Eliciting Language Model Behaviors with Investigator Agents We train AI agents to help us understand the space of language model behaviors, discovering new jailbreaks and automatically surfacing a diverse set of hallucinations. Full report: transluce.org/automated-elic…

When the theme song hit so hard you watch the closing credits just to hear the instrumental

Advisory to my current PhD students: I expect nothing short of this in your viva

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python-build-standalone has exploded in popularity, with over 70M downloads all-time. But what is a "standalone" Python build? It wasn't obvious to me at first! Initially, I didn't understand what problem was being solved or why it mattered...

It's what makes `uv python install` feel magical. There's no build step!

I know I'm biased but it's amazing that you can SSH into a random machine, drop in a PEP 723 script, and run: curl -LsSf astral.sh/uv/install.sh | sh uv run script.py Bootstraps Python, provisions an environment, installs dependencies, etc.

Not long ago, I used to have a more optimistic impression of Rust users. I would not have guessed that so many otherwise-judicious people would go for blatantly AI-"maintained" Rust libraries. The `serde_yml` crate is a fork of a high-quality but unmaintained library. In the

We’re building a new static type checker for Python, from scratch, in Rust. From a technical perspective, it’s probably our most ambitious project yet. We’re about 800 PRs deep!

Which makes sense, because Nicholas Carlini (err, Dr. Nick, sorry) is a former pentester (and a co-author of Microcorruption). Today, he studies low-level mathematical attacks on AI models. This week, on SCW: securitycryptographywhatever.com/2025/01/28/cry…

Sudoku is graph theory

Our type checker can solve Diophantine equations via the Python type system (this isn't a joke, it actually works)

i started out by studying graph attention networks and now i'm... basically studying graph attention networks again?! 😅

ty, our upcoming static type checker and language server for Python, is accidentally on the front page of HN. We're rapidly closing in on an initial "experimental preview release"...

rewrites the typescript compiler in go gets laid off 🤔

You can set `UV_TORCH_BACKEND=auto` and uv will automatically install the right CUDA-enabled PyTorch for your machine, zero configuration

Learn assembly here: github.com/FFmpeg/asm-les…