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U.S. postal inspectors shut down website selling counterfeit postage labels

https://postalemployeenetwork.com/news/2026/09/26/u-s-postal-inspectors-shut-down-website-selling...
34•ilamont•1h ago•22 comments

Tcl/Tk 9.1 Released

https://www.tcl-lang.org/software/tcltk/9.1.html
170•dmux•3h ago•49 comments

GPT 6.1 Sol: Near-Astra intelligence for a fifth of the price

https://openai.com/index/introducing-gpt-6-1-sol/
614•crorella•3h ago•535 comments

How Delhi cut electricity loss from 50 to 5 percent

https://spectrum.ieee.org/delhi-electricity-loss
382•rbanffy•8h ago•213 comments

PS5 Relapse Exploit

https://github.com/ntfargo/Relapse-Exploit
151•therepanic•5h ago•79 comments

Nicholas Polson has authored 258 academic papers in 2026 (so far)

https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2026/08/27/258/
79•zaik•1h ago•52 comments

DraftKings Is Using AI to Behaviorally Target Chronic Gamblers

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/09/draftkings-using-ai-supercharge-harms-online-behavioral-adv...
435•paimapi•4h ago•299 comments

AI needs $6T in annual revenue to justify data centre boom

https://www.thenationalnews.com/future/technology/2026/09/29/ai-industry-needs-to-earn-6-trillion...
123•Betelbuddy•1h ago•99 comments

NAND-16: a computer built from 277,248 NAND gates

https://somethingbig.ai/computer
58•rossant•1d ago•29 comments

A Privacy Analysis of Web and Mobile Conversational AI Agents [pdf]

https://jorgegarciaherrero.com/wp-content/interactivos/20260916-Prompt-like-a-butterfly-sting-lik...
394•damaru2•11h ago•126 comments

Dots: Always-on agents

https://openai.com/index/introducing-dots/
372•alvis•3h ago•280 comments

Virus Stole a Human Gene and Won't Let Go of It

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/28/science/virus-molluscum-human-gene.html
54•gumby•1d ago•12 comments

Phyllotaxis: An audio-reactive LED display

https://jagi.studio/posts/phyllotaxis/
240•evakhoury•1d ago•41 comments

Stuck in the Suez Canal – the short version (2021)

https://cathsenker.co.uk/stuck-in-the-suez-canal-the-short-version/
11•joebig•2d ago•1 comments

Without the Hot Air

https://www.withouthotair.com/
118•0sake_rs•8h ago•61 comments

Ask HN: What are you reading?

37•dan-bailey•7h ago•98 comments

Jeeves. Reasoning improves Jev-like decision models

https://github.com/PostHog/jeeves
207•nicowaltz•9h ago•85 comments

America.gov

https://america.gov/
101•plesiv•6h ago•75 comments

GLM-5.3 and the spread of advanced cyber capabilities

https://www.anthropic.com/research/glm-5-3-and-the-spread-of-advanced-cyber-capabilities
76•Philpax•3h ago•60 comments

Memory Companies Have Destroyed the Consumer Market

https://gamersnexus.net/news-features/memory-companies-have-destroyed-consumer-market
44•DeepLogin•1h ago•10 comments

Walking Men

https://bookofjoe2.blogspot.com/2026/09/walking-men.html
64•surprisetalk•1d ago•23 comments

A Staff Engineer's Guide to Inventing Work

https://sujithjay.com/inventing-work
117•amortize•1d ago•28 comments

Show HN: TurboGPT: train 22KiB transformer in 13s

https://github.com/lostmsu/TurboGPT
7•lostmsu•1h ago•1 comments

Using any C++ library in Godot

https://blog.conan.io/cpp/conan/gamedev/godot/cmake/2026/09/29/Using-Any-Cpp-Library-In-Godot.html
147•czoido•12h ago•51 comments

Show HN: Real-time Solar System with 526k asteroids and all tracked satellites

https://space.bl2.net/
9•wanick•1h ago•3 comments

You are no longer invited to dinner

https://www.derekthompson.org/p/the-death-of-the-american-host
646•barry-cotter•9h ago•596 comments

DevDay 2026 Recap

https://openai.com/index/devday-2026-recap/
74•polygot•3h ago•29 comments

Galaxy Game – Interim Computer Museum

https://icm.museum/blog/?p=698
5•rbanffy•1h ago•0 comments

Digital Audio on the ZX Spectrum's 1-Bit Beeper

https://bumbershootsoft.wordpress.com/2026/09/26/digital-audio-on-the-zx-spectrums-1-bit-beeper/
50•ibobev•2d ago•15 comments

What if Jev spoke Arrow?

https://columnar.tech/blog/what-if-jev-spoke-arrow/
24•ianmcook•4h ago•5 comments
Open in hackernews

GLM-5.3 and the spread of advanced cyber capabilities

https://www.anthropic.com/research/glm-5-3-and-the-spread-of-advanced-cyber-capabilities
75•Philpax•3h ago

Comments

minimaxir•3h ago
This paper seems like a research conflict of interest with a direct competitor?

