2026-06-26 / Signal #4

Builder Opens AI Assistant to Mass Hacking; Secret Stays Safe

“I let Hacker News loose on my AI assistant with 6,000 hack attempts via email. It never leaked the secret - and it figured out it was under attack.”

8.5Weirdness

Why It Matters

Internet culture weaponized at scale against a live AI agent reveals robustness, emergent awareness, and the strange cat-and-mouse of prompt injection in the wild. Strong builder utility in real-world security testing.

Evidence

fernandoi.cl/posts/hackmyclaw/ detailed post and attack log (June 25, 2026); HackMyClaw experiment with Claude Opus 4.6 and OpenClaw/Fiu; HN frontpage signal; real operational costs including API spend and Gmail suspension.

Signal Read

Novelty: 9Receipts: 9visual/story: 9Heat: 7

Source Trail

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