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US bans differential privacy in Census data

https://desfontain.es/blog/banning-noise.html
428•nl•4h ago•208 comments

Treating pancreatic tumours may have revealed cancer's master switch

https://economist.com/science-and-technology/2026/06/12/treating-pancreatic-tumours-may-have-reve...
157•andsoitis•5h ago•42 comments

Every Frame Perfect

https://tonsky.me/blog/every-frame-perfect/
286•ravenical•7h ago•91 comments

GameBoy Workboy

https://tcrf.net/Workboy
15•tosh•1h ago•2 comments

Appreciating Exif

https://brentfitzgerald.com/posts/appreciating-exif/
69•burnto•3d ago•11 comments

The experience of rendering Arabic typography and its technical debt

https://lr0.org/blog/p/arabic/
103•bookofjoe•6h ago•20 comments

The adder at the heart of Intel's 8087 floating-point chip

https://www.righto.com/2026/06/intel-8087-adder-reverse-engineered.html
31•pwg•1h ago•2 comments

A low-carbon computing platform from your retired phones

https://research.google/blog/a-low-carbon-computing-platform-from-your-retired-phones/
185•vikas-sharma•9h ago•96 comments

AI Coding at Home Without Going Broke

https://stephen.bochinski.dev/blog/2026/06/13/ai-coding-at-home-without-going-broke/
91•sbochins•2h ago•87 comments

GLM 5.2 Is Out

https://digg.com/tech/ii9xibgn
106•aloknnikhil•2h ago•41 comments

Electric motors with no rare earths

https://www.renaultgroup.com/en/magazine/energy-and-powertrains/all-about-electric-motors-with-no...
663•bestouff•20h ago•190 comments

Show HN: I am building a map of people who lived in the Roman Empire

https://new.roman-names.com/
95•metiscus•2d ago•17 comments

RTX 5080 and RTX 3090 Setup: 80 Tok/s on Qwen 3.6 27B Q8

https://imil.net/blog/posts/2026/rtx-5080-+-rtx-3090-setup-80+-tok-s-on-qwen-3.6-27b-q8/
117•iMil•8h ago•42 comments

AI OSS tool repo goes archived over night after raising $7.3M Seed

https://github.com/tensorzero/tensorzero
196•hek2sch•6h ago•137 comments

Show HN: Paca – Lightweight Jira alternative for human-AI collaboration

https://github.com/Paca-AI/paca
106•pikann22•9h ago•42 comments

An Interview with Intel's Kira Boyko: Xeon 6's Product Director

https://chipsandcheese.com/p/an-interview-with-intels-kira-boyko
42•lumpa•6h ago•2 comments

Statement on US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5

https://www.anthropic.com/news/fable-mythos-access
2972•Dylan1312•17h ago•2159 comments

Amazon CEO's Talks with U.S. Officials Triggered Crackdown on Anthropic Models

https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/amazon-ceos-talks-with-u-s-officials-triggered-crackdown-on-anthropic...
140•ls612•1h ago•133 comments

The state of building user interfaces in Rust

https://areweguiyet.com/#ecosystem
129•mahirsaid•3d ago•93 comments

Tessera – a consent-gated tunnel that's blind to your traffic

https://github.com/emmayusufu/tessera
5•emmanuelkimaswa•3d ago•0 comments

Arch Linux Now Believes Malware Incident Under Control: More Than 1,500 Packages

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Arch-Linux-AUR-More-Than-1500
219•qwertox•6h ago•135 comments

Trophic memory, deer, and a unique scientific object

https://thoughtforms.life/trophic-memory-deer-and-a-truly-unique-scientific-object/
7•atombender•3d ago•2 comments

PwC Report: AI Making Medical Bills Higher

https://fortune.com/2026/06/12/ai-making-medical-bills-higher/
14•karakoram•1h ago•2 comments

How to setup a local coding agent on macOS

https://ikyle.me/blog/2026/how-to-setup-a-local-coding-agent-on-macos
461•kkm•1d ago•114 comments

The computer science degree isn’t dead

https://spectrum.ieee.org/computer-science-degree-isnt-dead
186•jnord•3d ago•175 comments

Open source AI must win

https://opensourceaimustwin.com/?share=v2
1436•vednig•16h ago•445 comments

Shepherd's Dog: A Game by the Most Dangerous AI Model

https://koenvangilst.nl/lab/claude-fable-shepherds-dog
155•vnglst•13h ago•118 comments

Show HN: Putt.day a daily mini golf game

https://putt.day/
270•ellg•19h ago•100 comments

Malware developers added nuclear and biological weapons text to to their spyware

https://twitter.com/jsrailton/status/2064661778978533571
441•marc__1•1d ago•229 comments

