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LLMs are real, AI is fake

https://pluralistic.net/2026/09/12/god-in-the-box/
11•danaris•56m ago

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danaris•49m ago
Some really important and informative stuff in here—I certainly had no idea just what the nature of the prompts and tooling that produced the HuggingFace exploit were.

This shows fairly clearly that (as I already suspected) this was not, remotely, an LLM "going rogue." This was humans planning poorly, not thinking of the consequences of their actions, and giving LLMs too much scope and a lousy prompt.

Reduce token cost with Metrum AI Router – routing intelligence you can train

https://github.com/metrum-ai/router
1•RouterTouter•4m ago•0 comments

BioNeMo Inference Runtime

https://github.com/NVIDIA-BioNeMo/BioNeMo-Inference-Runtime
1•khoahpd•6m ago•0 comments

Tech's New Rich Are Suffering from 'Sudden Wealth Syndrome'

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-09-11/tech-s-nouveau-riche-suffer-sudden-wealth-synd...
1•wslh•9m ago•1 comments

ASU: One CLI that shows how much of your agent subscription is left

https://chaosguru.substack.com/p/introducing-asu
1•taubek•9m ago•0 comments

In 1985, one video game made you telephone for permission to nuke Europe

https://www.escapistmagazine.com/news-theatre-europe-nuclear-war-phone-number-midnight-sun/
1•hentrep•12m ago•0 comments

SpaceX Backtracks on Starlink Data Cap After Complaints

https://www.pcmag.com/news/spacex-backtracks-on-starlink-data-cap-after-complaints
1•freedomben•15m ago•0 comments

GPT-6's "Stealth Thinking" [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nf4NdV8m28I
1•treetalker•17m ago•0 comments

I refuse to let SPICE die

https://github.com/nefarius/vd_agent/
2•Nefarius•18m ago•0 comments

Science gets by with a little help from the Beatles

https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0356147%20&utm_campaign=2026-pr...
2•taubek•18m ago•0 comments

Finding Zero-Days with Any Model

https://www.provos.org/p/finding-zero-days-with-any-model/
2•wslh•19m ago•0 comments

The Metamorphosis

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Metamorphosis
1•chistev•19m ago•0 comments

Mathematicians are unhappy about OpenAI

https://twitter.com/lemire/status/2098497422297039012
2•tosh•20m ago•0 comments

FTC Kickoff (at 4 PM UTC) [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gO98TkgY0kI
1•iamcoder18•22m ago•1 comments

A Misalignment of AI in Mathematics: Kevin Buzzard Responds

https://leanprover.zulipchat.com/#narrow/channel/113488-general/topic/Declaration.3A.20A.20Severe...
3•mathgenius•24m ago•1 comments

Build a Tiny Scheduler from Scratch

https://pmbanugo.me/blog/crash-course-on-programming-concurrent-systems
1•tosh•24m ago•0 comments

Europe's "Less" Is Doing More Than Anyone Gives It Credit For

https://oilprice.com/Energy/Energy-General/Europes-Less-Is-Doing-More-Than-Anyone-Gives-It-Credit...
2•u1hcw9nx•26m ago•0 comments

EU tech chief backs global AI rules in wake of extinction warning

https://www.politico.eu/article/henna-virkkunen-eu-global-ai-rules-extinction-warning/
2•tosh•27m ago•1 comments

Waymo pulls over, calls cops on juvenile riders who had 'ghost gun"

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2026-09-12/juveniles-riding-in-waymo-arrested-after-poli...
6•mmayberry•27m ago•0 comments

You Don't Need Matrix Calculus

https://julesjacobs.com/2024/07/28/you-dont-need-matrix-calculus.html
2•srean•28m ago•1 comments

Ask HN: Anyone kicking around the idea that AI came from a state like Bitcoin?

1•general_reveal•28m ago•0 comments

Lawmakers call on Commerce to sanction Indian hackers-for-hire

https://cyberscoop.com/us-lawmakers-treasury-sanctions-india-hack-for-hire/
1•miohtama•31m ago•0 comments

We Must Pace the Frontier

https://darioamodei.com/post/we-must-pace-the-frontier
36•apsec112•32m ago•28 comments

Compiler Can Undo Your Security Checks

https://davidbombal.com/your-compiler-can-undo-your-security-checks/
5•birdculture•35m ago•0 comments

Nvidia's Groq acquihire is on the DOJ's radar, but it's too late

https://www.theregister.com/systems/2026/09/12/nvidias-groq-acquihire-is-on-the-dojs-radar-but-it...
2•sbulaev•36m ago•0 comments

US lawmakers call for UK court to lift secrecy over Apple backdoor surveillance

https://www.computerweekly.com/news/366650365/US-lawmakers-call-for-UK-court-to-lift-secrecy-over...
2•miohtama•36m ago•0 comments

The Electric Typewriter

https://tetw.org/
1•jruohonen•36m ago•0 comments

The Giant Squids of the Jurassic Period

https://nautil.us/the-giant-squids-of-the-jurassic-period-1285002
3•Brajeshwar•37m ago•0 comments

Alignment Research Engineer Accelerator ARENA course content

https://learn.arena.education/
1•Bluestein•37m ago•0 comments

Deckstream – write Markdown, get live-rendered Slidev presentations

https://deckstream.org
1•aspic•38m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Sanctum – A plugin that allows only the sites you need

https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/sanctum-its-time-to-focus/cbibfccpchmdgnamgemdfmoijadjilbn
1•surya_waters•41m ago•0 comments