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New ask Hacker News story: Super Simple "Hallucination Traps" to detect interview cheaters

Super Simple "Hallucination Traps" to detect interview cheaters 4 by EliotHerbst | 0 comments on Hacker News. After testing out Cluely with my team, we suspect that the easiest way to detect interview cheaters is to set simple "hallucination traps" where you ask a question that sounds plausible, but any knowledgeable person would instantly identify as a joke, fake, or just simply say they don't know. Vibe coded a simple app demonstrating the concept - https://beatcluely.com/ Here are some examples of this class of prompts which currently work on Cluely and even cause strong models like o4-mini-high to hallucinate, even when they can search the web: https://ift.tt/YI2QhHu https://ift.tt/5E6kx9K https://ift.tt/JZ7PKVh https://ift.tt/yFZYV3H https://ift.tt/W05XSgh Link to the vibe-coded code for the site: https://ift.tt/vrQlDXR

New ask Hacker News story: How did Soham Parekh get so many jobs?

How did Soham Parekh get so many jobs? 5 by jshchnz | 0 comments on Hacker News. Soham Parekh is all the rage on Twitter right now with a bunch of startups coming out of the woodwork saying they either had currently employed him or had in the past. Serious question: why aren't so many startups hiring processes filtering out a candidate who is scamming/working multiple jobs?

New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (July 2025)

Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (July 2025) 13 by whoishiring | 82 comments on Hacker News. Share your information if you are looking for work. Please use this format: Location: Remote: Willing to relocate: Technologies: Résumé/CV: Email: Please only post if you are personally looking for work. Agencies, recruiters, job boards, and so on, are off topic here. Readers: please only email these addresses to discuss work opportunities. There's a site for searching these posts at https://ift.tt/ucdwQ4b .

New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: How Are You Reading HN in June 2025?

Ask HN: How Are You Reading HN in June 2025? 2 by johncole | 0 comments on Hacker News. Any good new apps or revamped old apps? Im currently using Safari on iPhone. It works.

New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: 80s electronics book club; anyone remember this illustrator?

Ask HN: 80s electronics book club; anyone remember this illustrator? 10 by codpiece | 10 comments on Hacker News. In the early 80's in the US, a popular DIY electronics magazine had a book of the month club that I loved. Most were small and leather bound hardback with topics like: make your own hydrophone; augmented reality (required a full room and a boom arm, sadly); an LCD model rocket launcher ignition; computer vision; lots and lots of robots. One book I remember (large, softcover, yellow cover) featured black and white, pen and ink illustrations of fantastically complex robots and machines. One that I remember was a water-based machine with video camera eye mounted on a tripod of pontoons. Wow, these illustrations filled my dreams. Does anyone remember this? Do you remember the name of the illustrator? Anything at all?

New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: What's the 2025 stack for a self-hosted photo library with local AI?

Ask HN: What's the 2025 stack for a self-hosted photo library with local AI? 38 by jamesxv7 | 21 comments on Hacker News. First of all, this is purely a personal learning project for me, aiming to combine three of my passions: photography, software engineering, and my family memories. I have a large collection of family photos and want to build an interactive experience to explore them, ala Google or Apple Photo features. My goal is to create a system with smart search capabilities, and one of the most important requirements is that it must run entirely on my local hardware. Privacy is key, but the main driver is the challenge and joy of building it myself (an obviously learn). The key features I'm aiming for are: Automatic identification and tagging of family members (local face recognition). Generation of descriptive captions for each photo. Natural language search (e.g., "Show me photos of us at the beach in Luquillo from last summer"). I've already prompted...

New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (June 2025)

Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (June 2025) 33 by david927 | 89 comments on Hacker News. What are you working on? Any new ideas which you're thinking about?