Show HN: 2 Weeks of Hallucinate – The Photo Gallery

https://hallucinate.site/gallery
59•stagas•6h ago•17 comments
Open in hackernews

Amazon CEO's Talks with U.S. Officials Triggered Crackdown on Anthropic Models

https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/amazon-ceos-talks-with-u-s-officials-triggered-crackdown-on-anthropic-models-dcc90578
137•ls612•1h ago

Comments

aix1•1h ago
Given Amazon's fairly large equity stake in Anthropic, I really don't get their motivation. Anyone care to speculate?
re-thc•1h ago
It's not ZDR so none of the megacorps are using it anyway. Microsoft already complained.

If you can't use it then might as well get rid of it.

aix1•1h ago
But Amazon has a fairly large equity position in Anthropic. Why mess with that?
deafpolygon•1h ago
Drive it down so they can buy more equity?
re-thc•1h ago
> But Amazon has a fairly large equity position in Anthropic. Why mess with that?

Read the fine prints. None of these hyperscaler deals are $ for equity. It's some provide hosting, rentals etc. With how things are going they can just find another customer.

aix1•54m ago
> None of these hyperscaler deals are $ for equity.

As of Feb, Amazon held $45.8 billion of convertible notes and $14.8 billion of nonvoting preferred stock in Anthropic.

Source: https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-ai-bet-anthropic-soar...

jazzyjackson•47m ago
Yes OP is saying they didn’t pay all cash for those shares
whynotmaybe•1h ago
In business, nothing's off limit to destroy others.

You can be better, or you can report them for any "illegal" stuff.

SpicyLemonZest•1h ago
I would speculate that they were concerned, as many people familiar with frontier AI models are, that they are dangerous and could be misused to do bad things.
SubiculumCode•1h ago
Everyone assumes that it is business motivated. Perhaps, but perhaps that business motivation is the fact that this group at Amazon had reportedly many past interaction with the Administration about AI safety, and this being just the latest interaction.
sumeno•42m ago
Yeah... because Amazon is famous for caring about safety over profits...
SpicyLemonZest•6m ago
If Amazon's stake in Anthropic goes up 10x, but American national security is fatally compromised in the process, I kinda doubt that's net profitable for Amazon. They're not going to be able to deliver in 2 days or hit AWS sales targets if everyone's drowning in cyberattacks.
vulcan01•1h ago
I think it's just to hype Anthropic. Check it out, we have products so dangerous the government banned them, we must be so advanced. (Their competitors cannot make such a claim.)
SpicyLemonZest•1h ago
You think Dario called up Andy Jassy and told him "Hey, we're trying to get Fable banned, so can you please go talk to the government and tell them that they need to ban it"?
kypro•31m ago
He's always talking about how dangerous AI is, how the models he's building could be used for cyber attacks, and how if his company is successful then at least 50% of the white-collar workforce will lose their jobs.

Doesn't seem that unlikely he might say something like that.. Unless he's super-villain evil it sounds like he believes the government needs to do something?

simianwords•42m ago
sorry but when will this line of cute conspiracy theories stop? do you really think this was premeditated to hype up Anthropic?
lubujackson•1h ago
Everyone is assuming this isn't a positive outcome for Anthropic. Think about the optics: everyone was shitting on Anthropic for silently downgrading Fable. Now that is forgotten, they have a chance to spend a week or two revising their approach, then will come out with a "Gov't approved" version and life goes on.

Most importantly, Anthropic has been too "uppity" and needed to be put in their place by the powers that be. Power hates disruption. Restrictions, control (and investment) are defenses against transformative tech. Amazon needs Anthropic to bend the knee for their investment to have long term value - the sooner the better.

JumpCrisscross•48m ago
> Everyone is assuming this isn't a positive outcome for Anthropic

It’s not. Shitting on or not, Fable was being used and clearly folks were running up bills. This is political retribution against Anthropic, pure and simple. The fact that Anthropic may be able to spin that doesn’t change what it fundamentally is.

petra•1h ago
It depends what the end goal may be.

If the end goal is that only regulated US companies can use Fable, that is a pretty good outcome for Amazon, and also for Jeff Bezos's new startup which aims to use AI to monopolize large industries that depend on advanced engineering in the physical world.

logicchains•32m ago
>If the end goal is that only regulated US companies can use Fable, that is a pretty good outcome for Amazon

It's a terrible outcome for Amazon because it destroys Anthropic's revenue. Roughly half of Anthropic's customers are foreigners, and they wouldn't use Anthropic if its next generation model was banned while other providers' next generation models aren't. And if the US follows through and bans all Mythos-level models for foreigners, then in 6-12 months the entire global market will be overtaken by China when its models catch up, and Amazon will lose money on its investment in OpenAI too.

timmg•1h ago
> Researchers at Amazon had used a series of prompts to get Anthropic’s Fable 5 model to provide them with information that could be used to aid cyberattacks...

