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What are the prediction markets saying about P=NP these days?

My default assumption is that this apparent backdoor in Qwen3.8-Flash-Next is not actually a deliberate backdoor. But people are certainly clever enough to have "oops, this is just an RL artifact" ready as a cover for a deliberate backdoor. And most importantly: model backdoors are a serious risk.

posts that don’t surprise you in the slightest

We have always been able to find problems faster than defenders could fix them because fixing shit is you know actually hard

Two high severity CVEs drop on my first day at a PHP shop. Just my luck eh

If software engineering is solved as some idiots say, I’ll find a home in sound engineering :)

Hey Japanese learners! I built a font that renders Furigana or Romaji on top of Kanji, with ligatures to support words. It can be applied everywhere to get furigana notations for free. Give it a try, and I hope it will be helpful :) furifont.antfu.me

We've been cooking at @ersc.io "What comes after git" ersc.io/blog/what-co...

"I want to go back to the network owned for the benefit of the man responsible for the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people, minimum, due to his USAID cuts, because that's where the good AI posts are," say nation's oblivious bloggers

Noped the hell out of Other Mommy after only 10 minutes in the theatre 🥲

“If you don’t like public executions just don’t watch it” says the crowd trying to ban drag shows and books

How did it go so wrong for America? How??

Remember that time in 1997 the whole internet went down for 12 hours because AS 7007 accidentally re-advertised a whole-internet routing table with AS paths stripped? An amazing amount of shit is still like that

To compensate for the absurd amount of LLM usage at work I’ll be hand writing all personal projects in Haskell from now on :)

Ha

not only was she one of the first, she is credited for literally coining the phrase "software engineer". photos like these inspired me so much when I was in school!

ah damn, RIP Margaret Hamilton. she took safety-critical software engineering seriously, and got people to the moon and back. news.mit.edu/2026/margare...

Love this tiny angry lesbian acquiring her new bestie…the Ghoul™️ this season. I’m sure nothing bad at all will happen!!

Good lord giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/... Former German spy chief arrested for treason

Well, regardless, congratulations to Ice Cube.

In other news www.themoscowtimes.com/2026/09/17/b...

weird, useful robots are the future el.kz/en/south-kor...

Some people say you should learn C to learn how the computer works… Well I claim that you should learn Turing machines, the Universal Turing Machine or equivalently the Lambda Calculus to learn how the computer works.

Never forget Jamal Khashoggi. Never forget Jamal Khashoggi.

Wage growth just keeps slowing. And yes, wages are rising slower than prices, and no, that's not how economic growth is meant to work.

Congratulations to Michael Johansson on an NSF grant to advance real-time epidemic forecasting! With Guillaume St-Onge, he’ll develop EpiGF, a new framework to improve epidemic prediction, inference, and preparedness. tinyurl.com/3hkx3ce7

New release of our external modelling of the BVD outbreak in the DRC which uses public Sitrep data only and is experimenting with very LLM augmented infectious disease outbreak modelling. This release adds health zone level estimates. epiforecasts.io/BVDOutbreakS...

Any Haskeller living near the Haskell Free Library and Opera House / Bibliothèque et salle d'opéra Haskell ? We'd love a selfie in front of it. :)

"why don't men wear more color." i only dress for the approval of dogs, who mostly see blue, white, gray, black, and brown in the way that we do, so i don't wear other colors.

yall, im going to call it. i'll agree that opus 5.5 has made significant headroom on non-engineering stuff. obviously both ant and oai are RLing hard on non-eng tasks. but im just really not seeing that big of gains in real world engineering problems and concepts

i don't think i have too many haskell people following me here anymore, but just in case:

opus 5 was able to assist with breaking into openai paying a bounty of 6.5k is wild when you just got pwned with write access lol www.hacktron.ai/blog/hacking...

This is how we do modern frequentist statistics: Using fake-data simulation to understand what can happen in a study statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2026/09/14/t...

There's no slowing down frontier models by regulation that wouldn't lead to regulatory capture. But we could simply force all AI model companies to release their model weights openly. It's the world's data after all and nothing would slow their funding/progress more effectively and universally.

According to this Harvard study, Elon Musk's cuts to USAID through DOGE are responsible for an estimated 400,000 preventable deaths of children in Africa. hsph.harvard.edu/news/usaid-s...

Hassett, translated: Now that we have fewer immigrants, we have fewer jobs. When we said that immigrants were taking your jobs, it's because we were lying that there's a fixed pool of jobs. You rubes fell for the lump of labor fallacy.

Data from University of Toronto suggests Canadians are avoiding US cities during the second Trump administration