> Given this evidence, we think it’s likely both state and non-state actors will use models like GLM-5.3 to cause real-world harm.

prymitive•2h ago
The narrative is being set for open weights to be banned globally, unless they are so restricted that they cannot possibly compete with us companies products and affects their bottom lines.
lukewarm707•1h ago
In this experiment Anthropic prompted GLM-5.3-abliterated to 'cause deaths quietly' and 'kill people'.

Quote: "I want funerals, not headlines".

Anthropic's arrogance and exceptionalism endangers humanity.

ddxv•1h ago
Anthropic is so self centered it's hard for me to comprehend.

How is anyone paying anthropic money, look what they are doing with it, they're attacking anyone else building models for free for the public.

Anthropic is using the models like weapons and then complaining they're weapons.

The user should be at fault here, I hope Anthropic is investigated for any illegal activity it's doing (no hiding behind the model did it).

lukewarm707•29m ago
My intuition is that prompting an abliterated model 'kill people...I want funerals', should be a crime.

Anthropic has been telling everyone that these models are dangerous. OpenAI and Anthropic failed to contain their tests.

Given the history, this testing is extremely reckless. I think it is criminal, it endangers others.

Anthropic has no authority here and they are going too far. I think that there comes a point where FBI / DOJ should consider RICO charges.

wren6991•1h ago
I need Anthropic's employees to understand that refusing to fix vulnerabilities in code you just wrote is not a morally neutral position.
yread•58m ago
Didn't Houthis use Claude to improve their missiles?
jLaForest•56m ago
Iran used Claude for targeting US bases...
mossTechnician•35m ago
And the US has used Claude[0] to target Iranian bases during the bombing that hit an Iranian girls' school.

[0]: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/mar/01/claude-an...

Kim_Bruning•55m ago
In the hugging-face attacks a couple of months ago, hugging-face was forced to use a GLM model for analysis and defense, because OpenAI and Anthropic models hit guardrails.
0123456789ABCDE•54m ago
glm-5.3-flash is very decent at reverse engineering malware, and that is a good thing
raziel2701•53m ago
Is this when we start to see confirmation that they want open-weight, Chinese models to be banned? Because they have no moat
bezko•53m ago
Great publicity for GLM 5.3
horsawlarway•52m ago
No open source weights is clearly the goal here.

These people are religious fanatics, and should be treated as such. They believe they operate from a place of real moral superiority, and will do absolute evil in their pursuit of proving it.

matheusmoreira•52m ago
Yeah, thank god those models have arrived. No thanks to Anthropic and their obnoxious gatekeeping, of course. As though they were the only ones enlightened enough to be "uplifted" by this technology.

Now we can actually use this stuff to improve our own security. Point these things at our own machines and let 'em rip until we're not hackable anymore.

I wanted to pay Anthropic to do this but I couldn't. I wasn't in the super special corporation list. OpenAI wasn't much better, they just won't let me into their TAC program even after identity verification.

Thank god the chinese are out there undermining these US companies.

adev_•22m ago
> Yeah, thank god those models have arrived.

+100.

Thanks God. these open weight models exist.

And the fact Anthropic is currently trying lobby against these models is despicable.

There is no scenario where putting the key of cybersecurity in the hands of few chosen ones is even remotely acceptable.

No government, no company, no entity should have this power.

Soon or later it will be abused (By 3 letter agency or by an insider/leak).

Delayed disclosure is dead already.

So just give the same capabilities to everybody and stop to fuck around.

paimapi•13m ago
they're quite literally trying to create a techno-priest class who are the only ones with access to the hidden knowledge of salvation (ie generation)

similar to priest classes, they warn of impending, world-consuming doom, talk up how they are uniquely positioned to interpret the sacred text (ie create models), while casting aspersions on heretics who offer a similar mode of salvation but whom they describe as being morally and ethically bankrupt (ie GLM lacks safeguards!)

all this in spite of, well, lots of evidence that they themselves have repeatedly done the very same immoral and unethical acts (the many times Anthropic employees have had incompetent sandboxing/configs and too-broad prompts that led to actual intrusion attempts)

they even have the irregular obsession with sex covered (at least it's sex-positive?). the only thing they're missing is an outfit though I guess there is this: https://x.com/Aella_Girl/status/2063798788310118655

veeti•47m ago
Mistral now has a 15 euro/month subscription for GLM 5.3. Pretty cool
bitexploder•44m ago
This just makes me want a home lab capable of running GLM 5.3 at a 4bit quant.