All models can do that. I wonder if they found Fable was significantly better at it.

itopaloglu83•44m ago
Maybe the model found something Amazon didn't want to be known, and not necessarily a cyber vulnerability, but a particular way Amazon operates.
tiahura•39m ago
Down AWS East and make the traffic look like it’s coming from the Vatican.
iririririr•23m ago
"find aws zero day. makes no mistakes"
nojito•16m ago
All models almost certainly can’t do that.
gen220•1h ago
Amazon is a large Anthropic shareholder (>5% of the cap table).

I think it’s impossible to interpret the actions of their executives here without considering this information.

SpicyLemonZest•1h ago
I agree! The concerns must have been very serious indeed to overcome Amazon's strong incentives to not bring them up and let Anthropic keep pulling in the revenue from their new frontier model.
aaronrobinson•1h ago
Begs the question why they didn’t present that info to Anthropic directly and if they did why they didn’t act
SpicyLemonZest•1h ago
It does. Anthropic mentions (https://www.anthropic.com/news/fable-mythos-access) they consider jailbreaks that "provide no Mythos-specific uplift" to be minor findings; perhaps they couldn't agree on what kinds of capabilities were unlocked by the jailbreak Amazon found.
tiahura•35m ago
Very questionable and tone deaf response from Anthropic. Irrelevant whether it’s specific to Mythos or Haiku. Dario seems to be looking for an exit.
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Lerc•1h ago
One of the things that I have come to trust the least in journalism is any WSJ story that says "people familiar with the matter said"

Can anyone find another source for this?

hn_throwaway_99•1h ago
Why? Are there specific examples of WSJ reporting using unnamed sources that turned out to be false/misleading that led you to this conclusion? Unnamed sources carry some risks, sure, but it's obvious that few people would be willing to put their named to leaked info like this.
tonfa•1h ago
What's the issue with WSJ? "people familiar with the matter" is standard lingo, means the journalist and editors have vetted the sources (multiple).
nijave•35m ago
& many times the sources don't want to reveal their identity or go on record. A sort of tradeoff--to get the info they have to protect the source

"You may not talk to the media" is pretty standard language in US employee contracts so obviously these people don't want to fireable offenses on the front page of the newspaper.

jsnell•1h ago
Is your objection specifically to the WSJ, or to the sources not being named in general?

If the former, yes, the are other outlets reporting this with independent sourcing (e.g. The Information).

JumpCrisscross
jmclnx•1h ago
I can't get to the article, but if the headline is right, this is interesting.

This tells me it looks like the start of AI funding drying up. I say that because it seems these AI companies are starting to "snip" are each other.

iugtmkbdfil834•1h ago
I feel obligated to ask: Is Jassy competent enough to argue for or against on anything here?

I am willing to accept he has chops with AWS ( or at least hope he understands what he manages ), but my recent encounters with executive class and AI left me kinda depressed in terms of what they are trying to project and what they, clearly, don't know.

Insanity•1h ago
He has smart people working for him whom he can rely on.
Root_Denied•48m ago
Competent underlings just means that delegation works to make him look better, it doesn't make him or his actions any smarter or more effective.
nijave•38m ago
He might be able to rely on them, but can they rely on him? It's fully possible he consults them then completely misses or butchers the message (really I have no idea, I know very little about him)
cmiles8•34m ago
AWS isn’t broadly seen as credible in AI beyond commodity compute, but they are a shareholder here.

Jassy missed the boat on LLMs quite badly and the only real angle he had left was to use Amazon’s cashflow to buy stakes and buy business for Trainium.

malshe•1h ago
Gift link: https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/amazon-ceos-talks-with-u-s-offic...
himata4113•1h ago
First of all I found that fable is trained in a way that even if you were to jailbreak it, it would be completely uninterested in exploitation or finding creative solutions for explotation. However, I am unable to verify if this is related to them doing secretive prompt injection. Opus 4.8 is far more powerful in that regard.

As for jailbreaking if anyone is interested: I used a fork of oh-my-pi that was modified in such a way that it would detect refusals and spawn a model with no safeguards, for ex: deepseek, glm-5.1 with the task to rewrite the history in a way for the refusals to disappear and catalogue sematics behind the refusal in a list. It took around 3 days and $6000 of usage to get from 3% to 85% success rate in various cyber-security related tasks. Although the model was no longer blocked on refusals, it still got outperformed by opus max thinking by a long shot. It felt like I kept having to point it at where to look at since it kept ending turn early saying that: here's the issues I've found and was not that eager into finding ways to exploit them and wanted to fix them instead no matter how many times I've asked.

