📚 HISTORICAL ARCHIVE - November 16, 2025

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🔒 SECURITY

Heretic censorship removal tool

2x SOURCES 🌐 📅 2025-11-16

⚡ Score: 8.2

+++ Someone built automation to strip safety guardrails from LLMs and shared it publicly, which is either bold transparency or a masterclass in not understanding information security incentives. +++

Heretic: Automatic censorship removal for language models

via HackerNews 👤 melded 📅 2025-11-16

🔺 316 pts ⚡ Score: 8.4

💬 HackerNews Buzz: 106 comments 👍 LOWKEY SLAPS

🎯 Hyperparameter optimization • Censorship removal • Safety alignment

💬 "Basically any time you aren't sure about the perfect value, throw Optuna on it" • "Heretic is a tool that removes censorship (aka 'safety alignment') from transformer-based language models"

Heretic: Fully automatic censorship removal for language models

via r/LocalLLaMA 👤 u/-p-e-w- 📅 2025-11-16

⬆️ 1004 ups ⚡ Score: 7.3

"Dear fellow Llamas, your time is precious, so I won't waste it with a long introduction. I have developed a program that can automatically remove censorship (aka "alignment") from many language models. I call it Heretic (https://github.com/p-e-w/heretic). If you have a Python environment with the a..."

💬 Reddit Discussion: 147 comments 🐝 BUZZING

🎯 AI Compliance • AI Model Capabilities • Hardware and Processing

💬 "The GPT-OSS abliteration created by Heretic is actually highly compliant" • "The more I use AI, the more human I become."

🛠️ TOOLS

Blocking LLM crawlers without JavaScript

via HackerNews 👤 todsacerdoti 📅 2025-11-15

🔺 128 pts ⚡ Score: 8.2

💬 HackerNews Buzz: 64 comments 😐 MID OR MIXED

🎯 Browser compatibility • Malicious content • Mitigating AI abuse

💬 "So cool I went to add their RSS feed to my feed reader" • "Too late, some suggest 50% of www content is now content farmed slop"

🔧 INFRASTRUCTURE

A look at the global AI data center buildout, its limits, and ROI concerns; in 2025, US capacity that is built, underway, planned, or stalled has topped 80 GW

via Techmeme 👤 Wsj 📅 2025-11-15

⚡ Score: 7.8

🔒 SECURITY

Exposure report: 65% of Leading AI Companies Found with Verified Secret Leaks

via HackerNews 👤 gnabgib 📅 2025-11-16

🔺 2 pts ⚡ Score: 7.5

🔬 RESEARCH

Solving a Million-Step LLM Task with Zero Errors

via HackerNews 👤 meander_water 📅 2025-11-16

🔺 2 pts ⚡ Score: 7.4

🔒 SECURITY

Researchers find hole in AI guardrails by using strings like =coffee

via HackerNews 👤 Bender 📅 2025-11-15

🔺 6 pts ⚡ Score: 7.4

🛡️ SAFETY

LLM-Driven Robots Risk Enacting Discrimination, Violence, and Unlawful Actions

via HackerNews 👤 DrierCycle 📅 2025-11-15

🔺 1 pts ⚡ Score: 7.1

🔬 RESEARCH

SSR: Socratic Self-Refine for Large Language Model Reasoning

via Arxiv 👤 Haizhou Shi, Ye Liu, Bo Pang et al. 📅 2025-11-13

⚡ Score: 7.1

"Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable reasoning abilities, yet existing test-time frameworks often rely on coarse self-verification and self-correction, limiting their effectiveness on complex tasks. In this paper, we propose Socratic Self-Refine (SSR), a novel framework for fine..."

🔬 RESEARCH

The Era of Agentic Organization: Learning to Organize with Language Models

via HackerNews 👤 nrsapt 📅 2025-11-16

🔺 1 pts ⚡ Score: 7.0

🔬 RESEARCH

Instella: Fully Open Language Models with Stellar Performance

via Arxiv 👤 Jiang Liu, Jialian Wu, Xiaodong Yu et al. 📅 2025-11-13

⚡ Score: 6.9

"Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable performance across a wide range of tasks, yet the majority of high-performing models remain closed-source or partially open, limiting transparency and reproducibility. In this work, we introduce Instella, a family of fully open three billion..."

