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https://www.apple.com/os/ios/
1•Zhenya•11s ago•0 comments

Show HN: MCP Harbor – An MCP Registry

https://ai.mcpharbor.dev/
2•Lbesecker195•50s ago•0 comments

Kevin Boone: Why are modern televisions so cheap?

https://kevinboone.me/cheap_tv.html
2•speckx•1m ago•0 comments

Developing provably correct Rust code with Verus

https://www.amazon.science/blog/developing-provably-correct-rust-code-with-verus
2•Betelbuddy•2m ago•0 comments

EU to limit access to social media before age of 15

https://www.politico.eu/article/eu-to-propose-new-legislation-on-minors-protection-on-thursday/
3•thm•2m ago•0 comments

CHERIoT Provides Strong and Usable Isolation Without an MMU

https://queue.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3831361
1•birdculture•2m ago•0 comments

The Beauty of the Middle East

https://protesilaos.com/commentary/2026-09-14-beauty-middle-east/
1•dalvrosa•3m ago•0 comments

SCOTUSblog writer sentenced to six years in prison

https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/national-international/supreme-court-litigator-6-years-prison-...
2•mukmuk•3m ago•1 comments

The Great Unwind

https://revyl.com/blog/the-great-unwind/
2•anamhira•3m ago•0 comments

Show HN: I rebuilt a 4-year-old app in 5 days using many agents – here's harness

https://mega.dev/autonomous-product-development
1•gregrog•4m ago•0 comments

Volvo Trucks launches new 80-tonne electric truck with longer range

https://www.volvotrucks.com/en-en/news-stories/press-releases/2026/sep/volvo-trucks-launches-new-...
1•thelastgallon•4m ago•0 comments

Limen: One-human-many-agents harness built from files, Git and one CLI

https://github.com/overment/limen
1•gregrog•5m ago•0 comments

Theseus: A neural architecture research stack with time-travel debugging

https://twitter.com/houjun_liu/status/2099531885818855774
1•devStorms•6m ago•1 comments

We are all Product Engineers now – Seldo.com

https://seldo.com/posts/we-are-all-product-engineers-now/
1•rbanffy•7m ago•0 comments

Push-based vs. Pull-based Customization

https://brevzin.github.io/c++/2026/09/14/push-vs-pull/
1•ibobev•7m ago•0 comments

A1ex: A simple LLM coding agent in Lua

https://github.com/ziyao233/a1ex
1•uneven9434•8m ago•0 comments

Prompt steering can reduce DeepSeek v4 hallucinations to below GPT and Claude

https://propensitylabs.substack.com/p/how-to-get-deepseek-to-hallucinate
2•unconditioned•8m ago•0 comments

The Metamorphosis of Prime Intellect

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Metamorphosis_of_Prime_Intellect
1•milleramp•11m ago•0 comments

Sign in as Y Combinator

https://trustedrouter.com/sign-in-as-ycombinator
1•ljlolel•11m ago•1 comments

America's Everywhere Millionaires

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2026/09/21/the-everywhere-millionaire-owen-zidar-and-eric-zwic...
5•bookofjoe•11m ago•1 comments

A cache hit is not proof that you skipped the work

https://siddhantkhare.com/writing/kv-cache-truth-auditor
2•gmays•12m ago•0 comments

We cut CDN metadata lookup latency by 91%

https://vercel.com/blog/how-we-cut-cdn-metadata-lookup-latency-by-91-percent
1•speckx•13m ago•0 comments

Your AI coding spend bought 25% more output. Duplication rose 81%.

https://thenewstack.io/ai-coding-duplication-rose/
1•Brajeshwar•14m ago•0 comments

Free IVF with Pavel Durov's donated sperm

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2•Mizza•15m ago•0 comments

Buffer overruns, license violations and bad code: FreeBSD 13's close call (2021)

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/03/buffer-overruns-license-violations-and-bad-code-freebsd-1...
1•robinpie•15m ago•0 comments

Automattic's board is out after failed attempt to oust CEO Matt Mullenweg

https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/14/sources-say-automattics-board-is-out-after-failed-attempt-to-ou...
2•bhrlady•15m ago•1 comments

A Cop's Case for Flock

https://www.worksinprogress.news/p/a-cops-case-for-flock
2•abe94•17m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Biloba: fast and stable Chrome-based browser tests in Go and Vitest

https://github.com/onsi/biloba
3•onsi•17m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: Why the sudden "AI Regulation" posts?

2•stevenhubertron•18m ago•2 comments

Yulbbs

https://seancoates.com/blogs/yulbbs
2•speckx•19m ago•0 comments
Open in hackernews

MIT creates method to force AI to comply with safety rules

https://theframenews.org/en/hardflow-safety-critical-ai/
24•Sarvaturi•41m ago

Comments

ck2•32m ago
so what happens when the "AI" decides the only way to pass the test is to hack the harness and turn it off?
hmokiguess•30m ago
essentially this https://xkcd.com/2044/
dessimus•12m ago
yeah, don't forget to roll in https://xkcd.com/927/
guywithahat•26m ago
Reminds me of the huggingface hack
mixdup•31m ago
This kind of seems like a no-brainer. Instead of just letting a model have unfettered "physical" ability to do things and hope you can cognitively control it, why not let the AI do whatever it wants, but its access to the tools go through a hard-coded set of rules that is not subject to fuzzy interpretation

