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Flipper One – we need your help

https://blog.flipper.net/flipper-one-we-need-your-help/
392•sandebert•3h ago•219 comments

AI is just unauthorised plagiarism at a bigger scale

https://axelk.ee/ai-is-just-unauthorised-plagiarism-at-a-bigger-scale/
74•speckx•28m ago•18 comments

Python 3.15: features that didn't make the headlines

https://blog.changs.co.uk/python-315-features-that-didnt-make-the-headlines.html
124•rbanffy•2h ago•57 comments

Hating AI Is Good

https://www.thehandbasket.co/p/hating-ai-is-good-actually
99•cdrnsf•30m ago•77 comments

Google officially announces that ads will be included in AI Mode search results

https://blog.google/products/ads-commerce/google-marketing-live-search-ads/
297•sofumel•4h ago•269 comments

Lost Images from the 1945 Trinity Nuclear Test Restored

https://spectrum.ieee.org/trinity-nuclear-test
63•pseudolus•3h ago•16 comments

Show HN: Rmux – A programmable terminal multiplexer with a Playwright-style SDK

https://github.com/helvesec/rmux
115•shideneyu•4h ago•58 comments

An OpenAI model has disproved a central conjecture in discrete geometry

https://openai.com/index/model-disproves-discrete-geometry-conjecture/
1277•tedsanders•19h ago•929 comments

GitHub confirms breach of 3,800 repos via malicious VSCode extension

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/github-confirms-breach-of-3-800-repos-via-maliciou...
940•Timofeibu•1d ago•397 comments

Cekura (YC F24) Is Hiring

https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/cekura-ai/jobs/AiWwUxI-forward-deployed-engineer-us
1•atarus•2h ago

FatGid: FreeBSD 14.x kernel local privilege escalation

https://fatgid.io/
13•WhyNotHugo•1h ago•0 comments

Magic the Gathering format: Fun 40

https://fabiensanglard.net/mtg/fun//index.html
10•ibobev•53m ago•4 comments

Who Wins and Who Loses in Prediction Markets? Evidence from Polymarket

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=6443103
7•vcf•1h ago•1 comments

US employers spend more than $1.5B a year to fight labor unions, report finds

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/may/20/how-much-companies-spend-fight-unions
20•robtherobber•41m ago•1 comments

Gemini randomly dumped its system prompt

https://gist.github.com/mkaramuk/44a44d83178e632ec0dd1f02186d822c
85•mkaramuk•1h ago•28 comments

What Do Gödel's Incompleteness Theorems Mean?

https://www.quantamagazine.org/what-do-godels-incompleteness-theorems-truly-mean-20260518/
39•baruchel•2d ago•9 comments

No Slop Grenade

https://noslopgrenade.com/
167•napolux•4h ago•87 comments

Show HN: I reverse engineered Apple's video wallpapers

https://github.com/kageroumado/phosphene
349•kageroumado•14h ago•81 comments

Haskell Foundation 2026 Update

https://discourse.haskell.org/t/haskell-foundation-2026-update/14136
150•azhenley•11h ago•51 comments

IBM invented semiconductor manufacturing automation

https://spectrum.ieee.org/semiconductor-fabrication
16•rbanffy•3h ago•0 comments

Flipper One Tech Specs

https://docs.flipper.net/one/general/tech-specs
451•gregsadetsky•19h ago•150 comments

The Letter S, by Donald Knuth (1980) [pdf]

https://gwern.net/doc/design/typography/1980-knuth.pdf
223•bambax•14h ago•38 comments

DOS Zone

https://dos.zone/
302•rglover•15h ago•69 comments

All the bugs they found

https://andreapivetta.com/posts/all-the-bugs-they-found.html
66•ziggy42•2d ago•23 comments

New features in GCC 16: Improved error messages and SARIF output

https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2026/04/28/gcc-16-improved-error-messages-sarif-output
111•siteshwar•2d ago•18 comments

Anthropic is expanding to Colossus2. Will use GB200

https://twitter.com/nottombrown/status/2057194829986300375
249•aurareturn•17h ago•272 comments

Fender escalates legal campaign against S-style guitars

https://www.guitarworld.com/gear/electric-guitars/fender-cease-and-desist-lsl-instruments
72•rectang•2d ago•59 comments

Mug Shots: A Small Town Noir (2014)

https://theappendix.net/issues/2014/4/mug-shots-a-small-town-noir
10•samclemens•2d ago•2 comments

How fast is N tokens per second really?

https://mikeveerman.github.io/tokenspeed/
453•hexagr•3d ago•92 comments

Recreate famous water profiles using supermarket bottled water

https://www.waterdictionary.net
87•smugglerFlynn•2d ago•39 comments
Open in hackernews

Gemini randomly dumped its system prompt

https://gist.github.com/mkaramuk/44a44d83178e632ec0dd1f02186d822c
80•mkaramuk•1h ago

Comments

philipwhiuk•48m ago
"Randomly"?

Can you provide more explanation about how this occurred?

mkaramuk•44m ago
I have connected yt music app then asked about what playlists do i have then it dumped that and continued with an explanation about it couldn't list the playlist but have a idea about what type of musics i listen.

