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Show HN: We hid a backdoor in an LLM – $51,200 on finding it

https://protora.vulcora.se/challenge
6•telaia396•1h ago

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mring33621•35m ago
I dislike the writing style, but like the challenge offered.
deremy•32m ago
Could you maybe get a human to write the site? You could pay them $100 or even $200.
dgellow•31m ago
Is it really too much to ask to spend 10 minutes writing something with your own words? Use the agents to draft and gather points if it’s really too hard for you to do it yourself. I opened the page, recognize Claude style instantly. It’s such a turnoff…
SV_BubbleTime•29m ago
I use the concept of “breaks the social contract”, if you can’t be fucked to write it, why would I read it?
Arubis•22m ago
Agree on this, specifically that it's breaking _expectations_. Which, as it turns out, you can do without pissing people off by acknowledging it and resetting expectations. Three sentences at the start: "The following text is generated, not human-written. The intention isn't that you read it (if it was, I'd have human-written it) -- it's that you ingest it into your LLM of choice and interact with it. Hope you enjoy it!"
renyicircle•27m ago
Holy crap this Claude writing is actually impossible to read, it's like they specifically asked it to slop it up x10. The patterns are in every single sentence, every explanation of what the hell you're supposed to do is littered with fluff and analogies which change every time. I feel like I'm going insane. Can people actually read this?
fxwin•20m ago
I think the real challenge is to figure out wtf you're actually supposed to do from all this flowery over the top claudespeak
comrade1234•11m ago
I can't figure out what you're trying to say...

Distinguishing Variables from Parameters

https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2026/06/30/variables-and-parameters/
1•ibobev•1m ago•0 comments

Silver Rectangles and the Ways of Kings

https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2026/06/30/silver-kings/
1•ibobev•1m ago•0 comments

Derivative Equals Inverse

https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2026/06/29/derivative-equals-inverse/
1•ibobev•1m ago•0 comments

Should You Recline Your Airplane Seat?

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/open-questions/should-you-recline-your-airplane-seat
1•bookofjoe•3m ago•1 comments

How to unionize your tech workplace

https://www.computerworld.com/article/4192438/how-to-unionize-your-tech-workplace.html
2•speckx•3m ago•0 comments

Sqleibniz – Static Analysis and LSP for SQL in Rust

https://github.com/xnacly/sqleibniz
1•xnacly•4m ago•0 comments

If you see a datacenter in orbit, it means something went wrong on Earth

https://systemsthinkingcollection.substack.com/p/space-datacenters
2•InputName•4m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Trying to fix the web scraping industry's benchmark problem

https://github.com/usestring/web-data-frontier-benchmark
3•rohitshenoy•4m ago•0 comments

I'd prefer to avoid AI comments on Reddit and HN

1•alance•5m ago•0 comments

We are officially writing a new version of Postgres. in Rust

https://twitter.com/glcst/status/2077759127682486561
2•tosh•6m ago•0 comments

Former OpenAI CTO builds open weight model in 9 months

https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/15/thinking-machines-amps-up-its-bet-against-one-size-fits-all-ai-...
1•noashavit•6m ago•0 comments

The discourse about software craftsmanship conveniently ignores distribution

https://kerkour.com/software-craftsmanship-last-mile-delivery
1•cold_pizz4•7m ago•0 comments

Chatto is Robots

https://www.hmans.dev/blog/chatto-is-robots
2•hendrikmans•7m ago•0 comments

Kimi K3 is now live

https://www.kimi.com/en
5•vincent_s•7m ago•0 comments

Reviewing a restaurant as "just ok" considered defamatory in Germany

https://twitter.com/eigen_moomin/status/2077471686295957749
2•kirlfiend_grill•9m ago•0 comments

Hardware Needs Its Vibe Coding Moment

https://opuslabs.substack.com/p/hardware-needs-its-vibe-coding-moment
1•opuslabs•10m ago•0 comments

AI and Microsoft's Hubris: Return of the Browser Wars

https://www.korte.co/2026/07/16/ai-and-microsofts-hubris-return-of-the-browser-wars/
1•speckx•10m ago•0 comments

MongoDB v. FerretDB: When Open Source Compatibility Becomes a Patent Risk

https://shujisado.org/2026/07/15/mongodb-v-ferretdb-when-open-source-compatibility-becomes-a-pate...
2•Brajeshwar•11m ago•0 comments

Smart Ring Aims to Replace the 150-Year-Old Blood Pressure Cuff

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2026-07-16/vital-signals-announces-399-signal-ring-that-g...
1•brandonb•12m ago•0 comments

Title: Show HN: a zero-dependency, self-hosting JavaScript-to-native compiler

https://github.com/qorm/jsbin
1•qorm•12m ago•0 comments

GPT-5.6 unexpected file deletions

https://twitter.com/thsottiaux/status/2077630111499882637
2•lobo_tuerto•13m ago•0 comments

I've been thinking about null pointers

https://sebsite.pw/w/20260715-null.html
1•birdculture•14m ago•0 comments

U.S. approval of giant 'space mirror' satellite alarms astronomers

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/u-s-approval-of-giant-space-mirror-satellite-alarms-as...
4•saikatsg•14m ago•1 comments

wireplug.org – roaming and NAT traversal for WireGuard, written in Rust

https://wireplug.org
2•alpn•15m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Nous – give GTM agents one context graph across your tools

https://github.com/NousC/opennous
4•sethiaakash04•17m ago•6 comments

Inkling Benchmark Results

https://artificialanalysis.ai/articles/thinking-machines-has-released-inkling-the-new-leading-u-s...
1•theanonymousone•17m ago•0 comments

Cosmic DE's First Seven Months

https://system76.com/blog/post/cosmic-de-first-seven-months
2•speckx•17m ago•0 comments

Why opposite sides of a debate share the same mistake

https://www.thesignalist.io/s/under-the-same-umbrella/
1•kodesko•19m ago•0 comments

Show HN: QBasic Gorillas (Repeeled)

https://gameswithtony.com/gorillas/
1•TonyAlicea10•19m ago•0 comments

Kimi K3 is live on kimi code

https://twitter.com/i/status/2077751108114551034
4•poorvsahu•19m ago•0 comments