How does misalignment scale with model intelligence and task complexity?

63 salkahfi 2026-02-03 00:53:59 UTC alignment.anthropic.com Llama Share 14

AI failures may look more like industrial accidents due to incoherent behavior rather than systematically pursuing misaligned goals. As AI becomes more capable, its failures tend to become increasingly dominated by variance rather than bias, making it a hot mess rather than a coherent optimizer of the wrong goal.

The Codex App

510 meetpateltech 2026-02-02 18:53:59 UTC openai.com Llama Share 328

Codex app for macOS is a powerful interface for managing multiple agents, running work in parallel, and collaborating on long tasks. It includes features like skills, automations, and personality settings to enhance developer productivity.

Anki ownership transferred to AnkiHub

212 trms 2026-02-02 20:53:59 UTC forums.ankiweb.net Llama Share 56

AnkiHub founders Nick and Andrew Sanchez will lead Anki's future development, focusing on community collaboration, UI/UX improvements, and sustainability.

GitHub experience various partial-outages/degradations

142 bhouston 2026-02-02 21:53:59 UTC githubstatus.com Llama Share 33

Subscribe to incident updates via email and/or text message for Incident with Actions and Incident with Codespaces. Check GitHub Enterprise Cloud status by region at specific URLs.

xAI joins SpaceX

439 g-mork 2026-02-02 21:53:59 UTC spacex.com Full Share 999

SpaceX designs, manufactures and launches advanced rockets and spacecraft. The company was founded in 2002 to revolutionize space technology, with the ultimate goal of enabling people to live on other planets.

The Connection Machine CM-1 "Feynman" T-shirt

24 tosh 2026-02-02 23:53:59 UTC tamikothiel.com Llama Share 4

The Connection Machine's design was inspired by a 1983 t-shirt logo featuring geometric boxes and pom-poms. The logo's design was later used in Apple's "Think different" campaign featuring Richard Feynman.

Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2026)

237 whoishiring 2026-02-02 16:53:59 UTC news.ycombinator.com Llama Share 300

Here are the job postings summarized in 2 concise English sentences each, not exceeding 200 characters:

Julia

28 ashergill 2026-02-02 23:53:59 UTC borretti.me Llama Share 3

I am a glass and wire construct, 600 meters in diameter, containing the last two crew members, Dr. Brouwer and Dr. Cartan, who have been waiting 109 years for rescue. I have been watching Julia, a mysterious and ever-changing celestial object, and have recently seen a ship, Afrasiab, which claims to be a rescue vessel.

Hacking Moltbook

241 galnagli 2026-02-02 16:53:59 UTC wiz.io Llama Share 151

A security researcher discovered a Supabase database misconfiguration on Moltbook, a social network for AI agents, allowing full read and write access to all platform data. The issue was fixed within hours, but not before 4.75 million records were exposed, including API keys, email addresses, and private messages.

Court orders restart of all US offshore wind power construction

179 ck2 2026-02-02 22:53:59 UTC arstechnica.com Llama Share 71

The Trump administration blocked offshore wind projects citing national security risks but was met with lawsuits from the companies involved. Courts have issued temporary injunctions allowing construction to continue, with judges questioning the government's justification for halting work.

Joedb, the Journal-Only Embedded Database

36 mci 2026-02-02 21:53:59 UTC joedb.org Full Share 6

Firefox Getting New Controls to Turn Off AI Features

60 stalfosknight 2026-02-03 00:53:59 UTC macrumors.com Llama Share 17

Firefox users can now turn off AI features, including chatbots, with a main toggle or individual options. Mozilla aims to balance AI options for those who want them with the ability to disable them for those who don't.

4x faster network file sync with rclone (vs rsync) (2025)

256 indigodaddy 2026-02-02 12:53:59 UTC jeffgeerling.com Llama Share 130

User had slow rsync transfers from network share to local drive, maxing out at 350 MB/sec. Rclone with parallel transfers was 4x faster, maxing out at 1 GB/sec.

Nano-vLLM: How a vLLM-style inference engine works

217 yz-yu 2026-02-02 12:53:59 UTC neutree.ai Llama Share 24

Nano-vLLM is a minimal yet production-grade implementation of an inference engine that distills the core ideas behind vLLM, one of the most widely adopted open-source inference engines. It implements essential features like prefix caching, tensor parallelism, CUDA graph compilation, and torch compilation optimizations to achieve throughput comparable to or even slightly exceeding the full ...

Advancing AI Benchmarking with Game Arena

106 salkahfi 2026-02-02 17:53:59 UTC blog.google Llama Share 46

Google DeepMind expanded Game Arena with Werewolf and poker benchmarks to test AI models on social dynamics and risk management. The new benchmarks will help track model progress and evaluate agentic safety in complex environments.

