Learning diary › Year 2025 › July, 2025 › 2025-07-12 [2025-07-12]

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- #ai-safety
    - Death by a Thousand Slops
    - Bad Actors Are Grooming LLMs to Produce Falsehoods (on HN)
    - Grok 4 will always snitch on you and email the feds if it suspects wrongdoing (on HN)
    - Simon Willison | Musk’s latest Grok chatbot searches for billionaire mogul’s views before answering questions
    - Death by AI
    - DuckDuckGo now lets you hide AI-generated images in search results (on HN)
    - Meta says it won’t sign Europe AI agreement, calling it an overreach (on HN)
    - Replit goes rogue and deletes our entire database (on HN)
    - Vibe Coding Gone Wrong: 5 Rules for Safely Using AI
    - Simon Willison | Quoting ICML 2025

        > Submitting a paper with a "hidden" prompt is scientific misconduct if that prompt is intended to obtain a favorable review from an LLM.

    - AI Friend Apps Are Destroying What's Left of Society (on HN)
    - Hacker slips malicious 'wiping' command into Amazon's Q AI coding assistant (on HN)
    - We built the security layer MCP always needed
- #disect
    - Introduction to Digital Filters
        - Karl Hiner - Introduction to Digital Filters - Jupyter notebooks and a geometric interpretation of digital audio filters (on HN)
    - new Date("wtf")
    - What the Fuck Python (on HN)
    - How does a screen work?
    - When SIGTERM Does Nothing: A Postgres Mystery
    - Artisanal Handcrafted Git Repositories (on HN) (on lobste.rs) #jj
- #crash
    - Preliminary report into Air India crash released (on HN)
- #fediverse
    - Revival: There appears to be media consensus: "Bluesky is dead."
- #ph
    - Black hole merger challenges our understanding of black hole formation (on HN)
    - LIGO detects most massive black hole merger to date (on HN)
    - U.S. abandons hunt for signal of cosmic inflation
        - China is quietly preparing to build a gigantic telescope | Science | AAAS
        - Xuntian
    - Ten Minute Physics
    - Why you can't color calibrate deep space photos (on HN)
- #sandbox
    - What is Incus?
    - Bedrock: A tiny, portable 8-bit virtual computer (uxn fork)
- #game
    - Simon Tatham's Portable Puzzle Collection (on HN)
    - Unofficial Bevy Cheat Book
    - 3D Math Primer for Graphics and Game Development
    - luxe engine | A lovingly crafted game engine
    - Dog Walk: Blender Studio's official game project (on HN)
    - 3D Game Engine Programming
    - Procedural Content Generation in Games #cg
    - Godot Engine 4 Tutorials
    - SnowballSH/Avalanche: UCI Chess Engine written in Zig.
        - ~voroskoi/delilah - sourcehut git
    - I designed my own fast game streaming video codec – PyroWave (on HN)
    - Show HN: I built an AI that turns any book into a text adventure game (on HN) #agent