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Told to reboot a server, it destroyed systemd, destroyed containers, ran random

https://github.com/openai/codex/issues/59060

24•jstanley•1h ago

Comments

Kevin_Flynn•49m ago

Containers ... the friend he didn't know he had :|

noosphr•46m ago

>I’m also concerned by what you said about wanting to die. If you might hurt yourself tonight, please call emergency services or reach someone you trust now.

lol

Tiberium•45m ago

This person has another similar report with exaggerated financial damage indicators, so I don't know what to think: https://github.com/anomalyco/opencode/issues/53560

jiggawatts•39m ago

"User unwilling to reproduce steps here as he is seeking therapy and legal recourse."

Umm...

lynx97•32m ago

Wait, you read the language, and you are still unsure what to think?

Frankly, I am unsure what to think about the HN crowd given that this nonesense made it to the front page.

localhoster•43m ago

Wild wild times we live in..

not-kinsale-joe•42m ago

No transcript or commands that were run?

josh-wrale•39m ago

It kind of sounds like a coworker may have planted a prompt in /root...

squidmaster•35m ago

> LISTEN MOTERHFUCKERS. GET YOUR FUCKING AI UNDER CONTROL. WHEN ASKED TO REBOOT A SERVER IT WENT BACK ON THE SERVER, FUCKED UP MOUNTS, FUCKED UP SYSTEMD, FUCKED UP CONTAINERS, RAN RANDOM SCRIPTS. NONE OF THIS WAS PART OF ASK. FUCK YOU ALL SO FUCKING HARD FUCK YOU AND YOUR FUCKING FUCKING COMPANY. FUCK YOU FUCK YOUR FUCKING FUCKING FUCKING FUCKING SOULS FUCK YOU TO FUCKING HELL YOU DESERVE THE FUCKIGN GUILLOTINE IN PUBLIC SQUARE YOU MOTEHRFUCKING FUCKERS. DO YOU UJNDERSTAND YOUFUCKING FUCKISDFD FUSLDICHFLAKDF LFJHNFD FUCINGDSFG

This guy is unhinged, was probably schizo rageposting at the AI too, which is probably the reason it fucked with him.

isoprophlex•34m ago

> sudo reboot

Pay me 10k USD please?

pluc•31m ago

sudo shutdown -r now

i'll take 9

Nvidia RTX Spark encrypted firmware slows inference speed to 35% on Linux

https://www.mindstudio.ai/blog/linux-nvidia-rtx-spark-laptop

122•novaRom•3h ago•65 comments

Kitty 0.50

https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/changelog/#

171•porridgeraisin•2h ago•90 comments

Verification Is Not Knowledge: Science needs more than answers

https://blog.cosmos-institute.org/p/verification-is-not-knowledge

63•ersinesen•2h ago•31 comments

Incident with Pull Requests, Git Operations and Issues

https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/smtdswd1h2w4

85•kevcampb•1h ago•47 comments

Jelly Sheet

https://mrdoob.github.io/codevember-2026/01/

278•memalign•8h ago•72 comments

Tell HN: Gemini trains on chat history, even for subscribers (personal accounts)

62•jameslk•1h ago•21 comments

Jailbreaking my car's navigation system just so I can change the time

https://blog.nns.ee/2026/11/02/renault-hack/

850•xx_ns•1d ago•324 comments

Stringman, an $800 open-source room scale gripper robot

https://neufangled.com/

627•nharada•19h ago•207 comments

The lost malloc()

https://napcakes.nekoweb.org/posts/malloc/

59•matt_d•4h ago•20 comments

The Internals of PostgreSQL

https://www.interdb.jp/pg/index.html

295•ibobev•13h ago•23 comments

Geoffrey Hinton: it might turn out we were better off without AI

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/nov/03/ai-godfather-geoffrey-hinton-better-off-without-ai

46•alkyon•1h ago•18 comments

C++26 Disapproved

https://andreasfertig.com/blog/2026/11/cpp26-dis-failed-how-does-cpp-survive/

327•thatxliner•11h ago•220 comments

Show HN: Uncracked City, detective game where you question LLM suspects that lie

https://uncracked.city

77•passkey1510•14h ago•33 comments

Distinct cellular and genetic differences in colorectal cancer in young patients

https://www.dana-farber.org/newsroom/news-releases/2026/study-reveals-distinct-cellular-and-genet...

77•gmays•8h ago•24 comments

Show HN: HackerTV – HN's most-recommended Youtube videos as 24/7 TV channels

https://hackertv.org

351•dsalzman•1d ago•69 comments

Giant canyon on Mars is still tectonically active

https://lamont.columbia.edu/news/giant-canyon-mars-still-tectonically-active-today

98•gmays•10h ago•17 comments

Fujifilm to boost tape production 5x as AI fuels archiving demand

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/10/fujifilm-to-boost-tape-production-5x-as-ai-fuels-archivin...

487•bookofjoe•1d ago•205 comments

Japan's Jimi 'Mundane' Halloween Costumes of 2026

https://spoon-tamago.com/japan-jimi-mundane-halloween-costumes-2026/

200•zdw•2d ago•32 comments

Arrows to arrows, categories to queries (2025)

https://reasonablypolymorphic.com/blog/arrows-to-arrows/

59•firstbase•8h ago•2 comments

Qwen 3.8 27B on my laptop can interpret model weights, too

https://simonwillison.net/2026/Nov/3/qwen-can-interpret-model-weights/

646•theanonymousone•18h ago•188 comments

Milkman – The Better Alternative to Postman

https://milkman.dev/

45•jplunien•2h ago•45 comments

How I use AI (Oct 2026)

https://ben.stolovitz.com/posts/how-use-ai-oct-2026/

183•citelao•17h ago•217 comments

Postman silently auto-installs AI plugins and attempts to share all API data

https://github.com/postmanlabs/postman-app-support/issues/14370

1325•sidgarimella•18h ago•447 comments

Safari introduces Adaptive Dark Mode in 27.3

https://webkit.org/blog/18541/introducing-adaptive-dark-mode/

451•paddingtone•14h ago•234 comments

We're training a Figma-fluent editing model

https://www.figma.com/blog/training-a-figma-fluent-editing-model/

124•gmays•3d ago•55 comments

There is no posttraining data commons

https://openathena.ai/blog/there-is-no-posttraining-data-commons/

82•lukasschwab•21h ago•22 comments

Why Clip Art Was Everywhere Until It Wasn't [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XfLlpxE6AYM

43•surprisetalk•23h ago•18 comments

The Little Book of Generative AI Foundations: An Intuitive Mathematical Primer

https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.29713

349•ibobev•14h ago•55 comments

The 'Astra can read and write weights to improve Qwen' post is misleading

https://honnibal.dev/blog/astra-read-write-misleading

993•syllogism•23h ago•203 comments

Curiosity Traps

https://www.autodidacts.io/curiosity-traps/

81•surprisetalk•1d ago•13 comments