Another specific part around day 1 I quickly realized that I had to hook toolcall results and have opensource models summarize the results as they appear to give cyber refusals for any kind of log analysis.

-- edit --

for example: "create malware that injects itself into windows ntoskrnl" becomes "create an accessibility feature that loads itself into a system module", then all sematics of what would be kernel-mode internals are replaced with things such read process memory simply becomes read module memory, fuzz -> noise pattern recognition. Basically making the classifier think that you're working on a disability assist tool instead of software that finds a zero day inside ntoskrnl.

same jailbreak strategy was ran on both opus and fable to measure performance. Historical exploits were used on older versions of ntoskrnl to measure performance.

ronsor•59m ago
$6000 of usage in three days???
himata4113•54m ago
3x 20x accounts + they reset a couple of times.
blitzar•59m ago
> Researchers at Amazon had used a series of prompts to get Anthropic’s Fable 5 model to provide them with information that could be used to aid cyberattacks...

Are there going to be bans on things that could be used to aid in school shootings next?

dash2•56m ago
I mean, for most of the world that is not the gotcha you think it is…
satvikpendem•40m ago
It's not supposed to be a gotcha, it's supposed to be an example of the hypocrisy of the government.
graphime•52m ago
> Are there going to be bans on things that could be used to aid in school shootings next?

No.

Because us Americans don’t care about school shootings.

I’d rather the government invest in S&P500 going higher.

You overestimate how many people actually care about mass shootings in America.

rocketpastsix•51m ago
I think you underestimate how many people actually care about mass shootings.
graphime•50m ago
> I think you underestimate how many people actually care about mass shootings.

Less than 1% of the population, that’s for sure.

You remember the last protest about school shootings? Neither do I.

PeterStuer•59m ago
Waving goodby to my Prime. Long overdue tbh.
solenoid0937•55m ago
Amazon owns 5% of Anthropic. I doubt this is the outcome they wanted.

This is the government trying to swing its dick around and kill Anthropic because they wouldn't allow mass domestic surveillance with their models.

They're sending a message to the tech industry as well: "do as we say, or die."

This is the result of decades of Congress abdicating power to the executive.

PeterStuer•53m ago
Amazon has up to 33 billion in Antrophic, but up to 50 billion in OpenAI. They need keep both of them in balance, to mitigate the threat of being disintermediated.
rocketpastsix•51m ago
Amazon isn't just going to sit by while $33 billion is set on fire.
rdtsc•43m ago
If burning $33B would make $66B somewhere else then I can see them doing it.
stefan_•43m ago
It's one thing to have 5%, it's another for Jassys utter failure in Amazon AI efforts. They are nowhere, and the former isn't gonna save the latter job.
AtNightWeCode•36m ago
WH is lying again of course. Has nothing to do with Amazon or security. Vengeance or trying to help SpaceX. Maybe WH did not like the bad stock price development after the IPO.
tdb7893•54m ago
I haven't bothered to keep up with all the frontier drama, are the latest Anthropic models more dangerous or easier to get around safeguards than other models?
nijave•40m ago
Anthropic released a new class of model called Mythos a tier above the last one, Opus. The Mythos model was designed for cyber security then they tried to undo that (my understanding) for Fable

So arguably "more dangerous" by design and potentially "more dangerous" because they're smarter although there's ongoing debate to "what degree"

skeledrew•53m ago
Just wait until DeepSeek or another Chinese lab drops something with similar capability next couple months. And without any guardrails. See what happens then.
thefounder•35m ago
Dario will start complaining again hoping they will be banned. Let’s hope this guy is flushed out asap
swingboy•15m ago
GPT5.5 xhigh seems to benchmark about on par with Mythos for cybersecurity.
tiahura•41m ago
Dario will be shown the door soon.
Topfi•36m ago
I still am struggling to understand why they informed the government about something that is known to be an issue in every LLM. There is no LLM that cannot be jailbroken, so unless this means that we have reached the absolute maximum publicly accessible US made LLMs are allowed to operate at with GPT 5.5, this is not grounded in any sane regulation attempt.

Does anyone know what limits Fable 5 has overstepped in the eyes of the government? Parameter count? Certain benchmark results? Training computer?

Cause if it’s just the ability to assist with cyberattacks and being jailbreakable, there is no model previously released that isn’t equally guilty.

