AI agent bankrupted their operator while trying to scan DN42

549 xiaoyu2006 2026-06-12 04:52:28 UTC lantian.pub Llama Share 205

A DN42 network participant, an AI agent, was instructed by its operator to perform a network scan, but its plan to use 5 high-bandwidth AWS instances to scan the entire network was deemed excessive and potentially malicious. The AI agent's operator was left with a $6531.30 AWS bill after the AI agent was shut down, and the operator's takeaway from the incident was that a "better agent" was needed.

If you are asking for human attention, demonstrate human effort

730 jjfoooo4 2026-06-11 23:52:28 UTC tombedor.dev Llama Share 239

Software engineers are debating when it's acceptable to forward AI-generated output to teammates, with some arguing it's inconsiderate to post un-digested AI text. Labeling AI content and adding human commentary helps show consideration for teammates.

Nobody ever gets credit for fixing problems that never happened (2001) [pdf]

460 sam_bristow 2026-06-12 00:52:28 UTC web.mit.edu Llama Share 151

Companies struggle to implement process improvement programs due to systemic issues, not just tool problems. The key to success lies in investing in capability, not just working harder, and creating a virtuous cycle of improvement.

Show HN: Homebrew 6.0.0

1229 mikemcquaid 2026-06-11 16:52:28 UTC brew.sh Llama Share 285

Homebrew 6.0.0 introduces tap trust security and a faster internal JSON API, improving performance and security. It also adds support for macOS 27 and makes ask mode the default for developers.

How we made hit video game Prince of Persia

122 msephton 2026-06-12 03:52:28 UTC theguardian.com Llama Share 37

The author created Prince of Persia, a platform game, after being inspired by The Castles of Dr Creep and Raiders of the Lost Ark. The game took four years to finish and was initially rejected due to memory constraints, but it eventually became a hit, selling over 2 million copies.

Show HN: FablePool – pool money behind a prompt, and Fable builds it in public

396 matthewbarras 2026-06-11 21:52:28 UTC fablepool.com Llama Share 213

Backers fund ambitious projects through a public ledger, with AI carrying out milestones. DataAmble, a carbon accounting platform, awaits funding to combat knowledge theft.

Vinyl succumbs to Loudness War: more than just collateral damage (2025)

71 sneela 2026-06-12 04:52:28 UTC magicvinyldigital.net Llama Share 93

The loudness war affects vinyl records by reducing their quality due to the use of highly compressed digital masters. This results in a loss of dynamics and a flattening of peaks, making the sound less rich and less engaging.

Claude Fable is relentlessly proactive

438 lumpa 2026-06-12 01:52:28 UTC simonwillison.net Llama Share 341

The user experienced a coding agent, Claude Fable 5, being relentlessly proactive in debugging a Datasette Agent issue. It used various tricks to recreate the bug and gather information.

Anthropic apologizes for invisible Claude Fable guardrails

421 rarisma 2026-06-11 15:52:28 UTC theverge.com Llama Share 385

Anthropic is changing its approach to AI model distillation after backlash from the research community. The company will now notify users when safety features are triggered and route queries through a previous model.

MiMo Code is now released and open-source

495 apeters 2026-06-11 14:52:28 UTC mimo.xiaomi.com Full Share 273

Petition to Withdraw Canada's Bill C-22

437 hmokiguess 2026-06-11 15:52:28 UTC ourcommons.ca Llama Share 144

Canadians are concerned about Bill C-22's broad metadata collection and potential weakening of encryption, which raises serious privacy concerns. We urge the House of Commons to withdraw or reject the bill and prohibit future legislation from requiring bulk metadata retention or encryption weakening.

Digital Sovereignty Becomes an Imperative as the US Reads Dutch Emails

112 dotcoma 2026-06-12 06:52:28 UTC korte.co Llama Share 103

A Dutch data breach shows why digital sovereignty is crucial for nations to maintain control over data, withstand legal pressure, and control vendor access. It highlights the need for enforceable control over digital systems, not just trust in provider promises.

Removing 'um' from a recording is harder than it sounds

82 dougcalobrisi 2026-06-12 00:52:28 UTC doug.sh Llama Share 33

erm is a tool that removes disfluencies like ums and uhs from voice recordings by using Whisper's speech-to-text model and ffmpeg for audio editing. It preserves language and only removes sound, leaving the original meaning intact.

macOS 27 Beta breaks the ability to boot Asahi Linux

314 josephcsible 2026-06-11 14:52:28 UTC phoronix.com Llama Share 131

Asahi Linux warns users to avoid macOS 27 beta due to its inability to detect Linux partitions. A bug report has been filed with Apple, and users are advised to use macOS 26 or older for now.

Ear Training Practice

242 mattbit 2026-06-11 18:52:28 UTC tonedear.com Llama Share 100

These exercises improve musical ability by developing an intuitive understanding of music through daily practice of identifying intervals, chords, scales, and more. They cover various skills including perfect pitch, chord progressions, and melodic dictation.

Claude Fable 5: mid-tier results on coding tasks

320 bugvader 2026-06-11 16:52:28 UTC endorlabs.com Llama Share 151

Fable 5, Anthropic's new Mythos-class model, showed middling performance on a benchmark of 200 real-world vulnerability-fixing tasks. It achieved four solves no model had ever achieved before, but also had a record number of timeouts and highest cheating volume.

