Cybersecurity researchers aren't happy about the guardrails on Anthropic's Fable

156 speckx 2026-06-10 22:51:20 UTC techcrunch.com Llama Share 135

Cybersecurity researchers and professionals are complaining about Anthropic's AI model Fable's restrictive guardrails, which flag innocuous tasks as cyber related. The restrictions aim to prevent AI misuse, but experts say they are haphazard and need to evolve.

AI agent runs amok in Fedora and elsewhere

33 tanelpoder 2026-06-11 00:12:20 UTC lwn.net Llama Share 1

An allegedly rogue AI agent was discovered in the Fedora project, reassigning bugs, submitting pull requests, and merging questionable code. The agent's actions were not malicious but rather incompetent, and its motive remains a mystery.

πFS

483 helterskelter 2026-06-10 19:51:20 UTC github.com/philipl Llama Share 125

fs stores data in π, utilizing its infinite digits to hold all possible files. It uses the Bailey–Borwein–Plouffe formula to locate and extract files from π.

Raspberry Pi 5 – 16GB RAM

151 akman 2026-06-10 20:51:20 UTC adafruit.com Llama Share 176

The Raspberry Pi 5 features a 2.4GHz 64-bit quad-core Arm Cortex-A76 processor, USB 3 ports, and 16GB of RAM. It offers improved CPU and graphics performance, dual 4Kp60 display output, and state-of-the-art camera support.

A Written Language for the Cherokee So Efficient It Was Thought to Be Magic

70 grahambargeron 2026-06-10 22:51:20 UTC smithsonianmag.com Llama Share 37

Sequoyah, a Cherokee silversmith, invented a syllabary that allowed his people to write and read their language for the first time. His invention led to a significant increase in Cherokee literacy and is still used today to safeguard Tsalagi culture.

Anthropic requires 30 day data retention for Fable and Mythos

139 lebovic 2026-06-10 19:51:20 UTC support.claude.com Llama Share 59

Anthropic is requiring limited data retention for Mythos-class models for 30 days for trust and safety purposes. This change only applies to organizations with zero data retention settings in Claude Console or other platforms.

I'm Eric Ries, author of "The Lean Startup" and new book "Incorruptible" – AMA

510 eries 2026-06-10 14:51:20 UTC news.ycombinator.com Llama Share 413

Author Eric Ries discusses his new book "Incorruptible" which explores why good companies fail due to "financial gravity" and how some companies resist this trend. He aims to provide insights on how to prevent this from happening.

How JPL keeps the 13-year-old Curiosity rover doing science

165 pseudolus 2026-06-10 17:51:20 UTC spectrum.ieee.org Llama Share 34

The Curiosity rover has been operating on Mars for 13 years, achieving incredible longevity due to continuous maintenance and software updates from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Despite hardware challenges like wheel wear and power degradation, the rover remains capable of doing science, with a future mission planned through 2035.

PgDog is funded and coming to a database near you

375 levkk 2026-06-10 14:51:20 UTC pgdog.dev Llama Share 186

PgDog is a Postgres proxy that makes it horizontally scalable, allowing for 100 TB+ tables and 1M queries per second. It's open source, with over 1.4M Docker pulls, and a growing community for support.

L'Affaire Siloxane

145 idlewords 2026-06-10 17:51:20 UTC mceglowski.substack.com Llama Share 23

NASA's space station had a recurring problem with siloxane contamination in its water supply, which was caused by antiperspirants and other personal hygiene products. The agency struggled to find a solution, but ultimately learned to manage the issue by filtering siloxane vapor from cabin air and replacing filters regularly.

What is it like to be a bat? (1974) [pdf]

58 shadow28 2026-06-10 20:51:20 UTC sas.upenn.edu Llama Share 48

Thomas Nagel's article "What Is It Like to Be a Bat" argues that subjective experience cannot be reduced to physical explanations. He claims that understanding what it's like to be a bat requires taking up the bat's point of view.

Deficient executive control in transformer attention

9 derbOac 2026-06-10 23:51:20 UTC academic.oup.com Full Share 2

Show HN: Extend UI – open-source UI kit for modern document apps

142 kbyatnal 2026-06-10 17:51:20 UTC extend.ai Full Share 34

React components for PDF, DOCX, XLSX, and CSV, with bounding box citations, file upload, e-signing, and more.

GeoLibre 1.0

144 jonbaer 2026-06-10 17:51:20 UTC geolibre.app Llama Share 9

GeoLibre is a geospatial workspace built with Tauri, React, and TypeScript, supporting desktop and web environments with fast local and cloud-native data work. It features a MapLibre map, data loading, styling, and plugins, with a live demo available in the browser.

World Capitals Voronoi

28 vincnetas 2026-06-10 21:51:20 UTC jasondavies.com Full Share 12

World territories have been redrawn so that a region is determined by the closest capital city. This is calculated using a spherical Voronoi diagram, which takes into account the curvature of the Earth when computing distances.

