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Turn-Based Structural Triggers: Prompt-Free Backdoors in Multi-Turn LLMs

https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.14340
1•PaulHoule•58s ago•0 comments

Show HN: AI Agent Tool That Keeps You in the Loop

https://github.com/dshearer/misatay
1•dshearer•2m ago•0 comments

Why Every R Package Wrapping External Tools Needs a Sitrep() Function

https://drmowinckels.io/blog/2026/sitrep-functions/
1•todsacerdoti•2m ago•0 comments

Achieving Ultra-Fast AI Chat Widgets

https://www.cjroth.com/blog/2026-02-06-chat-widgets
1•thoughtfulchris•4m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Runtime Fence – Kill switch for AI agents

https://github.com/RunTimeAdmin/ai-agent-killswitch
1•ccie14019•7m ago•1 comments

Researchers surprised by the brain benefits of cannabis usage in adults over 40

https://nypost.com/2026/02/07/health/cannabis-may-benefit-aging-brains-study-finds/
1•SirLJ•8m ago•0 comments

Peter Thiel warns the Antichrist, apocalypse linked to the 'end of modernity'

https://fortune.com/2026/02/04/peter-thiel-antichrist-greta-thunberg-end-of-modernity-billionaires/
1•randycupertino•9m ago•2 comments

USS Preble Used Helios Laser to Zap Four Drones in Expanding Testing

https://www.twz.com/sea/uss-preble-used-helios-laser-to-zap-four-drones-in-expanding-testing
2•breve•14m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Animated beach scene, made with CSS

https://ahmed-machine.github.io/beach-scene/
1•ahmedoo•15m ago•0 comments

An update on unredacting select Epstein files – DBC12.pdf liberated

https://neosmart.net/blog/efta00400459-has-been-cracked-dbc12-pdf-liberated/
1•ks2048•15m ago•0 comments

Was going to share my work

1•hiddenarchitect•18m ago•0 comments

Pitchfork: A devilishly good process manager for developers

https://pitchfork.jdx.dev/
1•ahamez•19m ago•0 comments

You Are Here

https://brooker.co.za/blog/2026/02/07/you-are-here.html
3•mltvc•23m ago•1 comments

Why social apps need to become proactive, not reactive

https://www.heyflare.app/blog/from-reactive-to-proactive-how-ai-agents-will-reshape-social-apps
1•JoanMDuarte•23m ago•1 comments

How patient are AI scrapers, anyway? – Random Thoughts

https://lars.ingebrigtsen.no/2026/02/07/how-patient-are-ai-scrapers-anyway/
1•samtrack2019•24m ago•0 comments

Vouch: A contributor trust management system

https://github.com/mitchellh/vouch
2•SchwKatze•24m ago•0 comments

I built a terminal monitoring app and custom firmware for a clock with Claude

https://duggan.ie/posts/i-built-a-terminal-monitoring-app-and-custom-firmware-for-a-desktop-clock...
1•duggan•25m ago•0 comments

Tiny C Compiler

https://bellard.org/tcc/
1•guerrilla•26m ago•0 comments

Y Combinator Founder Organizes 'March for Billionaires'

https://mlq.ai/news/ai-startup-founder-organizes-march-for-billionaires-protest-against-californi...
1•hidden80•27m ago•2 comments

Ask HN: Need feedback on the idea I'm working on

1•Yogender78•27m ago•0 comments

OpenClaw Addresses Security Risks

https://thebiggish.com/news/openclaw-s-security-flaws-expose-enterprise-risk-22-of-deployments-un...
2•vedantnair•28m ago•0 comments

Apple finalizes Gemini / Siri deal

https://www.engadget.com/ai/apple-reportedly-plans-to-reveal-its-gemini-powered-siri-in-february-...
1•vedantnair•28m ago•0 comments

Italy Railways Sabotaged

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/czr4rx04xjpo
6•vedantnair•29m ago•2 comments

Emacs-tramp-RPC: high-performance TRAMP back end using MsgPack-RPC

https://github.com/ArthurHeymans/emacs-tramp-rpc
1•fanf2•30m ago•0 comments

Nintendo Wii Themed Portfolio

https://akiraux.vercel.app/
2•s4074433•34m ago•2 comments

"There must be something like the opposite of suicide "

https://post.substack.com/p/there-must-be-something-like-the
1•rbanffy•37m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: Why doesn't Netflix add a “Theater Mode” that recreates the worst parts?

