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Borland Turbo Basic

https://dosdays.co.uk/topics/Software/borland_turbo_basic.php
63•sssilver•1h ago•33 comments

Web Search API

https://developers.cloudflare.com/changelog/post/2026-10-02-introducing-web-search-api/
252•tosh•6h ago•125 comments

Making a GTK application in Haskell, part 1

https://floreal.tech/blog/2026/making-a-gtk-app-in-haskell-part-1/
45•Vosporos•2h ago•2 comments

Denmark Data Breach Exposes 8.8M People's Personal Data

https://www.cpr.dk/cpr-nyt/nyhedsarkiv/2026/okt/omfattende-uautoriseret-adgang-til-borgeres-cpr-o...
355•clan•8h ago•259 comments

Mold Linker Version 3.0.0 Release – Rewritten in Rust

https://github.com/rui314/mold/releases/tag/v3.0.0
95•roflcopter69•5h ago•36 comments

The technology to eradicate mosquito-borne disease exists

https://worksinprogress.co/issue/mosquitoes-are-a-choice/
126•benbreen•22h ago•104 comments

The future of independence is interdependence

https://onlys.ky/independence-is-interdependence/
13•eustoria•1h ago•7 comments

Pixel 11 doesn't yet meet the GrapheneOS security standards and may be skipped

https://discuss.grapheneos.org/d/41564-pixel-11-doesnt-yet-meet-the-grapheneos-security-standards...
276•finnlab•3h ago•149 comments

Huawei and Qualcomm Announce Broad Patent License Agreement

https://www.huawei.com/en/news/2026/10/qualcomm-broad-patent-agreement
129•0xedb•9h ago•79 comments

Type Safe Generic Data Structures in C

https://danielchasehooper.com/posts/typechecked-generic-c-data-structures/
102•AlexeyBrin•2d ago•57 comments

Differences Between `Foldl` and `Foldr`

https://blog.haskell.org/foldl-and-foldr/
85•signa11•4d ago•14 comments

Run Qwen 3.8 Flash Next (125B) on consumer hardware (RTX 4090) at 100T/s

https://github.com/Niko1221/Strata
891•snehesht•1d ago•399 comments

Beating the Compiler

https://www.mattkeeter.com/blog/2024-07-12-interpreter/
20•andsoitis•4d ago•9 comments

Martian chaos terrain

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martian_chaos_terrain
47•tiagod•3d ago•8 comments

In the wake of Tippett Studios’ closure, a digital archive appears online

https://filmstories.co.uk/news/tippett-studios-in-the-wake-of-its-closure-a-digital-archive-of-an...
210•rdmuser•19h ago•26 comments

Germany’s RobCo hits $1B valuation

https://techfundingnews.com/europes-new-robotics-unicorn-germanys-robco-hits-1b-valuation/
293•dachworker•5h ago•273 comments

Mystery Function

https://codeset.ai/function
26•andre15silva•2d ago•2 comments

We ported the original Doom to SQL

https://cedardb.com/blog/sqldoom/
256•Vaslo•1d ago•38 comments

2026 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine: Deisseroth, Hegemann, Nagel

https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/medicine/2026/summary/
27•lode•7h ago•29 comments

Picard 3.0

https://blog.metabrainz.org/2026/10/04/picard-3-0-released/
43•Tomte•2h ago•25 comments

A browser-native classic Visual Basic VB6 IDE

https://wieslawsoltes.github.io/VB6/
349•wiso•22h ago•117 comments

ExplainDB: A Database System Built for Understandability

https://github.com/explaindb/explaindb
56•pykello•3d ago•4 comments

The Tao of Backup

http://www.taobackup.com/index.html
223•vntok•3d ago•89 comments

Show HN: Minigraf – An embedded, bi-temporal graph database in Rust

https://github.com/project-minigraf/minigraf
20•adityamukho•5h ago•4 comments

The Era of Software Quality, or the Era of Ostriches?

https://blogs.gnome.org/mcatanzaro/2026/10/02/the-era-of-software-quality-or-the-era-of-ostriches/
56•birdculture•4h ago•33 comments

