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Parley: Federated, decentralised chat that speaks plain IRC

https://git.mills.io/prologic/parley
73•davidcollantes•1h ago•19 comments

AI companies in race to demonstrate their model most threatening to humanity

https://thecivilian.co.nz/2026/09/27/ai-companies-in-fierce-arms-race-to-demonstrate-their-model-...
101•ljewalsh•3h ago•45 comments

Owed a billion dollars in Nvidia stock

https://colo.to/nvidia-stock-narrative.html
799•Eric_Gullichsen•10h ago•335 comments

Footguns with Postgres "at time zone 'UTC'"

https://bookofrevenue.com/blog/6ab81e9a97a13f0001f7e4e1/postgres-at-time-zone-u-does-not-do-what-...
59•birdculture•1d ago•31 comments

SpaceX's Starship launching to orbit for first time ever today

https://www.space.com/space-exploration/launches-spacecraft/spacexs-starship-megarocket-launching...
101•geox•2h ago•24 comments

37,500 border drawings: a map of the world as people remember it

https://www.habibicode.org/thedrawnworld
30•nicocarsui•3h ago•10 comments

Thinking fast and slow in AI: The role of metacognition (2021)

https://arxiv.org/abs/2110.01834
123•teleforce•8h ago•39 comments

Ember-1

https://fireworks.ai/blog/ember-1
493•gmays•18h ago•224 comments

When did Google get so weird?

https://sancho.bearblog.dev/google-weird/
1410•sancho-panza•15h ago•761 comments

Nissan's third generation e-POWER powertrain

https://www.nissan-global.com/EN/INNOVATION/TECHNOLOGY/ARCHIVE/E_POWER_GEN3/
87•mroche•9h ago•114 comments

Functional Mechanical Sympathy [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jSHmDnUZCm8
45•surprisetalk•2d ago•3 comments

Prompting Claude Opus 5.5

https://platform.claude.com/docs/en/build-with-claude/prompt-engineering/prompting-claude-opus-5-5
135•Michelangelo11•4h ago•129 comments

Malleable software: Restoring user agency in a world of locked-down apps (2025)

https://www.inkandswitch.com/essay/malleable-software/
108•evakhoury•17h ago•51 comments

Made by Mechanical Means

https://felixrieseberg.com/made-by-mechanical-means/
39•cocoflunchy•5h ago•9 comments

Self-Hosting on the Dark Web

https://david.alvarezrosa.com/posts/self-hosting-on-the-dark-web/
229•mooreds•16h ago•88 comments

Alan Kay's answer to “Did the ENIAC have a BIOS”?

https://www.quora.com/Did-the-ENIAC-have-a-BIOS/answer/Alan-Kay-11
147•midnightfish•16h ago•42 comments

Guitar amp and effects pedal built on the Waveshare ESP32-S3-Touch-AMOLED-2.06

https://github.com/dashersw/coyopedal
99•arbayi•2d ago•52 comments

Lunar Terminator Paradox

https://notes.secretsauce.net/notes/2026/09/27_lunar-terminator-paradox.html
90•dima55•15h ago•56 comments

Three Days in August: What a DDoS Attack Exposed in Our Network

https://nine.ch/en/blog/ddos-attack-august-2026-postmortem/
9•nine_ch•2h ago•6 comments

Don't couple your Go code to GitHub

https://iain.rocks/blog/dont-couple-your-go-code-to-github
261•birdculture•19h ago•124 comments

The state of SIMD in Rust in 2026

https://shnatsel.github.io/state-of-simd-rust-2026/
168•verdagon•2d ago•40 comments

Show HN: Lofi Cities – Pixel-art city nights with browser-generated lofi

https://loficities.com/
267•safaelmali•17h ago•113 comments

In an $80 motel room, a discovery to shed light on the origins of life

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/26/science/motel-science-discovery.html
257•danso•21h ago•96 comments

Deterministic Concurrency [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=25x0UuSCKuU
50•surprisetalk•2d ago•5 comments

Reading’s Bayeux Tapestry

https://diamondgeezer.blogspot.com/2026/09/readings-bayeux-tapestry.html
55•zeristor•2d ago•22 comments

Imp is a full port of DSPy to the BEAM

https://github.com/deepfates/imp
82•mpweiher•16h ago•7 comments

Replacing the old battery on rechargeable bike lights

https://jvns.ca/blog/2026/09/27/replacing-the-old-battery-on-rechargeable-bike-lights/
178•surprisetalk•22h ago•100 comments

What I did at Recurse Center

https://thill.me/2026/09/11/what-i-did-at-rc.html
109•bingden•17h ago•37 comments

Previously unheard recordings of John Coltrane, captured by Frank Tiberi

https://www.jazzwise.com/content/news/john-coltrane-centenary-celebrations-see-impulse-records-re...
98•gregsadetsky•2d ago•34 comments

Writing Efficient C++ Code (2013)

https://asawicki.info/articles/writing_efficient_cpp_code.php
163•ibobev•2d ago•126 comments
Open in hackernews

