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Maybe I should rename my multipart-review agent skills to “Cheka – not a review, but brutal interrogation.”
This Week in Rust 670
Posted by TWiR Contributors on 2026-09-23 from This Week in Rust
Been using ai to work out ideas for rostra. I could write a list /warning
My main idea is that if it allowed private access, then it basically becomes my forever file archive which will never die as long as I’ve 2-4 laptops running it.
Long term storage of my files/data is a useful feature, imo. You see any attractiveness there?
The k-server conjecture is true
After decades of partial results, Christian Coester, Elias Koutsoupias, and Marek Zbysiński prove the k-server conjecture: the deterministic work-function algorithm is k-competitive on every metric space. Their proof represents the work function as a matrix, turns request updates into basis changes and row replacements, and derives the amortized bound from a larger matrix-valued potential.
HN readers called it a long-sought “holy grail” of competitive analysis and translated the online/offline guarantee into dispatching examples; discussion also noted that the abstract is unusually opaque to non-specialists.
