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Early Baby Behavior Predicts Adult Cognition and Intelligence

https://neurosciencenews.com/neurodevelopment-intelligence-neuroscience-29296/
1•amichail•1m ago•0 comments

Show HN: CompoConf – modular configuration for modular systems

https://korbi.ai/blog/compoconf/
1•korbip•2m ago•0 comments

Army Launches Detachment 201: Executive Innovation Corps

https://www.army.mil/article/286317/army_launches_detachment_201_executive_innovation_corps_to_drive_tech_transformation
1•jelder•3m ago•0 comments

Inside the Arnett, Oklahoma tornado

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NGD2e741Riw
2•michaelsbradley•4m ago•0 comments

16B passwords from Apple, Facebook, Google and more leaked

https://www.the-independent.com/tech/data-breach-apple-facebook-google-password-leaks-b2773462.html
2•pjaoko•7m ago•2 comments

Cosmoe

https://cosmoe.org
1•bitigchi•9m ago•0 comments

AI Bias Lawsuit Against Workday Reaches Next Stage

https://www.lawandtheworkplace.com/2025/06/ai-bias-lawsuit-against-workday-reaches-next-stage-as-court-grants-conditional-certification-of-adea-claim/
4•binarymax•12m ago•0 comments

Day 11: got first paid customer yesterday, 500 unique visitors/day. And so on

https://justgotfound.com/
1•abusayedopu22•13m ago•1 comments

Interactive YouTube drum machine [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3yRx-dd7Jcs
1•flykespice•18m ago•0 comments

What Are the Future of CMS?

1•Devsmage•25m ago•1 comments

Free Docusign Alternative

https://useinkless.com/
2•trustinmenowpls•27m ago•0 comments

Who is using AI to code? Global diffusion and impact of generative AI

https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.08945
1•moose44•29m ago•1 comments

ISM Manufacturing Index

https://corporatefinanceinstitute.com/resources/economics/ism-manufacturing-index/
1•kamaraju•30m ago•0 comments

UK Global Talent Visa

https://relocateme.substack.com/p/uk-global-talent-visa-work-and-live
2•andrewstetsenko•31m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Would You Rent a Robot for Your Home?

1•MASNeo•35m ago•4 comments

Using a space elevator to get water off Ceres

https://phys.org/news/2025-06-space-elevator-ceres.html
2•amichail•37m ago•1 comments

Ghostty is a fast, cross-platform terminal emulator

https://github.com/ghostty-org/ghostty
4•tzury•39m ago•0 comments

Over 16B records leaked in "unimaginable" major data breach

https://www.techradar.com/pro/website-building/over-16-billion-records-leaked-in-unimaginable-major-data-breach-heres-what-we-know-and-how-you-can-see-if-youre-safe
6•rarba786•42m ago•2 comments

Kyutai STT – A speech-to-text optimized for real-time usage

https://kyutai.org/next/stt
3•ajuhasz•44m ago•0 comments

Biomarker-driven nutrition: going beyond generic diet advice

https://www.empirical.health/blog/biomarker-driven-nutrition/
2•brandonb•49m ago•0 comments

The New Church of Finance (2012)

https://www.deseret.com/2012/12/9/20445386/clayton-m-christensen-the-new-church-of-finance-deeply-held-belief-systems-and-complex-codes-must-be/
1•simonebrunozzi•50m ago•0 comments

DNS at the edge: performance, security, and strategic advantage

https://axonshield.com/dns-at-the-edge-performance-security-and-strategic-advantage
2•dc352•51m ago•0 comments

David Lynch explains Transcendental Meditation [video] (2015)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Em3XplqnoF4
2•danielmorozoff•54m ago•0 comments

State of the Art with AI: Stay on Top of Research with Personalized Emails

https://stateoftheartwithai.com/
1•JeanCarloM•58m ago•0 comments

Show HN: LiteChat: A t3.chat cloneathon competitor [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qtsNCYYkYfI
1•Dbuild•1h ago•0 comments

Akamai Web Application Firewall – How It Works

https://axonshield.com/akamai-web-application-firewall-how-it-works
1•dc352•1h ago•0 comments

Data Science Weekly – Issue 604

https://datascienceweekly.substack.com/p/data-science-weekly-issue-604
1•sebg•1h ago•0 comments

The day Steve Jobs dissed me in a keynote (2010)

https://sive.rs/itunes
3•LorenDB•1h ago•1 comments

Deep Dive into DNS: Super Smart Address Book

https://axonshield.com/deep-dive-into-dns-the-internets-super-smart-address-book
1•dc352•1h ago•0 comments

Humans Need Not Apply (2015) [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Pq-S557XQU
1•lisper•1h ago•0 comments
Open in hackernews

Google is using YouTube videos to train its AI video generator

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/06/19/google-youtube-ai-training-veo-3.html
28•rntn•6h ago

Comments

krunck•5h ago
... because Youtube videos meet some minimum level of content quality?
add-sub-mul-div•5h ago
If low quality influencer garbage is what people are watching, they'll be happy to generate more of it and I don't think they'll lose sleep about the quality.
adzm•4h ago
There is just so much of it, on so many different topics. Especially esoteric things that aren't popular "influencer" things that everyone is going to think of initially.
leumon•4h ago
Just like for llms for the base model you need quantity not quality. It just needs to learn how to correctly predict the next frame.
kube-system•4h ago
Most of it is better than this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XQr4Xklqzw8
greatgib•5h ago
It kind of does make sense, like a Library would use the books at its disposal.

