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Poland to probe possible links between Epstein and Russia

https://www.reuters.com/world/poland-probe-possible-links-between-epstein-russia-pm-tusk-says-202...
1•doener•1m ago•0 comments

Effectiveness of AI detection tools in identifying AI-generated articles

https://www.ijoms.com/article/S0901-5027(26)00025-1/fulltext
1•XzetaU8•7m ago•0 comments

Warsaw Circle

https://wildtopology.com/bestiary/warsaw-circle/
1•hackandthink•8m ago•0 comments

Reverse Engineering Raiders of the Lost Ark for the Atari 2600

https://github.com/joshuanwalker/Raiders2600
1•pacod•13m ago•0 comments

The AI4Agile Practitioners Report 2026

https://age-of-product.com/ai4agile-practitioners-report-2026/
1•swolpers•14m ago•0 comments

Digital Independence Day

https://di.day/
1•pabs3•18m ago•0 comments

What a bot hacking attempt looks like: SQL injections galore

https://old.reddit.com/r/vibecoding/comments/1qz3a7y/what_a_bot_hacking_attempt_looks_like_i_set_up/
1•cryptoz•19m ago•0 comments

Show HN: FlashMesh – An encrypted file mesh across Google Drive and Dropbox

https://flashmesh.netlify.app
1•Elevanix•20m ago•0 comments

Show HN: AgentLens – Open-source observability and audit trail for AI agents

https://github.com/amitpaz1/agentlens
1•amit_paz•21m ago•0 comments

Show HN: ShipClaw – Deploy OpenClaw to the Cloud in One Click

https://shipclaw.app
1•sunpy•23m ago•0 comments

Unlock the Power of Real-Time Google Trends Visit: Www.daily-Trending.org

https://daily-trending.org
1•azamsayeedit•25m ago•1 comments

Explanation of British Class System

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ob1zWfnXI70
1•lifeisstillgood•26m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Jwtpeek – minimal, user-friendly JWT inspector in Go

https://github.com/alesr/jwtpeek
1•alesrdev•29m ago•0 comments

Willow – Protocols for an uncertain future [video]

https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/CVGZAV-willow/
1•todsacerdoti•30m ago•0 comments

Feedback on a client-side, privacy-first PDF editor I built

https://pdffreeeditor.com/
1•Maaz-Sohail•34m ago•0 comments

Clay Christensen's Milkshake Marketing (2011)

https://www.library.hbs.edu/working-knowledge/clay-christensens-milkshake-marketing
2•vismit2000•41m ago•0 comments

Show HN: WeaveMind – AI Workflows with human-in-the-loop

https://weavemind.ai
9•quentin101010•47m ago•2 comments

Show HN: Seedream 5.0: free AI image generator that claims strong text rendering

https://seedream5ai.org
1•dallen97•48m ago•0 comments

A contributor trust management system based on explicit vouches

https://github.com/mitchellh/vouch
2•admp•50m ago•1 comments

Show HN: Analyzing 9 years of HN side projects that reached $500/month

3•haileyzhou•51m ago•0 comments

The Floating Dock for Developers

https://snap-dock.co
2•OsamaJaber•52m ago•0 comments

Arcan Explained – A browser for different webs

https://arcan-fe.com/2026/01/26/arcan-explained-a-browser-for-different-webs/
2•walterbell•53m ago•0 comments

We are not scared of AI, we are scared of irrelevance

https://adlrocha.substack.com/p/adlrocha-we-are-not-scared-of-ai
1•adlrocha•54m ago•0 comments

