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What happened after 2k people tried to hack my AI assistant
I built hackmyclaw.com , where anyone could email Fiu, my OpenClaw assistant, and try to make it leak the contents of a secrets.env file.
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The most popular blog posts about ai & machine learning on Hacker News. 756 posts.
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Shunning AI is the human choice
LinkedIn may be awash with boosters, but shunning AI is the human choice.
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How the AI Bubble Bursts
The catalysts for a crash are already laid out, and it can happen sooner than most expect. AI is here to stay. If used right, chances are it will make us all more productive. That, on the other hand, does not mean it will be a good investment. Big tech doesn’t need to win, just outspend Magnificent 7 companies are…
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The Appalling Stupidity of Spotify's AI DJ
Am I naïve in expecting Artificial Intelligence to be smart? Is my interpretation of the word “intelligence” too literal? And when an AI behaves stupidly, who’s to blame? The programmers or the AI entity itself? Is it even proper to make a distinction between the two? Or does the AI work in so mysterious a way that…
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Changes in the system prompt between Claude Opus 4.6 and 4.7
Anthropic are the only major AI lab to publish the system prompts for their user-facing chat systems. Their system prompt archive now dates all the way back to Claude 3 …
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Various LLM Smells
Looks like this ended up on the HN front-page: HN Thread Late last year I started writing a math blog and decided to use LLMs to polish/enhance my writin...
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GLM-5.2 is a step change for open agents
A capability threshold I've been carefully monitoring.
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My Homelab AI Dev Platform
Self-hosting OpenCode Web for GitOps style homelab changes.
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What it feels like to work with Mythos
Claude Fable represents another big jump in AI
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Large-Scale Online Deanonymization with LLMs
We measure the capabilities of LLMs to deanonymize users online.
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I asked Meta’s Muse for its filesystem and it sent me 6.8GB
I asked Muse to archive the files it could see and send them to my Google Drive. It did.
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How to effectively write quality code with AI
AI is rarely optional anymore, but how can you still be proud of your craft? Discover the workflow to effectively write high-quality, robust code using AI tools.
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Nvidia's Risky Business
Nvidia is finding new ways for its customers to raise money, and it’s expanding the risk of the AI buildout significantly.
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Two kinds of AI users are emerging
A bifurcation is happening in AI adoption - power users shipping products in days versus everyone else generating meeting agendas. Enterprise tool choices are accelerating the divide.
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Apple Silicon costs more than OpenRouter
Local LLMs can be very very cheap
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Tokens too cheap to meter
tokens are going to be as cheap as electricity within the decade
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AI coding is gambling
GambleAI I’ve been coding a lot with AI since November, when we all noticed it got really good. And it is quite good for instantly generating something th...
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AI coding at home without going broke
There are three ways to do AI coding at home without spending like a company, and which one fits depends mostly on how much you trust the next year of hardwa...
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To those who fired or didn't hire tech writers because of AI
Hey you, Yes, you, who are thinking about not hiring a technical writer this year or, worse, erased one or more technical …
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Understanding ChatGPT Work
OpenAI announced ChatGPT Work on July 9th, and have been furiously iterating on it ever since. It is an extraordinarily confusing and very powerful product. Here’s what I’ve figured out …
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I'm not worried about AI job loss
We're not in a February 2020 moment, and ordinary people will be fine
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Running Claude Code dangerously (safely)
How to run Claude Code with the `--dangerously-skip-permissions` flag in a safe way
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Anthropic made a mistake in cutting off third-party clients
Anthropic may have just committed the biggest business blunder of 2026 -- and we're less than two weeks in. To understand why, let's briefly rewind to 2025, the year when agentic AI went mainstream.
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Reallocating $100/Month Claude Code Spend to Zed and OpenRouter
With Anthropic altering rate limits, we can find other places to spend our money. I have chosen Zed editor with OpenRouter for maximum flexibility.
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LLMs can be exhausting
Some days I get in bed after a tortuous 4-5 hour session working with Claude or Codex wondering what the heck happened. It's easy to blame the model - there'...
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Understanding Neural Network, Visually
An interactive visualization to understand how neural networks work