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I Write Games in C (yes, C)

https://jonathanwhiting.com/writing/blog/games_in_c/
60•valyala•2h ago•28 comments

SectorC: A C Compiler in 512 bytes

https://xorvoid.com/sectorc.html
38•valyala•2h ago•4 comments

Brookhaven Lab's RHIC Concludes 25-Year Run with Final Collisions

https://www.hpcwire.com/off-the-wire/brookhaven-labs-rhic-concludes-25-year-run-with-final-collis...
13•gnufx•1h ago•1 comments

Hoot: Scheme on WebAssembly

https://www.spritely.institute/hoot/
131•AlexeyBrin•8h ago•25 comments

We Mourn Our Craft

https://nolanlawson.com/2026/02/07/we-mourn-our-craft/
253•ColinWright•2h ago•286 comments

The AI boom is causing shortages everywhere else

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2026/02/07/ai-spending-economy-shortages/
142•1vuio0pswjnm7•9h ago•169 comments

Stories from 25 Years of Software Development

https://susam.net/twenty-five-years-of-computing.html
76•vinhnx•5h ago•9 comments

OpenCiv3: Open-source, cross-platform reimagining of Civilization III

https://openciv3.org/
839•klaussilveira•22h ago•251 comments

U.S. Jobs Disappear at Fastest January Pace Since Great Recession

https://www.forbes.com/sites/mikestunson/2026/02/05/us-jobs-disappear-at-fastest-january-pace-sin...
195•alephnerd•3h ago•135 comments

Al Lowe on model trains, funny deaths and working with Disney

https://spillhistorie.no/2026/02/06/interview-with-sierra-veteran-al-lowe/
57•thelok•4h ago•8 comments

The Waymo World Model

https://waymo.com/blog/2026/02/the-waymo-world-model-a-new-frontier-for-autonomous-driving-simula...
1067•xnx•1d ago•615 comments

Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback

https://rlhfbook.com/
87•onurkanbkrc•7h ago•5 comments

Start all of your commands with a comma (2009)

https://rhodesmill.org/brandon/2009/commands-with-comma/
496•theblazehen•3d ago•186 comments

Vocal Guide – belt sing without killing yourself

https://jesperordrup.github.io/vocal-guide/
218•jesperordrup•12h ago•79 comments

Coding agents have replaced every framework I used

https://blog.alaindichiappari.dev/p/software-engineering-is-back
237•alainrk•7h ago•375 comments

Show HN: I saw this cool navigation reveal, so I made a simple HTML+CSS version

https://github.com/Momciloo/fun-with-clip-path
18•momciloo•2h ago•1 comments

France's homegrown open source online office suite

https://github.com/suitenumerique
581•nar001•7h ago•260 comments

A Fresh Look at IBM 3270 Information Display System

https://www.rs-online.com/designspark/a-fresh-look-at-ibm-3270-information-display-system
42•rbanffy•4d ago•8 comments

Selection Rather Than Prediction

https://voratiq.com/blog/selection-rather-than-prediction/
10•languid-photic•3d ago•1 comments

72M Points of Interest

https://tech.marksblogg.com/overture-places-pois.html
32•marklit•5d ago•4 comments

History and Timeline of the Proco Rat Pedal (2021)

https://web.archive.org/web/20211030011207/https://thejhsshow.com/articles/history-and-timeline-o...
19•brudgers•5d ago•4 comments

Unseen Footage of Atari Battlezone Arcade Cabinet Production

https://arcadeblogger.com/2026/02/02/unseen-footage-of-atari-battlezone-cabinet-production/
116•videotopia•4d ago•35 comments

Where did all the starships go?

https://www.datawrapper.de/blog/science-fiction-decline
83•speckx•4d ago•94 comments

Microsoft Account bugs locked me out of Notepad – are Thin Clients ruining PCs?

https://www.windowscentral.com/microsoft/windows-11/windows-locked-me-out-of-notepad-is-the-thin-...
13•josephcsible•43m ago•9 comments

Show HN: Look Ma, No Linux: Shell, App Installer, Vi, Cc on ESP32-S3 / BreezyBox

https://github.com/valdanylchuk/breezydemo
280•isitcontent•23h ago•38 comments

Learning from context is harder than we thought

https://hy.tencent.com/research/100025?langVersion=en
203•limoce•4d ago•112 comments

Monty: A minimal, secure Python interpreter written in Rust for use by AI

https://github.com/pydantic/monty
291•dmpetrov•23h ago•156 comments

Hackers (1995) Animated Experience

https://hackers-1995.vercel.app/
559•todsacerdoti•1d ago•272 comments

Making geo joins faster with H3 indexes

https://floedb.ai/blog/how-we-made-geo-joins-400-faster-with-h3-indexes
156•matheusalmeida•2d ago•50 comments

Sheldon Brown's Bicycle Technical Info

https://www.sheldonbrown.com/
432•ostacke•1d ago•111 comments
Open in hackernews

Doublespeak: In-Context Representation Hijacking

https://mentaleap.ai/doublespeak/
77•surprisetalk•1mo ago

Comments

measurablefunc•1mo ago
This means whatever NNs are currently used for "safety" will need to be extended. In the limit you essentially get another network of the same width & depth as the original network but which is designed for rejecting all "unsafe" queries which are context hijacking bomb construction with stories about fruits.
acjohnson55•1mo ago
These types of attacks are interesting ways in which LLM "thinking" differs from human thinking.
wood_spirit•1mo ago
Intriguing and very cunning attack! So obvious in hindsight!

It makes me wonder how Deepseek avoids commenting politically on China? I have heard anecdotes that it will be writing out a long reply and then presumably it generates some forbidden phrase and it abandons the output and replaces it all with an error message. So presumably the safeguards could be a separate trivial non-LLM-based post filtering which makes it immune to the doublespeak attack?

gunalx•1mo ago
Deepseek the model is not that censored. Deepseek the service is. So preaumably like openai and others, there is an additional model and filtering detecting misues or sensitive topics, and filtering the output.
behnamoh•1mo ago
summary: interesting idea, slop website, tested only on old AI models
orbital-decay•1mo ago
The trick is also old, it's a very basic tool from the jailbreaking toolset. It's pretty useless on its own, without others. The paper is mostly about mechinterp analysis of that.
amannm•1mo ago
Wasn't able to outsmart GPT 5.2 at least. Saw through it completely.
hyperhello•1mo ago
I guess I understand what is meant, but what is the actual attack? It’s more than a little abstracted from any consequences, like kids using google to search for boobs by typing ‘boobs’.