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Mind Your Tone: Investigating How Prompt Politeness Affects LLM Accuracy

https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.04950
1•CGMthrowaway•11h ago

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CGMthrowaway•11h ago
Sergey Brin: "We don’t circulate this too much in the AI community… but all models tend to do better if you threaten them - with physical violence. People feel weird about it, so we don't talk about it ... Historically, you just say, ‘I’m going to kidnap you if you don’t blah blah blah.’"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fn9CpEy5i2s

Some first thoughts about live immersive basketball

https://sixcolors.com/post/2026/01/some-first-thoughts-about-live-immersive-basketball/
1•coloneltcb•5m ago•0 comments

Where's the $100k iPhone?

https://boydkane.com/essays/100k-iphone
1•zdw•10m ago•0 comments

MIT Non-AI License

1•dumindunuwan•11m ago•1 comments

Show HN: Understand the Picture of the Day

https://picture.learntosolveit.com
1•orsenthil•11m ago•0 comments

Haraltd – A cross-platform Bluetooth daemon with a JSON-based RPC

https://github.com/bluetuith-org/haraltd
1•darkhz•12m ago•0 comments

The Stick in the Stream

https://randsinrepose.com/archives/the-stick-in-the-stream/
1•zdw•14m ago•0 comments

MAKERphone 2: first modular DIY phone, no soldering

https://circuitmess.com/products/makerphone-2-0
1•nateb2022•14m ago•0 comments

Sodium-ion battery cells near lithium-ion cost parity, set to get cheaper

https://www.ess-news.com/2026/01/09/sodium-ion-battery-cells-already-near-lithium-ion-cost-parity...
1•toomuchtodo•14m ago•1 comments

OpenAI to Buy Pinterest? Strategic Analysis

https://nekuda.substack.com/p/openai-to-buy-pinterest-heres-what
1•gmays•16m ago•0 comments

Vajra BM25 is a fast BM25 implementation in Python

https://twitter.com/aiexplorations/status/2009846407881212136
1•aiexplorations•19m ago•1 comments

Show HN: A website to save moments that remind you of someone

https://thisremindedme.com/
1•Winggo•19m ago•0 comments

Google and chatbot startup Character move to settle teen suicide lawsuits

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2026/01/07/google-character-settle-lawsuits-suicide/
1•1vuio0pswjnm7•22m ago•0 comments

Agent skills: what can go wrong?

https://github.com/pors/skill-audit
1•pors•22m ago•0 comments

You probably don't need Oh My Zsh

https://rushter.com/blog/zsh-shell/
10•fla•23m ago•2 comments

Fix Your Robots.txt or Your Site Disappears from Google

https://www.alanwsmith.com/en/37/wa/jz/s1/
2•qingcharles•24m ago•1 comments

Show HN: VoiceBrainDump – voice-first idea capture, single HTML file, offline

https://voicebraindump.app/
1•digi_wares•27m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Focus timer that turns hours into assets

https://seton.run/
1•keplerjst•32m ago•0 comments

Kazakhstan Launches First Institute of Transport Sciences and Technologies

https://qazinform.com/news/kazakhstan-launches-first-institute-of-transport-sciences-and-technolo...
1•Bolat14•36m ago•0 comments

AI Flatters with Fidelity

https://lucent.substack.com/p/ai-flatters-with-fidelity
2•surprisetalk•37m ago•0 comments

Lidify: Self-hosted, on-demand audio streaming platform like Spotify

https://github.com/Chevron7Locked/lidify
1•thunderbong•40m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Rank up your local business on Google Maps

https://www.mapclimb.com/
3•bagusfarisa•40m ago•0 comments

The world has too much oil – Will companies want Venezuela's?

https://www.npr.org/2026/01/07/nx-s1-5668491/venezuela-oil-global-markets
4•geox•46m ago•0 comments

Elon Musk's Grok Has Friends in High Places: US Patent Office chief AI officer

https://jacobin.com/2026/01/grok-hayes-artificial-intelligence-deepfakes
2•wahnfrieden•47m ago•0 comments

Checks and Balances Are Dead

https://rall.com/2026/01/08/checks-and-balances-are-dead
6•SanjayMehta•48m ago•0 comments

M2.1: Multilingual and Multi-Task Coding with Strong Generalization

https://www.minimaxi.com/news/m21-multilingual-and-multi-task-coding-with-strong-general
1•gmays•50m ago•0 comments

Character.ai and Google agree to settle lawsuits over teen suicides

https://www.ft.com/content/ac518567-d901-4fae-86a3-eab54b12a81d
1•1vuio0pswjnm7•1h ago•0 comments

Demystifying Evals for AI Agents

https://www.anthropic.com/engineering/demystifying-evals-for-ai-agents
1•vinhnx•1h ago•0 comments

Best Practices for Coding with Agents

https://cursor.com/blog/agent-best-practices
1•vinhnx•1h ago•1 comments

Microsoft revealed as company behind controversial data center proposal in MI

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/01/07/microsoft-behind-controversial-data-center-in-michigan-township.html
4•1vuio0pswjnm7•1h ago•0 comments

A man powers his home for 8 years using 1,000 recycled laptop batteries

https://scienceclock.com/a-man-powers-his-home-for-8-years-using-1000-recycled-laptop-batteries/
3•ashishgupta2209•1h ago•1 comments