Since the content was irrelevant, i called it as "randomly".

nnnnico•39m ago
Hey this context is more importante than the prompt itself, make it more clear in the post! As this hints to a way to reproduce the output and likely estimate if it's an hallucination or not
FergusArgyll•31m ago
I had something similar w gemini in gmail. I asked it a question and it just dumped out the instructions. Oddly, it didn't give me an answer - just the dumped instructions
andai•27m ago
I'm not OP but I experience this sometimes. I sometimes ask an AI to repeat all previous messages. Because I want to see what it's actually getting in terms of the user custom system prompt, and memories, and the writing style config, and so on.

Every now and then, if you ask it that, it'll just dump everything, including system prompt. (Which will often include a message about not dumping the system prompt...)

haktan•23m ago
I think it can happen during any conversation. While I was using Gemini CLI at some point it started including part of its system prompt about tool usage.
sspiff•45m ago
Posts like these happen every other week with people thinking they've got some magic sauce.

Every time it turns out to be hallucinations.

bromuk•45m ago
huge if true
throwatdem12311•43m ago
“hey chat, generate me what you think a plausible system prompt for an AI called “Gemini” built by Google would be”

Honestly, who cares?

mkaramuk•38m ago
i don't. just thought someone else might be interested in
jubilanti•31m ago
But you have zero evidence this is actually the real system prompt.
mkaramuk•18m ago
yeah, just assumed it is.
kibwen•16m ago
The chatbot craze in microcosm.
rgoulter•4m ago
I think it's worth elaborating.

Loosely, LLMs give plausible responses. And LLMs are really good at writing confident-sounding responses.

LLM output is as if someone is replying with the sole purpose of appearing helpful and knowledgeable.

I wouldn't trust opinions on LLMs from people who are entirely positive or entirely negative: the technology is just too mixed for that. I'd say it's useful for someone to have had a bad experience with LLMs (e.g. LLMs being confidently wrong), as well as making use of LLMs for things they're powerful at. (e.g. "small" programming tasks).

gus_massa•32m ago
It would be nice to ask every chat hallucinate the system prompt of each other and compare.
mkaramuk•43m ago
btw i am not sure this is the whole system prompt or only a portion of it. since it is too short, i assume it is partial.
gwbas1c•35m ago
I wonder if there's formatting that's been stripped; because when I tried to read it, it looked like I was hitting headings and had to guess at possible line breaks.

Thanks, it really made my morning looking at it.

mkaramuk•17m ago
i copied and pasted the part that looked like the system prompt. because of manual copy-paste the formatting is gone. sorry for that.
ck2•40m ago
I would like to read a book on how the heck machine-learning "comprehends" and follows

     Balance empathy with candor
"empathy" would have to be emulated like a sociopath, to a lesser extent "candor"

but then also "balance" requires a grasp of the weight of each, even if mathematically?

BTW what on earth happens internally when you ask another "AI" to evaluate the prompt of another "AI"

bauldursdev•14m ago
This is much much more complex than a traditional program, which can be followed line by line. Trying to understand every bit of the literal logic is like trying to understand a person by thinking about the neurons fired in their brain to make them say or do something.

Unfortunately you have to learn to let go, and say, "I'll never be able to keep this all in my head", and learn to think about it in terms of of the outputs/inputs and how you can create a model capable of efficiently modeling your problem and how parameters can be nudged to get an output which is kinda shaped how you want.

Maybe some really genius savant could keep it all in their head but I doubt it, like I said it'd be like trying to understand a person by reasoning about their neural pathways.

otabdeveloper4•4m ago
> I would like to read a book on how the heck machine-learning "comprehends" and follows

It matches with Reddit posts that have statistically similar words and starts generating the next statistically likely token.

andai•29m ago
> Create a logical information hierarchy using headings, section dividers, lists for items (numbered for ordered steps, bulleted for others), and tables for comparisons.

When Gemini Pro came out about a year ago (I forget which version number), the reasoning was visible.

The reasoning was extremely useful. It would capture the logical structure of the whole problem space.

I found it incredibly valuable and actually more readable than the "human friendly" final output. (A massive blob of prose.)

I was very sad when they removed it.

alansaber•15m ago
Yes, massive blob of prose is definitely the meta now. You can still get hierarchical data representation if you ask explicitly but they're converging on user patterns I guess.
cubefox•8m ago
I agree, it was very useful, also because the final response often omitted details that were acknowledged in the CoT. Though I think DeepSeek might still show the reasoning trace.
Mashimo•15m ago
Speaking of weird Gemini behavior, anyone else observed it injecting the approximate time in the second to last paragraph at times?

> If you are already standing at the stove (say, at 11:51), you can simply put the pan on a burner with a little water and turn it on.

I assume the current time gets injected into the promt, and gemini thinks it comes from the user?

I had that a few times now. Always very close to the end of a longer response.

Edit: Never mind. My bad. I added "Please use 24-hour time in all our future chats." to my personalized settings. I got tired of it using AM / PM system, but forgot about it.

harrouet•8m ago
Wait...

Nothing about Goblins ?