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Nestlé couldn't crack Japan's coffee market.Then they hired a child psychologist

https://twitter.com/BigBrainMkting/status/2019792335509541220

1•rmason•1m ago•0 comments

Notes for February 2-7

https://taoofmac.com/space/notes/2026/02/07/2000

2•rcarmo•2m ago•0 comments

Study confirms experience beats youthful enthusiasm

https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/07/boomers_vs_zoomers_workplace/

1•Willingham•9m ago•0 comments

The Big Hunger by Walter J Miller, Jr. (1952)

https://lauriepenny.substack.com/p/the-big-hunger

1•shervinafshar•11m ago•0 comments

The Genus Amanita

https://www.mushroomexpert.com/amanita.html

1•rolph•15m ago•0 comments

We have broken SHA-1 in practice

https://shattered.io/

2•mooreds•16m ago•1 comments

Ask HN: Was my first management job bad, or is this what management is like?

1•Buttons840•17m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: How to Reduce Time Spent Crimping?

1•pinkmuffinere•18m ago•0 comments

KV Cache Transform Coding for Compact Storage in LLM Inference

https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.01815

1•walterbell•23m ago•0 comments

A quantitative, multimodal wearable bioelectronic device for stress assessment

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-67747-9

1•PaulHoule•25m ago•0 comments

Why Big Tech Is Throwing Cash into India in Quest for AI Supremacy

https://www.wsj.com/world/india/why-big-tech-is-throwing-cash-into-india-in-quest-for-ai-supremac...

1•saikatsg•25m ago•0 comments

How to shoot yourself in the foot – 2026 edition

https://github.com/aweussom/HowToShootYourselfInTheFoot

1•aweussom•25m ago•0 comments

Eight More Months of Agents

https://crawshaw.io/blog/eight-more-months-of-agents

3•archb•27m ago•0 comments

From Human Thought to Machine Coordination

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-digital-self/202602/from-human-thought-to-machine-coo...

1•walterbell•28m ago•0 comments

The new X API pricing must be a joke

https://developer.x.com/

1•danver0•29m ago•0 comments

Show HN: RMA Dashboard fast SAST results for monorepos (SARIF and triage)

https://rma-dashboard.bukhari-kibuka7.workers.dev/

1•bumahkib7•29m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Source code graphRAG for Java/Kotlin development based on jQAssistant

https://github.com/2015xli/jqassistant-graph-rag

1•artigent•34m ago•0 comments

Python Only Has One Real Competitor

https://mccue.dev/pages/2-6-26-python-competitor

4•dragandj•35m ago•0 comments

Tmux to Zellij (and Back)

https://www.mauriciopoppe.com/notes/tmux-to-zellij/

1•maurizzzio•36m ago•1 comments

Ask HN: How are you using specialized agents to accelerate your work?

1•otterley•38m ago•0 comments

Passing user_id through 6 services? OTel Baggage fixes this

https://signoz.io/blog/otel-baggage/

1•pranay01•38m ago•0 comments

DavMail Pop/IMAP/SMTP/Caldav/Carddav/LDAP Exchange Gateway

https://davmail.sourceforge.net/

1•todsacerdoti•39m ago•0 comments

Visual data modelling in the browser (open source)

https://github.com/sqlmodel/sqlmodel

1•Sean766•41m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Tharos – CLI to find and autofix security bugs using local LLMs

https://github.com/chinonsochikelue/tharos

1•fluantix•42m ago•0 comments

Oddly Simple GUI Programs

https://simonsafar.com/2024/win32_lights/

1•MaximilianEmel•42m ago•0 comments

The New Playbook for Leaders [pdf]

https://www.ibli.com/IBLI%20OnePagers%20The%20Plays%20Summarized.pdf

1•mooreds•42m ago•1 comments

Interactive Unboxing of J Dilla's Donuts

https://donuts20.vercel.app

1•sngahane•44m ago•0 comments

OneCourt helps blind and low-vision fans to track Super Bowl live

https://www.dezeen.com/2026/02/06/onecourt-tactile-device-super-bowl-blind-low-vision-fans/

1•gaws•45m ago•0 comments

Rudolf Vrba

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudolf_Vrba

1•mooreds•46m ago•0 comments

Autism Incidence in Girls and Boys May Be Nearly Equal, Study Suggests

https://www.medpagetoday.com/neurology/autism/119747

1•paulpauper•47m ago•0 comments

Open in hackernews

Ask HN: How to Handle Randomness with AI?

2•dorianmariecom•1mo ago

hi,

i end up making the ai (openai) chose 20 random words, then taking a random word from those and passing it to the next call to the ai.

i also use the seed parameter but it keeps giving the same answers even with different seeds

what do you think?

thanks, dorian

Comments

PaulHoule•1mo ago

Humans are terrible at generating randomness, this is why we have coins, dice, cards, the I Ching and such. So are LLMs.

In the case of AI you generate randomness outside the AI. For instance a Python script that picks a random word out of /usr/share/dict/words; ask the AI to write the script if you want. Or call out to a tool.