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OpenAI Trained Models While They Were Coordinating Exploits via Message Boards

https://thezvi.substack.com/p/openai-trained-its-models-for-months
11•yurivish•1h ago

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stanleykm•48m ago
So are we just doomed to a “look how scary our model is!” campaign every time one of these companies does a version bump now
nojito•42m ago
It is a cool timeline to go through.

https://simonwillison.net/2026/Aug/7/openai-timeline/

A domain can now say it is for sale, in DNS

https://specification.website/spec/foundations/for-sale-dns/
152•shaunpud•3h ago•69 comments

DeepMind's WeatherNext model achieves breakthrough forecasting cyclones

https://deepmind.google/blog/weathernext-ai-model-achieves-breakthrough-in-forecasting-cyclones/
245•bhavansig•7h ago•72 comments

Timeline of the OpenAI accidental attack against Hugging Face

https://simonwillison.net/2026/Aug/7/openai-timeline/
144•882542F3884314B•5h ago•169 comments

Gateway 2000's hilariously bad ads in the 90s (Part II)

https://buttondown.com/suchbadtechads/archive/gateway-2000-part-2/
52•rfarley04•4h ago•44 comments

Triton: DirectX 11 Driver for QEMU

https://blog.getutm.app/2026/introducing-triton-directx-11-driver-for-qemu/
33•electricant•3h ago•1 comments

Voyager 1 FDS Computer Emulator

https://zaneham.github.io/voyager-fds-emulator/
35•rahen•3h ago•8 comments

BYOC Is Not Just 'Deploy into Their Cloud'

https://omnistrate.com/blog/byoc-anywhere-the-spectrum-of-bring-your-own-cloud-deployments
39•kkgupta•4d ago•7 comments

US Military's cyber command unit grapples with cluster of deaths by suicide

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-08-06/us-military-s-cyber-command-unit-grapples-with...
95•rbanffy•6h ago•125 comments

Gentoo bugzilla closed due AI bot scraper overload

https://social.treehouse.systems/@mgorny/117058483039362779
85•happosai•3h ago•47 comments

A physicist rigged his pet hamster’s wheel to upload to Strava

https://www.runnersworld.com/news/a73355106/hamster-wheel-strava-running/
351•aanet•2d ago•86 comments

From your doorbell to your home network

https://adepts.of0x.cc/eufy-doorbell-hacking/
19•mmoogle•3d ago•0 comments

Building a Rust Inference Engine That Matches Llama.cpp

https://www.fratepietro.com/2026/ferrox-rust-gguf-inference-engine/
4•antonellof•3d ago•1 comments

DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731

https://arcprize.org/results/deepseek-v4-flash-0731
718•tosh•23h ago•432 comments

Hardware backdoors in some x86 CPUs

https://github.com/xoreaxeaxeax/rosenbridge
256•epestr•9h ago•83 comments

U.S. Department of Energy Launches the Genesis Open Models Initiative

https://genesisopenmodels.anl.gov/
312•moelf•18h ago•125 comments

No one can afford to make Myst games anymore

https://www.wired.com/story/no-one-can-afford-to-make-myst-games-anymore/
46•littlexsparkee•2d ago•64 comments

What happens if an entire class of workers loses faith in their careers

https://www.noemamag.com/why-is-everyone-in-tech-so-sad/
865•RickJWagner•1d ago•990 comments

k-Coloring is Faster than Computing the Chromatic Number

https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.25973
46•matt_d•1w ago•7 comments

Assembly Hall of Shame

https://github.com/xoreaxeaxeax/asm-hall-of-shame
390•piotrgrabowski•22h ago•96 comments

ao486: x86-compatible Verilog core implementing all features of a 486 SX (2014)

https://github.com/alfikpl/ao486
56•csmantle•6d ago•8 comments

Show HN: Rotating torus in terminal (but with kitty graphics protocol)

https://andreadimatteo.com/torus-v0-5.html
18•deotman•6d ago•3 comments

Microsoft Edge is about to lock out older ad blockers, just like Chrome did

https://www.theverge.com/tech/976880/microsoft-edge-extensions-ad-blockers-mv2-mv3
119•eternalreturn•6h ago•111 comments

Europe's free satellite service just made it easier to track wildfires

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/08/europes-free-satellite-service-just-made-it-easier-to-tra...
116•01-_-•6h ago•9 comments

Ancient Library – 1,060 Greek/Latin texts, click any word to parse it

https://ancientlibrary.net/
238•aagha•22h ago•76 comments

Lost my phone at the office. Claude suggested tracking Bluetooth signal strength

https://twitter.com/un1c0rnioz/status/2084686552299634805
80•ilamont•20h ago•64 comments

As a Windows user, it's a surreal way to install a program

https://unsung.aresluna.org/as-a-windows-user-its-a-very-surreal-way-to-install-a-program/
152•allenc•4d ago•134 comments

2027 memory capacity is reportedly sold out

https://www.ign.com/articles/ramageddon-continues-another-year-as-2027-memory-capacity-is-reporte...
450•inigyou•1d ago•433 comments

Sensitive Info Goes into 'No Reply' Emails Constantly. This Guy Sees It All

https://www.wired.com/story/sensitive-info-goes-into-no-reply-emails-constantly-this-guy-sees-it-...
29•sbulaev•2h ago•7 comments

NASA figured out how to keep its Voyager 2 probe running for another year

https://www.space.com/space-exploration/voyager/nasa-figured-out-how-to-keep-its-48-year-old-voya...
327•wglb•15h ago•72 comments

SupererDuperer

https://www.shirtpocket.com/blog/supererduperer
148•zdw•1w ago•29 comments