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Lockdown Mode

https://help.openai.com/en/articles/20001061-lockdown-mode
26•berlianta•1h ago

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varenc•1h ago
Probably influenced by Apple's feature with the same name: https://support.apple.com/en-us/105120

I imagine that enterprise companies will be quite interested in this.

rafram•1h ago
https://x.com/sama/status/1891533802779910471
ares623•1h ago
i can definitely feel the agi now
neonstatic•47m ago
Congratulations, you are a high taste tester!
kijin•1h ago
So we still don't have a reliable way to separate instructions from data when talking to an LLM, a problem that humans learned how to solve decades ago in areas like SQL and memory safety. But hey, we have these hopefully-not-leaky containers, which are probably implemented with just more system prompts.

How long until somebody figures out how to trick Codex into disabling Lockdown Mode for you?

dnnddidiej•50m ago
We can seperate them but the $ value of an agent that does is much lower than one that doesn't.

As a pre LLM analogy imagine working at a bank with a whitelist firewall. You need to install a package but requires an IT ticket. Safer but slooooower.

Now not saying what the answer here is but that is the issue.

The answer may be more like industries that get safer through lessons (like aviation) rather than go for 100% safety out of the gate. Because both fast travel and AI agents are insanely useful.

altmanaltman•20m ago
what? Aviation safety is not designed to get safer through lessons? They literally try to ensure it is 100% safe out of the gate. The accidents that happen are usually statistical outliers and lead to loss of life.

That's what it means when they say aviation regulations are written in blood. Not that they just fling planes into the sky and be like "boy i hope we learn some new regulations from this". The number of airplane crashes would be astronomically larger if the 100% safety part was not embedded into the design process.

The intracies of modern camera lens repair (2024)

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119•transistor-man•4h ago•39 comments

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18•gostsamo•1h ago•1 comments

How LLMs work

https://www.0xkato.xyz/how-llms-actually-work/
100•0xkato•2d ago•16 comments

Lockdown Mode

https://help.openai.com/en/articles/20001061-lockdown-mode
26•berlianta•1h ago•7 comments

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https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20260605-01/?p=112391
18•paulmooreparks•1h ago•0 comments

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372•janpot•14h ago•241 comments

pg_durable: Microsoft open sources in-database durable execution

https://github.com/microsoft/pg_durable
363•coffeemug•13h ago•83 comments

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https://www.rochester.edu/newscenter/what-is-desalination-definition-ocean-water-704732/
308•speckx•14h ago•136 comments

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311•theanonymousone•12h ago•92 comments

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https://irfanali.org/blog/zcom
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Ask HN: What was your "oh shit" moment with GenAI?

238•andrehacker•1d ago•483 comments

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500•riddley•2d ago•209 comments

Did Claude increase bugs in rsync?

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358•logicprog•16h ago•364 comments

Ask HN: Why is the HN crowd so anti-AI?

62•Ekami•2h ago•102 comments

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https://github.com/nordstjernen-web/nordstjernen/releases/tag/1.0.0
30•andreasrosdal•5h ago•11 comments

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23•gotski•3h ago•14 comments

My Agent Skill for Test-Driven Development

https://www.saturnci.com/my-agent-skill-for-test-driven-development.html
157•laxmena•1d ago•63 comments

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208•orgonon•10h ago•102 comments

Gov.uk has replaced Stripe with Dutch provider Adyen

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390•toomuchtodo•12h ago•133 comments

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23•gmays•1d ago•4 comments

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48•emschwartz•5h ago•24 comments

Nine Ways to Do Inheritance in Rust, a Language Without Inheritance

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22•pjmlp•2d ago•0 comments

The Quiet Numbers Station: Decoding Nineteen Years of GPS Cryptography

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77•lordgilman•16h ago•69 comments

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285•jsve•13h ago•221 comments

Transformers are inherently succinct

https://openreview.net/pdf?id=Yxz92UuPLQ
108•brandonb•10h ago•31 comments

Tracing a powerful GNSS interference source over Europe

https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.03673
377•mimorigasaka•20h ago•200 comments

India's surprise baby bust

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152•hakonbogen•14h ago•689 comments

Cooldown Support for Ruby Bundler

https://blog.rubygems.org/2026/06/03/cooldown-let-new-gems-be-vetted.html
151•calyhre•2d ago•42 comments

I tested every IP KVM in my Homelab

https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2026/i-tested-every-ip-kvm/
260•vquemener•14h ago•70 comments

Launch HN: General Instinct (YC P26) – Frontier models on edge devices

49•guanming0717•12h ago•15 comments