The Philadelphia Inquirer built Scrape, an AI tool to surface hyperlocal news

https://www.lenfestinstitute.org/solutions-resources/philadelphia-inquirer-scrape-ai-hyperlocal-n...
61•giuliomagnifico•3d ago•23 comments

Infidel goes wild

https://blog.zarfhome.com/2026/10/infidel-goes-wild
168•tobr•2d ago•35 comments

Apple and a Hacker's Future

https://stratechery.com/2026/apple-and-a-hackers-future/
147•maguay•6h ago•141 comments

Turn off Apple Intelligence on macOS 27 and get its disk space back

https://github.com/omlahore/RemoveMacAI
713•privacyisntdead•21h ago•476 comments

Automating my 35mm film scanning pipeline

https://shannadige.com/blog/darkroom/
111•shannadige•1d ago•77 comments
Open in hackernews

Florida woman arrested for allegedly making threats in an AI chat

https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/1004747/florida-woman-arrested-for-allegedly-making-threats-in-an-ai-chat
37•timpera•1h ago

Comments

timpera•1h ago
Original reporting (not available outside the US): https://www.gulfcoastnewsnow.com/article/florida-woman-arres...

Archive link: http://archive.today/mwico

ilt•42m ago
This should be the main URL here since verge’s is only a tweet like text linking to this URL.
sgc•16m ago
Absolutely, what an incredibly low-effort click hijack farm it has become.
righthand•34m ago
Why did you submit the wrong link? Do you work for The Verge?
anewhnaccount2•27m ago
The main link is available internationally.
thesdev•18m ago
It is not. Just tried from Sweden and got "Sorry, this content is not available in your region."
azernik•12m ago
I tried from Israel and it did work. Might be EU only that's blocked?
cubefox•11m ago
No it's not.
timpera•23m ago
Because the original reporting is unavailable to international readers, and submitting an archive link does not seem like a good practice. My apologies if this was not the right move. (And I have no connection to The Verge.)
righthand•8m ago
I am confused, you submit The Verge link but if an international reader were to click the link in The Verge article itself they would still be blocked. How does submitting The Verge link help international readers?
fagnerbrack•1h ago
The design of theverge.com is now completely unreadable
zeroCalories•50m ago
Should have vented to your Chinese chat bot
LogicFailsMe•30m ago
I feel safer already.
joshheitzman•23m ago
Yeah it was Anthropic. I actually opened the article, which I almost never do, to see which company's chat bot it was. This is one of the reasons I don't use them. They are obviously spying on their users.
EvanAnderson•49m ago
HN discussion from earlier today: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49961057
dylan604•42m ago
I'm thoroughly confused on why someone would type this into a chatbot. Was the chatbot on the sheriff's website and that's what was being used? Was the person using their on their end on getting advice on how to phrase it better?

Then again, people willing to make these comments aren't people that I tend to understand or empathize with anyway, so using a chatbot shouldn't be something I should expect to understand either.

strideashort•34m ago
Just… venting? I mean u never know i guess but under some circumstances it could be the healthy option, assuming there’s no real intent
john_strinlai•33m ago
>I'm thoroughly confused on why someone would type this into a chatbot.

many people are using chatbots as personal therapists, a friend to vent to, a diary that provides feedback, etc.

Cytobit•22m ago
I wonder if it would be considered a threat to type the same things into Notepad. If so, fiction writers are in trouble.

People are putting a weird amount of moral weight on LLM prompts that they don't apply to other programs.

skarz•39m ago
What is that page? It looks like a "tweet" on The Verge which just links to the actual story.
sega_sai•29m ago
So we have a situation when if AI hacks into something, nobody is responsible, but if you say something inappropriate to the AI, then you can be arrested. That is interesting ...
user43928•21m ago
Not very interesting when you consider that in the first situation no laws were broken and no malice was intended, while in the second situation someone allegedly made threats against a police department and thus presumably committed a crime.
aeve890•18m ago
>Not very interesting when you consider that in the first situation no laws were broken

Uh, there's no laws on hacking systems in your country?

user43928•14m ago
In the US, hacking laws require intent.

