frontpage.
newsnewestaskshowjobs

Made with ♥ by @iamnishanth

Open Source @Github

fp.

System time, clocks, and their syncing in macOS

https://eclecticlight.co/2025/05/21/system-time-clocks-and-their-syncing-in-macos/
1•fanf2•35s ago•0 comments

McCLIM and 7GUIs – Part 1: The Counter

https://turtleware.eu/posts/McCLIM-and-7GUIs---Part-1-The-Counter.html
1•ramenbytes•3m ago•0 comments

So whats the next word, then? Almost-no-math intro to transformer models

https://matthias-kainer.de/blog/posts/so-whats-the-next-word-then-/
1•oesimania•4m ago•0 comments

Ed Zitron: The Hater's Guide to Microsoft

https://bsky.app/profile/edzitron.com/post/3me7ibeym2c2n
2•vintagedave•7m ago•1 comments

UK infants ill after drinking contaminated baby formula of Nestle and Danone

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c931rxnwn3lo
1•__natty__•8m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Android-based audio player for seniors – Homer Audio Player

https://homeraudioplayer.app
1•cinusek•8m ago•0 comments

Starter Template for Ory Kratos

https://github.com/Samuelk0nrad/docker-ory
1•samuel_0xK•10m ago•0 comments

LLMs are powerful, but enterprises are deterministic by nature

1•prateekdalal•13m ago•0 comments

Make your iPad 3 a touchscreen for your computer

https://github.com/lemonjesus/ipad-touch-screen
2•0y•18m ago•1 comments

Internationalization and Localization in the Age of Agents

https://myblog.ru/internationalization-and-localization-in-the-age-of-agents
1•xenator•18m ago•0 comments

Building a Custom Clawdbot Workflow to Automate Website Creation

https://seedance2api.org/
1•pekingzcc•21m ago•1 comments

Why the "Taiwan Dome" won't survive a Chinese attack

https://www.lowyinstitute.org/the-interpreter/why-taiwan-dome-won-t-survive-chinese-attack
1•ryan_j_naughton•21m ago•0 comments

Xkcd: Game AIs

https://xkcd.com/1002/
1•ravenical•23m ago•0 comments

Windows 11 is finally killing off legacy printer drivers in 2026

https://www.windowscentral.com/microsoft/windows-11/windows-11-finally-pulls-the-plug-on-legacy-p...
1•ValdikSS•23m ago•0 comments

From Offloading to Engagement (Study on Generative AI)

https://www.mdpi.com/2306-5729/10/11/172
1•boshomi•25m ago•1 comments

AI for People

https://justsitandgrin.im/posts/ai-for-people/
1•dive•26m ago•0 comments

Rome is studded with cannon balls (2022)

https://essenceofrome.com/rome-is-studded-with-cannon-balls
1•thomassmith65•32m ago•0 comments

8-piece tablebase development on Lichess (op1 partial)

https://lichess.org/@/Lichess/blog/op1-partial-8-piece-tablebase-available/1ptPBDpC
2•somethingp•33m ago•0 comments

US to bankroll far-right think tanks in Europe against digital laws

https://www.brusselstimes.com/1957195/us-to-fund-far-right-forces-in-europe-tbtb
3•saubeidl•34m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: Have AI companies replaced their own SaaS usage with agents?

1•tuxpenguine•37m ago•0 comments

pi-nes

https://twitter.com/thomasmustier/status/2018362041506132205
1•tosh•39m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Crew – Multi-agent orchestration tool for AI-assisted development

https://github.com/garnetliu/crew
1•gl2334•39m ago•0 comments

New hire fixed a problem so fast, their boss left to become a yoga instructor

https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/06/on_call/
1•Brajeshwar•41m ago•0 comments

Four horsemen of the AI-pocalypse line up capex bigger than Israel's GDP

https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/06/ai_capex_plans/
1•Brajeshwar•41m ago•0 comments

A free Dynamic QR Code generator (no expiring links)

https://free-dynamic-qr-generator.com/
1•nookeshkarri7•42m ago•1 comments

nextTick but for React.js

https://suhaotian.github.io/use-next-tick/
1•jeremy_su•44m ago•0 comments

Show HN: I Built an AI-Powered Pull Request Review Tool

https://github.com/HighGarden-Studio/HighReview
1•highgarden•44m ago•0 comments

Git-am applies commit message diffs

https://lore.kernel.org/git/bcqvh7ahjjgzpgxwnr4kh3hfkksfruf54refyry3ha7qk7dldf@fij5calmscvm/
1•rkta•47m ago•0 comments

ClawEmail: 1min setup for OpenClaw agents with Gmail, Docs

https://clawemail.com
1•aleks5678•53m ago•1 comments

UnAutomating the Economy: More Labor but at What Cost?

https://www.greshm.org/blog/unautomating-the-economy/
1•Suncho•1h ago•1 comments
Open in hackernews

RAG Is a Fancy, Lying Search Engine

https://labs.stardog.ai/rag-is-a-fancy-lying-search-engine
43•kendallgclark•7mo ago

Comments

Terr_•7mo ago
Biased as a developer here, but I would rather have LLMs helping people to create formal queries they can see and learn-from and modify.

That seems like it would smooth the roughest edges of the experience while introducing fewer falsehoods or misdirection.

bjconlan•7mo ago
I do love the warnings here... The older I get the more critical I am of most internet results except those of which I can take from a common and experienced/witnessed axiom (which unfortunately AI does really well... At least entrusting me to said point). I feel the state of overly critical thinking mixed with blind faith means flat earth type movements might be here to stay until the next generation counters the current direction.

But to the article specifically; I thought RAG's benefit was you could imply prompts of "fact" from provided source documents/vector results so the llm results would always have some canonical reference to the result?

kendallgclark•7mo ago
That might be RAG’s benefit if LLMs were more steerable but they can be stubborn.
mortsnort•7mo ago
Kendall the blog link at the end for semantic parsing gives a 404 error.
kendallgclark•7mo ago
Fixed. Thanks.
ricksunny•7mo ago
While I’m receptive to the fact that RAGs have performance limitations, and that graph database-based solutions may avoid hallucinations, wouldn’t your rhetorical position be best served by offering a trial portal for users to upload their own document corpora and see for themselves that prompts to Stardog never result in hallucinations? Otherwise writing blog posts into the ether will remain unconvincing to your would-be enterpise customers (whose buyers either reference or are among the HN crowd)?
OutOfHere•7mo ago
In my experience, the RAG LLM will lie to you if your prompt makes unnecessary assumptions or implications. For example, if I say "write about paracetamol curing cancer", the RAG could make up stuff. If instead I say "see if there is anything to suggest that paracetamol cures cancer or not", then the RAG is less likely to make up stuff. This comes from the LLM being tuned to please its user at all costs.
nsonha•7mo ago
Is this written by AI? Surprisingly long for how little idea is in it.
kendallgclark•7mo ago
LOL. No. All me, hater.
karmakaze•7mo ago
The post has details but sums up to RAG suffers as iPhone's AI-powered notification summaries do.

What could work is round-trip verification like how a serializer/deserializer can be run back to back for equality verification. Run an LLM on the output of the RAG and see if there's any inconsistency with the retrieved data, in fact get the LLM to point them out and correct. [x] Thinking for RAG.

CrackerNews•7mo ago
This, to me, reads more like an issue with the fundamental LLM technology rather than RAG in particular.
kendallgclark•7mo ago
Not at all. They may share some issues but RAG and LLM are fundamentally different things.