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Gemini now recommending products unprompted

https://old.reddit.com/r/Bard/comments/1q6p5o8/gemini_now_recommending_products_unprompted/
27•satvikpendem•1d ago

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MicKillah•1d ago
I want to say that I am surprised but that would be an outright lie.
astrange•1d ago
"Unprompted" is a funny word in the context of prompting an LLM.

It looks to me like this is "small model smell". It happened to emit a list containing a product name, so it just kept doing that.

darthnebula•21h ago
What they really need to work on is adding projects for chat organization.

Show HN: Legit, Open Source Git-Backed for AI Applications

1•jannesblobel•37s ago•0 comments

I built an AI agent that deploys a PR to production

1•amouehsan•1m ago•0 comments

Non-Traditional Profiling: "you can just put whatever you want in a jitdump"

https://www.mgaudet.ca/technical/2026/1/8/non-traditional-profiling
1•matt_d•1m ago•0 comments

Running a real consumer app on a 70B LLM at sub-cent cost per scan

https://www.cornstarch.ai/
1•rs1996•3m ago•1 comments

The Shaggs

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Shaggs
3•jethronethro•3m ago•0 comments

NBA's new AI stat measures defensive gravity

https://www.nba.com/news/intro-to-gravity-stat-nba-2025
1•cyr0dj0hn•4m ago•0 comments

Reflection-Driven Control for Trustworthy Code Agents

https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.21354
1•PaulHoule•5m ago•0 comments

I built a fake chat generator in 18 hours because the existing ones all suck

https://messagesy.xyz/
1•hristoff•5m ago•1 comments

Google Earth Engine Timelapse

https://earthengine.google.com/timelapse/
1•twalichiewicz•5m ago•0 comments

Transformative and subsistence entrepreneurs: Impacts on economic growth

https://www.nber.org/papers/w33766
1•hhs•5m ago•0 comments

The Haskell Debugger for GHC 9.14

https://discourse.haskell.org/t/the-haskell-debugger-for-ghc-9-14/13499
1•romes•6m ago•0 comments

Distributions Quote of the Fortnight – PGP

https://lwn.net/Articles/1053089/
1•shakna•7m ago•0 comments

AI Did Not Take Your Agency. You Handed It Over

https://systemic.engineering/ai-did-not-take-your-agency-you-handed-it-over/
1•wolf4earth•7m ago•0 comments

How Hackers Are Fighting Back Against ICE

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/01/how-hackers-are-fighting-back-against-ice
4•zzzeek•9m ago•0 comments

Hard Mode Veganism

https://giantmecha.substack.com/p/hard-mode-veganism
1•rafaepta•10m ago•0 comments

List of Open Problems in Sublinear Algorithms [pdf]

https://sublinear.info/files/sublinear_info_20170429.pdf
1•frozenseven•12m ago•0 comments

2 Shot by federal agents in Portland, police say

https://www.oregonlive.com/crime/2026/01/portland-police-responding-to-report-of-shooting-by-fede...
5•mickle00•14m ago•0 comments

Which programming languages are most token-efficient?

https://martinalderson.com/posts/which-programming-languages-are-most-token-efficient/
1•martinald•14m ago•0 comments

Russia Strikes Ukraine with IRBM Oreshnik Missile

https://twitter.com/osinttechnical/status/2009394085782860233
1•defly•16m ago•0 comments

Hacker News Title Patterns

https://projects.peercy.net/projects/hn-patterns/index.html
2•greenwallnorway•19m ago•1 comments

Debian GNOME team announces intent to remove GTK 2 in Debian 14

https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2026/01/msg00090.html
3•superkuh•19m ago•2 comments

Show HN: Roleplay-first chat UI for an OpenAI-compatible chat completions API

https://abliteration.ai/roleplay
1•abliterationai•21m ago•0 comments

Decentralized social media platforms unlock authentic consumer feedback

https://news.wsu.edu/press-release/2026/01/06/decentralized-social-media-platforms-unlock-authent...
2•hhs•21m ago•0 comments

iFixit: We Found the Worst Devices at CES 2026 [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cxZgILm95BU
3•josephcsible•22m ago•0 comments

Expired certificate breaks macOS Logitech apps

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/01/expired-certificate-completely-breaks-macos-logitech-apps...
5•worik•26m ago•0 comments

Microsoft is losing the AI race, Copilot stuck at 1% market share (on web)

https://www.windowslatest.com/2026/01/09/is-microsoft-losing-the-ai-race-copilot-web-is-still-stu...
3•jinxmeta•28m ago•0 comments

OpenAI API and ChatGPT are down

5•themanmaran•29m ago•0 comments

Dendrometers challenge the 'moon wood concept' [pdf]

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-023-47013-y
1•thunderbong•30m ago•0 comments

Former Google CEO plans to singlehandedly fund a Hubble telescope replacement

https://arstechnica.com/space/2026/01/eric-schmidt-will-massively-invest-in-private-telescopes-in...
4•aenean•30m ago•0 comments

More than a quarter of adults worldwide could benefit from GLP-1 medications

https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-01-quarter-adults-worldwide-benefit-glp.html
2•geox•31m ago•1 comments