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Show HN: Agent-fetch – Sandboxed HTTP client with SSRF protection for AI agents

https://github.com/Parassharmaa/agent-fetch
1•paraaz•1m ago•0 comments

Why there is no official statement from Substack about the data leak

https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/05/substack-confirms-data-breach-affecting-email-addresses-and-pho...
3•witnessme•5m ago•1 comments

Effects of Zepbound on Stool Quality

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1•aloukissas•8m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Seedance 2.0 – The Most Powerful AI Video Generator

https://seedance.ai/
1•bigbromaker•11m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: Do we need "metadata in source code" syntax that LLMs will never delete?

1•andrewstuart•17m ago•1 comments

Pentagon cutting ties w/ "woke" Harvard, ending military training & fellowships

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4•alephnerd•20m ago•1 comments

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https://cds.cern.ch/record/405662/files/PhysRev.47.777.pdf
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Kessler Syndrome Has Started [video]

https://www.tiktok.com/@cjtrowbridge/video/7602634355160206623
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Complex Heterodynes Explained

https://tomverbeure.github.io/2026/02/07/Complex-Heterodyne.html
3•hasheddan•23m ago•0 comments

EVs Are a Failed Experiment

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3•ArtemZ•35m ago•4 comments

MemAlign: Building Better LLM Judges from Human Feedback with Scalable Memory

https://www.databricks.com/blog/memalign-building-better-llm-judges-human-feedback-scalable-memory
1•superchink•36m ago•0 comments

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Actors with Tokio (2021)

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Can graph neural networks for biology realistically run on edge devices?

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1•swapinvidya•54m ago•1 comments

Deeper into the shareing of one air conditioner for 2 rooms

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Why Embedded Models Must Hallucinate: A Boundary Theory (RCC)

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1•formerOpenAI•58m ago•2 comments

A Curated List of ML System Design Case Studies

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Open Problems in Mechanistic Interpretability

https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.16496
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Vouch

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41•chwtutha•1h ago•7 comments

HRL Labs in Malibu laying off 1/3 of their workforce

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4•osnium123•1h ago•1 comments

Show HN: High-performance bidirectional list for React, React Native, and Vue

https://suhaotian.github.io/broad-infinite-list/
2•jeremy_su•1h ago•0 comments
Open in hackernews

Why Does A.I. Write Like That?

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/03/magazine/chatbot-writing-style.html
15•cainxinth•2mo ago

Comments

trescenzi•2mo ago
I wish they’d, dare I say, delved deeper into the bit about Nigerian English. My understanding is that’s where a lot of labeling happens. Now I wonder if that explains the idiosyncrasies not the size of the Nigerian English corpus online as the article suggests. If it was the latter I’d expect more “do the needful” and other Indian English idiosyncrasies.
jakubmazanec•2mo ago
https://archive.ph/ntYnt
jakubmazanec•2mo ago
> You’ll notice, for instance, that A.I.s are absolutely obsessed with ghosts. [...] It knows that good writing involves subtlety: things that are said quietly or not at all, things that are halfway present and left for the reader to draw out themselves. So to reproduce the effect, it screams at the top of its voice about how absolutely everything in sight is shadowy, subtle and quiet. Good writing is complex. A tapestry is also complex, so A.I. tends to describe everything as a kind of highly elaborate textile. Everything that isn’t a ghost is usually woven.

I like this theory.

mrandish•2mo ago
Unfortunately, TFA is yet another article promising an answer to a "Why" question it never delivers. It documents the issue with many examples and thoroughly explores the variations yet never answers why current LLMs write as they do. It mentions some ideas in passing which might be causes but provides no justification or expert input.

Meanwhile, I'm pretty sure there are LLM researchers exploring this problem not only because it's annoying but because it's also interesting. If anyone knows of papers on this topic, I'd be interested...

tim333•2mo ago
I don't know papers but I figure the main reason why it's odd is humans have a picture or idea in their heads and want the reader get the picture or get the idea. LLMs don't and just string words together so it starts reading normally and then kind of wanders off.

Like for me the first paragraph reads normally up to "whisper woven from the algorithm" but then "a construct of code. A.I.-generated writing..." is just kind of muddying the picture with excess waffle.