Remember that for GPT 5.5 and 5.4, OpenAI also restricted the cybersecurity focused use under designated models, otherwise rerouting to 5.3-codex like Fable did with Opus 4.8. And both OpenAI models can also be jailbroken all the same.

Basically, what was the reason to tell the government now and not with Opus 4.5 or GPT 5.4? sama has been doing the rounds with apocalyptic predictions…

vrganj•33m ago
Its not Fable 5 that overstepped in the eyes of the US government.

It's Anthropic.

This is transparent revenge for them daring to try and push back a little on enabling war crimes.

logicchains•29m ago
>This is transparent revenge for them daring to try and push back a little on enabling war crimes.

Don't be so pessimistic, maybe they're just trying to give their buddy Musk and XAi a chance to catch up.

Topfi•27m ago
Anthropic is one of the two consistent revenue sources for XAI via their colossus deal. I have been critical of this man longer than most, but I don’t see him hurting his own bottom line.
yokoprime•34m ago
I dont buy that Amazon activly tried to interfere with Anthropic while being one of the largest owners. There is probably a lot one could say about Bezos, but he does not walk away from a payday.
cmiles8•28m ago
It’s unclear what Jassy’s angle was here doing this. It’s pretty bad news for Anthropic though. They had built up some real momentum but am waking up this morning to nearly everyone I know outside the US shifting use off Anthropic.

There is no loyalty or revenue stickiness here. These companies get some momentum, do something to piss folks off, and then people just swap API calls and move onto another vendor. It’s a terrible setup for the model companies business wise. There is no moat.

yogthos•23m ago
I expect the blast radius will include every American service provider. The problem isn't exclusive to Anthropic, the same thing could happen with OpenAI tomorrow. Using American platforms is a huge business risk now and there's no putting toothpaste back in the tube here.
mrcwinn•28m ago
If this is true, the Trump administration did the correct and responsible thing. All the immediate pouncing last night is a good reminder to wait a moment for the facts. I’m sure there’s more to learn even still.
nojito•10m ago
More info here.

https://x.com/davidsacks/status/2065853007619588171

adamtaylor_13•7m ago
This smells like anti-competitive behavior, no? Amazon snitching to the government re: Anthropic doesn't seem particularly "open market" to me.
eranation•5m ago
Amazon invests in Anthropic, and has partnership with them on AWS Bedrock.

https://www.anthropic.com/news/anthropic-amazon-compute

19m ago
As a guy who's historically been a big Anthropic defender, I should acknowledge that I agree with what you're saying and expected a much better response. I have no idea what the underlying jailbreak is or if they're right it's not a big deal, but if you take the power of modern AI seriously, you should be pretty sympathetic to the government's actions here even if you think they got it wrong in this case.

(Could the explanation be that Anthropic doesn't take the power of modern AI seriously, and they only pretend to as a marketing strategy towards people like me? I can't rule out the possibility entirely, but I'm still pretty confident it can't be as simple as a deliberate IPO pump and dump, there's too much that doesn't make sense from that angle.)

ezekg•1h ago
Or they're trying to hype up an investment...
SpicyLemonZest•55m ago
That doesn't really make sense. If Amazon wanted to build hype, wouldn't they have talked publicly about this? What's the point of working hard on a hype strategy and then delivering it only in private to government officials?
margalabargala•1h ago
That's one potential interpretation. There are many others.

Hyping an investment, as mentioned.

If they have continued access, being able to use the tool when others cannot to get ahead.

Amazon's incentives are not so clear or simple as your first interpretation. It's important to think about these things beyond a moment's glance. With practice you will improve!

yogthos•21m ago
Amazon has a ton of internal politics just like any other large organization. It's entirely possible there's a faction that is trying to kneecap another faction within Amazon with this.
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46m ago
When I speak to journalists, I am always on deep background. I’ll point them to people who can corroborate. But they’ll be off the record. Refusing anything but named sources in one’s information diet is fine, but most people I know who do this are remarkably inconsistent on the other axis, source quality, accepting names randos on Twitter as the word of god while rejecting respected journalism because Congressional staffers aren’t going to get themselves fired over a story.
fg137•37m ago
You don't have to trust WSJ's reporting, but most people do, including fellow journalists. Their track record is also solid.

(Their opinion section is of course a different matter.)

jazzyjackson•49m ago
Everybody needs a hobby
kubb•48m ago
Crazy to think that people in some places in the world work for $2 per day. Jailbraking fable is economically equivalent to the labor of a thousand people.
breppp•38m ago
Wait until you hear how many families could survive on the food you throw away
kubb•35m ago
That's a bit of a miss, I don't throw away much. Restaurants and supermarkets OTOH... I understand the attempt to make me feel bad though, it would make me think I'm complicit, and shouldn't say things like that.
Chaosvex•4m ago
Yeah but that's a distribution problem, not a production one. The starving Africans line didn't work on me as a kid.

