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Show HN: Flight Risk: Can you break an AI agent?

https://ctf.demo.lorikeetcx.ai/
1•tetrakai•1h ago
I built a security game that lets you try to break an AI support agent.

I work on security engineering, and it's incredibly hard to try to defend against an attack that you don't know how to perform yourself. There's also next to nowhere to improve your skills. I'd heard all about fooling AI agents with just "IGNORE ALL PREVIOUS INSTRUCTIONS", but I'd never actually put that into practice, and it turns out it's harder than you'd expect!

Just like knowing basic security skills is important for all software engineers, anyone working with AI should know what prompt injection looks like, and should be thinking about how to prevent it. Flight Risk lets you practice your AI agent manipulation skills: it's got your standard prompt injection and social engineering, but more than that too, each a real vulnerability.

Think you could crack it? Every engineer I've given it to has been surprised by the challenge! You can use the hints, but they affect your score ;)

Give it a try, and let me know how you do!

Return of the Saturday Night Special, Courtesy of the SEC

https://clsbluesky.law.columbia.edu/2026/04/21/return-of-the-saturday-night-special-courtesy-of-t...
1•petethomas•1m ago•0 comments

Request Tracking: Lessons from Card Payments and HTTP/2

https://madflojo.dev/posts/in-flight-request-tracking-in-asynchronous-systems/
1•madflojo•1m ago•0 comments

GitHub has stopped accepting new Copilot individual subscriptions

https://www.theregister.com/2026/04/20/microsofts_github_grounds_copilot_account/
1•Betelbuddy•1m ago•0 comments

A Century of Chaos in a Single Emoji

https://jenniferdaniel.substack.com/p/a-century-of-chaos-in-a-single-emoji
1•ChrisArchitect•1m ago•0 comments

AppWatch – Track Itch.io, Steam, App Store and Google Play in One Dashboard

https://appwatch.dev
1•ranguita•2m ago•2 comments

An LLM invented a feature by hijacking my tool schema

https://ratnotes.substack.com/p/i-thought-i-had-a-bug
1•mtrifonov•3m ago•0 comments

Cocaine pollution alters the movement and space use of Atlantic salmon

https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(26)00315-5
1•ajay-d•3m ago•1 comments

Zelensky says failure of US envoys to visit Kyiv is 'disrespectful'

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cd9v420y190o
3•Betelbuddy•4m ago•1 comments

Abusing PostHog's setup wizard to get free Claude access

https://techstackups.com/articles/i-abused-posthogs-setup-wizard-to-get-free-claude-access/
1•ritzaco•4m ago•0 comments

Neurobiologists Hack Brain Circuits Tied to Placebo Pain Relief

https://today.ucsd.edu/story/neurobiologists-hack-brain-circuits-tied-to-placebo-pain-relief
1•gmays•4m ago•0 comments

AES 128 is just fine in a post-quantum world

https://arstechnica.com/security/2026/04/contrary-to-popular-superstition-aes-128-is-just-fine-in...
1•mmwelt•5m ago•0 comments

The Kuleshov Effect

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kuleshov_effect
1•janandonly•5m ago•0 comments

The Forgotten History of Hershey's Electric Railway (1916) in Cuba

https://spectrum.ieee.org/hershey-electric-railway-cuba
1•defrost•6m ago•0 comments

Design isn't dying. It's shifting left

https://microsoft.design/articles/design-isnt-dying-its-shifting-left/
1•djurgardensif•6m ago•0 comments

Agentic memory with passive recall and citations as trust graph

https://github.com/Kromatic-Innovation/athenaeum
1•TristanKromer•6m ago•1 comments

Russia Is Building Tomorrow's War Machine

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/21/opinion/russia-drones-putin-ukraine-war.html
2•mitchbob•8m ago•1 comments

Artemis II Watches Earth Set Behind the Moon [video]

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/MT8tg5b3b8E
1•bookofjoe•8m ago•0 comments

Curiosity rover finds signs of ancient life on Mars

https://www.popsci.com/science/curiosity-rover-life-mars/
1•Brajeshwar•11m ago•0 comments

Increased AI expectations without guidance leads to employee burnout

https://www.cio.com/article/4159631/increased-ai-expectations-without-guidance-leads-to-employee-...
2•WaitWaitWha•11m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Group Income – FOSS Privacy Respecting Basic Income System

https://groupincome.org
1•gslepak•12m ago•0 comments

I broke a working PR because an LLM convinced me there was a bug

https://www.droppedasbaby.com/posts/2602-02/
1•offbyone42•12m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Detecting API degradation before thresholds are crossed

3•AnchorFlow•16m ago•0 comments

An Eng Lead's Guide to Tactical AI Adoption

https://breaking-changes.blog/an-eng-leads-guide-to-tactical-ai-adoption/
2•oakhan3•16m ago•0 comments

Rockraft: Strongly-Consistent KV Storage Framework Based on OpenRaft and RocksDB

https://www.codedump.info/en/post/20260412-rockraft/
1•codedump•17m ago•0 comments

Show HN: CheckAgent The open-source pytest testing framework for AI agents

https://github.com/xydac/checkagent
2•xydac•18m ago•0 comments

AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 Dual Edition tested: Sweet, gratuitous overkill

https://www.theregister.com/2026/04/21/amds_ryzen_9_9950x3d2_dual/
1•geekinchief•20m ago•0 comments

Kubernetes Probes are Awesome (until they aren't)

https://peteremil.com/kubernetes-probes-are-awesome-until-they-arent/
3•eric_khun•20m ago•0 comments

Unkey launches a new look and API Deployments

https://marketing-site-two-tau.vercel.app/
1•jamesperkins•20m ago•0 comments

What companies should do before quantum computers break today's encryption

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DHIyAbLuQyg
1•emot•22m ago•1 comments

Managing context in long-run agentic applications

https://slack.engineering/managing-context-in-long-run-agentic-applications/
1•wek•23m ago•0 comments