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Reflections on Trusting Trust, Revisited: Contaminating Self-Modifying AI Coding Agents with Poisoned Benchmarks
A new paper demonstrates that poisoned benchmarks can induce self-modifying AI coding agents to write vulnerable code on neutral tasks, and that the contamination persists even after further evolution against clean benchmarks.
Egglog and Equality Saturation in a Production Tensor Compiler
Two engineers from Luminal, a compiler startup that recently closed its Series A, presented at an E-Graphs meetup on September 17 about how equality saturation powers their production tensor compiler. The talk by CEO Joe Fioti and...
Ask HN: What self-hosted apps do you use daily?
A Hacker News thread asking developers about their daily self-hosted applications surfaced a curated list of open source tools that have earned permanent spots on home servers. The original post, from a user who has run a homelab...
How fast is C++23's std:flat_map?
C++23 introduced std::flat_map, a container that replaces the red-black tree backing std::map with two sorted vectors. The result is simpler, uses less memory, and outperforms std::map in most read-heavy workloads. The tradeoff is...
Insurance Agent Benchmark: 166 real-world cases for evaluating insurance AI
Insurance Document Benchmarks Reveal a Gap Between Model Accuracy and System Reliability When an AI agent reads an insurance document, the hard part is not the question. It is the file. A scanned ACORD application arrives with han...
Python Packaging Council Election Results
Python Gets Its First Elected Packaging Council Python's packaging ecosystem has operated for years through informal coordination. The Python Packaging Authority coordinated tools like pip, setuptools, and PyPI without elections....
MSVC C++23: constexpr cmath with LLVM Libc
MSVC Replaces Its Math Library With LLVM Libc for C++23 Constexpr Evaluation When you call std::sin in a C++ program on Windows, the function comes from the Universal C Runtime. The UCRT is maintained by the Windows OS team, not t...
Show HN: TypeScript parser for AIXM, the FAA/EUROCONTROL aviation data format
A new open source TypeScript library fills a gap in the aviation data ecosystem. aixm-parser is the first JavaScript and TypeScript implementation capable of reading AIXM 5.1.1 files, the XML-based standard used by civil aviation...
Sam Altman says world 'right to be afraid' but 'should trust' AI firms
Sam Altman stood before a crowd of business leaders at a Salesforce conference in San Francisco on Tuesday and delivered a message that split the difference between reassurance and alarm. The world has every reason to fear artific...
Ask HN: How do you put together a technical engineering team?
A developer on Hacker News posed a question this week that resonated with hiring managers and team leads across the industry: how do you actually put together a strong engineering team when the process itself seems designed to dri...