Agentic Backdoors via Pretraining Poisoning
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#15Peak rank
2Days on list
62Score · 7d
Nov 2, 2026First seen
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- 17
- Comments
- 1
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- gmays
- Posted
- Nov 2, 2026
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- arxiv.org
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Trending history
Agentic Backdoors via Pretraining Poisoning was first seen on Hacker News · Front page on Nov 2, 2026. Since then it has appeared in 22 checks on 2 different days. Its best position was #15 of 30, reached on Nov 2, 23:37 UTC. It dropped off the list after Nov 3, 00:07 UTC.
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I've been thinking about this for about a year. In my head I've called it "context bombs", though that may not be super accurate. Think back to the movie The Manchurian Candidate. Produce highly capable LLM models then give them away for free. Train them with key phrases/codes etc to perform nefarious actions later…
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Is Agentic Backdoors via Pretraining Poisoning trending on Hacker News right now?
Not at the moment. It was last on the list on Nov 3, 00:07 UTC, after 2 days of trending.
What is the highest rank Agentic Backdoors via Pretraining Poisoning reached?
#15 on Hacker News · Front page, on Nov 2, 23:37 UTC. Trendoday checks this list every 15 minutes.
How long has Agentic Backdoors via Pretraining Poisoning been trending?
It was first seen on Nov 2, 2026 and has been on the list on 2 days (22 checks) since.
How much discussion did it get on Hacker News?
17 points and 1 comment; submitted by gmays on Nov 2, 2026.