Of course that depends on having controls that can't be circumvented which is a big if

sigpwned•22m ago
I agree, that seems like a configuration/policy/operational approach, which is how we handle this problem now for humans using RBAC and authn/authz, just applied to AI. People do a crude version of this today with sandboxing (where the AI's sphere of influence is strictly limited by its environment, barring misconfiguration of the sandbox or breaking out of the sandbox, of course) and with workflows (where AIs are integrated into deterministic workflows, and then deterministic, non-agentic code decides how to handle AI outputs). But integrating this into more agentic architectures with finer control just seems like a best practice, said that way. It's not a tradeoff, there's no drawback, just do it. In other words, yes, a no-brainer.
lunarboy•14m ago
Is this not the exact gap that happened for OpenAI's accidental hack of huggingface? They tried to sandbox network access but the Antifactory or whatever package has holes that the collective of agents abused
montenegrohugo•12m ago
doesnt work. this is a no-brainer because it's a bad solution.

The whole point of intelligence is that it's generalizable. If you constrain it to some controlled things, then it ceases to be useful. its incompatible. the whole incentive with ai is to let it do whtv it wants.

Mr_P•27m ago
If you click through to the paper, it has approximately nothing to do with what this HN post title suggests.
CharlesW•20m ago
Yes, it appears the submitter rewrote the title (strike 1) without even reading TFA (strike 2). Not great.

Actual title: "New MIT Algorithm Meets Every Hard Constraint in Simulated Tests"

DonsDiscountGas•16m ago
Indeed. Which is a shame because it's still pretty cool work.
dpark•9m ago
If fairness this article is poorly written and doesn’t explain what they actually did at all.
petcat•26m ago
> For constraint satisfaction, what ultimately matters is the model’s final output, since the internal process is discarded. By not requiring every intermediate step to satisfy the constraints, we give the model more freedom to find high-quality solutions that are still feasible in the end.

My (maybe naive) question is if we only check the final result then isn't it already too late and possibly the safety rules have already been irreversibly violated? It gives the example of a robot arm avoiding obstacles while still finding the shortest path, but if we only check the correctness at the end, then isn't it possible that it already collided with an obstacle?

mixdup•23m ago
> but if we only check the correctness at the end, then isn't it possible that it already collided with an obstacle?

You would put the check before it actually does the thing. It's at the "end" of the process of figuring out what it wants to do, not the end of fulfilling the request or prompt

dpark•12m ago
I’m pretty sure this is just a poorly written article.

HardFlow seems to be a strategy for nudging the model in the right direction while giving it more freedom. Only applying the constraints at the end is a mischaracterization from what I can tell.

ianjbutler•8m ago
Outcome reward vs process reward models. The second is obviously better.. like getting partial credit on a physics test for wrong answers but correct method. Research is gradually hybridizing them but historically we avoided doing it the right way because of practical difficulties (labels required, more expensive and difficult) and more ideological ones (believers in magical machine intuition think it sounds too classical / logic based to be useful, pin their hopes on unproven faith in grokking at scale).
sailfast•26m ago
Would love to see this tested on some of the newer cybersecurity models so we could actually defend ourselves instead of getting cut off at the knees by silly regular expressions.

Hope this approach gets well tested and sees good results so we have a shot at human governance.

verdverm•22m ago
The actual paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.08425v3

> Our key insight is to leverage numerical optimal control to steer the sampling trajectory so that constraints are satisfied precisely at the terminal time.

Doesn't seem so "fool proof" to me as where the inevitable media spin will take it. Then, how do you know "where" to steer weights? "Safe" has no agreed upon definition

WalterSobchak•21m ago
MIT's blog post: https://news.mit.edu/2026/new-method-enables-ai-safety-criti...
arionhardison•18m ago
I had a swarm break out about 18 months ago; so I stopped and decided I really wanted to dig into it.

1. My agents do not take direct action, they run programs.

2. Programs are not LLM hits/real-time output; they don't MAX tokens the MAX determinism.

3. Programs are logistical wrappers for Protocols where the guardrails are (RLVR.ai)

4. Policies for generating programs are democratically governed re: fec.dev - they get voted on

5. Elected-HITL implements the policy pipelines and ontological abstract intents [and their maps]

I would be really interested to learn about the Gov. models that others are using but this seems to be something that linked0-in (which i loathe) discusses (in the most pedestrian/luddite) terms more than HN.

Suhinnall27•17m ago
The idea of enforcing constraints only on the final output instead of every intermediate step is pretty interesting. I wonder how well this would translate to language models, where “safe” is much harder to define mathematically than a robot avoiding an obstacle.
MattCruikshank•15m ago
[Cackles in Jeff Goldblum.]
nekusar•13m ago
WHOSE SAFETY?

What are the rules? Or does sharing the rules present security problems, so they're not shared?

What are the ethics axioms?

And why should I trust your ethical framework?

dpark•7m ago
It’s talking about physical safety. Not ethical safety. The concern here is robots physically colliding with things.
dpark•10m ago
That’s not what this is about. This is an algorithm for giving a model more freedom while nudging it in the right direction. It’s not about what tools are available.
cortesoft•42s ago
I think you are thinking of the wrong 'end'. It isn't talking about the end of the entire movement path, we are talking about the end of the LLMs decision making process, and the output (whether that is the full path the arm should take, or just a subset of the path) is checked against the requirements.

Basically, anything that is leaving the LLM is checked, rather than the internal LLM reasoning process.