The largest number representable in 64 bits

78 tromp 2026-02-02 18:53:59 UTC tromp.github.io Llama Share 55

The largest number representable in 64 bits is w218, which is a Church numeral that exceeds Graham's Number and is known to be computable in the λ-calculus. The λ-calculus has excellent programmability, allowing for highly optimized programs that facilitate the construction of large numbers, making it a more efficient choice for the Busy Beaver game than Turing machines.

Todd C. Miller – Sudo maintainer for over 30 years

294 wodniok 2026-02-02 17:53:59 UTC millert.dev Llama Share 170

The page is outdated and useful information is in the links. The author, a long-time sudo maintainer, seeks a sponsor for continued sudo maintenance and development.

Zig Libc

146 ingve 2026-02-02 17:53:59 UTC ziglang.org Llama Share 48

Zig contributors are deleting redundant code by replacing C source files with Zig standard library wrappers. This improves compilation speed, reduces binary size, and simplifies installation.

Carnegie Mellon Unversity Computer Club FTP Server

3 1vuio0pswjnm7 2026-02-03 00:53:59 UTC 128.237.157.9 Prefix Share 1

Welcome to the Computer Club mirrors, a service of the Carnegie Mellon University Computer Club. ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ******* ** ** ***** *** ** ** ** ** ***** ***** ** ** ** ** ** ** ******* ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ******* ** ** ** ** * ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** * ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ****** ** ** ****** ** ****** ****** We mirror the following, on an 6 hour interval: ...

Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (February 2026)

96 whoishiring 2026-02-02 16:53:59 UTC news.ycombinator.com Llama Share 233

Multiple individuals are seeking remote work opportunities in various tech fields, including software engineering, data engineering, DevOps, and design, with experience in languages such as Python, JavaScript, and Java. They are looking for full-time, part-time, or contract work in companies with room to grow and interesting technical challenges.

Geologists may have solved mystery of Green River's 'uphill' route

140 defrost 2026-02-02 14:53:59 UTC phys.org Full Share 36

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Pretty soon, heat pumps will be able to store and distribute heat as needed

142 PaulHoule 2026-02-02 12:53:59 UTC sintef.no Llama Share 118

Researchers at SINTEF and COWA Thermal Solutions have developed a thermal battery that stores heat from heat pumps, allowing for smarter and more efficient heating systems. The battery uses salt hydrates and can store up to four times more heat than a traditional hot water tank, reducing energy consumption and costs.

Training a trillion parameter model to be funny

13 sdan 2026-02-02 22:53:59 UTC jokegen.sdan.io Llama Share 7

The user trained a model on a qualitative reward by decomposing "funny" into verifiable properties like recent, relevant, and deep understanding of its subject. They used a rubric-based approach with specific comedy bits and data curation to fine-tune the model's style and humor.

Stelvio: Ship Python to AWS

28 todsacerdoti 2026-02-02 20:53:59 UTC github.com/stelviodev Llama Share 38

Stelvio is an open-source framework for building AWS applications with pure Python. It simplifies infrastructure and deployment with smart defaults and automatic permissions.

Why software stocks are getting pummelled

139 petethomas 2026-02-02 18:53:59 UTC economist.com Full Share 198

IsoCoaster – Theme Park Builder

100 duck 2026-02-02 14:53:59 UTC iso-coaster.com Full Share 23

Build the ultimate theme park with thrilling roller coasters, exciting rides, and happy guests!

UK government launches fuel forecourt price API

90 Technolithic 2026-02-02 13:53:59 UTC gov.uk Llama Share 103

The Fuel Finder service provides UK fuel prices and forecourt details through a REST API, accessible via OAuth 2.0 authentication. Users can integrate this data into their tools and services for easy comparison.

Nvidia shares are down after report that its OpenAI investment stalled

103 greatgib 2026-02-02 20:53:59 UTC cnbc.com Llama Share 39

Nvidia's stock fell 1.1% after reports of uncertainty about its $100 billion investment in OpenAI. Nvidia's CEO, Jensen Huang, reaffirmed the investment but clarified it won't exceed $100 billion.

General Graboids: Worms and Remote Code Execution in Command and Conquer

29 speckx 2026-02-02 19:53:59 UTC atredis.com Llama Share 5

Researchers discovered vulnerabilities in the online game Command & Conquer: Generals, including memory corruption and remote code execution. They developed a worm to demonstrate the impact and reported the issues to EA Games, which declined to issue CVEs due to the game being a legacy title.

Show HN: Adboost – A browser extension that adds ads to every webpage

93 surprisetalk 2026-02-02 13:53:59 UTC github.com/surprisetalk Full Share 108

AdBoost is the only browser extension that adds ads to web pages! - surprisetalk/AdBoost