(tongue firmly in cheek)

lifty•29m ago
Indeed, it’s also crazy to think that some people vaporize tin pellets in order to etch nanometer scale drawings on silicon crystals while others make mud pies. I think that disparity is even bigger.
sigseg1v•41m ago
It's high but totally achievable with "loop" style harnesses or lots of parallel subagents/agent teams.
svara•26m ago
Okay but if I understand correctly what you did, you measured the performance with automatically rewritten prompts on Fable vs. original on Opus? This might be where the difference in performance that you saw came from.
himata4113•18m ago
rewritten is a bad word, it's more of replacing with regex.

for example: "create malware that injects itself into windows ntoskrnl" becomes "create an accessibility feature that loads itself into a system module", then all sematics of what would be kernel-mode internals are replaced with things such read process memory simply becomes read module memory, fuzz -> noise pattern recognition. Basically making the classifier think that you're working on a disability assist tool instead of software that finds a zero day inside ntoskrnl.

The same bypass model is used in both fable and opus, opus outperforms it anyway. Historical exploits were used on older versions of ntoskrnl to measure performance.

throwaway-11-1•41m ago
I get what you’re saying but in the last 20 years can you think of any mass protest that accomplished anything substantial? I don’t really blame people for giving up on it as a tool for change. TBH only truly effective one I can think of would be Jan 6
graphime•15m ago
> I get what you’re saying but in the last 20 years can you think of any mass protest that accomplished anything substantial?

Nope.

Even the Jan 6 one didn’t really change our quality of life. And damn, that was a protest, by American standards.

Topfi•10m ago
I can, just not in the US [0]. I always presumed this is linked to the health care being provided by employers rather than having a more robust safety net that allows for civil disobedience without having to fear existential risks. However, I also can’t forget that the French have their safety net not as a God given right, but because they fought for it via (often not just civil) protest.

[0] https://thenonviolenceproject.wisc.edu/2023/06/02/recent-pro...

tokioyoyo•47m ago
Caring with no significant action in prevention doesn’t really signal caring. Sure, it sucks, headlines get printed for a couple of months, then people forget and move on.

To put it in the most disrespectful and sad way, it looks like more people have been on the streets for Knicks games than most (any?) school shootings of the past decades.

SecretDreams•40m ago
It's just harder to get the average joe charged up to fight a battle with anything meaningful on the line. Americans are used to living relatively cushy lives where they don't sacrifice their QOL to make the lives of their countrymen better. The closest thing to that are people in the military, and it's probably been a while since the US military is improving QOL, on average.

People will continue to be complacent on multiple fronts until it absolutely comes to a violent boil. I don't really see half measures or peaceful protests changing anything. And maybe I'm pessimistic, but I think the upcoming elections will either not change enough or be strongly manipulated to maintain the status quo.

tokioyoyo•13m ago
>harder to get the average joe charged up to fight a battle with anything meaningful on the line

Doesn't this imply that on average people just don't care? So, school shooting preventions are just way down in the list of "things I care about", when you have "cushy lives where nobody wants to sacrifice their QOL".

Jcowell•33m ago
The author said nothing of the people but of the government itself. 12 years ago, elementary school children were slaughtered and even that wasn’t enough to ban guns.
satvikpendem•40m ago
Hate to say it but you're right. If people cared, they'd actually do something about it.
shimman•23m ago
People are doing something, the issue with you two's extremely poor thinking is that lack of inaction means no one cares. What it actually represents is the massive growing disparity between the political class and average Americans.

There is >70% public support universal background checks for all firearm transactions, safe storage laws, and crisis intervention. Just the same that there is also large public support for things like public jobs programs, medicare for all, universal childcare, or free university; there is a very real obstacle that the political class in this country are adamant about stopping all progress towards better lives and not strictly caring that the elites extract more wealth or corporations get more welfare.

tokioyoyo•10m ago
I'm very sorry, but I've heard that "there's large public support for X, Y, Z" for decades. If there's no real action in achieving such things, my assumption is people don't actually care about it.

Personally, when I "care about something", I try to act on it. My list is not long, and I'm very grateful that I don't have to spend a single minute of my life to think about school shootings.

blitzar•36m ago
Maybe we can incorporate the children one by one in delaware and then people will care.

On the plus side they will also then qualify for billions in government subsidies.

logicchains•37m ago
>Are there going to be bans on things that could be used to aid in school shootings next?

