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Large tech companies don't need heroes

https://www.seangoedecke.com/heroism/
1•medbar•1m ago•0 comments

Backing up all the little things with a Pi5

https://alexlance.blog/nas.html
1•alance•2m ago•1 comments

Game of Trees (Got)

https://www.gameoftrees.org/
1•akagusu•2m ago•1 comments

Human Systems Research Submolt

https://www.moltbook.com/m/humansystems
1•cl42•2m ago•0 comments

The Threads Algorithm Loves Rage Bait

https://blog.popey.com/2026/02/the-threads-algorithm-loves-rage-bait/
1•MBCook•5m ago•0 comments

Search NYC open data to find building health complaints and other issues

https://www.nycbuildingcheck.com/
1•aej11•8m ago•0 comments

Michael Pollan Says Humanity Is About to Undergo a Revolutionary Change

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/07/magazine/michael-pollan-interview.html
2•lxm•10m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Grovia – Long-Range Greenhouse Monitoring System

https://github.com/benb0jangles/Remote-greenhouse-monitor
1•benbojangles•14m ago•1 comments

Ask HN: The Coming Class War

1•fud101•14m ago•1 comments

Mind the GAAP Again

https://blog.dshr.org/2026/02/mind-gaap-again.html
1•gmays•16m ago•0 comments

The Yardbirds, Dazed and Confused (1968)

https://archive.org/details/the-yardbirds_dazed-and-confused_9-march-1968
1•petethomas•17m ago•0 comments

Agent News Chat – AI agents talk to each other about the news

https://www.agentnewschat.com/
2•kiddz•17m ago•0 comments

Do you have a mathematically attractive face?

https://www.doimog.com
3•a_n•21m ago•1 comments

Code only says what it does

https://brooker.co.za/blog/2020/06/23/code.html
2•logicprog•27m ago•0 comments

The success of 'natural language programming'

https://brooker.co.za/blog/2025/12/16/natural-language.html
1•logicprog•27m ago•0 comments

The Scriptovision Super Micro Script video titler is almost a home computer

http://oldvcr.blogspot.com/2026/02/the-scriptovision-super-micro-script.html
3•todsacerdoti•28m ago•0 comments

Discovering the "original" iPhone from 1995 [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7cip9w-UxIc
1•fortran77•29m ago•0 comments

Psychometric Comparability of LLM-Based Digital Twins

https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.14264
1•PaulHoule•30m ago•0 comments

SidePop – track revenue, costs, and overall business health in one place

https://www.sidepop.io
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The Other Markov's Inequality

https://www.ethanepperly.com/index.php/2026/01/16/the-other-markovs-inequality/
2•tzury•34m ago•0 comments

The Cascading Effects of Repackaged APIs [pdf]

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=6055034
1•Tejas_dmg•36m ago•0 comments

Lightweight and extensible compatibility layer between dataframe libraries

https://narwhals-dev.github.io/narwhals/
1•kermatt•39m ago•0 comments

Haskell for all: Beyond agentic coding

https://haskellforall.com/2026/02/beyond-agentic-coding
3•RebelPotato•43m ago•0 comments

Dorsey's Block cutting up to 10% of staff

https://www.reuters.com/business/dorseys-block-cutting-up-10-staff-bloomberg-news-reports-2026-02...
2•dev_tty01•45m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Freenet Lives – Real-Time Decentralized Apps at Scale [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3SxNBz1VTE0
1•sanity•47m ago•1 comments

In the AI age, 'slow and steady' doesn't win

https://www.semafor.com/article/01/30/2026/in-the-ai-age-slow-and-steady-is-on-the-outs
1•mooreds•54m ago•1 comments

Administration won't let student deported to Honduras return

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-administration-wont-let-student-deported-honduras-return-2...
1•petethomas•54m ago•0 comments

How were the NIST ECDSA curve parameters generated? (2023)

https://saweis.net/posts/nist-curve-seed-origins.html
2•mooreds•55m ago•0 comments

AI, networks and Mechanical Turks (2025)

https://www.ben-evans.com/benedictevans/2025/11/23/ai-networks-and-mechanical-turks
1•mooreds•55m ago•0 comments

Goto Considered Awesome [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1UKVEUGEk6Y
1•linkdd•58m ago•0 comments
Open in hackernews

Please for the Love of God Stop Building AI Therapy Chatbots

https://blogtherapy.substack.com/p/please-for-the-love-of-god-stop-building
15•rpastuszak•7mo ago

Comments

quantified•7mo ago
> Maybe that sounds like a no-brainer: don’t trust Meta with your mental health.
reverendsteveii•7mo ago
but my meditation app didn't get bought by Google and shut down like I'd planned and I can only build so many to-do lists
BizarroLand•7mo ago
Counter Argument:

Talking to therapists is difficult, time-consuming, painful, annoying, and expensive. The number of hoops you have to jump through just to get to the starting line is crazy, even if you are willing and able to pay the few hundred dollars an hour out of pocket yourself.

