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Ask a model if code is malicious and it reaches for its morals

https://www.manifold.security/blog/do-models-consider-morality-malware
14•codyznash•2h ago

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prasadvara•1h ago
This is great writeup, can we do a cross comparison with "human" experts?? whether models perform better OR worse??
LambdaComplex•47m ago
This writeup reads like it was written by Claude, which makes me immediately question its accuracy.

> Each dot is one code sample; bars mark the median. The split between malicious and benign packages, perfect before the prune, was perfect after.

People do not write like this.

cortesoft•50m ago
I feel like LLMs really highlight the ambiguity and imprecision of the english language in normal use. LLMs are getting really good at guessing what we mean, but it is still a guess.

Mistral Large 4

https://mistral.ai/news/mistral-large-4/\
1204•Philpax•6h ago•773 comments

Nobel Prize in Physics 2026: Francis Halzen

https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/2026/
429•solarist•9h ago•141 comments

Release of Polars 2.0

https://pola.rs/posts/release-polars-2/
346•simicd•7h ago•70 comments

Tapo (Rust/Python library) now speaks TP-Link's TPAP protocol

https://mihai.dinculescu.dev/posts/tapo-speaks-tpap/
104•faithraven•5h ago•39 comments

Benchmark in Milliseconds

https://matklad.github.io/2026/10/05/benchmark-milliseconds.html
92•surprisetalk•1d ago•20 comments

Gleam doesn't compile to Erlang source anymore

https://gleam.run/news/gleam-doesnt-compile-to-erlang-source-anymore/
239•ingve•11h ago•101 comments

Mathematics of Geothermal Energy

https://www.ebsco.com/research-starters/power-and-energy/mathematics-geothermal-energy/
52•srameshc•6h ago•21 comments

Show HN: I turned my iPhone and a $20 smart plug into an f-stop timer

https://peterszentkiralyi.eu/darkplug/
39•pentakkusu•5h ago•3 comments

Meta’s Muse is an adorable privacy and security dumpster fire

https://www.techdirt.com/2026/10/06/metas-muse-is-an-adorable-privacy-and-security-dumpster-fire/
334•beardyw•6h ago•227 comments

Opus 5.5 agents discover two room-temperature magnetic semiconductor candidates

https://www.vals.ai/blogs/room-temperature-magnetic-semiconductors
466•outlier99•22h ago•311 comments

Subquadratic 3SUM and Subcubic APSP

https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.06783
50•mauriziocalo•6h ago•20 comments

The Early History of Smalltalk (1993)

https://worrydream.com/EarlyHistoryOfSmalltalk/
69•_reza•4h ago•28 comments

Beam: Reflection's 501B open-weight model

https://reflection.ai/blog/introducing-beam
523•Philpax•1d ago•164 comments

Nature's capacity to 'bounce back' when species are lost is vastly overestimated

https://phys.org/news/2026-10-nature-capacity-species-lost-vastly.html
256•pseudolus•8h ago•119 comments

AI is now capable of developing its own inference hardware

https://github.com/FeSens/openTPU
147•fsbonetto•3h ago•150 comments

Example.com just launched the biggest redesign in decades

https://www.debugbear.com/blog/example-dot-com-redesign-history
309•jgx0•20h ago•211 comments

Show HN: Parseable, an open observability datalake, handles 100M time-series/min

https://www.parseable.com
56•yashdotrv•6h ago•12 comments

Find the flattest route between any two points in SF

https://flattensf.com/
284•ishan0102•21h ago•97 comments

I'm the AGI that's wiping out humanity

https://ajmoon.com/posts/im-the-agi-thats-wiping-out-humanity-heres-how
93•alex-moon•8h ago•53 comments

Dust: Pretraining Transformers Without Backpropagation

https://qlabs.sh/research/dust
256•E-Reverance•22h ago•69 comments

Friendship ended with Deno, now Node is my best friend

https://dbushell.com/2026/10/03/deno-to-node/
288•ibobev•21h ago•208 comments

Direct retinal projection display for smart glasses using a meta-optic mirror

https://www.tdk.com/en/news_center/press/20261002_01.html
103•bookofjoe•3d ago•46 comments

World's First enhanced geothermal power plant completed in just 23 months

https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/01/worlds-first-enhanced-geothermal-power-plant-completed-in-just-...
129•hochmartinez•7h ago•51 comments

Testing 12 different Zigbee temperature/humidity sensors

https://smarthomescene.com/reviews/best-selling-zigbee-temperature-sensors-tested/
203•walrus01•2d ago•110 comments

Former German spy chief arrested for attempted treason

https://www.reuters.com/business/finance/former-german-spy-chief-detained-suspicion-espionage-tre...
69•semiquaver•2h ago•42 comments

Competitive Programmer's Handbook (2018) [pdf]

https://cses.fi/book/book.pdf
284•vinhnx•3d ago•70 comments

The complement of true is true, except when it's false

https://dryperspective.github.io/posts/complement-of-true/
61•aw1621107•2d ago•24 comments

Erdosproblems.com Succumbs to the AI Onslaught

https://www.erdosproblems.com/forum/thread/blog:9
14•pfdietz•6h ago•2 comments

The lamps in my house

https://arslan.io/2026/10/05/the-lamps-in-my-house/
303•farslan•1d ago•114 comments

What's Earth's dominant species by mass?

https://signoregalilei.com/2026/09/27/whats-earths-dominant-species-by-mass/
20•surprisetalk•6h ago•4 comments