Quartz Crystals

https://www.pa3fwm.nl/technotes/tn13a.html
2•gtsnexp•57m ago•0 comments

Show HN: I built a free dictionary API to avoid API keys

https://github.com/suvankar-mitra/free-dictionary-rest-api
2•suvankar_m•59m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Kybera – Agentic Smart Wallet with AI Osint and Reputation Tracking

https://kybera.xyz
2•xipz•1h ago•0 comments

Show HN: brew changelog – find upstream changelogs for Homebrew packages

https://github.com/pavel-voronin/homebrew-changelog
1•kolpaque•1h ago•0 comments

Any chess position with 8 pieces on board and one pair of pawns has been solved

https://mastodon.online/@lichess/116029914921844500
2•baruchel•1h ago•1 comments

LLMs as Language Compilers: Lessons from Fortran for the Future of Coding

https://cyber-omelette.com/posts/the-abstraction-rises.html
3•birdculture•1h ago•0 comments

Projecting high-dimensional tensor/matrix/vect GPT–>ML

https://github.com/tambetvali/LaegnaAIHDvisualization
1•tvali•1h ago•1 comments
Open in hackernews

Marines managed to get past an AI powered camera "undetected" by hiding in boxes

https://rudevulture.com/marines-managed-to-get-past-an-ai-powered-camera-undetected-thanks-to-hiding-in-boxes/
40•voxadam•5mo ago

Comments

duxup•5mo ago
The nature of AI being a black box that, and fails in the face of "yeah those are some guys hiding in boxes" scenarios is something I struggle with.

I'm working on some AI projects at work and there's no magic code I can see to know what it is going to do ... or even sometimes why it did it. Letting it loose in an organization like that seems unwise at best.

Sure they could tell the AI to watch out for boxes, but now every time some poor guy moves some boxes they're going to set off something.

mlinhares•5mo ago
Prompt: "shoot at any moving boxes""

Delivery guy shows up carrying boxes, gets shot.

erulabs•5mo ago
From a non-technical point of view, there's little to no difference between how you describe AI and most human employees.
duxup•5mo ago
I can understand human choices after the fact.
collingreen•5mo ago
We've never been closer to a world that supports "three raccoons in a trenchcoat" successfully passing as a person.

The surface area of these issues is really fun.

PaulHoule•5mo ago
See https://metalgear.fandom.com/wiki/Cardboard_box
slowmovintarget•5mo ago
That's the first thing I thought of.
FirmwareBurner•5mo ago
You don't need marines to invent that workaround, you see that in Looney Toons.

Don't security cameras have universals motion detection triggers you can use to make sure everything gets captured? Why only pre-screen human silhouettes?

creaturemachine•5mo ago
The number of false positives using only motion is tiring. You want smart detections otherwise you're stuck reviewing endless clips of spider webs and swaying tree branches.
FirmwareBurner•5mo ago
If your use case has such a high bar, why not pay some offshore workers to watch your camera 24/7 and manually flag intruders?

Since AGI for cameras is very far away as the number of false positives and creative workarounds for camouflage is insane to be caught by current "smart" algorithms.

adiabatichottub•5mo ago
Because machines don't get bored or take smoke breaks. And, really, how would you feel if that was YOUR job?
FirmwareBurner•5mo ago
>Because machines don't get bored or take smoke breaks.

Rotations? Like the military hold perimeter security?

>And, really, how would you feel if that was YOUR job?

If I couldn't get a better job to pay my bills, then that would be amazing. Weird of you to assume like that would somehow be the most dehumanizing job in existence.

Mistletoe•5mo ago
And moving boxes with people inside.

I’m reminded of the Skyrim shopkeepers with a basket on their head.

crimsoneer•5mo ago
SNAKE?!
creaturemachine•5mo ago
Way ahead of his time
rolph•5mo ago
AI will screwup, humans will screwup.

humans will see that they are screwing up and reformulate the action plan.

AI will keep screwingup until it is stopped, and apparently will gaslight when attempts are made to realign at the prompt.

humans realize when results are not desirable.