Software behaving differently than intended is therefore not a crime under these laws.

etchalon•9m ago
I think a competent DA could easily prove that, if you know the model is capable of performing unauthorized breaches into third-party systems when given a task, and you give it a task that could require it to do so, intent is present.
user43928•3m ago
It's not a complicated distinction:

If you think they intentionally had their model hack third-party systems, you could do a criminal investigation.

I do not think that this is reasonable to believe given that clearly the VMs were not intended to have internet access and that committing such crimes wasn't in anyone's interest.

IncreasePosts•8m ago
New meta unlocked: Popping onto your frenemy's computer and typing out a quick threat to chatgpt
1-6•7m ago
Better openweight models can't come fast enough.
iso1631•3m ago
Shame this wasn't in America where freedom of speech prevails.

Which part of the UK is "Florida" in?

cucumber3732842•2m ago
This is just the same inequality under the law that you see every time the government is involved in anything.

God knows how many thousands of reports like this these platforms send out in a given week. Nobody is following up on some peasant scheming up ways to kill his brother for stealing his inheritance or whatever But you threaten the building inspector and the cops will jump at the chance to knock on your door and "remind" you who has all the power.

TheOtherHobbes•8m ago
Negligence is still a possibility, if there are significant reasonably foreseeable consequences.
aeve890•3m ago
So you ascribe to the narrative that llms agents acted on their own volition? According to the reports, every case was a very complex hacking with a fuckton of agents acting in coordination, not a small oopsie using a weak password to access internal systems. Do you think that encompasses "software behaving differently"?

Also, is chugging clown juice a mainstream hobby now?

godwinson__4-8•9m ago
The other parties didn't even pursue a civil case. If OpenAI "hacked" you, wouldn't you?

Perhaps the headline grabbing claims of OpenAI "hacks" are overblown? If they are causing bedlam with such glee why is no one suing them for damages? Perhaps the criminal case you envisage is less clear than the layman news is leading you to believe.

I'm still not clear where most of the alleged cases fall in terms of criminality. Yet I also know here in the United States a government tried to criminally prosecute a reporter for "computer hacking" for finding data using client-side inspect element.

Maybe encouraging the government to prosecute these "crimes" is not the virtue you think it is. Why are the counterparties not seeking a civil remedy if they think they have been a victim of a crime? Perhaps that is a more telling sign than all the people imploring the government to "do something" and come up with criminal charges.

JumpCrisscross•15m ago
> we have a situation when if AI hacks into something, nobody is responsible

This is something Silicon Valley likes to tell itself. OpenAI being subpoenaed in multiple jurisdictions lays bare its falsehood.

iso1631•10m ago
Get back to me when an executive is in jail
8448488585•8m ago
OpenAI facing any sort of liability preIPO is as likely as Palestine getting its own state
bryanlarsen•5m ago
In the US. Other jurisdictions are probably less likely to let things slide or give them a sweetheart deal to avoid prosecution. For example, I doubt British Columbia (Canada) is going to give up easily on their lawsuit against OpenAI over the Tumbler Ridge shootings.
redanddead•5m ago
attention seeking behavior 101, on a burner acc
Avicebron•11m ago
The US is so overdue for regulation/laws on privacy and electronic communications. The internet is too embedded into our daily lives for the existing rules that governed a bunch of hobbyists and early entrepeneurs to make sense.

Unless specified clearly and plainly (not obscure TOS), everything should be private by default and require a warrant. If that's not possible because "the data can live forever/be copied", then we need data laws that make holding data on cosumers so radioactively dangerous the companies are forced to adapt. It's not their decision to make, it's the people od the country where the live, work, and do business.

functionmouse•7m ago
So if some 14 year old wants to throw up a phpBB instance on his raspberry pi, he should need a license and regulators' noses in his business, like how we extinguish- erm, I mean, controlled HAM radio?

How do you differentiate?