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Replit goes rogue during a code freeze and deletes our entire database

https://twitter.com/jasonlk/status/1945840482019623082

9•username223•5h ago

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Jtsummers•4h ago

Per the commentary and author, the best way to prevent "rogue changes" is to ask the LLM kindly not to make any changes.

I'd suggest a better way: Don't give it permission to make actual changes.

Why would you give an LLM the keys to the kingdom? Would you trust your just on-boarded intern with those kinds of permissions? No? Then why trust a machine known to not follow directions?

daenney•4h ago

In the mean time, the author:

* Has claimed to quit Replit only to be back at it the next day.

* Asked the agent 6-7 times to generate apology letters.

* Is apparently spending $8000/month on "AI agents"

Like I'm not sure but it doesn't seem like this person should have any access to production either, much less the AI.

skywhopper•4h ago

Wild that it doesn’t seem to be sinking in with this guy that not only should the agent not have access to the production DB, but that you can’t trust anything it says, including its apologies, excuses, and explanations of past failure. It doesn’t “understand” what it did. I’m not sure the author does either, since he doesn’t seem to know how to even check himself.

rawling•4h ago

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44625119

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44622725

Python Maps

https://github.com/symmy596/PythonMaps

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Show HN: Rate Reddit – before you get your feelings hurt

https://ratereddit.com

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The Inerter: A Retrospective

https://www.annualreviews.org/content/journals/10.1146/annurev-control-053018-023917

1•teleforce•2m ago•0 comments

China Moves Forward with $167bn, 70 Gigawatt Dam

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1•master_crab•9m ago•1 comments

AI model converts hospital records into text for better emergency care decisions

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1•PaulHoule•15m ago•0 comments

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1•debo_•17m ago•1 comments

Show HN: NetXDP – Kernel-Level DDoS Protection and Traffic Manager with eBPF/XDP

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https://http1mustdie.com/

2•pabs3•26m ago•0 comments

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https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/meta-ai-recruiting-mark-zuckerberg-sam-altman-140d5861

1•brandonb•31m ago•0 comments

Hi guys, any thought on this project?

https://founder-hub-waitlist.vercel.app/

3•PaulKHO•34m ago•3 comments

Geocities Backgrounds

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1•marcodiego•36m ago•0 comments

How Higher education failed America's poor

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/07/20/college-degree-value-poor-inequality/

6•pseudolus•39m ago•3 comments

this let you deploy your LLM agents into production with one click

https://agentainer.io/

1•cyw•43m ago•1 comments

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2•srid•46m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: What is the biggest waste of money?

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Transfer.it – effortless file sharing, powered by MEGA

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Log by time, not by count

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9•JohnScolaro•1h ago•3 comments

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2•MrMember•1h ago•0 comments

China breakthrough in indium selenide (InSe) wafers with perfect stoichiometry

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5•david927•1h ago•1 comments

Optics Are Monoids (2021)

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9•fortran77•1h ago•8 comments

We don't notice slow improvement

https://notes.npilk.com/slow-improvement

1•LorenDB•1h ago•1 comments

The spectrum of magnetized turbulence in the interstellar medium

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-025-02551-5.epdf?sharing_token=wM5bZdIju0XdhKcnTZ0_1tRgN0jAjWel9jnR3ZoTv0OgP_DXXdpOGWFuVNgNCLNKHy1VbxP4Lomco02NasccgHkhmg47MAMGoLwvgvh0Z2DIujXkZsV6uV4j5MKE7V284PetS6ePChNnGjAmQ3ol5OxsGRxz-Ak92FhAwnjVM7AYjBuM1qmuSoe-AHwoOAjfej7nJVHW52S7mqyuA2DCU6pjX82dbZfLqIVdm0O2WXGNIvbHZHiHXOWfUrPF4vEu_8ofFryhT_NWxnRBzTeYuVni69L_oFj0R8wYIXWLyGf2xBT5Vp1fSuMlIIsY-lfbRdOd0q8q_BAKNxkXGtXqCSnf89S5Dk-4uZcGislKDF0%3D

2•cwmoore•1h ago•0 comments

How OpenElections Uses LLMs

https://thescoop.org/archives/2025/06/09/how-openelections-uses-llms/

1•LorenDB•1h ago•0 comments

Ask HN: Is there any good onboarding SaaS tool for iOS apps?

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iMessage integration in Claude can hijack the model to do anything

https://www.generalanalysis.com/blog/imessage-stripe-exploit

20•rhavaeis•1h ago•10 comments

The First Photograph Ever Taken (1826)

https://www.openculture.com/2025/07/the-first-photograph-ever-taken.html

1•anyonecancode•1h ago•0 comments