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GitHub Agentic Workflows

https://github.github.io/gh-aw/
1•mooreds•42s ago•0 comments

Exploring hardware-authenticated file encryption in Python

1•Lif28•2m ago•0 comments

Show HN: SEO v3 – Zero-dependency, Simple, powerful PHP SEO library

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1•royal-amrah•4m ago•1 comments

A Comprehensive Benchmark for Document Parsing and Evaluation (2025)

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1•oceansky•5m ago•1 comments

When 20 Watts Beats 20 Megawatts: Rethinking Computer Design

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1•dxs•9m ago•0 comments

Canadian Province New Brunswick to Quit Using Elon Musk's X

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4•rbanffy•10m ago•0 comments

Heterogeneous Processing: A Strategy for Augmenting Moore's Law (2006)

https://www.linuxjournal.com/article/8368
1•rbanffy•11m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Mvvmm – Firecracker-like mini virtual machine monitor in ~2000 LoC

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Search anything said on a podcast, speaker-labeled and speaker-tracked

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1•onesandofgrain•14m ago•1 comments

Canada, better the 28th EU member than the 51st US state

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5•u1hcw9nx•14m ago•1 comments

Show HN: Team of agent researchers read things I don't have time to and brief me

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3•linuxarm64•17m ago•0 comments

Almostnode – Node.js in the Browser

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1•ushakov•17m ago•0 comments

Mount Fuji cherry blossom festival canceled due to overtourism

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3•akyuu•19m ago•1 comments

Containers, cloud, blockchain, AI – it's all the same old BS, says RH veteran

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1•lproven•20m ago•0 comments

Gorge (2022)

https://qntm.org/gorg
1•Rygian•22m ago•0 comments

Like Game-of-Life, but on Growing Graphs, with WASM and WebGL

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1•znah•23m ago•0 comments

Show HN: agent-ledger – prevent double side effects when AI agents retry

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1•itsimri•23m ago•0 comments

Gemini responds to request to turn on lights with hallucinated jailbreak prompt

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4•visviva•24m ago•1 comments

RustCast -open-source Raycast-style launcher written in Rust

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Why Do Olympic Athletes Bite Their Medals?

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1•RickJWagner•25m ago•0 comments

Mdash – Markdown in URL

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Brings your family memories now

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Travel to Cheap Destinations

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Rebuilding my home network with VLANs and 10Gbps

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Show HN: RepoSherlock – repo onboarding in minutes (map, run, risks)

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Going Through Snowden Documents, Part 2

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2•stareatgoats•32m ago•0 comments

Can Europe get kids off social media?

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2•thm•35m ago•0 comments

I Built a NAS (Buildlog)

https://arne.me/blog/buildlog-nas
2•abahlo•35m ago•0 comments
Open in hackernews

All Your Coworkers Are Probabilistic Too

https://scatterarrow.com/content/en/all-your-coworkers-are-probabilistic.html
5•exagolo•2mo ago

Comments

exagolo•2mo ago
When people complain about large language models, I often feel like they're complaining about their coworkers without realizing it...
whobre•2mo ago
At least my coworkers usually don’t hallucinate.
illuminator83•2mo ago
Are you sure? I've been confidently wrong about stuff before. Embarrassing, but it happens.. And I've been working with many people who are sometimes wrong about stuff too. With LLMs you call that "hallucinating" and with people we just call it "lapse in memory", "error in judgment", or "being distracted", or plain "a mistake".
fainpul•2mo ago
True, but people can use classifier words like "I think …" or "Wasn't there this thing …", which allows you to judge their certainty about the answer.

LLMs are always super confident and tell you how it is. Period. You would soon stop asking a coworker who repeatedly behaved like that.

illuminator83•2mo ago
Yeah, for the most part. But I've even had a few instance in which someone was very sure about something and still wrong. Usually not about APIs but rather about stuff that is more work to verify or not quite as timeless. Cache optimization issue or suitability of certain algorithms for some problems even. The world is changing a lot and sometimes people don't notice and stick to stuff that was state-of-the-art a decade ago.

But I think the point of the article is that you should have measure in place which make hallucinations not matter because it will be noticed in CI and tests.

whobre•2mo ago
It’s different. People don’t just invent random API that doesn’t exist. LLM does that all the time.
illuminator83•2mo ago
For the most part, yes. Because people usually read docs and test it on their own.

But I remember a few people long ago telling me confidently how to do this or that in e.g. "git" only to find out during testing that it didn't quite work like that. Or telling me about how some subsystem could be tested. When it didn't work like that at all. Because they operated from memory instead of checking. Or confused one tool/system for another.

LLMs can and should verify their assumptions too. The blog article is about that. That should keep most hallucinations and mistakes people make from doing any real harm.

If you let an LLM do that it won't be much of a problem either. I usually link an LLM to an online source for an API I want to use or tell it just look it up so it is less likely to make such mistakes. It helps.

whobre•2mo ago
Again with people it is a rare occurrence. LLM does that regularly. I just can’t believe anything it says
exagolo•2mo ago
I do agree. I still think that the article articulates a very interesting thought... the better the input for a problem, the better the output. This applies both to LLMs but also for colleagues.