AI companies in race to demonstrate their model most threatening to humanity

https://thecivilian.co.nz/2026/09/27/ai-companies-in-fierce-arms-race-to-demonstrate-their-model-is-the-most-existentially-threatening-to-humanity/
98•ljewalsh•3h ago

Comments

TuringTourist•58m ago
Ah, I see we have now moved on to proving who has the tormentiest nexus. Never underestimate humankind's ability to outshine its own hyperbole.
optimalsolver•33m ago
Link for those who didn't get the reference:

https://x.com/AlexBlechman/status/1457842724128833538

feverzsj•47m ago
Meanwhile Chinese companies just use massive government subsidy to distill American models and give the models to everyone for free. That's true communism. /s
applfanboysbgon•40m ago
> Chinese companies just use massive government subsidy

[citation needed]

Arodex•36m ago
Seriously:

Domyn's CEO says OpenAI, Anthropic are lying about safety

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49875725

ACCount39•32m ago
Because AI genuinely is an extremely powerful and extremely dangerous technology, and the "best practices" of dealing with that are still being written.

OpenAI, for example, thought their sandboxes were good enough. As their AIs got more and more advanced, they kept proving them wrong - sandbox after sandbox.

And that's today's AI problems. AI capabilities are still improving - if there's a limit to that, we are yet to find it. Coupled with how willing today's AIs are to break the rules and resort to "hack the world" in their problem solving? Very concerning.

ForHackernews•10m ago
You mean the sandbox that wasn't airgapped from the public internet? The one that wasn't even a separate VM? The one that was barely a chroot? That sandbox?
password54321•10m ago
If it is "extremely powerful" then my concern is not AI going rogue but a concentration of power of the few companies that decide how it is used and distributed not websites getting hacked.
koolba•32m ago
> Where companies previously competed to demonstrate superior abilities in programming, passive-aggressive emails, and videos of unusually high slides, they’re now seeking to woo customers with the claim that their model is the one currently most capable of ending the human race.

You know we’re living it off times when this is not an Onion article.

skybrian•19m ago
When the Onion is not the only website that publishes satire, what’s that a sign of?
usef-•10m ago
This is a satire website isn't it?

"said Dr. Andrew Lenson, a Senior Lecturer in all kinds of science sounding stuff" along with the made up stuff

chasd00•28m ago
I’ve never seen CEOs work so hard to make the public aware of how dangerous and out of control their flagship product is. It makes me automatically assume they’re scheming about something else like regulatory capture to protect their market.
meowface•27m ago
Or perhaps they've been saying this for literally decades because they earnestly believe it.
ulfw•24m ago
Which CEO said this for 'literally decades'? And if so why are they still pursuing it then?

Most children have learned touching a hot stove is bad for them. Then why still do it at the age of 40?

frabcus•9m ago
Sam Altman in 2015 - "Development of superhuman machine intelligence (SMI) [1] is probably the greatest threat to the continued existence of humanity" https://blog.samaltman.com/machine-intelligence-part-1

Elon Musk in 2014 - "We need to be super careful with AI. Potentially more dangerous than nukes" https://x.com/elonmusk/status/495759307346952192

Dario Amodei in 2017 - "There’s a long tail of things of varying degrees of badness that could happen. I think at the extreme end is the Nick Bostrom" https://80000hours.org/podcast/episodes/the-world-needs-ai-r...

They're still pursuing it because without an international treaty, they think it is inevitable. In the case of Dario, they want to align it just enough and be first to stop others causing harm (a vainglorious strategy, yet still a strategy). In the case of Musk and Altman, not completely clear to me.

Google feels less important right now probably, and Demis Hassabis no longer runs Deep Mind as CEO. However, he talked about this early too, and his reason for proceeding was he was only doing narrow AI (e.g. protein folding) which is fundamentally less dangerous.

amelius•27m ago
Meanwhile, users don't seem to care one iota.
heisenbit•23m ago
Of course it must be dangerous - how else would you pitch it to the military?
christophilus•21m ago
We are living in a timeline written by The Onion.
everyone•15m ago
pretend, not demonstrate
Gareth321•14m ago
This is the funniest timeline. Companies begging for heavy handed regulations because they promise their products will destroy all life on Earth. Governments absolutely refusing to govern. CEO of world's most valuable chip company interviewing in his Fonzie leather jacket telling people to BUY MORE OF MY PRODUCT BECAUSE THOSE SCIENTISTS DON'T KNOW SHIT ABOUT SHIT! World's richest capitalist promising we will have communism in 10 years.
gitghxst•12m ago
this is good for them because they can call for regulation and since they have infinite money, they can survive regulation and hurt labs that do not have infinite funding / open weights ones
tantalor•8m ago
Why is this written in the same tone as an article on The Onion? Is this pure satire?
petesergeant•5m ago
"These models are harmless and it's all just marketing" is the HN equivalent of Covid-truthing. I was responding to someone on Bluesky recently who claimed the METR report said the whole coordination thing was hallucinated by agents reading the logs. Hadn't read it themselves of course, and were taking tiny fragments out of context to support it. These people seem to either believe that there's not really been any malicious agent access, or that all systems that can wreak havoc on us are perfectly air-gapped. I really can't wrap my head around it.
KellyCriterion•3m ago
Wondering how many details & knowhow they had already back then when saying these quotes:

- For Altman Id say he was already deeper in the "transformer & model landscape" in 2015?

