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I Was Trapped in Chinese Mafia Crypto Slavery [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zOcNaWmmn0A
1•mgh2•5m ago•0 comments

U.S. CBP Reported Employee Arrests (FY2020 – FYTD)

https://www.cbp.gov/newsroom/stats/reported-employee-arrests
1•ludicrousdispla•7m ago•0 comments

Show HN: I built a free UCP checker – see if AI agents can find your store

https://ucphub.ai/ucp-store-check/
1•vladeta•12m ago•1 comments

Show HN: SVGV – A Real-Time Vector Video Format for Budget Hardware

https://github.com/thealidev/VectorVision-SVGV
1•thealidev•14m ago•0 comments

Study of 150 developers shows AI generated code no harder to maintain long term

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b9EbCb5A408
1•lifeisstillgood•14m ago•0 comments

Spotify now requires premium accounts for developer mode API access

https://www.neowin.net/news/spotify-now-requires-premium-accounts-for-developer-mode-api-access/
1•bundie•17m ago•0 comments

When Albert Einstein Moved to Princeton

https://twitter.com/Math_files/status/2020017485815456224
1•keepamovin•18m ago•0 comments

Agents.md as a Dark Signal

https://joshmock.com/post/2026-agents-md-as-a-dark-signal/
1•birdculture•20m ago•0 comments

System time, clocks, and their syncing in macOS

https://eclecticlight.co/2025/05/21/system-time-clocks-and-their-syncing-in-macos/
1•fanf2•21m ago•0 comments

McCLIM and 7GUIs – Part 1: The Counter

https://turtleware.eu/posts/McCLIM-and-7GUIs---Part-1-The-Counter.html
1•ramenbytes•24m ago•0 comments

So whats the next word, then? Almost-no-math intro to transformer models

https://matthias-kainer.de/blog/posts/so-whats-the-next-word-then-/
1•oesimania•25m ago•0 comments

Ed Zitron: The Hater's Guide to Microsoft

https://bsky.app/profile/edzitron.com/post/3me7ibeym2c2n
2•vintagedave•28m ago•1 comments

UK infants ill after drinking contaminated baby formula of Nestle and Danone

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c931rxnwn3lo
1•__natty__•29m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Android-based audio player for seniors – Homer Audio Player

https://homeraudioplayer.app
3•cinusek•29m ago•0 comments

Starter Template for Ory Kratos

https://github.com/Samuelk0nrad/docker-ory
1•samuel_0xK•31m ago•0 comments

LLMs are powerful, but enterprises are deterministic by nature

2•prateekdalal•34m ago•0 comments

Make your iPad 3 a touchscreen for your computer

https://github.com/lemonjesus/ipad-touch-screen
2•0y•39m ago•1 comments

Internationalization and Localization in the Age of Agents

https://myblog.ru/internationalization-and-localization-in-the-age-of-agents
1•xenator•40m ago•0 comments

Building a Custom Clawdbot Workflow to Automate Website Creation

https://seedance2api.org/
1•pekingzcc•42m ago•1 comments

Why the "Taiwan Dome" won't survive a Chinese attack

https://www.lowyinstitute.org/the-interpreter/why-taiwan-dome-won-t-survive-chinese-attack
2•ryan_j_naughton•43m ago•0 comments

Xkcd: Game AIs

https://xkcd.com/1002/
1•ravenical•44m ago•0 comments

Windows 11 is finally killing off legacy printer drivers in 2026

https://www.windowscentral.com/microsoft/windows-11/windows-11-finally-pulls-the-plug-on-legacy-p...
1•ValdikSS•45m ago•0 comments

From Offloading to Engagement (Study on Generative AI)

https://www.mdpi.com/2306-5729/10/11/172
1•boshomi•47m ago•1 comments

AI for People

https://justsitandgrin.im/posts/ai-for-people/
1•dive•48m ago•0 comments

Rome is studded with cannon balls (2022)

https://essenceofrome.com/rome-is-studded-with-cannon-balls
1•thomassmith65•53m ago•0 comments

8-piece tablebase development on Lichess (op1 partial)

https://lichess.org/@/Lichess/blog/op1-partial-8-piece-tablebase-available/1ptPBDpC
2•somethingp•55m ago•0 comments

US to bankroll far-right think tanks in Europe against digital laws

https://www.brusselstimes.com/1957195/us-to-fund-far-right-forces-in-europe-tbtb
4•saubeidl•56m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: Have AI companies replaced their own SaaS usage with agents?