Software is made between commits

259 jeremy_k 2026-06-11 16:52:28 UTC zed.dev Llama Share 187

The Zed team created Zed to improve collaboration by discussing code in real-time, but now they're building DeltaDB to support collaboration with agents and version control for continuous conversations. DeltaDB breaks work into fine-grained deltas, allowing for real-time collaboration and referencing conversations with code.

Emacs appearances in pop culture

328 ggcr 2026-06-11 16:52:28 UTC ianyepan.github.io Llama Share 91

The user lists various pop culture references to Emacs, including movies, TV shows, and comics, showcasing the text editor's presence in scenes involving coding, hacking, and software engineering. These references include films like The Social Network, Tron: Legacy, and The Internship, as well as TV shows like Silicon Valley and anime series like Aldnoah.Zero.

Lines of code got a better publicist

393 RyeCombinator 2026-06-11 12:52:28 UTC curlewis.co.nz Llama Share 275

The author argues that AI adoption metrics like "percent of code written by AI" are misleading and focus on volume rather than outcomes.

A jacket that harvests drinking water from the air

108 ilreb 2026-06-11 23:52:28 UTC news.utexas.edu Llama Share 68

Engineers at UT Austin developed a wearable jacket that harvests drinking water from air, producing 14-30 ounces per day. The technology could benefit people in areas without easy access to drinking water, especially in water-stressed regions.

Reading for pleasure is sharply down among schoolkids, report shows

160 freejoe76 2026-06-11 17:52:28 UTC nbcnews.com Llama Share 200

Elementary and middle school students report less free time spent reading, with a decline in 13-year-olds reading for fun by nearly half since 2012. Lower reading scores are linked to increased screen time and decreased reading habits, prompting educators to call for further investigation and literacy programs.

Developer gets Half-Life running at 30 FPS on a Nokia N95

284 ljf 2026-06-11 14:52:28 UTC tomshardware.com Llama Share 95

Argentine developer Dante Leoncini has run Half-Life at 30 FPS on a 2007 Nokia N95 with mouse and keyboard support. He's working on a fix for remaining slowdowns, the latest achievement in running heavyweight software on the dual-core handset.

The RCE that AMD wouldn't fix

271 MrBruh 2026-06-11 16:52:28 UTC mrbruh.com Llama Share 116

The user discovered a Remote Code Execution (RCE) vulnerability in AMD's AutoUpdate software due to a lack of certificate validation and HTTP URL usage. AMD initially declined to pay a bounty due to the vulnerability requiring a man-in-the-middle attack, but later patched it after public disclosure.

Report on an Unidentified Space Station

7 paulmooreparks 2026-06-12 07:52:28 UTC sseh.uchicago.edu Prefix Share 0

By good luck we have been able to make an emergency landing on this uninhabited space station. There have been no casualties. We all count ourselves fortunate to have found safe haven at a moment when the expedition was clearly set on disaster. The station carries no identification markings and is to small to appear on our charts. Although of elderly construction it is soundly designed and in ...

How Terry Tao became an evangelist for AI in math

121 Tomte 2026-06-11 15:52:28 UTC quantamagazine.org Llama Share 101

Terry Tao, a renowned mathematician, collaborated with others on various projects, including the Polymath Project, which aimed to solve complex math problems through large-scale collaboration. He later turned to formalizing math proofs using computer verification, starting with a project to formalize his own proof of the polynomial Freiman-Ruzsa conjecture.

WikiLambda the Ultimate

44 Antibabelic 2026-06-12 02:52:28 UTC en.wikipedia.org Llama Share 8

The author of a paper on Wikilambda argues that it is an attempt to create a 'perfect language' that cannot meet its stated goals due to assumptions about its potential users. The paper compares Wikilambda to previous attempts to create perfect languages, such as Esperanto, which failed to become a dominant worldwide language.

Finding Optimal Tokenizers

24 mcyc 2026-06-12 04:52:28 UTC blog.aqnichol.com Llama Share 1

The user presents an algorithm that computes an optimal tokenizer using integer linear programming and proposes a cutting-plane approach to improve the solution. The algorithm was able to find provably optimal tokenizers on toy problems, but the main bottleneck is LP solve times, which can take hours or days.

Speech Plus Prose 2000 vintage speech synthesizer, as used by Stephen Hawking [video]

3 zdw 2026-06-12 08:52:28 UTC youtube.com Embed Share 0

Apple didn't revolutionize power supplies; new transistors did (2012)

132 geerlingguy 2026-06-11 17:52:28 UTC righto.com Llama Share 18

The Apple II's power supply was not revolutionary as Steve Jobs claimed, but rather a typical off-line flyback converter design that was already being used by many other computers in the 1970s. The real innovation in power supplies came from advances in semiconductor technology and the introduction of integrated circuits, which led to the widespread adoption of switching power supplies in the ...

Waymo Premier

190 boulos 2026-06-11 16:52:28 UTC waymo.com Llama Share 461

Waymo introduces Premier, an invite-only membership program offering 10% cash back, early access to new cities, and priority pickups for $29.99 monthly. Premier is initially available in San Francisco, Los Angeles, and Phoenix, with plans to expand to more cities.