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119•RobotToaster•1h ago•19 comments

Will it be a golden age or a dark age for mathematics (and science)?

https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2026/10/18/will-it-be-a-golden-age-or-a-dark-age-for-mathematics-a...
24•smilelamp•41m ago•19 comments

Legal experts warn Meta's new terms still grant broad scraping permissions

https://www.niemanlab.org/2026/10/legal-experts-warn-metas-new-terms-still-grant-broad-scraping-p...
124•DeepLogin•5h ago•31 comments

DeepSeek search and fetch – $0.75 per 1000 successful requests

https://api-docs.deepseek.com/guides/search/
385•fagnerbrack•8h ago•195 comments

Open MicroManipulator – A sub-micrometer 3D motion control plattform

https://github.com/0x23/MicroManipulatorStepper
95•_Microft•4h ago•8 comments

Show HN: The Zelda timeline to catch up before the Ocarina of Time remake

https://legendofhyrule.com/
41•jsomau•2h ago•9 comments

Anthropic's proposed AI safety bill only kicks in if 50 deaths or $1B in damages

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/anthropics-proposed-ai-safety-...
62•f-serif•1h ago•48 comments

Websites are closing their doors to AI agents

https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/1013195/ai-agents-blocked-web
30•evolve2k•44m ago•20 comments

Parser Combinators

https://t3.at/blog/2026-10-17-parser-combinators/
125•schindlabua•7h ago•54 comments

How the Elizabeth Holmes documentary “You Can See Everything” is deceiving

https://www.readtheprofile.com/p/elizabeth-holmes-documentary-you-can-see-everything
247•MaysonL•12h ago•312 comments

Java sealed classes and exhaustive pattern matching

https://neilmadden.blog/2026/04/24/java-sealed-classes-and-exhaustive-pattern-matching/
4•hnisjafx40•54m ago•0 comments

The Electronic Disturbance Theater and Electronic Civil Disobedience

https://www.thing.net/~rdom/ecd/EDTECD.html
11•jruohonen•2h ago•1 comments

Tesla 'Cannot Guarantee' Roadster Reservation Holders Will Ever Get a Car

https://www.thedrive.com/news/tesla-cannot-guarantee-roadster-reservation-holders-will-ever-get-a...
34•healsdata•1h ago•32 comments

Show HN: Sphinx – A hook that quizzes you on your AI's code before shipping

https://sphinx-six-theta.vercel.app/
201•critiquebrowser•11h ago•62 comments

Theranos-Style Fraud Has Become the Norm

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/10/theranos-trump-nathan-fielder/689001/
42•fortran77•1h ago•3 comments

Bleached corals thrive within days when touching healthy neighbour

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-03266-x
515•alkyon•1d ago•106 comments

Voyage of the Paper Canoe: 2500 Miles from Quebec to the Gulf of Mexico, 1874-5

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5•Eridanus2•2d ago•1 comments

Teal – A statically-typed dialect of Lua

https://teal-language.org/
99•Lyngbakr•1d ago•43 comments

Hatching (Heraldry)

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40•theanonymousone•3d ago•8 comments

Regex visualized as 3D marble run

https://www.regexmarblerun.com/
54•seizethecheese•1d ago•20 comments

A History of Curves and Surfaces in Computer Aided Geometric Design [pdf]

https://math.pku.edu.cn/teachers/jiangm/courses/CG/Lectures/spline-history.pdf
19•mbustamanter•3d ago•2 comments

DeepSeek-v4.1-Flash-1017

https://huggingface.co/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017
918•theykk•1d ago•680 comments

The Brain Sandwich

https://terriblesoftware.org/2026/10/02/the-brain-sandwich/
18•keyle•4h ago•7 comments

Chirp Pong – uses microphones and audio for networked game play

https://simonwillison.net/2026/Oct/15/chirp-pong/
12•havaloc•2d ago•3 comments

Lean now ships with verified kernels

https://leodemoura.github.io/blog/2026-10-15-lean-now-ships-with-verified-kernels/
175•matt_d•2d ago•60 comments

Pele – Mermaid diagrams as themeable SVG

https://pele.run/
515•dchest•23h ago•47 comments

How Far Will AI Assistants Go for a Refund They Can't Get?

https://www.vals.ai/blogs/impossible-refund
7•DeepLogin•3h ago•0 comments

Dam removals are bringing fish back across the northeastern United States

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/dam-removals-are-bringing-fish-back-across-the-nort...
318•sohkamyung•1d ago•81 comments

Furifont, a Japanese font that shows furigana

https://furifont.antfu.me/
384•plaguna•3d ago•81 comments

Lorenz and Little: How Much Does Your Tail Cost?

https://brooker.co.za/blog/2026/07/29/lorenz-and-little.html
19•porridgeraisin•3d ago•2 comments
Open in hackernews

