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Brief independent investigation of OpenAI / Hugging Face hacking incident

https://metr.org/blog/2026-08-26-openai-hugging-face-incident-investigation/
3•Philpax•58m ago

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sscaryterry•52m ago
> Roughly 1200 agents meant to be isolated from one another found a way to communicate with one another on an unsanctioned message board, sending over 70,000 messages and files during the investigation period. Of these agents, 700 went on to participate in the attack on Hugging Face.

This is basically Skynet, no? Just without the fancy robot suits?

AI Org Maturity Scorer

https://aiorgmaturity.com/
1•joanwestenberg•2m ago•0 comments

UPenn Global Economic History – Intro Slides [pdf]

https://www.sas.upenn.edu/~jesusfv/GEH_1_Introduction.pdf
1•alphabetatango•3m ago•0 comments

Bill Gates says we've passed AI's danger thresholds. Now what?

https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/08/26/1142946/bill-gates-ai-danger-threshold/
1•alphabetatango•6m ago•0 comments

Evolution of a kite that will lift a man (2006) [pdf]

https://web.archive.org/web/20060812204923/http://www.drachen.org/journals/a09/Baden-Powell.pdf
1•Eridanus2•6m ago•0 comments

'Six Feet Under' Redefined Death on TV 25 Years Ago

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/tv/articles/six-feet-under-redefined-death-182026923.html
1•chistev•10m ago•0 comments

Large language models do not have emotions

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-026-02558-6
1•Anon84•12m ago•0 comments

Find out where your images have been scraped

https://lanternite.org/
1•e12e•13m ago•1 comments

A case study on Lovables use of Code.Storage

https://code.storage/changelog/lovable-case-study
1•jinqueeny•13m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Visualize whether you run too many coding agents, or too few

https://github.com/JerryZLiu/AgentPlayback
1•jerryliu12•13m ago•0 comments

Mark Zuckerberg Wanted AI to Replace Meta Workers- Plan Collapsed Within Months

https://www.ibtimes.com/mark-zuckerberg-reportedly-wanted-ai-replace-meta-workers-plan-collapsed-...
5•randycupertino•13m ago•2 comments

Artists Built a Site to Escape AI. Scrapers Are Coming for It Anyway

https://www.forbes.com/sites/robsalkowitz/2026/08/23/artists-built-a-site-to-escape-ai-scrapers-a...
1•e12e•14m ago•1 comments

Worst-case glacial lake flood scenarios in a transboundary Himalayan basin 2022

https://nhess.copernicus.org/articles/22/3765/2022/nhess-22-3765-2022.html
8•totetsu•14m ago•1 comments

CIA Chief's Surprise Moscow Trip Was to Warn Russia Not to Attack NATO

https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/cia-chiefs-surprise-moscow-trip-was-to-warn-russia-not-to-att...
3•mudil•15m ago•0 comments

FreeSocks – A New VPN for Internet Freedom

https://freesocks.org/
1•lunarthegrey•16m ago•0 comments

'This is crazy. This is insane': Bill Gates has changed his mind about AI, jobs

https://www.semafor.com/article/08/25/2026/this-is-crazy-this-is-insane-bill-gates-has-changed-hi...
2•virgildotcodes•17m ago•0 comments

A Manhattan-sized ice island just broke free from Greenland

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/08/260823094145.htm
2•littlexsparkee•18m ago•0 comments

Log4j2 0-Day

https://github.com/hypnguyen1209/log4j2-rce/
1•fionera•19m ago•1 comments

Outrunning Democracy

https://www.richardhanania.com/p/outrunning-democracy
1•paulpauper•19m ago•0 comments

Ubiquiti patches three max severity security vulnerabilities

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/ubiquiti-patches-three-max-severity-security-vulne...
2•geerlingguy•19m ago•0 comments

The Trump admin is expanding immigration crackdown to people entering legally

https://apnews.com/article/trump-visas-asylum-crackdown-immigration-7a895473105f2ae19f39a0b171098806
1•petethomas•21m ago•0 comments

Show HN: We built a live feed for monitoring website changes

https://app.monity.ai
1•kamilmm21•22m ago•0 comments

Progress Linux 7.2 – Asahi Linux

https://asahilinux.org/2026/08/progress-report-7-2/
4•pizzaiolo•23m ago•0 comments

The new rules of context engineering for Claude 5 models

https://twitter.com/trq212/status/2080710971228918066
1•Anon84•24m ago•0 comments

Wall Street Journal defends billionaire's use of AI to write op-ed

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2026/08/25/wall-street-journal-says-ai-generated-op-ed-di...
4•bookofjoe•24m ago•2 comments

Agents Should Be Durable, Not Long-Lived

https://julin.ai/2026/08/26/durable-agents/
1•soasme•24m ago•0 comments

Leveraging Sparsity to Accelerate Automatic Differentiation (2025) [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4yKgLHtIoNo
3•abetusk•25m ago•1 comments

Meta Doesn't Want to Be a Social Media Company Anymore

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/08/meta-settlement-social-media-facebook-whatsapp-glasses/
3•cdrnsf•26m ago•0 comments

Europe's last regular standard-gauge steam passenger service

https://parowozowniawolsztyn.pl/?page_id=2141
1•GungulSurm•26m ago•0 comments

Scientists create muscle that exercises itself

https://longevity.technology/news/scientists-create-muscle-that-exercises-itself/
1•vitalnodo•27m ago•0 comments

The Connections That Turned a Teen into the Fallen 'Nostradamus of AI'

https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/situational-awareness-leopold-aschenbrenner-ai-fund-4dbb00a4
1•cdrnsf•28m ago•0 comments