But what is not normal is that they will easily block, ban and sue you if you try to do the same, like if the catalog of content was belonging to them.

echoangle•4h ago
Does it not? Do you not give those rights to YouTube once you upload a video?
throwaway29843•3h ago
Not all YouTube videos are uploaded by their rightholders though. There's plenty of stuff reuploaded from other platforms, which Google is feeding into their AI indiscriminately.
kube-system•4h ago
> It kind of does make sense, like a Library would use the books at its disposal.

Libraries don't really "use" books to produce anything, except to support accessibility like translations or indexing. Their lending of books is under the first-sale doctrine, which wouldn't be applicable to YouTube videos streamed under license.

> But what is not normal is that they will easily block, ban and sue you if you try to do the same, like if the catalog of content was belonging to them.

Because they do have rights to the content. All of the content on YouTube has been licensed to YouTube, and the licensor has assigned some rights to them.

superkuh•5h ago
Additionally, no one blocks googlebot even though it's being used just as much for LLM/etc AI training as any web spider out there. Too big to block. Too big to not use.
paxys•5h ago
Well, no shit.

Remember when OpenAI's CTO was asked to confirm that they don't use YouTube to train Sora and she evaded the question...?

Everyone is training on everything they can get their hands on, period.

cavisne•4h ago
Hilariously there was a story how Google could not train on Youtube data due to their TOS, so they changed it for new videos. Meanwhile everyone else was scraping Youtube as much as they liked and training on it.
kunzhi•4h ago
Reading this article I couldn’t help but remember the Key & Peele skit about joke theft - “high on potenuse.” All this AI training feels similar to me on some level. Yeah, it’s “just making a copy” on the other hand the person who originated the idea doesn’t get to participate in the success.

Life is hard, but at least on the other hand, it’s also unfair.

pier25•4h ago
To no one's surprise. If you're not the customer you're the product.
emodendroket•4h ago
I think that phrase ought to be retired simply because even if you are paying money you often still are “the product.”
kube-system•4h ago
If you're paying money, you still might not be a company's real customer: https://www.statista.com/statistics/1093781/distribution-of-...
emodendroket•2h ago
I don’t think it’s even right to think that there’s one “real” customer and one “fake” one really. It seems like an oversimplified model that doesn’t accurately describe how anybody operates besides a mom-and-pop.
kube-system•2h ago
The "unsimple" answer is:

1. if you don't have leverage with your vendors, they will not bend over backwards for you

2. companies are not incentivized to respond to complaints with no revenue at risk (e.g. you're going to use youtube anyway)

pier25•3h ago
Absolutely. See TVs for example. Price has gone down because they sell the data of what you're watching.
techjamie•2h ago
Drop tens of thousands on a new vehicle at a stealership and you'll get sketchy companies offering warranties on your exact vehicle within a week and then forever-more afterwards.

The way I understand it, usually either the dealership, the software they take your information in, or both typically sell off your data after the sale.

Also I get calls and letters from places asking to buy a vehicle I haven't owned since 2018 regularly.

nuodag•3h ago
Yes, and a way out of that is open source, where you aren't a customer…
josefritzishere•2h ago
This is the most important thread here. I don't think even Andrew Lewis saw this coming. Now we are always the product because we lack digital rights. It's all been legislated away.
echelon•4h ago
This should have resulted in an antitrust dismantlement by now. Google has every structural advantage in the world.

Years ago, Google would have been worth more if sold for parts. They were giving away far too much (and pissing on entire industries while doing so). Now they're activating all of those assets for strong, explosive incremental growth. It's hard to even call it incremental. More like checkmate world.

They're going to off so many businesses this decade and collect all the money.

They own the web, they own most of mobile, they control the other half of mobile, they own search, they own media, they own advertising. There's not a dollar that gets made that doesn't flow though Google somehow.

You can't even build a brand anymore without getting extorted by Google. You'll have your competitors paying to trademark squat you, and the browser itself defaults to Google search.

Google really needs to be split into about a half dozen companies. This is way bigger and way worse than Ma Bell.

bgwalter•4h ago
Here is a free business idea: Create an agentic "AI" video watcher. "AI" YouTube creators can register with the service, which will then watch their videos, will generate click-throughs to the advertisers and interact with the advertiser's web pages. The service is financed by profit sharing.

This streamlines video watching, which humans are notoriously slow at. It could lead to efficiency gains in video and ad watching that are practically unlimited.

gauku•4h ago
Almost sure that's a tongue-in-cheek response. Right?
bgwalter•4h ago
Yes! I'm pretty sure though that given the current hype someone can come up with an elaborate legal and moral justification for increasing video watching efficiency.
add-sub-mul-div•51m ago
Be Facebook and call it pivot-to-video.
kube-system•4h ago
I'm guessing that is a facetious response, but in case it isn't: this is just plain old fraud.
lovich•2h ago
Sounds like you just need to execute on it fast enough that the government cant respond before youre too big to fight. standard strategy
kube-system•2h ago
Not really. Click fraud isn't anything new, it has existed for decades, and there are many ways that it can be (and currently is) mitigated privately. The most common way is to ban, shadowban, or demonetize the offender. And if that doesn't work you can always be held civilly liable.

Contracting with others to commit fraud and violate contracts is not a good business idea even if you stay off the government's radar.

JohnFen•2h ago
I don't think that's fraud unless its done by the channel operator. Me as an end user auto-clicking ads is not even in the same ballpark as actual fraud.
kube-system•2h ago
> I don't think that's fraud unless its done by the channel operator.

That's exactly what the parent comment suggested.

JohnFen•2h ago
genAI videos are already making YouTube worse than it was, and that trend is only starting. Maybe that, plus Google using user videos in this way, will finally allow one of their competitors to gain more traction.