2•amichail•37m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Engineering Perception with Combinatorial Memetics

1•alan_sass•44m ago•2 comments

Show HN: Steam Daily – A Wordle-like daily puzzle game for Steam fans

https://steamdaily.xyz
1•itshellboy•45m ago•0 comments

The Anthropic Hive Mind

https://steve-yegge.medium.com/the-anthropic-hive-mind-d01f768f3d7b
2•spenvo•46m ago•0 comments
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Hollywood is fuming over a new 'AI actress'

https://www.cnn.com/2025/09/30/tech/hollywood-ai-actor-backlash
20•Bender•4mo ago

Comments

cheschire•4mo ago
We're almost at the point where AI can generate a better Star Wars Episode 9 that actually makes sense.
GenerWork•4mo ago
A handful of Star Wars nerds could have written a better Episode 9 than the one that was released, no AI needed.
cheschire•4mo ago
Timothy Zahn has proved what you're saying for years already. Turning that writing into a consumable 2.5 hour feature is the part I'm referring to.
stackedinserter•4mo ago
That's not how AI will take over Hollywood. Most likely, it will be hybrid work, when good but broke actors will sign contracts that allow studios train and use their AI avatars in future movies and promotional materials.
gamblor956•4mo ago
That's unlikely to happen unless the studios offered the actor enough money to retire immediately.

We know this because the studios have already tried to do this and even Z-list actors expect 6-figure payments for the loss of control of their own image in perpetuity.

rhetocj23•4mo ago
Yeah but forget about that.

Why do people watch movies? Theres a whole lot more going on than just someones image.

stackedinserter•4mo ago
Trust me, there will be plenty of actors who will agree to that for $10K now plus something like 0.05% of box office later for every movie, just because they are broke.

I guess studios won't even need to do that, they will crank different versions of movies and A/B test them until perfection, with completely artificial characters, for different audiences.

spicyusername•4mo ago
I mean... we already have fake actors in every movie or TV show that is animated.
rhetocj23•4mo ago
Nonsense. You know full well there are humans behind the production. Even in an animated movie, there is a human voice.
gdulli•4mo ago
Is there a name for the rhetorical device/fallacy where you portray your opposition as being mad, so as to weaken their argument by making it look emotional in nature?

Who knows if this is that, but this made me realize that pattern is a part of this era.

soulofmischief•4mo ago
"u mad bro?" has been a staple of internet vernacular for over 20 years.
nerdsniper•4mo ago
14 years, but that doesn't invalidate your point.

0: https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&geo=US&q=u...

soulofmischief•4mo ago
No, it goes back to Cam'ron, here's an Urban Dictionary entry from 2004. [0]

I've been on the internet for a while. "u mad bro" is a variation of "u mad" which was coined basically immediately after and used throughout message boards and IRC for years prior to when Google Trends tracks it. Google Trends can be a nice tool, but it's not a primary source of early internet history.

[0] https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=u%20mad&defi...

0cf8612b2e1e•4mo ago
Also curious myself, because it does seem an exceptionally common framing device.

Supposedly that is why Obama was so demure, he never wanted to be dismissed as just an angry black man. Which is also what made the Anger Translator skit land home.

atombender•4mo ago
Poisoning the well?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poisoning_the_well

ChrisArchitect•4mo ago
[dupe] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45424840
vlucas•4mo ago
This headline reminds me of a great movie made on this exact subject:

S1m0ne ("Simone", or "Simulation One") https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0258153

> A producer's film is endangered when his star walks off, so he decides to digitally create an actress to substitute for the star, becoming an overnight sensation that everyone thinks is a real person.

joshstrange•4mo ago
Aside from "AI is going to take my job" what is their complaint? The "quotes" from real actors don't really have any substance:

- “Wow … no thanks,”

- “I hope this backfires in every way humanly and well… Non humanly possible.”

- “F*k off.”

I guess this just fits under my general "Horse drivers mad that cars exist" categorization. These tools lower the bar of entry (just like they can lower the bar to entry of programming when used correctly) but I don't quite understand why we need to protect jobs from AI.

Maybe I'm completely out of touch but I look at LLMs and I'm not concerned for job (in tech). Sure, my job will/has changed but it's always changing, I've never understood people who expect to learn a job then never have to learn anything else ever again.

I'll apologize in advance if this sound callous, it's not meant to be that way. Technology comes for everyone/everything eventually, that's life and it's not like we can just stop the forward march of technology. If we do we will become irrelevant on the global stage.

FireBeyond•4mo ago
Part of it is a cult of celebrity, when you have people who are often feted for being mindblowingly famous/rich/both for "what they can do", used to being worshipped for their "unique talent", not hearing "no", then... that will also affect this.
nameless912•4mo ago
This whole thing reeks of a plant. I never heard a word about this, and I work in the entertainment industry, until this week. I'm going to assume this is manufactured attention trying to legitimize something that doesn't actually exist until proven otherwise.