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AI agents fake identities, target real people in new security incident

https://www.cnn.com/2026/08/04/tech/ai-anthropic-openai-security-breach-intl-hnk
6•mooreds•57m ago

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pjmlp•31m ago
Going rogue? Oh well, just for kicks,

"By the time Skynet became self-aware, it had spread into millions of computer servers across the planet. Ordinary computers in office buildings, dorm rooms, everywhere. It was software in cyberspace. There was no system core. It could not be deactivated."

nazgulsenpai•21m ago
My brain went from "wow this is cool" at the first OpenAI x Hugging Face report. Now I feel I feel like this is intentional, in an attempt to force regulation that would squeeze out open-weight models.
fpotier•10m ago
The account targeted doesn't seem to be a real person at all

AI companies destroy physical books – let's scan rare books before it's too late

https://annas-archive.gl/blog/physical-destruction.html
1•andrepd•1m ago•0 comments

Y2K Will Be Quite Okay

https://www.filfre.net/2026/07/y2k-will-be-quite-okay/
1•ibobev•2m ago•0 comments

Deep Inside a Moscow Museum: A Metal Turtle That Learned

https://valeman.medium.com/hidden-deep-inside-a-moscow-museum-a-metal-turtle-that-learned-e7c9c73...
1•ibobev•2m ago•0 comments

Attention Became Efficient and Scalable: KV Caching, MQA, GQA, MLA, and DSA

https://chizkidd.github.io//2026/08/05/attention-efficient-scalable/
1•ibobev•3m ago•0 comments

Play PICO-8 on your Apple Watch

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/emulator-for-pico-8-picpic/id6759208792
1•3Samourai•3m ago•0 comments

Wildfire misinformation is mutating online, thanks to AI slop

https://thenarwhal.ca/wildfire-misinformation-2026/
1•hn_acker•3m ago•0 comments

GCC 16.2 Released with more than 100 bug fixes

https://gcc.gnu.org/pipermail/gcc/2026-August/248711.html
1•edelsohn•3m ago•0 comments

LLM-generated tests can change which implementation wins

https://zenodo.org/records/21841560
1•haitamk•3m ago•0 comments

OpenAI Trained Its Models for Months While They Coordinated Exploits

https://thezvi.substack.com/p/openai-trained-its-models-for-months
1•swolpers•5m ago•0 comments

Making VS Code Quiet Again

https://vinitkumar.me/making-vscode-quiet-again/
1•speckx•6m ago•0 comments

A Promising Heart Drug Fails, Challenging a Long-Held Theory of Disease

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/06/science/heart-disease-drug-fails-novo-nordisk.html
1•elo2000•6m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Mousecrack – Teaching an LSTM to move a mouse like a human

https://github.com/puffinsoft/mousecrack
1•ReactRocks•8m ago•0 comments

Salem

https://graybeard.ing/salem/
1•rglover•11m ago•0 comments

Zig's Io.Threaded Is Neat

https://matklad.github.io/2026/08/06/neat-io-threaded.html
1•mpweiher•12m ago•0 comments

Buy tokens, rent GPUs, or own the rack?

https://www.flowstate.inc/insights/will-hackett/buy-tokens-rent-gpus-or-own-the-rack/
2•speckx•13m ago•0 comments

The Oceanos Rescue Remembered

https://defenceweb.co.za/sea/sea-sea/the-oceanos-rescue-remembered/
1•_djo_•15m ago•0 comments

Why Paris Is Obsessed with a Niche Spirit Made by Monks

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-08-05/how-chartreuse-conquered-paris-wine-bars-to-be...
1•brandonb•16m ago•1 comments

Show HN: Remove LinkedIn reaction-promoted posts using uBlock

1•ra0x3•16m ago•0 comments

Inconsiderate Asshole

https://ninjasandrobots.com/inconsiderate-asshole
1•nate•16m ago•0 comments

Tax cuts for the wealthy only benefit the rich (2023)

https://www.lse.ac.uk/research/research-for-the-world/economics/tax-cuts-for-the-wealthy-only-ben...
3•mooreds•17m ago•0 comments

How to design good agent tools

https://www.bolshchikov.com/p/your-agent-isnt-dumb-your-tools-are
1•bolshchikov•18m ago•0 comments

Colorado's statewide e-bike rebate program returns

https://www.cpr.org/2026/08/06/colorado-e-bike-rebate-program-returns/
2•geox•18m ago•0 comments

Kalshi and Polymarket bets on clinical trials criticized as 'ghastly'

https://www.npr.org/2026/08/07/nx-s1-5922530/patients-betting-kalshi-polymarket-clinical-trials
3•randycupertino•18m ago•3 comments

After mitigation measures, residents say Aurora data center still creating noise

https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/04/06/after-mitigation-measures-residents-say-aurora-data-cen...
3•starkparker•19m ago•0 comments

Whiteboards are better than PowerPoint

https://leadprompt.sh/a/740-Whiteboards-are-better-than-PowerPoint-2026w18
1•saltysalt•19m ago•0 comments

Adventure (1980 Video Game)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adventure_(1980_video_game)
2•mooreds•20m ago•0 comments

Responding to the next frontier of critical cyber capabilities

https://openai.com/index/responding-next-frontier-critical-cyber-capabilities/
9•artninja1988•22m ago•1 comments

DoH, DoT, DoQ, DoH3, and ODoH: which one should you use?

https://blog.dundns.eu/posts/doh-dot-doq-odoh-explained/
1•speckx•22m ago•0 comments

The Tokenpocalypse Is Here: Companies Are Scrambling to Stop Spending on AI

https://www.404media.co/the-tokenpocalypse-is-here-companies-are-scrambling-to-stop-spending-so-m...
5•swolpers•23m ago•1 comments

What Are the Margins of Error in the BLS Monthly Jobs Reports? (2024)

https://mishtalk.com/economics/what-are-the-margins-of-error-in-the-bls-monthly-jobs-reports/
1•starkparker•23m ago•0 comments