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111 titles from 98 authors in the last 30 days, with 99 distinct links and 1 Show HN.

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• Show HN: Model Salt, fixing the pelican problem in LLMs by adding entropy · score 6.3

  Model Salt is an MCP server that injects external entropy into LLM prompts to break repetitive generation, using a pre-run to enumerate open decisions and random sources (atmospheric/quantum noise, drand) to select among them. It's an interesting practical take on the 'pelican problem' with solid cross-client setup automation, though it adds meaningful latency, token cost, and relies on a secondary model run.

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17. Show HN: Model Salt, fixing the pelican problem in LLMs by adding entropy
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