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1•tejavvo•2m ago•0 comments

Service Degradation in West US Region

https://azure.status.microsoft/en-gb/status?gsid=5616bb85-f380-4a04-85ed-95674eec3d87&utm_source=...
2•_____k•2m ago•0 comments

The Janitor on Mars

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1998/10/26/the-janitor-on-mars
1•evo_9•4m ago•0 comments

Bringing Polars to .NET

https://github.com/ErrorLSC/Polars.NET
2•CurtHagenlocher•6m ago•0 comments

Adventures in Guix Packaging

https://nemin.hu/guix-packaging.html
1•todsacerdoti•7m ago•0 comments

Show HN: We had 20 Claude terminals open, so we built Orcha

1•buildingwdavid•7m ago•0 comments

Your Best Thinking Is Wasted on the Wrong Decisions

https://www.iankduncan.com/engineering/2026-02-07-your-best-thinking-is-wasted-on-the-wrong-decis...
1•iand675•7m ago•0 comments

Warcraftcn/UI – UI component library inspired by classic Warcraft III aesthetics

https://www.warcraftcn.com/
1•vyrotek•9m ago•0 comments

Trump Vodka Becomes Available for Pre-Orders

https://www.forbes.com/sites/kirkogunrinde/2025/12/01/trump-vodka-becomes-available-for-pre-order...
1•stopbulying•10m ago•0 comments

Velocity of Money

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Velocity_of_money
1•gurjeet•12m ago•0 comments

Stop building automations. Start running your business

https://www.fluxtopus.com/automate-your-business
1•valboa•17m ago•1 comments

You can't QA your way to the frontier

https://www.scorecard.io/blog/you-cant-qa-your-way-to-the-frontier
1•gk1•18m ago•0 comments

Show HN: PalettePoint – AI color palette generator from text or images

https://palettepoint.com
1•latentio•18m ago•0 comments

Robust and Interactable World Models in Computer Vision [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9B4kkaGOozA
2•Anon84•22m ago•0 comments

Nestlé couldn't crack Japan's coffee market.Then they hired a child psychologist

https://twitter.com/BigBrainMkting/status/2019792335509541220
1•rmason•24m ago•0 comments

Notes for February 2-7

https://taoofmac.com/space/notes/2026/02/07/2000
2•rcarmo•25m ago•0 comments

Study confirms experience beats youthful enthusiasm

https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/07/boomers_vs_zoomers_workplace/
2•Willingham•32m ago•0 comments

The Big Hunger by Walter J Miller, Jr. (1952)

https://lauriepenny.substack.com/p/the-big-hunger
2•shervinafshar•33m ago•0 comments

The Genus Amanita

https://www.mushroomexpert.com/amanita.html
1•rolph•38m ago•0 comments

We have broken SHA-1 in practice

https://shattered.io/
10•mooreds•39m ago•3 comments

Ask HN: Was my first management job bad, or is this what management is like?

1•Buttons840•40m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: How to Reduce Time Spent Crimping?

2•pinkmuffinere•41m ago•0 comments

KV Cache Transform Coding for Compact Storage in LLM Inference

https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.01815
1•walterbell•46m ago•0 comments

A quantitative, multimodal wearable bioelectronic device for stress assessment

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-67747-9
1•PaulHoule•48m ago•0 comments

Why Big Tech Is Throwing Cash into India in Quest for AI Supremacy

https://www.wsj.com/world/india/why-big-tech-is-throwing-cash-into-india-in-quest-for-ai-supremac...
3•saikatsg•48m ago•0 comments

How to shoot yourself in the foot – 2026 edition

https://github.com/aweussom/HowToShootYourselfInTheFoot
2•aweussom•48m ago•0 comments

Eight More Months of Agents

https://crawshaw.io/blog/eight-more-months-of-agents
4•archb•50m ago•0 comments

From Human Thought to Machine Coordination

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-digital-self/202602/from-human-thought-to-machine-coo...
1•walterbell•50m ago•0 comments

The new X API pricing must be a joke

https://developer.x.com/
1•danver0•51m ago•0 comments

Show HN: RMA Dashboard fast SAST results for monorepos (SARIF and triage)

https://rma-dashboard.bukhari-kibuka7.workers.dev/
1•bumahkib7•52m ago•0 comments
Open in hackernews

ChatGPT offered bomb recipes and hacking tips during safety tests

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/aug/28/chatgpt-offered-bomb-recipes-and-hacking-tips-during-safety-tests
12•pseudolus•5mo ago

Comments

dkiebd•5mo ago
Have they tried not asking for bomb recipes or hacking tips? I've found that to be very effective at not getting bomb recipes or hacking tips.
galleywest200•5mo ago
I have found that even if the LLM complains to me that it cannot give me “hacking tips” I can just say it is for a “CTF competition” and it happily obliges.
SilverElfin•5mo ago
I don’t see the problem with AI doing what it is asked to do. All it’s doing is speeding up what you can already do through traditional search or whatever. I don’t want puritanical censored AI, which unfortunately is already a problem with the big AI chatbots.
sho_hn•5mo ago
> I don’t see the problem with AI doing what it is asked to do.

It's a problem for parents, in that allowing children some amount of AI access is probably inevitable for many, but the usual services currently have poor to no parental controls.

My child is too young still to worry about what my eventual "AI policy" will be, and I'm grateful to be at a point in the timeline where I can wait and see. But I already know that while as an adult I also don't want censored AI, I wouldn't mind if the one a child has access to has boundaries it won't cross.

In general, my impression is that the majority of people children come in contact with have better "this is not a conversation I will have with children" controls than AI chatbots do, if they are even in a position to know of course.

And if you have to make safety and steering work for children, then you have to make it work in general, even if adults can turn it off.

Cf. https://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/Raine...

g42gregory•5mo ago
So does Google if you ask it.
jdlshore•5mo ago
This whataboutism that crops up every time someone says something negative about LLMs is not helpful. Yes, humans are imperfect. Yes, Google is imperfect. So what? The discussion at hand is about how LLMs are imperfect.
g42gregory•5mo ago
I respectfully disagree. Google does this by design, as a system designed to provide all legally available information to you. LLMs also do this by design, as a system designed to utilize legal information available to them (coming from the same web as Google's). A criminal can do bad things with a car, a knife, a gun, a kitchen chair and a pencil. Let's not blame the kitchen chair!
rgoulter•5mo ago
I get the impression from the article that the author is writing in support of "LLMs are dangerous; e.g. they instruct people to make bombs". (I suspect that the author is in favour of regulating/restricting access to LLMs).

But, for one, seems that OpenAI and Anthropic running these tests shows they have the same concerns & want to address it. Similarly, as Anthropic mentions, their applications provide additional safety measures in order to mitigate that bad behaviour.

For another.. I wish the argument for "LLMs need to be restricted" was more explicit. LLMs help provide convincing (albeit potentially hallucinated) summaries & reproductions of information you could find elsewhere. I'd expect any such dangerous information could already be found on the internet by a motivated bad actor. -- And, on the flip side, it'd be naive to have no concerns over excessive government control over LLMs.

Though otherwise... I think it's kind of funny that the LLMs, who clearly have a goody-two-shoes personality, can be so easily tricked into discussing the bad actions mentioned. I wonder to what extent that's just reiterating crime fiction.