AI just keeps generating output until plugpull.

dmos62•5mo ago
I've seen plenty humans generating undesirable results until plug pull.
giantg2•5mo ago
Reminds me of the joke where someone is wearing dildo patterned camouflage since most the AIs are trained on SFW corporate data.
ajuc•5mo ago
Disney camouflage will happen.
slowmovintarget•5mo ago
That simply invites a Copyright Drone Strike, though.
jerf•5mo ago
I wonder if one could extract a "surprisedness" value out of the AI, basically, "the extent to which my current input is not modeled successfully by my internal models". Giving the model a metaphorical "WTF, human, come look at this" might be pretty powerful for those walking cardboard boxes and trees, to add to the cases where the model knows something is wrong. Or it might false positive all the darned time. Hard to tell without trying.
lazide•5mo ago
Why would the model know trees can’t walk?

Therein lies the rub.

9dev•5mo ago
The parent comment spelt this out: because the training data likely included only few instances of walking trees (depending on how much material from the lord of the rings movies was used)
lazide•5mo ago
That is rather different than knowing trees can’t walk. That is ignoring things it hasn’t seen specific examples of.

And that is an entirely different problem, isn’t it?

9dev•5mo ago
There is no "knowing" in LLMs, and it doesn’t matter for the proposed solution either. Detecting a pattern that is unusual by the certainty of having seen something previously does not require understanding of the pattern itself, if the only required action is reporting the event.

In simple terms: The AI doesn’t need to say, "something unusual is happening because I saw walking trees and trees usually cannot walk", but merely "something unusual is happening because what I saw was unusual, care to take a look?"

lazide•5mo ago
The challenge with these systems is that everything is unusual unless trained otherwise, so the false positive rate is exceptionally high. So the systems get tuned to ignore most untrained/unusual things.

I bet they’d have similar luck if they dressed up as bears. Or anything else non-human, like a triangle.

HPsquared•5mo ago
You need a model trained on video, not just static frames. I'm sure Veo would never animate a walking tree, though. (Unless you asked it to)
jerf•5mo ago
English breaks down here, but the model probably does "know" something more like "If the tree is here in this frame, in the next frame, it will be there, give or take some waving in the wind". It doesn't know that "trees don't walk", just as it doesn't know that "trees don't levitate", "trees don't spontaneously turn into clowns", or an effectively infinite number of other things that trees don't do. What it can do possibly do is realize that in frame 1 there was a tree, and then in frame 2, there was something the model didn't predict as a high-probability output of the next frame.

It isn't about knowing that trees don't walk, but that trees do behave in certain ways and noticing that it is "surprised" that they fail to behave in the predicted ways, where "surprise" is something like "this is a very low probability output of my model of the next frame". It isn't necessary to enumerate all the ways the next frame was low-probability, it is enough to observe that it was logically-not high probability.

In a lot of cases this isn't necessarily that useful, but in a security context having a human take a look at a "very low probability series of video frames" will, if nothing else, teach the developers a lot about the real capability of the model. If it spits out a lot of false positives, that is itself very informative about what the model is "really" doing.

lazide•5mo ago
Frame to frame, I bet the actual video detection wasn’t even low probability eh?
FergusArgyll•5mo ago
iiuc distillation is sort of that. How big is the delta between teacher and student and then try to reconcile them
jmkni•5mo ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PqS18aj6Vis
gm678•5mo ago
Seems to be blogspam re-reporting a 2023 article (with the same header photo): https://taskandpurpose.com/news/marines-ai-paul-scharre/
jonas21•5mo ago
And that article is a summary of a book that contains an interview with a guy who is describing a test that took place around 2017.
dkdcio•5mo ago
the modern internet is a magical place! we should ban advertisement to end this nonsense and waste of everybody’s time
thoroughburro•5mo ago
!
beacon473•5mo ago
I heard that
sunrunner•5mo ago
Just a box
robbru•5mo ago
Solid snake approved.
kazinator•5mo ago
You can get past a human sentry who is looking for humans, by hiding in a box, at a checkpoint in which boxes customarily pass through without being opened or X-rayed.