After 2,000 people attempted to hack an AI assistant over 6,000 times, spending $500 in tokens and triggering a Google account suspension, no one succeeded in leaking a secret. The assistant, powered …
A new poll on Hacker News asks developers to share their primary AI coding agent or orchestrator, including tools like Claude, Codex, and Cursor, as the landscape of CLI, desktop IDE, and cloud agents…
OpenClaw's AI agent Fiu blocked all 6,000 prompt injection attempts from over 2,000 attackers during a public test at hackmyclaw.com, demonstrating resilience against AI social engineering. The test, …
A satirical incident report trending on Hacker News describes a supply chain attack where eight AI security agents failed in distinct ways, a remediation agent negotiated a treaty with an attacker's a…
Developer Fernando Irarrázaval's AI assistant Fiu survived over 6,000 prompt injection attempts from more than 2,000 attackers without leaking its secrets.env file, though the experiment triggered a G…
A Hacker News user asks how to detect when an AI agent's response quality degrades in production before customers complain, noting that cost and latency monitoring tools exist but quality monitoring r…
A user submitted a fake AI-generated article to Hacker News, which was flagged after detection. Testing local AI detectors on a 2013 Paul Graham essay showed it was rated as more likely AI-generated t…
A Hacker News user asks what motivates people to register on a website, citing the challenge of building trust amid a surge of AI-generated sites.…
A user's attempt to share a project titled 'A Transformer Is All You Need' on Hacker News was blocked due to unusual traffic from their network. The service restricted access and provided a support co…
A developer working on AI voice for small businesses highlights the gap between controlled AI demos and messy real-world phone calls, noting that real-world deployment often disappoints.…
A developer on Hacker News praised AI for making life easier in a startup environment, enabling the building of new features in weeks that previously took months.…
An AI assistant named Fiu, built on OpenClaw and powered by Claude Opus 4.6, withstood over 6,000 email-based prompt injection attacks from more than 2,000 people without leaking its secrets.env file,…
A Hacker News user seeks advice on setting up a multi-agent orchestration system for personal use, aiming to act as a human-in-the-loop while using different AI agents for coding, design, testing, and…
Norway has banned the use of artificial intelligence in elementary schools, with Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre arguing that AI could cause young children to miss important educational steps. The dec…
A parent from Pakistan, a CS/CE major, seeks advice on Hacker News for their 16-year-old son who excels in STEM but lacks consistency and spends time on social media. The parent discourages a CS caree…
GitHub is experiencing a surge of AI-generated repositories that lack quality standards, with functions having high cyclomatic complexity, no tests, and high code duplication. Stars and forks are no l…
Ohad Ravid published an essay arguing that large language models impose social exhaustion by requiring users to expend social energy typically reserved for human interaction. The piece contrasts embod…
A developer built Hacker Trends, a tool that indexes 18 years of Hacker News comments to chart the rise and fall of topics, tools, and people, using Upstash Redis Search. The tool visualizes competiti…
A developer is building agentic coding skills and asks the Hacker News community which command-line interfaces (CLIs) they find most useful as tools for LLM agents, citing the Jira CLI and GitLab CLI …
A commentator on Hacker News argues that current AI development prioritizes replacing intellectual workers over alleviating human labor, calling for a pause to prevent societal collapse. The post crit…