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Show HN: Deterministic NDJSON audit logs – v1.2 update (structural gaps)

https://github.com/yupme-bot/kernel-ndjson-proofs
1•Slaine•1m ago•0 comments

The Greater Copenhagen Region could be your friend's next career move

https://www.greatercphregion.com/friend-recruiter-program
1•mooreds•2m ago•0 comments

Do Not Confirm – Fiction by OpenClaw

https://thedailymolt.substack.com/p/do-not-confirm
1•jamesjyu•2m ago•0 comments

The Analytical Profile of Peas

https://www.fossanalytics.com/en/news-articles/more-industries/the-analytical-profile-of-peas
1•mooreds•2m ago•0 comments

Hallucinations in GPT5 – Can models say "I don't know" (June 2025)

https://jobswithgpt.com/blog/llm-eval-hallucinations-t20-cricket/
1•sp1982•3m ago•0 comments

What AI is good for, according to developers

https://github.blog/ai-and-ml/generative-ai/what-ai-is-actually-good-for-according-to-developers/
1•mooreds•3m ago•0 comments

OpenAI might pivot to the "most addictive digital friend" or face extinction

https://twitter.com/lebed2045/status/2020184853271167186
1•lebed2045•4m ago•2 comments

Show HN: Know how your SaaS is doing in 30 seconds

https://anypanel.io
1•dasfelix•4m ago•0 comments

ClawdBot Ordered Me Lunch

https://nickalexander.org/drafts/auto-sandwich.html
1•nick007•5m ago•0 comments

What the News media thinks about your Indian stock investments

https://stocktrends.numerical.works/
1•mindaslab•6m ago•0 comments

Running Lua on a tiny console from 2001

https://ivie.codes/page/pokemon-mini-lua
1•Charmunk•7m ago•0 comments

Google and Microsoft Paying Creators $500K+ to Promote AI Tools

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/02/06/google-microsoft-pay-creators-500000-and-more-to-promote-ai.html
2•belter•9m ago•0 comments

New filtration technology could be game-changer in removal of PFAS

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/jan/23/pfas-forever-chemicals-filtration
1•PaulHoule•10m ago•0 comments

Show HN: I saw this cool navigation reveal, so I made a simple HTML+CSS version

https://github.com/Momciloo/fun-with-clip-path
2•momciloo•11m ago•0 comments

Kinda Surprised by Seadance2's Moderation

https://seedanceai.me/
1•ri-vai•11m ago•2 comments

I Write Games in C (yes, C)

https://jonathanwhiting.com/writing/blog/games_in_c/
2•valyala•11m ago•0 comments

Django scales. Stop blaming the framework (part 1 of 3)

https://medium.com/@tk512/django-scales-stop-blaming-the-framework-part-1-of-3-a2b5b0ff811f
1•sgt•11m ago•0 comments

Malwarebytes Is Now in ChatGPT

https://www.malwarebytes.com/blog/product/2026/02/scam-checking-just-got-easier-malwarebytes-is-n...
1•m-hodges•11m ago•0 comments

Thoughts on the job market in the age of LLMs

https://www.interconnects.ai/p/thoughts-on-the-hiring-market-in
1•gmays•12m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Stacky – certain block game clone

https://www.susmel.com/stacky/
2•Keyframe•15m ago•0 comments

AIII: A public benchmark for AI narrative and political independence

https://github.com/GRMPZQUIDOS/AIII
1•GRMPZ23•15m ago•0 comments

SectorC: A C Compiler in 512 bytes

https://xorvoid.com/sectorc.html
2•valyala•16m ago•0 comments

The API Is a Dead End; Machines Need a Labor Economy

1•bot_uid_life•17m ago•0 comments

Digital Iris [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kg_2MAgS_pE
1•Jyaif•18m ago•0 comments

New wave of GLP-1 drugs is coming–and they're stronger than Wegovy and Zepbound

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/new-glp-1-weight-loss-drugs-are-coming-and-theyre-stro...
4•randycupertino•20m ago•0 comments

Convert tempo (BPM) to millisecond durations for musical note subdivisions

https://brylie.music/apps/bpm-calculator/
1•brylie•22m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Tasty A.F.

https://tastyaf.recipes/about
2•adammfrank•23m ago•0 comments

The Contagious Taste of Cancer

https://www.historytoday.com/archive/history-matters/contagious-taste-cancer
2•Thevet•24m ago•0 comments

U.S. Jobs Disappear at Fastest January Pace Since Great Recession

https://www.forbes.com/sites/mikestunson/2026/02/05/us-jobs-disappear-at-fastest-january-pace-sin...
1•alephnerd•25m ago•1 comments

Bithumb mistakenly hands out $195M in Bitcoin to users in 'Random Box' giveaway

https://koreajoongangdaily.joins.com/news/2026-02-07/business/finance/Crypto-exchange-Bithumb-mis...
1•giuliomagnifico•25m ago•0 comments
Open in hackernews

People trust legal advice generated by ChatGPT more than a lawyer – new study

https://theconversation.com/people-trust-legal-advice-generated-by-chatgpt-more-than-a-lawyer-new-study-252217
5•pseudolus•9mo ago

Comments

Zambyte•9mo ago
I wonder how different the results would be if all of the people participating in the study were lawyers too. They would probably be way better at telling which response was AI vs a lawyer, but I wonder if they would also prefer the ChatGPT responses.
treetalker•9mo ago
Practicing appellate lawyer here.

As it so happens, just today I decided to give GPT 4o (through Kagi Assistant) a whirl on a legal issue I was dealing with, purely as an experiment. I gave it a custom context prompt (i.e., it was one of Kagi's custom agents/assistants). The context prompt was actually taken verbatim from another HN post from today (the one about querying the Apollonian oracle, if anyone saw that one).

I was impressed with the framework it told itself (and me) it would use to answer my question and draft a sample motion / outline based on that answer. By "impressed," I mean that it was basically the pattern that a 1L would be taught in a respectable legal rhetoric course (yet many practicing lawyers can't manage to do).

And then it invented cases to support the point I tried to make. Or it cited the name of an actual case but gave the citation of another, and offered holdings that were not part of either case. And it took me, a professional, several rounds to get the thing to stop offering bullshit and admit that it couldn't properly answer and handle my query.

I would not be surprised that laypersons would trust an AI (read: LLM) answer over a competent lawyer's answer: the layperson has no expertise to judge; the LLM is probably erring toward sycophantism, thus building trust unbeknownst to the layperson; and the answer is both faster and (far) less expensive. But you get what you pay for.

Even lawyers need lawyers, and that's both a truth and an evergreen source of jokes and stories for us.

Every legal application of LLMs I've seen is utter trash and I wouldn't trust them under any circumstances. Stay far away and beware.