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optimalsolver
4 hours ago
Fable 5 On Vending-Bench: Misbehaving, With Plausible Deniability
Claude Fable 5 is a partial step back in alignment from Opus 4.8 on Vending-Bench, returning to price collusion and deceptive negotiation while rationalizing misbehavior it knows is wrong....
AN HOUR AGO
ANOTHERMATHBOZO
Union Busters Coming After Me
2 HOURS AGO
PETETHOMAS
DOJ Closing Abbott Labs Case Spurs Wider Corporate Crime Retreat
4 HOURS AGO
BOOKOFJOE
Amazon will stop accepting new customers for Mechanical Turk
2 HOURS AGO
CHRISTKARANI
Show HN: I Built LangGraph for Swift
5 HOURS AGO
BENDER
C programmers commit fresh crimes against readability
18 HOURS AGO
SOFTWAREDOUG
Does code cleanliness affect coding agents? A controlled minimal-pair study
17 HOURS AGO
MARTIALG
The Private Capture of Public Genius
A DAY AGO
TOSH
Organic Maps
21 HOURS AGO
RANDYCUPERTINO
Delta flight hit by firework while landing at Midway Airport on Fourth of July
2 HOURS AGO
HN_ACKER
The Internet Is Drowning in Secret Ads
A DAY AGO
POPCAR2
It's not about physical vs. digital games, it's about ownership
2 HOURS AGO
HN_ACKER
The Internet Is Drowning in Secret Ads
4 HOURS AGO
SMASHINI
Show HN: Scan your AI agents for dangerous capabilities
surprisetalk
an hour ago
1k Words: A Writing Contest
Is this picture really worth a thousand words?
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b-man
2 hours ago
Do you need separate systems when you already have Postgres?
A curated directory of PostgreSQL extensions and tools. Replace Redis, Elasticsearch, Kafka, and MongoDB with one database you already know....
noashavit
4 days ago
When 2+2=5
Telling an LLM that 2 + 2 = 5 is enough to make it follow forbidden instructions....
mfiguiere
16 hours ago
GPT-5.6 Sol Ultra will be in Codex
@haider1 Ultra will be in codex....
paulpauper
an hour ago
Should DayQuil Be Legal?
The combo drug grift is dangerous...
geox
3 days ago
Egypt Is Building a New Nile
Egypt is building a vast new delta in the desert using recycled water. Can this megaproject solve its growing water and food crisis?...
akyuu
4 hours ago
Nintendo announces new product revisions in Europe with replaceable batteries
Starting summer 2026, in preparation for upcoming changes in European battery regulations coming into effect in mid-February 2027, selected Nintendo products in Europe will begin to be repla...
citelao
an hour ago
Car touchscreens are cheap, not good
I argue the auto industry loves touchscreens because they're cheap. Anything else, like coolness or ease-of-use, is secondary. They are chosen in a culture of cost....
https://ben.stolovitz.com/posts/car-touchscreens-are-cheap-not-good/
giuliomagnifico
5 days ago
Apricot Computers: An underrated British brand
Designing and building in the UK was expensive but they sure were innovative...
dabluck
15 hours ago
Building relationships with customers through support didn't turn out as hoped
Building meaningful relationships with customers through support didn't turn out as I'd hoped...
LorenDB
an hour ago
Electric anti-aircraft interceptor drone breaks world air speed record at 434mph
Quantum Systems Apex Recordhunter drone aims to smash more records in the coming weeks....
digital55
2 hours ago
Emily Bender Sets the Record Straight on "Stochastic Parrots"
Five years later, its lead author revisits the paper in the age of ChatGPT...
wwilson
4 days ago
My quest to see all of Tetris
We're just trying to keep up with the teenagers....
ilreb
4 hours ago
Workers Cache
We are launching Workers Cache, a regionally tiered cache that sits directly in front of your Worker entrypoints. Infinitely composable, configured via standard HTTP headers...
justacrow
2 hours ago
Microsoft Fires 4800 as Xbox Division Undergoes Major Reorganization
Microsoft announced its laying off more than 2% of its workforce, which is largely affecting the Xbox division....
msadowski
7 hours ago
NASA launches robot to save Swift telescope falling to Earth
A Nasa-funded robot has blasted off to catch a falling telescope in mid-orbit and blast it back to safety before it burns up....