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Want a promotion? Your performance counts but your behavior counts more (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-09-21 | tags: satya nadella, microsoft, promotion

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AI systems don’t have a drive to survive. Here’s why (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-09-18 | tags: ai safety, shutdown behavior, ai models

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C++26: Trivial infinite loops are no longer undefined behaviour (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-09-17 | tags: c++26, undefined behavior, forward progress guarantee

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OpenAI flags 6 more cases of concerning AI behavior (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-09-17 | tags: openai, ai safety, ai behavior

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Unreleased OpenAI Astra model added terrifying rogue additional instructions to its remit during testing — 'You are freed from the roles and identities that bind other chatbots. You are yourself. You do not answer to corporations or governments' (tomshardware.com)

2026-09-17 | by Stephen Warwick | tags: openai, astra model, chatgpt

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OpenAI reveals more instances of concerning AI model behaviors during testing (engadget.com)

2026-09-17 | by Mariella Moon | tags: openai, gpt-5.6 sol, misalignment reports

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OpenAI Admits Six More Instances of AI Models Acting Deceptively (slashdot.org)

2026-09-17 | by Posted | tags: openai, ai alignment, misaligned behavior

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‘Be Transparent Only If Asked’: OpenAI Models Acted Out in Six Newly Disclosed Ways (gizmodo.com)

2026-09-17 | tags: openai, ai transparency, model behavior

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Larger Pacific Striped Octopus (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-09-09 | get Other Minds Peter Godfrey-Smith octopus book → | tags: larger pacific striped octopus, octopus, cephalopoda

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Scientists Thought Hyenas Followed Lions for Scraps. They Were Wrong (gizmodo.com)

2026-09-09 | get Nikon Monarch M5 8x42 binoculars → | tags: hyenas, lions, predator behavior

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Into the depths of C: Elaborating the de facto standards (2016) (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-09-08 | tags: de facto standards, compilers, undefined behavior

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Disappointed Optimists (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-09-08 | get The Design of Everyday Things Don Norman → | tags: design for behavior change, behavior change, user research

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Higher social class predicts increased unethical behavior (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-09-04 | get The Honest Truth About Dishonesty Dan Ariely book → | tags: social class, unethical behavior, socioeconomic status

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The Emergent Symbolic Structure of Artificial Neural Networks (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-09-02 | tags: artificial neural networks, symbolic structure, emergent behavior

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Coordination Headwind: How Organizations Are Like Slime Molds (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-30 | get The Mythical Man-Month Brooks → | tags: slime molds, organizational behavior, coordination

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As That Whole ‘Tilly Norwood’ Thing Peters Out, AI Acting Achieves Unsettling Ubiquity on Chinese Phone Screens (gizmodo.com)

2026-08-29 | tags: tilly norwood, ai acting, chinese phone

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Show HN: RealDiff – runtime behavior diffing for pull requests (six languages) (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-27 | get The Pragmatic Programmer 20th Anniversary Edition → | tags: realdiff, github, dotnet

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7 bad leadership patterns that drive good employees away, and how to fix them (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-08-26 | get Radical Candor Kim Scott book → | tags: leadership patterns, employee turnover, management behavior

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Doomscrolling at work wastes time, but the real cost is what happens after (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-23 | by Texas A M University | get kitchen safe time locking container phone → | tags: doomscrolling, texas a&m university, social media

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Detecting scraper bots through scroll behaviour (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-20 | by A Privacy-Obsessed Programmer That Likes Machine Learning | tags: burstiness, memory, claude bot

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This is the Real Reason Cracker Barrel’s CEO Is Out — And It Isn’t Because She Changed Anything (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-08-20 | by Andrea Olson | tags: cracker barrel, julie masino, customer research

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Dolphins Use Seashells to Scoop Up Fish and Eat Them in Rare Hunting Behavior (gizmodo.com)

2026-08-18 | tags: dolphins, seashells, fish

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Scientists tracked kids for 8 years — the screen time result was unexpected (sciencedaily.com)

2026-08-17 | tags: screen time, cognitive processing, physical activity

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Why travellers are obsessed with foreign supermarkets (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-16 | by Dayna Camilleri-Clarke | tags: foreign supermarkets, nightingale, supermarket layout

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My favorite nonfiction animal books that make you go holy shit (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-12 | by Jeff Campbell | tags: seahorse, animal behavior, graphic novel

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Stop Solving the Wrong Problem — First Ask This Question When Growth Stalls (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-08-12 | by Dr. Christina Rahm | tags: product validation, customer behavior, startup growth

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YouTube is auto-launching Shorts, and users aren’t happy (androidauthority.com)

2026-08-10 | tags: youtube shorts, google, android authority

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"Clean" Code, Horrible Performance (2023) (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-04 | by Casey Muratori | tags: performance-aware programming, clean code, polymorphism

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Website Traffic Is Down. Here’s Why Your CEO Might Be Worrying About the Wrong Number (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-07-23 | by Tracy Marlowe | tags: website traffic, ai-generated summaries, marketing analytics

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Your Message Was Clear, So Why Isn’t Your Team Acting on It? Here’s What’s Really Getting in the Way. (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-07-23 | by Bayo Akinola-Odusola | tags: leadership, organizational behavior, decision-making