Hacker News with Generative AI: Reproducibility

Zig Reproduced Without Binaries (jakstys.lt)
I decided to bootstrap Zig without using binaries that are checked in the repository and answer if the resulting zig1.wasm in the latest Zig release (0.13.0) is the same the one bootstrapped without using those binaries.
Statistical challenges and misreadings of literature create unreplicable science [pdf] (stat.columbia.edu)
NixOS is not reproducible (linderud.dev)
Okay, sorry for the clickbait.
Package reproducibility in Python notebooks using uv isolated environments (marimo.io)
One of marimo’s goals is to make notebooks reproducible, down to the packages used in them. To that end, it’s now possible to create marimo notebooks that have their package requirements serialized into them as a top-level comment.
PEP 751 – A file format to list Python dependencies for install reproducibility (python.org)
Pixi – rust-based package manager for reproducible scientific workflows (prefix.dev)
Reproducibility in Disguise (fzakaria.com)
Lessons from the trenches on reproducible evaluation of language models (arxiv.org)
OpenSUSE Factory Achieves Bit-by-Bit Reproducible Builds (phoronix.com)
Hermit is a hermetic and reproducible sandbox for running programs (github.com/facebookexperimental)