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Jeffrey Gundlach Says Almost All Financial Assets Are Now Overvalued

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-11-17/doubleline-s-gundlach-almost-all-financial-ass...
1•toomuchtodo•38s ago•1 comments

People are sending HTTP requests with X-Forwarded-For across the Internet

https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/web/XForwardedForOutThere
1•zdw•52s ago•0 comments

String Art Generator Free Online – Create Patterns

https://stringartgenerator.cc/
1•duanhjlt•4m ago•0 comments

How to uncover how someone thinks – before you hire them

https://www.bolshchikov.com/p/how-to-assess-mindset-and-attitude
1•bolshchikov•6m ago•0 comments

Ann has released a free online video compression tool–come test it out

https://freevideocompressor.online/
1•18272837023•6m ago•0 comments

Interesting facts about Infinite Craft

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/10-interesting-facts-about-infinite-craft/id1850984962?i=10...
1•miracroft•8m ago•0 comments

Resolving Merge Conflicts in Rails Encrypted Credentials

https://www.aaron-gray.com/resolving-merge-conflicts-in-rails-encrypted-credentials/
1•aarongray•9m ago•0 comments

Researchers uncover critical security flaws in global mobile networks

https://i-hls.com/archives/132101
1•PaulHoule•9m ago•0 comments

Show HN: KFR 7 – major update for C++ DSP library

https://github.com/kfrlib/kfr/releases/tag/7.0.1
1•danlcaza•10m ago•0 comments

Meet CoreWeave, the AI industry's ticking time bomb

https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/822011/coreweave-debt-data-center-ai
2•zachb211•14m ago•0 comments

Show HN: I demoed my 2018 preprint on transforming Tupper's formula

https://prathameshnium.github.io/TupperTransformer/
2•prathameshnium•15m ago•0 comments

Show HN: I built a modern anime tracker

https://animetracker.co
2•therov•15m ago•0 comments

VoteSecure: The Core Cryptographic Protocol for Mobile Voting

https://freeandfair.us/blog/releasing-votesecure/
2•smartmic•15m ago•0 comments

Adventures in Heirloom Eating: Chinatown

https://robertsietsema.substack.com/p/adventures-in-heirloom-eating-chinatown
2•mooreds•16m ago•0 comments

Jonathan Blow on Programming Language Design

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e6crOMC9WCE
2•birdculture•16m ago•0 comments

Kiwidget: The easiest toolbox for designers and devs

https://mantec.gumroad.com/l/kiwidget
2•mantec•17m ago•1 comments

Show HN: 32V TENS device from built from scratch under $100

https://littlemountainman.github.io/2025/11/17/tens/
2•autonomydriver•20m ago•0 comments

Show HN: I ditched Grafana for my home server and built this instead

https://github.com/alibahmanyar/simon
2•bahmann•22m ago•0 comments

WeatherNext 2: Our most advanced weather forecasting model

https://blog.google/technology/google-deepmind/weathernext-2/
4•meetpateltech•22m ago•0 comments

After F-35 "Kill Switch", Now Europe Perturbed by Chinese "Kill Switch"

https://www.eurasiantimes.com/after-f-35-europe-perturbed-by-chinese-kill-switch/
3•speckx•23m ago•2 comments

Does Steam Abuse Market Power?

https://foxchapelresearch.substack.com/p/does-steam-abuse-market-power-and
3•lalaland1125•24m ago•0 comments

With the end of the penny, is the clock ticking for the nickel?

https://www.cnn.com/2025/11/16/business/penny-nickel-discontinue-currency
4•mooreds•24m ago•0 comments

WebbCompare

https://www.webbcompare.com/
4•bookofjoe•24m ago•0 comments

Kosmos: An AI Scientist for Autonomous Discovery

https://edisonscientific.com/articles/announcing-kosmos
2•Anon84•26m ago•0 comments

Evolution Keeps Inventing Crab (So Does Industrial Policy): OWS and Japan's MRIs

https://www.governance.fyi/p/evolution-keeps-inventing-crabs-and
3•RetiredRichard•28m ago•1 comments

X-ray backscatter with compressed sensing algorithm [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EuVgGrun1V0
2•surprisetalk•29m ago•0 comments

How LLMs Could Use Their Own Parameters to Hide Messages

https://spylab.ai/blog/steganography/
2•fi-le•29m ago•0 comments

Feeling Sorry for Myself and Narcolepsy

https://bestjelly.substack.com/p/on-feeling-sorry-for-myself-and-narcolepsy
2•surprisetalk•29m ago•0 comments

Veil of Ignorance Truth-or-Dare

https://arizerner.com/posts/veil-of-ignorance/
1•surprisetalk•29m ago•0 comments

Coding Trance Music from Scratch (again) [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iu5rnQkfO6M
3•chris_wot•29m ago•2 comments
Open in hackernews

All Your Coworkers Are Probabilistic Too

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

Comments

exagolo•2h ago
When people complain about large language models, I often feel like they're complaining about their coworkers without realizing it...
whobre•2h ago
At least my coworkers usually don’t hallucinate.
illuminator83•1h 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•1h 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•44m 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•53m ago
It’s different. People don’t just invent random API that doesn’t exist. LLM does that all the time.
illuminator83•39m 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•34m ago
Again with people it is a rare occurrence. LLM does that regularly. I just can’t believe anything it says