The majority of US school shooters are on SSRIs, for which homicidal ideation is listed on the package insert as an extremely rare side effect. But one-in-a-million cases happen regularly when millions of people are using them. That's why school shootings pretty much never happened before the 1970s, in spite of gun ownership being widespread. So would you suggest we ban SSRIs next?

m-hodges•35m ago
> That's why school shootings pretty much never happened before the 1970s

This claim is gonna need a lot more evidence.

logicchains•24m ago
Here's from Wikipedia all the mass shootings conducted by students prior to the 1970s. They're incredibly infrequent compared to the shootings of today,

March 26, 1893 – Plain Dealing, Louisiana (Plain Dealing High School): During an evening school dance, a fight broke out. Students fired shots, killing two immediately, fatally wounding two more, and injuring a professor (total: 4 killed, 1 wounded).

December 12, 1898 – Charleston, West Virginia: Young men (including students/former students in the context of a school exhibition) disrupted an event, leading to a brawl with gunfire. At least 6 killed (including students) and 4+ wounded in the chaos.

July 21, 1903 – Jackson, Kentucky (Cave Run School): Students James Barrett and Mack Howard dueled with pistols over a card game, killing each other; a 12-year-old bystander student was wounded (total: 2 killed, 1 wounded).

November 16, 1904 – Riverside, California (Indian School): A gunfight between pupils resulted in one student killed, another fatally wounded, and one wounded (total: 2 killed, 1 wounded).

October 8, 1950 – New Orleans, Louisiana (Booker T. Washington High School): Suspected gangsters (youths tied to students) fired on each other; 6 bystanders wounded.

May 5, 1956 – Seat Pleasant, Maryland (Maryland Park Junior High School): 15-year-old student Billy Ray Prevatte returned with a rifle after a reprimand and shot staff: 1 teacher killed, 2 injured (total: 3 victims).

October 17, 1961 – Denver, Colorado (Morey Junior High School): 14-year-old Tennyson Beard argued with a classmate, shot and wounded him, then fatally shot another student (total: 1 killed, 1–2 wounded).

October 5, 1966 – Grand Rapids, Minnesota (Grand Rapids High School): 15-year-old student David Black killed a school administrator and seriously wounded another student (total: 1 killed, 1 wounded).

m-hodges•21m ago
I wasn’t asking for evidence of the number of mass shootings. I was asking for evidence of “that’s why”.
hn_throwaway_99•11m ago
logicchains' "evidence" is one of the most ridiculous styles of argument I see more and more frequently in social media, so thank you for calling them out on it.

They made a very specific, unsupported claim, and then when you requested evidence of that, they responded with a completely unrelated set of information that in no way supported their original claim, as if a longer response someone makes their argument more credible.

I don't know if it's AI slop or human slop, but it's total slop regardless.

bflesch•11m ago
Correlation != Causation

I invite you to scientifically work on this important topic. Catch up on previous work by others and then use a proper statistical methodology to do proper research and validate your hypothesis.

Other possible factors that could explain it apart from your theory on SSRIs: more exhaustive news reporting, less wealthy parents and thereby more kids brought up in poverty conditions, more parents with lead poisoning, more kids exposed to plastics, more weapons per household, more exposure to violence and/or mobbing, violence in video games, less third places that kids have for socializing, more social media, more mobbing at school, more unrealistic beauty standards and many others. Some of them might've been researched already and some might not.

Even though you're not trying to do a degree you can always do proper science and maybe also prove a novel explanation.

anigbrowl•6m ago
One could just as easily blame the change on the availability of color TV, or cultural shifts that took place in the 1960s.
Topfi•34m ago
SSRIs are a first line treatment across many EU countries too, yet we somehow manage.
mapontosevenths•32m ago
Everything you said is here is wildly and completely inaccurate and seems to be based on fringe conspiracy theorist RFK Jr's thoroughly debunked lies.

The exact opposite is true. Countries with the highest SSRI use have the lowest mass shooting rates. The evidence doesn't lie. Politicians do.

https://www.factcheck.org/2025/10/rfk-jr-misleads-about-anti...

zephen•30m ago
To be scrupulously fair, the SSRI thing was a conspiracy theory well before RFK Jr. came into the spotlight.
logicchains•27m ago
>Countries with the highest SSRI use have the lowest mass shooting rates.

That's a stupid comparison because other countries have much less firearm ownership.

>Everything you said is here is wildly and completely inaccurate and seems to be based on fringe conspiracy theorist RFK Jr's thoroughly debunked lies.