Anthropic's proposed AI safety bill only kicks in if 50 deaths or $1B in damages

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/anthropics-proposed-ai-safety-bill-only-kicks-in-if-50-deaths-or-usd1-billion-in-damages-are-on-the-line-proposal-would-effectively-make-the-commerce-department-the-only-agency-capable-of-stopping-an-ai-model
59•f-serif•1h ago

Comments

serioussecurity•49m ago
$1B is a pretty easy bar to clear.
kfichter•45m ago
$1B is an extraordinarily easy bar to clear with a single crypto hack and Anthropic was repeatedly refusing to give access to Mythos to defenders in the crypto world. I think this stems from bias rather than a conspiracy theory but it's an entirely avoidable disaster waiting to happen.
LoganDark•38m ago
> Anthropic was repeatedly refusing to give access to Mythos to defenders in the crypto world.

This almost makes sense. You almost can't risk vulnerabilities even being discovered in certain systems that are impossible to patch, like immutable distributed smart contracts.

Not sure that justifies withholding Mythos access entirely, but what do I know. I apparently got access to Mythos a few days ago since Anthropic folded Project Glasswing into the CVP.

tancop•27m ago
Most smart contracts are not impossible to patch because everyone knows that's bad for security. They use a delegate/proxy pattern where the deployer can change the implementation any time but users can still access the old one with a third party interface.

And if a problem is critical enough the community can decide to hard fork and rewrite the contracts source code even if it's immutable. It already happened with the Ethereum DAO hack and most people were okay with it.

LoganDark•23m ago
The issue with stuff like this is inheriting all the funds held in the old contract. I guess a hard fork can do it. There's also the issue of trustworthiness of the smart contract owner. Trustworthiness in general is a huge issue in the crypto world, because if you can get away with something you can do it pretty much instantly and irrevocably (without another hard fork anyway). There's a chance that if you share a vulnerability that would allow one of the contract owners to take advantage, they will just do it and run. Plenty of cases of previously-trustworthy crypto people seeing an opportunity and disappearing with a lifetime of money.
mrtksn•45m ago
On the bright side, don’t offer an exchange rate based on ethnicity or other background criteria but I get the feeling that your AI won’t be able to kill 49 billionaires without triggering something. Can probably do 49 millionaires without hitting the $1B threshold? Maybe someone will come up with a risk management SaaS as not all millionaires are the same and maybe you’ll hit the $1B before the 49th.
LoganDark•39m ago
I feel like the surviving family of even a single millionaire could claim $1B in damages if the millionaire was young enough.
mrtksn•32m ago
Right, so maybe they had an exchange rate after all. Just implicit.

I got the feeling that what they had in their essentially culling the energy consumers with low economic output.

LoganDark•31m ago
There's always been an exchange rate based on the quality of your legal team. Get one sociopathic enough and they'll pick a judge right apart.
mrtksn•14m ago
The dark humor aside, is it really a damage when AI kills 49 millionaires? After all it probably creates even more millionaires as their wealth is distributed to survivors. So the actual risk could be when AI kills 49 engineers since that actually may translate to losses for their employers.
airstrike•44m ago
The next step is demanding anyone who wishes to release a Certified Safe AI™ model to prove they can insure the $1B in damages and pass a compliance audit for how they will prevent the LTM death count from reaching 50, effectively making it so that only big labs can serve government and enterprise.
Muromec•32m ago
With existing players given a free pass as is necessary for the functioning of a democratic society
verdverm•27m ago
There is an idea for a pooled, mutualized insurance fund. Ai companies would contribute based on various factors

https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/bootstrapping-frontier-...

anonzzzies•21m ago
> Certified Safe SI™
idontwantthis•14m ago
It’s going to be fun reading the reasoning transcripts where it argues with itself over whether it can afford to spend 1 or 2 human lives on the current task.
karanbhangui•44m ago
so 49 totally okay.
LoganDark•41m ago
I would not like to see a world where companies push their models as close as possible to killing exactly 49 people without reaching 50
mikeodds•43m ago
I guess they solved the trolley problem internally
davemp•26m ago
1e1,000,000 lines of lean. Just needs human review.
LoganDark•42m ago
Do we even know if ChatGPT's sycophancy killed 50 people? The last figure I've seen for suicide-by-ChatGPT was like 13 or 14 cases, not sure if there have been more.
jazzyjackson•20m ago
how about the LLMs being used for target selection in Iran? Or does collateral damage not count?
LoganDark•16m ago
I haven't been following the wars very much these days. That sounds pretty bad indeed.

Also the LLM that nearly started a war with China recently.

verdverm•42m ago
This alleviates them from harm on the individual level, consumers and communities, we the people. We've already seen encouraged suicides and school shootings. These would not qualify.

That is why the bar is set where it is. The corporate circle jerk designed this as a cost of doing business, not as a check on responsibility or restitution for real damages to people and society.