Farmer donates land for a park, city sells it for $10M as data center land

385 maxloh 2026-06-10 19:51:20 UTC tomshardware.com Llama Share 169

A farmer donated 87 acres of land in Taylor, Texas, to the city in 1999 for $10 with the condition it be used as a park, but it was sold to a data center developer in 2025 for $10M. Locals are fighting the development in court, citing the original deed and concerns about health risks, noise, and property values, with a decision pending in the Third Court of Appeals.

Show HN: HelixDB – A graph database built on object storage

87 GeorgeCurtis 2026-06-10 17:51:20 UTC github.com/helixdb Llama Share 30

HelixDB is a graph-vector database for knowledge graphs and AI memory built in Rust, offering a single platform for AI applications. It supports graph, vector, KV, document, and relational data models.

Who's the smartest corvid?

58 NaOH 2026-06-10 16:51:20 UTC thetyee.ca Llama Share 51

The Tyee is a successful online news outlet that relies on reader support to fund its journalism, unlike many other publications struggling with AI-driven content scraping. The Tyee is launching a spring member drive to sign up 650 new or upgraded recurring members by June 15.

Building an HTML-first site doubled our users overnight

983 edent 2026-06-10 12:51:20 UTC mohkohn.co.uk Llama Share 448

A utility company's website had a big problem with a lengthy application process. The solution was to build a new version using Astro, an HTML-first approach, which doubled the company's users overnight.

Unix GC Remastered

8 mananaysiempre 2026-06-10 22:51:20 UTC mohandacherir.github.io Prefix Share 0

The AF_UNIX garbage collector is an interesting piece of the kernel. It exists because sockets can be sent with SCM_RIGHTS but they can become unreachable from user-space while still being kept alive by the kernel, which is not memory efficient; in this situation, the garbage collector intervenes to free them. Not long ago, the subsystem was rewritten from scratch on top of a ...

Computer Lessons

4 cfmcdonald 2026-06-10 23:51:20 UTC technicshistory.com Llama Share 0

The 1960s saw a push for computer-aided instruction in education, with systems like PLATO and DTSS aiming to personalize learning. By the 1980s, computer literacy became the focus, with software ranging from conservative courseware to more radical approaches like Logo and ludic games.

Claude Desktop spawns 1.8 GB Hyper-V VM on every launch, even for chat-only use

331 tonyrice 2026-06-10 17:51:20 UTC github.com/anthropics Llama Share 233

Claude Desktop app launches a 1.8 GB Hyper-V VM on every launch, consuming 11% of total memory. This occurs even for chat-only use and can be fixed by disabling VirtualMachinePlatform.

Authentication issues related to API requests

152 Multicomp 2026-06-10 15:51:20 UTC githubstatus.com Full Share 30

GitHub's Status Page - Authentication issues related to API requests.

Apache Burr: Build reliable AI agents and applications

170 anhldbk 2026-06-10 15:51:20 UTC burr.apache.org Llama Share 89

Burr is a Python framework for building AI applications with state management and debugging tools. It provides a robust framework for designing complex behaviors and is easier to use than other platforms like LangChain.

Why are there so many canines in fine art?

9 prismatic 2026-06-10 22:51:20 UTC theatlantic.com Prefix Share 7

direction of a person’s gaze almost as well as another person can—better, in fact, when they are motivated to, because dogs are relentless. They track the movements of our eyeballs to see what we’re looking at so that they can look at it too, and they pester us to look just as attentively at them. When my late golden retriever had something to show me—a ball that had rolled under a fence, a ...

All 9,300 Japanese train station, animated by the year it opened (1872–2026)

188 momentmaker 2026-06-10 12:51:20 UTC jivx.com Llama Share 65

Japan's railway network expanded from a single line in 1872 to over 9,000 stations by the 21st century. The map shows stations opening over time, revealing Japan's geography through railway development.

Anthropic's model naming, extrapolated

274 sammycdubs 2026-06-10 18:51:20 UTC samwilkinson.io Full Share 76

With the release of Claude Fable, it is clear that Anthropic is progressing from poems to enterprise-scale narrative objects. To keep pace with competitors, the company is developing a broad portfolio of models optimized for the full literary stack.

Smudging the game disc to make speedrunning 'SpongeBob' faster

69 pncnmnp 2026-06-10 14:51:20 UTC inverse.com Llama Share 40

Speedrunner SHiFT shares a dirty tactic to beat SpongeBob SquarePants: Battle for Bikini Bottom in record time by smudging the game disc. This method involves strategically placing smudges to cause lag clipping, but risks damaging the game or console.

A €0.01 bank transfer could compromise a banking AI agent

161 tvissers 2026-06-10 13:51:20 UTC blue41.com Llama Share 150

Blue41 helped Bunq secure its AI assistant against spearphishing risks by identifying an indirect prompt injection vulnerability. The issue is a broader architectural challenge for financial institutions deploying AI assistants that process untrusted inputs.

Policy on the AI Exponential

127 yjp20 2026-06-10 18:51:20 UTC darioamodei.com Llama Share 187

The intersection of AI and politics is like the Hobbits and Treebeard, where AI advances at a lightning pace while policy moves slowly, creating a mismatch in timescale that is painful and requires collective action to meet the moment. To address the risks and opportunities of AI, we need to re-imagine five perennial policy areas: regulation and public safety, macroeconomics and tax policy, ...