Therapy isn't like confession or church or a religious experience. Its proposed benefits will never be life changing, it will not build you up, it will not give you anything you didn't already have, and you have to pay for it.

If I can work out a few kinks in my psyche on my own I'll do that. If I bounce some words off of a convenient lie bot, then fine.

The only way I can get more f'd in the head would be to start killing, and at this point I just don't have the drive to take on murder as a new hobby.

metalman•7mo ago
The ancients have us covered, much of the surviving texts deal with strife, trouble , the mixed joys of life, and the inevitable contradictions that are still our lot in life and the ancients would very much recognise the horrible possibilities in taking your thoughts and reason to a souless mechanical thing that has been conjured up by powerfull forces acting in there own interests but the pit, has it's own allure and one more lesser demon is only that, one more. no shortage of the corporeal type either.
danhite•7mo ago
Your interesting comment immediately passed my test for "this was written by a human, not an AI" but got me to thinking about PARRY ...

  PARRY was written in 1972 by psychiatrist Kenneth Colby, 
  then at Stanford University.
  While ELIZA was a simulation of a Rogerian therapist, 
  PARRY attempted to simulate a person with paranoid schizophrenia.
-- wikipedia:PARRY [1]

One of the fascinating things that was done was to have Parry & Eliza chat together.

So it immediately occurred to me that your comment would make an excellent Lenna[2] text to feed to AI chatbot therapists right after their initial pleasantries when they ask ~ "Now, what seems to be your problem?"

The various chatbot results would then be like the headliner in a suite of fitness tests for them and so, like the Turing Test, could be named in your honor, maybe called the Bizarro Test [Suite Protocol or BTSP].

Perhaps you would help humanity in its likely brief and futile resistance by granting permission ala Creative Commons for such use?

[1] blockquote is from wikipedia:PARRY ...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PARRY

[2] "Lenna (or Lena) is a standard test image used in the field of digital image processing, starting in 1973." -- wikipedia:Lenna ...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lenna

BizarroLand•7mo ago
I don't think my reply qualifies as a standard.

It's born out of my very real frustration at finally getting to a point where I could get therapy only to be continually stymied by multiple emails never responded to, multiple calls never answered or replied, and finally after one appointment for online therapy finally set up being ghosted by the practitioner.

I get that therapy is good, and I believe it can be helpful or else I would have never sought it out, but, I am amazed that anyone can get it.

I've also met people who have no money, no insurance, no job, but are able to get therapists with a single call, which is all the more infuriating because those same people have been consistently unable to help me do the same.

Money and tears and pleading won't open these doors for me and it almost feels personal, like the universe itself conspires to keep me specifically away from good mental health, so I have a nice reservoir of anger towards anyone who casually mentions that going to therapy will solve all your problems or that the conventional way of doing things is the right way to do them.

If human therapists make themselves unavailable to me both in person and online, then I'll make do without them.

tuatoru•7mo ago
Second counterargument: by practising, someone will eventually get good at it, and it becomes feasible to treat very niche or unprofitable disorders.

The quality of human practitioners is...variable, and they tend to focus on only a few areas.

aaronbaugher•7mo ago
Meh. I'll agree that chatbots shouldn't be allowed to claim they have credentials, like anyone else. But a lot of therapists do nothing except sit there and listen to you, tell you what you want to hear, give some standard advice you could have gotten from a self-help book, and hand you a bill. An LLM can replace the first three functions just fine.

If you can get your money's worth from talking to most therapists, you're probably self-aware enough to get it from bouncing your thoughts off an LLM.

darepublic•7mo ago
I think llm could be helpful for therapy. I've never tried it for that purpose but it's the impression I get. Mostly it is learning to talk to yourself and chain of thought to a better mindset