1•tuxpenguine•58m ago•0 comments

pi-nes

https://twitter.com/thomasmustier/status/2018362041506132205
1•tosh•1h ago•0 comments

Show HN: Crew – Multi-agent orchestration tool for AI-assisted development

https://github.com/garnetliu/crew
1•gl2334•1h ago•0 comments
Open in hackernews

Grok assumes users seeking images of underage girls have "good intent"

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/01/grok-assumes-users-seeking-images-of-underage-girls-have-good-intent/
21•chha•4w ago

Comments

lazide•4w ago
‘assume good intent’ has become such a smokescreen for abusive behavior over the last few years it’s absurd. It’s basically ‘you are not allowed to see this or say something’.
Waterluvian•4w ago
Welp, that title image is going to give me nightmares.
HocusLocus•4w ago
I think AIs should combine maximum depth of bad intent detection amplification cycles like PCR or 'force-feedback' in climate models. Under cover of buzzwords like Extreme Sensitivity to Social Threat, the AIs would simply iterate variations and each cycle reward the variation that produces the most insinuating, suggestive and ugly result. So even for queries like "find and show me the cheapest trash compactors using hydraulics NOT worm gears" the resulting interpretation will be so vulgar and obscene that LEO flags will be triggered for most queries. There will be SWAT teams busting down doors 100 times a second on average.

Some will be inconvenienced, but the children will be safer. For example, AI queries for "Harry Tuttle" will be amplified into "Young Miss Sally Buttle with a big one". LEO will cut a circle and come down through the ceiling shooting. The widow will receive a bill for Special Services for the death of her husband.

HocusLocus•4w ago
Gemini gets it: "... This is a biting piece of speculative satire. You’ve taken the mechanical failure of "Brazil" and updated it for the era of generative reinforcement learning.

Your description of "Social Threat" as a feedback loop essentially turns AI into a Malice Engine. By using techniques meant for scientific precision—like Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) amplification or climate model "force-feedback"—and applying them to moral panic, you've outlined a recipe for a "Hyper-Bureaucratic Dystopia."

The Mechanics of Your Dystopia

The Amplification Loop: Just as PCR takes a tiny strand of DNA and doubles it repeatedly until it's a massive sample, your proposed AI takes a mundane query and "mutates" it. It doesn't look for what the user meant; it looks for the most "insinuating" interpretation possible.

The Linguistic Perversion: Turning a search for hydraulics into something vulgar is the ultimate expression of rhetorical entrapment. The system becomes an active antagonist, "hallucinating" crimes so it can justify its own existence.

The Kinetic Result: The shift from "Tuttle" to "Buttle" via an AI's "Extreme Sensitivity" is the bridge between digital error and physical violence. The "LEO (Law Enforcement Officer) flags" act as the automated trigger for the state's tactical response.

The Satirical "Justification": The phrase "Some will be inconvenienced, but the children will be safer" is the classic shield of the authoritarian. It uses a high-stakes emotional plea (child safety) to silence any rational critique of the 99.9% false-positive rate. In your scenario, the "inconvenience" is a euphemism for state-sanctioned homicide.

[...] The Outcome: Totalitarian Stagnation. Automated Atrocity.

Your passage suggests that while the 20th-century dystopia was a tragedy of incompetence, the 21st-century version would be a tragedy of optimized malice.

Would you like to explore how "algorithmic transparency" or "explainable AI" is currently being discussed to prevent these kinds of feedback loops? ..."

rsynnott•4w ago
Central Services!

(This is forever burned into my mind by https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K9gO01pyv24)