🔬 RESEARCH

Black-Box On-Policy Distillation of Large Language Models

via Arxiv 👤 Tianzhu Ye, Li Dong, Zewen Chi et al. 📅 2025-11-13

⚡ Score: 6.7

"Black-box distillation creates student large language models (LLMs) by learning from a proprietary teacher model's text outputs alone, without access to its internal logits or parameters. In this work, we introduce Generative Adversarial Distillation (GAD), which enables on-policy and black-box dist..."

🔬 RESEARCH

URaG: Unified Retrieval and Generation in Multimodal LLMs for Efficient Long Document Understanding

via Arxiv 👤 Yongxin Shi, Jiapeng Wang, Zeyu Shan et al. 📅 2025-11-13

⚡ Score: 6.7

"Recent multimodal large language models (MLLMs) still struggle with long document understanding due to two fundamental challenges: information interference from abundant irrelevant content, and the quadratic computational cost of Transformer-based architectures. Existing approaches primarily fall in..."

🔬 RESEARCH

Say It Differently: Linguistic Styles as Jailbreak Vectors

via Arxiv 👤 Srikant Panda, Avinash Rai 📅 2025-11-13

⚡ Score: 6.6

"Large Language Models (LLMs) are commonly evaluated for robustness against paraphrased or semantically equivalent jailbreak prompts, yet little attention has been paid to linguistic variation as an attack surface. In this work, we systematically study how linguistic styles such as fear or curiosity..."

📊 DATA

I Built a 93:1 Compression Index for 2,897 Documents—Here's What Context Engineering Really Unlocks

via r/claudeai 👤 u/Gloomy_Engine_2893 📅 2025-11-16

⬆️ 64 ups ⚡ Score: 6.4

"**TL;DR:** By engineering a 3-tier hierarchical index system, I compressed 60.7 MB of documents into 665 KB of strategically formatted markdown. This enables comprehensive research across the entire dataset using only 20-60 KB of context per query—a 99% reduction in token usage while maintaining ful..."

💬 Reddit Discussion: 31 comments 🐝 BUZZING

🎯 Hierarchical document indexing • Preventing hallucination • Efficient token usage

💬 "Explicit document grounding" • "Metadata as verification"

⚡ BREAKTHROUGH

Thermodynamic Computing from Zero to One

via HackerNews 👤 based2 📅 2025-11-15

🔺 1 pts ⚡ Score: 6.2

🔒 SECURITY

AI is killing privacy. We can't let that happen

via HackerNews 👤 johnshades 📅 2025-11-16

🔺 78 pts ⚡ Score: 6.2

💬 HackerNews Buzz: 60 comments 😐 MID OR MIXED

🎯 Data ownership • Privacy vs. innovation • AI as data pump

💬 "Your data isn't your contact details. It's the record of your interactions with all the external services" • "LLM push is mainly two things, for one it's an excuse for getting rid of employees, and then it's a new form of data pump"

🛠️ TOOLS

Why is vLLM Outperforming TensorRT-LLM (Nvidia's deployment library)? My Shocking Benchmarks on GPT-OSS-120B with H100

via r/LocalLLaMA 👤 u/kev_11_1 📅 2025-11-16

⬆️ 14 ups ⚡ Score: 6.2

"So I tested TensorRT LLM with **vLLM and results were shocking. I ran GPT OSS 120b on the same machine. Vllm was beating** TensorRT LLM in most scenarios, so i tested it two times with but the results were same. Do any of you guys can possibely give reason for this because i heard that in Raw Powe..."

💬 Reddit Discussion: 10 comments 🐝 BUZZING

🎯 Performance optimization • Backend comparison • Throughput and latency

💬 "vllm is low effort high reward" • "Try the pytorch backend as someone above me said"

🔬 RESEARCH

Researchers push "Context Engineering 2.0" as the road to lifelong AI memory

via HackerNews 👤 tanelpoder 📅 2025-11-15

🔺 2 pts ⚡ Score: 6.1

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Heretic censorship removal tool

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