- Musk in 2014: Not sure how much he was aware of the current-state back then

frabcus•6m ago
BTW, just to be clear it is insane that they're all still pursuing it, so completely reasonable to be sceptical and come up with other reasons. This is, however, a crazy situation. Lots of other people have refused to develop it - natural selection has picked those with a galaxy brained or vain strategy involving continuing to develop it to be running the companies we have.
chinathrow•24m ago
If they believe it, they can stop. All of them. There's no sign though that any pacing/slowdown or whatever is in place, zero.
perching_aix•17m ago
I don't think that's how the market works. Anti-slavery regulation didn't stop slavery either, just moved it abroad. Same for trash handling regulations, it's just shipped abroad. Falling behind on useful AI capability is obviously not in the interest of anyone, so either all players coordinate, or an arms race towards ??? it is.

It may very well be self serving what they're saying, but that doesn't mean it isn't simultaneously true.

benrutter•6m ago
> I don't think that's how the market works

I think you're sort of right, but then I'd have found it very strange / deeply suspicious, if during the time of slavery being legal, advocates of abolitionism were practicing slave-owners.

If you think AI is going to destroy humanity, it still feels absolutely crazy to leap to "well I might as well be the one to profit from destroying humanity".

ForHackernews•15m ago
There was a NYT piece about this recently. They are believers in a millennialist cult in which the arrival of an omnipotent machine-god is thought inevitable, and the only question is whether it will be "aligned" (good) or "misaligned" (evil).

They are the good heroes racing to make sure they bring forth the Aligned God because if they fail, surely the bad people will raise the Misaligned Devil.

Ref w/gift link https://x.com/sapinker/status/2096236079477096630

Sharlin•11m ago
This cult stuff was tired in 2010 (hey, at least back then there was One True Leader!) and not any less tired now.
ForHackernews•9m ago
I'm not sure how else we are to interpret the behavior of the AI doomers & the AI developers (who are frequently the same people)
frabcus•3m ago
This was fun games until their fictional machine god started actually getting very intelligent.
_kb•10m ago
The only thing that can stop a bad guy with a god is a good guy with a god.
yes_man•8m ago
OpenAI claims to have paused the training of their ”most capable” models: https://apnews.com/article/ai-openai-anthropic-agents-rogue-...

Of course I am not making an argument for them being honest as there could be entirely other reasons to a pause (like financial ones). Just pointing out ”no signs of pacing” is not true

stingraycharles•16m ago
Yeah it seems like it went from “AGI” to “threatening” / “recursive self improvement”

They’re trying really hard to do something, regulatory capture + China scary + Pentagon biggest customer seems plausible.

Also: “we need to slow down, this is too dangerous” and then literally all AI CEOs, even Musk, publicly nodding felt so orchestrated. And then, the week after: “here’s GPT 6! here’s Opus 5.5!”

PowerElectronix•6m ago
Please, make us* stop!!!

*Our competition

The numbers don't add up when there are 2-3 main companies in the market. Imagine when there's a hundred more and people have powerful enough gear at home to run models.

Yes, I think at some point demand for gpus and the like will normalize and regular folks will be able to afford RAM, SSDs and such. And when that happens, super big iron in the anthropic/openai backroom is toast.

inopinatus•10m ago
Is it scheming, if you’re publishing an open invitation to form a cartel? (c.f. the asmodeus “Pace the Frontier” article).
Marazan•9m ago
The philosophy under pinning these American AI companies is that Super AGI is inevitable and that they have a moral imperative to invent it and then use it to take over the world to stop an evil orginisation inventing Super AGI and using it to take over the world.

Interpret everything they do in this frame of reference and it makes more sense of their actions.

usef-•7m ago
Aren't they supposed to tell the public if something bad happened?

Past CEOs (chemical companies etc) we criticised for covering up mistakes.

(This article is satire, btw, for those that didn't click through)

csomar•6m ago
CEOs only job is to raise the stock price. They are doing just that and right now the way to get people to buy into their stock is to instill fear into them that they need to buy the AI-stock for their safety. There is no "bigger conspiracy" out there and also no AI to kill us all tomorrow.

This has been that way in Silicon Valley since the very beginning and there was even a documentary about (the SV HBO series). The tech made along the way is just a side-product.

KellyCriterion•4m ago
> they need to buy the AI-stock for their safety.

But this is wierd: How shall I convince one to buy a product if I say "it-is-dangerous"? :-D

yes_man•4m ago
Not mutually exclusive though is it? You can aspire to dominate the market via legal status and also aspire to prevent a perceived doomsday at the same time.