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Ask HN: Any AWS billing issues known? Amazon forecast of 3 billion dollars

1•mstolpm•1m ago•0 comments

How the Black Death shaped human evolution

https://www.nih.gov/news-events/nih-research-matters/how-black-death-shaped-human-evolution
1•thunderbong•1m ago•0 comments

Inaccurate Estimated Billing Data (AWS)

https://health.aws.amazon.com/health/status?nonce=ae879
1•nocam•2m ago•1 comments

Tesla driver in fatal Texas crash pressed accelerator 100%, NTSB confirms

https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/15/tesla-driver-in-fatal-texas-crash-pressed-accelerator-100-ntsb-...
1•gsky•5m ago•0 comments

But what is the Central Limit Theorem?(2023) 3B1B [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zeJD6dqJ5lo
1•o4c•7m ago•0 comments

Show HN: InteractInk – Anonymous Text Board

https://interactink.vercel.app/interactink.html
1•squeezes•7m ago•1 comments

China's EV pirate ship is coming for Western carmakers

https://www.politico.eu/article/china-ev-pirate-ship-is-coming-for-western-carmakers-byd/
1•ironyman•9m ago•0 comments

Just got an AWS billing alert projecting my monthly cost at $140B

5•mirzap•11m ago•3 comments

Show HN: EasyDocs – generate OpenAPI docs from real traffic

https://github.com/RubenGlez/easydocs
1•rubenglez•12m ago•0 comments

TSMC Expands US Semiconductor Investment to $265B

https://www.hpcwire.com/off-the-wire/tsmc-expands-us-semiconductor-investment-to-265b/
1•rbanffy•12m ago•0 comments

High temperatures put French gas plant at risk of outage

https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/high-temperatures-shut-french-gas-plant-adding-heat-relat...
1•leonidasrup•14m ago•0 comments

Mass Surveillance Wasn't an Accident

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mvsgrhS5bV8
4•soupspaces•19m ago•0 comments

US postgraduate student visas will be limited to 4 years

https://www.dhs.gov/news/2026/07/16/trump-administration-issues-final-rule-end-foreign-student-vi...
1•macleginn•23m ago•2 comments

Ask HN: What are you working on(2026)?

2•adithyaharish•25m ago•0 comments

Mario Kart Wii recompiled for PC using AI, with 4K potential and uncapped FPS

https://www.tomshardware.com/video-games/retro-gaming/mario-kart-wii-recompiled-for-pc-using-ai-w...
3•gloxkiqcza•29m ago•0 comments

Is the AI Boom over for Kospi and Asian Tech Stocks?

https://www.disruptionbanking.com/2026/07/17/is-the-ai-boom-over-for-kospi-and-asian-tech-stocks/
1•technewssss•30m ago•0 comments

Time-Series Language Models for Reasoning over Multivariate Data at Scale (ICML)

https://www.aioniclabs.ai/research/opentslm
9•rjakob•31m ago•6 comments

Company Blew $500M on Claude Because Nobody Set a Spending Limit

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3•technewssss•31m ago•0 comments

The Self-Driving Company

https://twitter.com/amasad/status/2077802290304684404
1•tosh•33m ago•0 comments

How OpenAI's Sol Learned Design Taste

https://notes.designarena.ai/how-openais-sol-finally-learned-design-taste/
1•tomduncalf•34m ago•1 comments

Turn an existing CV into a personal website in under a minute

https://self.cv/en/blog/why-we-built-self
1•javier_yc_new•37m ago•1 comments

AI can now control Reaper DAW

https://github.com/xDarkzx/Reaper-MCP/tree/main/reaper_mcp/tools
3•DanHodgetts•40m ago•1 comments

Show HN: Senbonzakura – remove the safety guardrails from open AI models

https://github.com/elementmerc/senbonzakura
2•ElementMerc•40m ago•0 comments

M-PESA cornered the market in Kenya (2024)

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2•zeristor•41m ago•0 comments

Using AI to build your own software

https://lemire.me/blog/2026/07/16/using-ai-to-build-your-own-software/
1•ingve•43m ago•0 comments

Show HN: I applied for a position at PostHog, so I built a game

https://www.alexis-fournier.com/hognarok/
1•alxfrnr•44m ago•1 comments

Principia Artificialis Open mathematical research program onthe theory of AI

https://github.com/holland202/Principia-Artificialis
1•badatchess•44m ago•0 comments

SpaceX scrubs Starship launch after some of its engines didn't start

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5•rbanffy•48m ago•0 comments

Tell HN: AWS said I was projected to spend $5B this month on my personal account

4•throwaway_5753•50m ago•1 comments

Which IELTS writing scorer is more accurate? A test on 73 official responses

https://ieltswritingchecker.org/blog/ielts-writing-checker-accuracy-study
1•iamin•52m ago•0 comments
Open in hackernews

Ask HN: Do you say please and thank you to your LLMs?

6•healthworker•1h ago
This is an orthogonal question to whether LLMs have qualia (almost certainly no) and to the question of whether any hypothetical qualia would be in any way correlated with word choice (also almost certainly no), as opposed to mechanistic factors such as runtime and memory access patterns.

Comments

arnab777•1h ago
sometimes
davydm•1h ago
I used to, but it just means an extra round of conversation, so I stopped.
codesections•52m ago
I don't think I've ever spent a whole round on it. More typically

> please do $x

>> $x

> thanks. Now do $y

If I have ever spent a whole turn on something that could be called a thank you is was something like "the way you answer that [in specific way] was very helpful – thanks. Can you please remember to raise that sort of point in the future?" So still not an extra round

codesections•1h ago
I do. I justify the action via mechanical / prompting logic (my instructions are to treat me as an informed peer and my understanding is that keeping the whole conversation in "two peers talking" register makes it easier for the LLM to maintain that mode).

But, more honestly, it's just a social habit and saving keystrokes isn't worth training myself out of it.

probst•54m ago
Exactly, or rather, the social habit part I agree a 100% with. I don't want to train myself out of being a polite human being, just to save some keystrokes.
estetlinus•1h ago
Yup. When it does me dirty, I let it know my entire emotional spectrum.
hahahaa•59m ago
I do a pls sometimes.
probst•56m ago
I certainly say please and thank you. Whether or not it makes a difference to the LLM, it makes a difference to me. I want to retain some humanity and politeness in my own behavior, even if I spend an inordinate amount of time communicating with, instructing, and debating a non-sentient piece of code.
iamin•46m ago
when I use chinese which is my first language, no, never. when I use english, yes, not every time, but about 50% chance.
jake_and_fatman•27m ago
All the time. Sometimes it does an absolutely bang-up job.
lyfeninja•23m ago
I do, just in case the robots take over :p