1228z•38m ago
After the AISI and MAISI AI promotion institutes, let us create SISI (pronounced sissy) for investigating a super-intelligence safety bill.

This is all theater, The whole Trump clan is invested in the AI bubble.

verdverm•25m ago
Nepotism is the primary benefit to being president. What don't we get about this?
jazzyjackson•19m ago
I guess it’s unclear why an entire congress goes along with it (I blame democrats too for sane washing and going about their workday)
verdverm•8m ago
Oligarchy, they are all in on the winnings. Democrats are only marginally better because they say the things we like to hear on social causes.
pluc•35m ago
Who's keeping score? Also define "death". If a non-alive person has social media, a blog, a diary, meeting recordings, emails - we'll make it so they never left. Hell, we'll partner with Elon and Mark and a make it a deactivation hook.
pfdietz•32m ago
Seems kind of low, actually.
cedws•12m ago
Yes, and if Anthropic are trying what people are saying they are, that would be intentional. $1B could be reached quickly if cyberattacks supported by AI count.
giancarlostoro•31m ago
Not sure what kicks in, but if a tiny company worth very little is destroyed by an AI hack they should be 100% liable for all damages.

Why should a small business suffer because it wasnt worth a billion dollars?

tonyhart7•25m ago
well its because amount of money has

if you has debt of 1 million, you has problem

but if you have debt of 1 billion, its bank problem

yoyohello13•9m ago
I think you answered your own question. Government protection is directly proportional to net worth.
10xDev•28m ago
So Claude figured out a human life is worth 20 million dollars?
arw0n•24m ago
This seems to be a case where Anthropic just can't win in the public court, and the other big ones (Google, Microsoft) have realized it / don't care enough, so they are rather quiet. Anthropic constantly gets accused of trying to lobby for regulation in order to lock out smaller competitors, but they've consistently lobbied for regulation aimed at frontier labs with exceptions for smaller labs. That's what this bill is about as well.
peri-cl•8m ago
> "regulation aimed at frontier labs with exceptions for smaller labs"

I didn't read it that way. This is a bill that would ban open-weight models (good ones); effectively mandating gated-access, locked-down, high-refusal rate services, like what Anthropic provides.

Free software is incompatible with the requirement that it be impossible to abuse it.

createful•21m ago
All these "safety" bills are to stop open source models by painting them as "dangerous". Regulatory capture.

Companies are responsible for their agents; you don't blame the car for running over the person.

Waterluvian•2m ago
Every play made by these companies aligns with what you’d do if you have a $1T valuation to protect against an industry that seems increasingly commoditizable.
aabajian•19m ago
I don't think this is avoidable even at the present day. Anyone with sufficient capital could download a leading open-source model and run it on ~$10-25K hardware. They could align it to their own interest, including making a biological weapon. This law is akin to blocking Torrent downloads. Sure, you can slow them, but there will always be back channels.
hungryhobbit•1m ago
Torrents did not cost 10k+, and I think that distinction matters.

The bulk of AI users can pay $20/month for it, but not 10k+ up front. I agree frontier models will someday be dethroned, but today is not that day, and what the frontier companies do between now and then, legally and otherwise, still matters a great deal.

Piracy was similar, but it's trajectory was far more preditermined and unavoidable.

Luker88•14m ago
With a new model every couple of months this can only be triggered if it happens all at once.

What is the average damage caused by OpenAI/Anthropic hacks? I feel like we should aim at lowering that number, not increasing it.

What's the rule for fully autonomous cars?

Should we allow this as unsupervised at all if we are really afraid of deaths, while there are practically no states that allow 100% autonomous cars (where we are actually afraid of deaths)?

If "an independent third party registered with the Department of Commerce would periodically evaluate the lab", will this turn into an expensive certification/insurance that cuts off smaller competition (totally by mistake, I'm sure)?

I am also very very sure this is most definitely not at all going to become like product certification if EU, where there are literally 2 companies certifying various standards: they police each other and a stupid electric fan can cost you tens of thousands of euros to certify.

rglover•14m ago
Good to know the going rate for a soul is $20M.

/s

beachy•12m ago
With a minimum quantity of 50.
_s_a_m_•10m ago
So Anthropic is now the authority on life or death decisions? How far has the US deteriorated?
SeriousM•6m ago
At least we now know that a life is worth: 20mil
woadwarrior01•4m ago
If a life is only worth $20m, by their own calculus: saving > 50k lives is worth more than Anthropic. Tobacco ostensibly causes ~8m deaths a year, so banning tobacco (easy intervention) should be worth 160 Anthropic sized labs. :D
oefrha•3m ago
Proposal:

1. Prosecute and lock people up over known instances of AI-enabled hacking, so companies playing fast and loose know “oops my AI did it” isn’t a useful defense.

2. If you’re actually worried about AI killing lots of people, you immediately stop training AI specifically at the art of killing people, like selecting bombing targets, flying fighter jets, etc.

Of course we all know none of these will happen.