interactive apps. In practice, a conservative router + semantic cache + calibrated gates will usually outperform a "cheap-first" cascade for latency-sensitive, user-facing systems. This article explains why, gives a practical...
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The Automation Gap Is a Finance Workflow Problem, Not a Spreadsheet Problem

Recent fintech research has put a useful number on an old frustration: UK businesses are still losing several days a month to manual finance administration. The headline is easy to interpret as a spreadsheet indictment. In practice, spreadsheets are rarely the root cause. The deeper problem is that finance work is a chain of handoffs, exceptions, approvals, and evidence checks that no single system models well. That distinction matters to engineers building financial products. Replacing a spr...
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Debugging R8 Release-Only Crashes Without Disabling Optimization

A debug build works. The release build installs. Then one screen crashes only after minification is enabled. The tempting fix is immediate: -keep class com.example.** { *; } Or worse, turn R8 off and ship. Both can make the symptom disappear. Neither tells you what broke. A release-only R8 failure is usually easier to solve when you treat it as an indirect-reference debugging problem , not a ProGuard guessing contest. The goal is to identify the runtime contract that ...
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MiniMax H3 Prompt Engineering: Camera Motion, Timing, and Native Audio

Generating a visually attractive AI video is easy to describe, but much harder to control. With MiniMax H3, the difference between an average result and a usable shot often comes down to how the prompt describes four things: the subject the action the camera the timing and audio Instead of treating a prompt as one long visual description, it is more useful to think of it as a small production specification. This guide explains a practical structure for writing MiniMax H3 pr...
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Oracle PL/SQL Exception Handling

An Exception is a PL/SQL runtime error condition triggered during code execution. When an exception is raised, normal execution of the current PL/SQL block halts immediately, and control transfers to the EXCEPTION section. If an appropriate exception handler is present, final corrective actions are executed before the block exits; otherwise, the unhandled error propagates to the host environment. Exceptions in PL/SQL are classified into three distinct categories: Exception Type...
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The "DevRel Journey" Angle

Hello guy's I am Dilesh Zingare. And this is my first python code and also the first article ever written by me. So yeah I am excited and nervous to but as you know "Beyond fear lies victory." I just passed my 12th exam and I got really embarrassing percentage and as the meme said "Behind every I'm scared is I did it! So like that I am going to share my experience to all of my viewers and for reading this I want to personally Thank you all. As title said I want to be a "Developer Advocate" an...
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I built an open-source, zero-telemetry local AI proxy daemon for absolute data sovereignty

Hey everyone! 👋 Like many developers, I love experimenting with local AI and custom workflows, but I got tired of worrying about data leaks, cloud telemetry, and being locked into a single AI app or vendor ecosystem. So, I built and open-sourced the Garza Global Graviton (GGG) Sovereign Edge Daemon — a single, self-contained background daemon designed for absolute data sovereignty. What it does GGG runs locally on your machine as an OpenAI-compatible loopback proxying...
I Built a Restaurant Website Using Only HTML – My First Frontend Project Series. Part-2
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I Built a Restaurant Website Using Only HTML – My First Frontend Project Series. Part-2

Hello and welcome to my 2nd part of My First Frontend Project Series. I am Dilesh Zingare and, If you didn't read the 1st part of the series believe me you have to read that you are missing something important. I have uploaded Video Lectures of every article I uploaded so don't worry about anything. Quick Recap of 1st part. In previous part, we learned about fundamental structure of HTML and how to link two HTML files together by anchor tag. And after that I provided you the li...
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Plane vs Jira vs Linear (2026): The Open-Source Verdict

Verdict: In the Plane vs Jira vs Linear comparison for 2026, Plane is the strongest open-source Jira alternative and our pick for most small and mid-sized teams. It covers the core of Jira (work items, sprints, roadmaps, triage) in a modern, Linear-style interface, can be self-hosted for free with unlimited users, and its cloud Free plan allows 12 users. Pick Jira only if you are deep in the Atlassian ecosystem, and Linear if you run a product engineering team that prizes speed over data owners...
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Show HN: Cactus Needle 3: 8-29MB automation models can match DeepSeek V4 Flash

Hey HN, Henry from Cactus here. We submitted Needle 2 here a few weeks ago, and the feedback in the discussion thread was incredibly valuable, thanks! Thanks to all that feedback, we’ve been able to move quickly to release Needle 3 and I'd love to hear what you think again. The key features: 1) Automation (tool calls & structured JSON output): Needle still doesn't chat by design, its quite challenging to pack general capacity into such small models, so we focus on tool calls and structured JSON....
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Minimal Phone 2

Article URL: https://minimalcompany.com/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49749369 Points: 208 # Comments: 194
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Science Is Open Software

Article URL: https://jepedersen.dk/blog/202505_research/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49762687 Points: 28 # Comments: 13
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SDCC – Small Device C Compiler

Article URL: https://sdcc.sourceforge.net/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49762744 Points: 19 # Comments: 2
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OpenAI and Microsoft knew they were starting a ‘doom loop’ for the web

Recently unsealed court documents in the New York Times' case against OpenAI and Microsoft are pretty damning. The companies' own documentation warned that it was starting a "doom loop" that would damage the web, characterized its scraping of data to train its models as the "largest theft of labor in human history," and that it […]