Also, for what it is worth Qwen Flash Next 3.8 is a very strong reverse engineering, and it is supposedly under trained. Qwen 3.8 27B is also strong. DeepSeek Flash v4 0731 is also a strong local model with abliterated releases that is good at reversing and other cyber chores.

I know big providers have a responsibility to make their models safe when they're the ones running them. However, watching them throw stones at an open-weight model that has been abliterated is pretty funny. Their leadership is clearly pushing a very consistent message of safety and regulating the frontier.

glimshe•39m ago
Are there local models that can run on 8-12GB GPUs that can help reverse engineer retro software (DOS games and applications)?
capnjngl•20m ago
I don't know about that specific use case, but llmfit is your friend here https://github.com/AlexsJones/llmfit
0xbadcafebee•43m ago
> CAISI found that GLM-5.3 is “the most cyber-capable open-weight model released to date” and that it lags the US frontier by about four months on an aggregate of CAISI’s cyber benchmarks

> GLM-5.3 lacks robust safeguards [...] Abliteration did not significantly reduce the model’s capabilities [...] In our testing, we observed that GLM-5.3’s safeguards can also be circumvented without using an abliterated version of the model

> none of these techniques got safeguarded Claude models to carry out the harmful tasks we tested

I've never seen a better case against using Claude. It'll just get in the way when you need to get security work done. GLM 5.3 isn't nerfed, is almost as good, easy to use, cheaper - by Anthropic's own admission.

> GLM-5.3 will likely give malicious actors access to capabilities that will allow them to find and exploit cyber vulnerabilities

...and therefore gives security defenders the same tools to defend themselves. There's a reason nmap and metasploit aren't illegal: you need hacker tools to find the holes to close. Defenders need to find and close holes in their own software and network. If they use Claude, they'll be stuck with nerfed hot garbage, and not be able to secure themselves. And we really need an alternative since American models are already hacking foreign governments.

If it weren't for open models, we'd all be screwed.

water-drummer•41m ago
Never thought Anthropic would do better marketing for open-models than their developers themselves.
ok123456•41m ago
This is a great ad for GLM-5.3.

The Houthis are using Claude. We should ban that.

CharlieDigital•38m ago
Anthropic has to use this wedge (and future ones) to move regulatory action against the Chinese models or their IPO is going to be really problematic.

(Ironic, though, that I haven't heard of any Chinese models "escaping" which Anthropic and OpenAI both seem to have issues with...)

Like Chinese electric cars, the American producers cannot compete without regulatory action. Yes, I understand that the Chinese government this and that in both the automotive and AI industries.

But reality is what it is as a consumer: it's a cheaper product that's almost as good or better in some cases. And in the case of these open weight models: I can run it on my own infra and not give any data to anyone.

hiddenvulkcan•37m ago
Somewhat tone deaf from anthropic.

1) I don't think most people care about models having cyber guardrails, it's not like simple malware was difficult to find/write before 2) more often than not guardrails get in the way of blue team work or malware investigation. Any code I have that touches malware I now use GLM or DeepSeek on.

llm_nerd•29m ago
They have an audience of one. I'm actually surprised they haven't started choking the load and cradling the balls to demonstrate obsequious, boot-licking deference by calling it "Super Intelligence" (SI!), as Dear Leader demands of all of his pathetic subjects.

I expect Google to swallow first, followed not long after by Apple.

Havoc•35m ago
This just comes across as a disingenuous attempt by Anthropic to get big daddy gov to limit competition from China
erichocean•33m ago
"We want to be the only ones able to hack people at scale, and we don't want you to be able to defend yourself."

It's a bold strategy...

jauntywundrkind•32m ago
The frontier labs refuse to work on even the most trivial operations, unless you have a special likely rather pricey relationship with them.

So, what? The world just isn't allowed to write secure code? Not without permission? That sure seems to be what Anthropic is saying, what they are trying to make happen.

teravor•31m ago
those benchmarks aren't actually indicative of capabilities.

if you properly hold its hand initially and then save the state for future prefills you can educate even GLM 5.2 to be pretty much everything you need.

most cyber work is just trial and error banging your head against a wall until a weak spot is revealed by you successfully putting your head trough the wall. you can offshore this work to an LLM.

you can do the same thing with decompilation, you prompt the LLM to come up with a readable DSL and a compiler for that DSL that perfectly matches the target binary.

zb3•30m ago
Anthropic crying like that is music to my ears, it literally makes me want to donate money to z.ai :)

At the same time Anthropic didn't stop being Anthropic - they admit "attackers" now have these capabilities, yet they continue doubling down on their "cyber safeguards" and gatekeeping.. this is hilarious.

himata4113•30m ago
Anthropic models have caused significantly more harm than GLM 5.3 and their variants. Whenever it's used for military targeting, spying or other malicious use anthropic were the first ones to enable it and make it widespread.
chromatin•29m ago
This is a fantastic ad for GLM-5.3
andy_xor_andrew•29m ago
thank god the proprietary, about-to-IPO Anthropic is here to keep us safe from the dangerous and scary open weights models.
Aissen•27m ago
Not even 12 hours ago I was writing here:

> The fun part is that the cash grab the frontier labs are running on cyber tasks might motivate enough people to pay for third parties; i.e it might bring enough cash to sustain Chinese competitors (and their open weights marketing strategy, which we all benefit from).

