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Ask HN: AI as a solution to the declining population problem in many countries?

1•amichail•3m ago•0 comments

AGI Representation and Will

https://federicopereiro.com/agi-representation-will/
1•swah•3m ago•0 comments

Should the Federal Government Sell Land?

https://www.construction-physics.com/p/should-the-federal-government-sell
1•dynm•4m ago•0 comments

Microsoft offers EU cloud providers fresh commercial terms

https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/11/microsoft_offers_eu_cloud_providers/
1•belter•6m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: What's blocking your AI agents from moving beyond proof-of-concept?

1•ns-148•6m ago•1 comments

At Least 13 People Died by Suicide Amid U.K. Post Office Scandal, Report Says

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/10/world/europe/uk-post-office-scandal-report.html
6•xbryanx•8m ago•1 comments

The French Game Show Contestant Who Won 646 Times in a Row (and 23 Cars)

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/11/arts/television/france-game-show.html
1•donohoe•8m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: Where would you sell a side project?

2•BrunoBernardino•9m ago•1 comments

David Autor on AI and the future of work

https://voxdev.org/topic/technology-innovation/david-autor-ai-and-future-work
1•econlmics•10m ago•0 comments

The Product Arcana – a deck of prompts for stuck product thinking

https://productarcana.com/
1•bbbboris•10m ago•1 comments

Where are the DocuSign 2.0 Startups?

https://www.unicornforms.com/blog/why-y-combinator
3•waldopat•15m ago•1 comments

Better Python path handling with Pathlib and Git

https://abstractnonsense.xyz/blog/2025-07-11-better-python-path-handling-with-pathlib-and-git/
1•subset•16m ago•0 comments

The browser-based Skype replacement I built after losing my pay-per-minute calls

1•andybady•20m ago•0 comments

C++26: std:format improvement (Part 1)

https://www.sandordargo.com/blog/2025/07/09/cpp26-format-part-1
1•tempodox•20m ago•0 comments

Why is "truth-seeking" a goal?

2•d4rkn0d3z•21m ago•2 comments

Parsing Mixfix Operators

https://www.cse.chalmers.se/~nad/publications/danielsson-norell-mixfix.html
1•fanf2•22m ago•0 comments

Diffusion Elites: surprisingly good, simple and embarrassingly parallel

https://blog.christianperone.com/2025/07/diffusion-elites/
1•evertedsphere•24m ago•0 comments

Trusted Publishing

https://blog.rust-lang.org/2025/02/05/crates-io-development-update/
1•weinzierl•25m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Swift List – A Modern Swift Implementation of Ls

https://github.com/maclong9/list
3•qn9n•30m ago•0 comments

Rust Belt Voters Are Sick of Both Parties

https://jacobin.com/2025/06/rust-belt-voters-independent-party/
1•PaulHoule•31m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: Has Anyone Made a Good AI Powered Film Editing Tool?

2•xvok•34m ago•0 comments

Show HN: TheGistHub – Free AI book summaries in 10 minutes

https://thegisthub.com
1•vernu•35m ago•1 comments

Recovering from AI Addiction

https://internetaddictsanonymous.org/internet-and-technology-addiction/signs-of-an-addiction-to-ai/
2•pera•36m ago•0 comments

L.A. became the epicenter of America's homeless crisis

https://www.yahoo.com/news/real-story-l-became-epicenter-130031599.html
1•lxm•37m ago•0 comments

Do Not Give Imperfect People Perfect Systems

https://loganmarek.com/do-not-give-imperfect-people-perfect-systems/
1•xvok•40m ago•0 comments

Show HN: AGI Laboratory – Evolving AGI through community

https://github.com/Dan23RR/AGI_Laboratory
1•AGI_Laboratory•42m ago•0 comments

Risk of dementia following gabapentin prescription

https://rapm.bmj.com/content/early/2025/07/02/rapm-2025-106577
3•geox•45m ago•4 comments

Automating Pre-Push Checks with Jujutsu

https://www.aazuspan.dev/blog/automating-pre-push-checks-with-jujutsu/
1•silveraxe93•45m ago•1 comments

Can we fix the worst prediction in all of science?

https://bigthink.com/starts-with-a-bang/worst-prediction-in-all-of-science/
1•elashri•45m ago•0 comments

UK Online Safety Act 'not up to scratch' on misinformation, warn MPs

https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/11/online_safety_act_misinfo/
2•rntn•46m ago•0 comments
Open in hackernews

Do we need deterministic AI?

3•createdbymason•6h ago
deterministic LLMs - what are they good for? do we need them? someone explain ...

Comments

handfuloflight•6h ago
Prompt: "Output a name of one of the states of the United States."

It will not tell me the names of the planets. Or the names of prescription drugs.

Why is this level of determinism not enough?

theGeatZhopa•6h ago
at some point one might need determined responses. RAG & Law, or in certain situations, where RAG is done on f.e. legal or some constraints are in hold. LLMs shouldn't respond non-deterministic then.

But this is solveable without deterministic AI. Nonetheless, to have some deterministic AI would solve some pain in some areas you & me not work in, but others.. ;)

handfuloflight•5h ago
I also work in those situations and I don't see how prompting with a grounded context isn't giving the determinism needed?
rvz•5h ago
Of course we do.

Reliability is more valuable than anything.

Would you want the AI system to mistake the sun for a yellow warning sign whilst you are driving on the highway?