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Tell HN: Fable guardrails trigger on random questions
I have Fable guardrails trigger on seemingly innocuous questions. Two examples: a) What is Echium b)I want you to deep dive on coffee and it’s effect on health, cognition and longevity. The output should be something that tells you areas where the evidence is strong and where it is weak but plausible and where there is no strong evidence. Does anyone know why this happens? I have many such examples where it will randomly switch models.
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48878757
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Show HN: Rules-free solo-only client for the Paperback tabletop game
My past couple of weeks were spent writing an app with which to play the word-spelling tabletop game Paperback in the browser.
Tim Fowers, creator and publisher of the game, has given me permission to post my homemade electronic copy of the game (initially built so that i could print-and-play a copy with "US-Mini" size cards), and recently sent me (much to my surprise) the publisher's official graphical assets and an invitation to use them in this little side-project(!!!).
The version housed at that link has a known bug or two (there's one too many 7-cent W's, for one thing) but it's otherwise believed to be usable for its intended purpose: allowing an experienced Paperback player to sit and play solo mode without the app interfering rules- or dictionary-wise. (My only real fuss about their official app is the locked dictionary. It does not allow the word "pawn", nor a wide range of other perfectly viable words. Secondarily, i'd like to be able to customize the game more and remove all of those annoying "Q" cards (who buys "Q" cards?!?!?).)
Currently resetting the game requires reloading the page, which generates a ready-to-run game setup. See the top of that page for URL arguments which change various options (if you want huge "US Standard"-sized cards on a 32-inch 4k screen, pass the "big" URL option). UI widgets for doing that are on the near-term TODO list. It does not currently support saving/loading, but that's underway (and very closely tied to the game state reset).
It's in active development and i'm particularly interested in squeezing the UI down to fit more comfortably on a 10-inch table (where it's usable but a tiny bit fidgety due to scrolling). It's way, way too big for phones, though.
This is part of a larger project consolidating 6 or 8 years' worth of disparate card-generation tools for tabletop games, and this app is the first "end user" app (as opposed to maintainer apps) written for that toolkit. It may well be the only app i've written, in 30-odd years, which is not entirely dog-ugly.
Happy Spelling!
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48878745
Points: 1
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AI found a Linux root bug that was missed for 15 years
Article URL: https://www.wired.com/story/security-news-this-week-ai-found-a-root-bug-in-linux-that-everyone-missed-for-15-years/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48878713
Points: 1
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The ancient Chinese way to cool homes (2023)
Article URL: https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20230712-how-ancient-skywells-are-keeping-chinese-homes-cool
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48878700
Points: 2
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DeepSeek developing its own AI chip, sources say
Article URL: https://www.reuters.com/world/china/chinas-deepseek-developing-its-own-ai-chip-sources-say-2026-07-07/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48878697
Points: 2
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Show HN: Mindwalk – Replay coding-agent sessions on a 3D map of your codebase
Article URL: https://github.com/cosmtrek/mindwalk
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48878682
Points: 1
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An open letter to the Medici of intelligence
Article URL: https://www.sov.vc/blog/the-next-frontier-sovereignty
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48878679
Points: 1
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What Happens Inside DynamoDB When You Hit 3000 RCU on a Single Partition Key
Vinod Khosla to Buy Seattle Seahawks for $9.6B
Article URL: https://www.sportico.com/business/team-sales/2026/seattle-seahawks-sale-vinod-khosla-owner-billions-1234938616/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48878666
Points: 2
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Ask HN: How do you manage content for React-based websites?
I've been exploring modern publishing workflows for React applications.
Curious how others solve:
- content management - editors - frontend separation - deployment
What is your current stack?
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48878654
Points: 1
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Who cleans up after the vibe-coding party?
Article URL: https://www.ft.com/content/cec8df9e-b43b-4cd1-8feb-c07e804e8d33
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48878641
Points: 2
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Boeing 737 window dislodged, passenger partially sucked out
Article URL: https://www.reuters.com/business/ryanair-plane-makes-emergency-landing-greece-after-window-dislodged-2026-07-10/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48878606
Points: 2
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BSD Make Extravaganza
Article URL: https://github.com/b-aaz/bmake-extravaganza
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48878601
Points: 1
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Where Tomorrow's Engineers Come From, Part 2: The Apprenticeship Problem
Article URL: https://www.abovethertl.com/p/where-tomorrows-engineers-come-from-b71
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48878584
Points: 2
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How Container Networking Works: Building a Bridge Network from Scratch
Article URL: https://labs.iximiuz.com/tutorials/container-networking-from-scratch
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48878568
Points: 1
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Colleges have an education problem (2025)
Article URL: https://12gramsofcarbon.com/p/colleges-have-an-education-problem
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48878536
Points: 2
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Show HN: Skiff, a frontier isochrone tuning simulation for sailboats
Article URL: https://github.com/deepbluedynamics/skiff
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48878506
Points: 4
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Alphaville LLC initiates coverage of SpaceX with Buy recommendation
Article URL: https://www.ft.com/content/1344d22b-ee64-488d-bd02-170fe0c9de2b
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48878501
Points: 2
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Taste
Article URL: https://katdispatch.bearblog.dev/on-taste/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48878487
Points: 2
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Cpp-Go-Zig-Odin: A series of small programs/tasks to compare
Article URL: https://github.com/phillvancejr/Cpp-Go-Zig-Odin
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48878482
Points: 1
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