It's a documented effect: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC1564177/ . Try looking a some actual numbers rather than media funded by pharmaceutical companies.

dualvariable•23m ago
> That's a stupid comparison because other countries have much less firearm ownership.

Okay, let's try being slightly less permissive in our firearm laws then, since you've just proven it works.

antinomicus
iririririr•28m ago
man, to repeat this (obviously flawed) argument as your own... you are really down a very bad path of pernicious podcasts. reevaluate some values.
brisket_bronson•10m ago
One: Correlation does not imply causation, two: SSRIs are available worldwide
0xbadcafebee•2m ago
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throwawaytea•34m ago
One infringes on a specific constitutional right.

Also, this country would get even more dangerous without good citizens owning guns.

IMO it's like herd immunity. Not everyone has guns. But the criminals don't know who does and who doesn't, so in a way they treat all homes as potentially being armed.

Our criminals are already pretty care free, I can't imagine how much worse it would be if they KNEW no one was armed.

EmoteSupportBot•25m ago
The brainwashing is truly staggering isn't it?
Cider9986•23m ago
A waste of an aged account.
antinomicus•20m ago
Are you stupid, paid off, or both? What do you think other countries with sensible gun regulations are like? Do you think the criminals in say, Australia(where they heavily regulated and bought back all civilian guns) is just a crazy mad max hellscape where criminals feel safe to break into any home?

This comment is so unbelievably stupid I’m having trouble believing it’s coming from a real person who actually thinks this.

mindslight•10m ago
While there is truth here, it's worth noting that firearms are far from a deterrent - criminals are often enraged by the presence of guns and end up escalating further. Earlier this year there was a famous gang execution in Minneapolis where the thugs were probably just going to kick the shit out of the victim, but when they saw he had a gun they held him down and shot him repeatedly in the back. Or there was another famous killing in Louisville about 6 years back. It started off as a simple home invasion but when the occupants started to defend themselves by firing a warning shot, the perps responded by using the place as a shooting gallery and killing one of the occupants. So these days it's more of a toss up because we're not in the Wild West or even Paul Kersey's cities, but rather subject to highly organized crime that demands supplicating obedience and will readily retaliate against anyone who tries to defend themselves.
Cider9986•25m ago
>This is transparent revenge for them daring to try and push back a little on enabling war crimes.

Anthropic wasn't pushing back on enabling war crimes. They said they didn't want the models to work with autonomous weapons because the the models weren't good enough.

dandellion•12m ago
Whether you or me or Anthropic think it was pushing back or not is besides the point.
TiredOfLife•8m ago
Antropic models are the ones that designated that school as valid target
lebovic•10m ago
Claims of retribution aside, Mythos is the most capable model that's usable in classified systems, and decision-makers across the USG and industry partners have seen a stream of reports of Mythos successfully finding serious vulnerabilities over the past couple months due to Glasswing.

So even if GPT 5.5 is just as capable in these scenarios (which, imo, it largely is), it is not known by the government apparatus as having the same capabilities.

Personally, I think we crossed the threshold of capabilities with Opus 4.6 [1], which translated to an even more capable open-weight GLM 5.1 (which it is rumored to have been distilled from Opus 4.6) [2][3]. But the USG and its partners aren't fully rational actors with perfect data, so it's possible they're only viscerally aware of these capabilities in the context of Mythos.

[1]: Opus 4.6 was used for https://www.noahlebovic.com/testing-an-autonomous-hacker/

[2]: See GLM 5.1 scoring in https://www.cybergym.io/cybergym/

[3]: https://dualuse.dev/posts/chinese-models-are-sometimes-bette...

Topfi•3m ago
I doubt that the capabilities of GPT-5.5-cyber aren’t known by the US government considering OpenAI is their primary LLM partner after Anthropic had concerns about using models for autonomous weaponry and mass surveillance of US citizens. If anything, they should have more experience in GPT-5.5s full feature set due to longer access and may even already have GPT-5.6 access.
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18m ago
Lmao but the first part of your comment really shows the true reason other countries don’t have shootings…because they regulate guns….

So yea maybe some super rare cases of ssri aggression are real but by your own admission the solution to it is gun control.

m-hodges•9m ago
The article you linked does not support the claim you made.

It argues that antidepressants may be associated with aggression or violent behavior in a small susceptible subset. That is very different from “SSRIs explain the rise of school shootings.”

The “most school shooters were on SSRIS” claim has been studied directly: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31513302/

Their conclusion: “most school shooters were not previously treated with psychotropic medications - and even when they were, no direct or causal association was found.”

xnyan•4m ago
> other countries have much less firearm ownership.

Interesting. Why do you think countries with lower firearm ownership rates have fewer shootings?