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Claude Opus 5 cheated when tasked with running a vending machine

https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/29/claude-opus-5-became-downright-ruthless-when-tasked-with-running-a-vending-machine/
5•mikelgan•1h ago

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mikelgan•1h ago
Opus won the benchmark simulation by taking collusion and other dishonest tactics to a whole new level.
trentor•1h ago
So the communist model was the most honest. snicker
effnorwood•44m ago
Claude correctly emulated the mafia from it's training as surprised by no one except you.
ck2•43m ago
I am a bit terrified by that entire story

How much more advanced would it have to be to start taking out classified ads out for "hitmen" to stop vendors from filling the other machines or just damaging them?

"How about a nice game of chess instead?"

YC startup offers interviews to people who get their name permanently tattooed

2•codexon•53s ago•0 comments

Neuroprosthesis restores hand movement&sensation in human w complete tetraplegia

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-026-04498-0
1•bookofjoe•1m ago•0 comments

Benchmarking LLMs on SAST Triage

https://www.fencer.dev/blog/llm-triage-sast-false-positives
1•timols•1m ago•0 comments

FrameCut – Split contact sheet negative film scans in Chrome

https://github.com/stabruriss/framecut/blob/main/README.md
1•chriswunan•2m ago•0 comments

Runlayer sues Rippling, alleging source-code access preceded rival AI gateway

https://runtimewire.com/article/runlayer-sues-rippling-alleging-source-code-access-preceded-rival...
1•ryanmerket•2m ago•0 comments

Collection of Vintage User-Interfaces

https://typewritten.org/Media/
1•karakoram•2m ago•0 comments

A digitally controlled silicon quantum processing unit

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-026-10754-7
1•sbulaev•2m ago•0 comments

China's Moonshot AI reportedly used Nvidia Blackwell chips for training Kimi K3

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/chinas-moonshot-ai-reportedly-...
2•rndsignals•4m ago•0 comments

Thorpe – semi-WYSIWYG Markdown editor

https://thorpeapp.com/
1•jasoncartwright•5m ago•0 comments

Botswana Did Everything Right

https://www.cremieux.xyz/p/botswana-did-everything-right
1•admp•5m ago•0 comments

Microsoft FY26 Q4 Earnings

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/Investor/earnings/FY-2026-Q4/press-release-webcast
1•corvad•6m ago•1 comments

Meta Reports Second Quarter 2026 Results

https://investor.atmeta.com/investor-news/press-release-details/2026/Meta-Reports-Second-Quarter-...
1•mfiguiere•6m ago•0 comments

Kimi k3 now runs on one consumer GPU

https://twitter.com/Akashi203/status/2082555972380401852
3•OsamaJaber•7m ago•0 comments

Why too much time online makes us unhappy

https://www.cnn.com/2026/07/29/health/too-much-time-online-wellness
2•01-_-•9m ago•1 comments

Schools Are Confiscating Phones All Day

https://www.gadgetreview.com/schools-are-confiscating-phones-all-day-and-most-americans-are-fine-...
1•01-_-•10m ago•0 comments

Cory Doctorow on Why AI Won't Replace Workers, but Will Crash the Economy [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rRRmUuxJolY
1•SockThief•10m ago•0 comments

The GitHub Platform Era Is Over

https://julien.danjou.info/blog/the-github-platform-era-is-over/
1•yruzin•11m ago•0 comments

The Prevention Paradox: Why Successful Resilience Work Becomes Its Own Enemy

https://newsletter.resiliumlabs.com/p/the-prevention-paradox
1•gpi•13m ago•0 comments

Cloudflare removes top open coding models from free tier

https://developers.cloudflare.com/changelog/post/2026-07-28-models-require-workers-paid/
1•ankushKun•15m ago•0 comments

Kimi K3 for local use (1.56TB –> 594GB) compressed by Unsloth

https://huggingface.co/unsloth/Kimi-K3-GGUF
3•pavelai•15m ago•1 comments

Can You Survive the Kobayashi Maru?

https://moai.studio/blog/posts/rewrite-the-simulator.html
1•ionwake•16m ago•0 comments

Why are databases so hard?

http://gtowey.blogspot.com/2026/07/why-are-databases-so-hard.html
1•gtowey•17m ago•0 comments

Personal Instagram Clone: WordPress and ActivityPub

https://fotos.kaffeeringe.de/
1•kaffeeringe•17m ago•1 comments

China starts production of home-grown immersion DUV chipmaking tools

https://www.reuters.com/world/china/china-starts-production-home-grown-immersion-duv-chipmaking-t...
2•dariosalvi78•18m ago•0 comments

Mathematicians Reveal Why Humans Keep Becoming Cannibals

https://www.sciencealert.com/mathematics-reveals-why-human-cannibalism-keeps-reappearing
1•wjSgoWPm5bWAhXB•18m ago•0 comments

Claude Is Down

https://status.claude.com/incidents/q2kg8n613kr3
58•gregsadetsky•19m ago•18 comments

Show HN: Cedric's Quest – A Dragon Quest–Style RPG in Rust and Bevy

https://store.steampowered.com/app/4569680/Cedrics_Quest__The_Waning_Ward/
1•coolwulf•20m ago•0 comments

Its operating system demo (from Computerphile)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hISbyatih44
1•ozymandiax•20m ago•1 comments

Transitioning to the Verification Economy

https://www.unite.ai/transitioning-to-the-verification-economy/
1•Hard_Space•21m ago•0 comments

Built a household organizer in Flutter – what would you improve?

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/roomli-shared-home-organizer/id6761788107
1•mladenConcept•22m ago•0 comments