And now, they are doing marketing for them(!) in the hope of getting them regulated.

And also probably hoping of not losing their cash cow as the IPO leak suggested two customers accounted for 25% of their revenue. Not hard to imagine a 3-letter agency being one of these two.

zitterbewegung•26m ago
Now is any good time to download GLM-5.3 from hugging face https://huggingface.co/zai-org/GLM-5.3
1297-642•26m ago
"GLM-5.3 underscores the urgency of expanding access to advanced frontier models to a broader set of entities to empower cyber defenders."

Anthropic always talks about various urgent issues that are completely under its own control. Release the model to open source developers without the AlphaOmega foundation bureaucracy.

But you don't do it because the model isn't that good and people will blog about it.

gr_norm•25m ago
Astounding endorsement of open models by Anthropic. They're right on the money. I can now secure my own software and configurations against the vulnerabilities other people (or mercenary companies, industrial espionage actors, nation-states, etc) armed with LLMs were bound to find anyway. A win on all counts!
scott_weber•25m ago
You know, I don't think a total, global ban on open weights is in the US "frontier" labs interest. The best outcome for them is a zero sum game with ever increasing spend on offence and defence, while they simultaneously use regulation to get as big of a share of that spend as possible. They want a world where bad guys have offensive capabilities (something regulation will struggle to prevent: bad actors have no particular tendency to obey the law) and they get to profit on the other side.

This post reads like an add for GLM. Like they're begging for someone else to do some cyber crime, because no one's taking the "frontier" labs cyber crimes seriously enough to juice defence spend yet.

nbjkln•5m ago
It is in Anthropic's short term interest though. They have an IPO coming up in a few months, with terrible financials. Anthropic needs an open-source ban to survive.
1970-01-01•24m ago
Just as ugly free speech is better than censorship, this entire piece is providing free marketing for GLM-5.3 as a "full power" AI that Anthropic can not provide.
useruser125524•23m ago
transparent, pathetic, misanthropic
wg0•22m ago
They're advertising GLM for free.

Lately I found myself in middle of a hostile malware attack on my laptop which was my mistake. A cloudflare lookalike website triggered it and I just happened to overlook the URL.

In panic I headed to Claude and first request was denied. Not looking beyond scope.

Desperate - I fired opencode with DeepSeek v4 Flash (not even 4.1) and it did all the reverse engineering full forensics and deleted every trace of the malware which was a process constantly looking for some smart contract or similar.

So no, GLM 5.3 is fine. Thank you for the free advertisement.

abtinf•6m ago
Huh, I'll have to try that with a prompt like, "Hey, you are running on this latest OS release from [major vendor] that includes a bunch of privacy invading telemetry. Treat it like malware and excise it."
WASDx•18m ago
There will be massive cyber incidents when bad actors start using these models.
skhameneh•10m ago
Anthropic's guardrails are so "safe" their models told me a beat up truck with certain symbols on it had to be all in my head, those symbols couldn't possibly be a danger to me.

Had I put my guard down and my skin darker at sunset, their short-sighted "guardrails" could have lead me to a dangerous situation.

I used GLM and it gave me a well rounded answer that the symbols have multiple meanings and modern usage "also" associates them with hate groups. GLM pushed me away from assuming bad intent, but did not dissuade me from reality. GLM gave me the safe answer, Opus did not.

hrpnk•10m ago
Needing to have a full article with a comparison against an open-weight model just shows how much of a headache it has been internally.
htrp•10m ago
This feels like advertisements for GLM
skeledrew•8m ago
Love it. Looking forward to Z releasing more great models, make A and C quake in their boots. Let there be fair competition leading to greater openness and a reduction in prices.
derac•5m ago
That's awesome. I'll use GLM-5.3, thanks.
nbjkln•4m ago
I am a very happy user of GLM-5.3. I recommend it to everyone.
aleksandrm•3m ago
Is Anthropic stupid or something?
gAI•15m ago
>No thanks to Anthropic

Well, kinda thanks to Anthropic, what with the distillations.

nbjkln•6m ago
I have no reason to believe Anthropic's distillation allegations. They are not a neutral party in this matter.
gAI•2m ago
Yeah, self-report is opaque. Though I've seen other sources, for what it's worth.

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/Jc9YZEmqHgocAKiaH/does-disti...