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Structuring unstructured data is a correct use of AI

https://mechanicalsurvival.com/blog/structuring-unstructured/
1•d_j_b•7m ago•0 comments

Kite – News App by Kagi

https://kite.kagi.com/
2•tigroferoce•7m ago•0 comments

ChatGPT and Gemini AI Have Uniquely Different Writing Styles

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/chatgpt-and-gemini-ai-have-uniquely-different-writing-styles/
1•beardyw•8m ago•0 comments

Han Wavel is a world which consists largely of fabulous ultraluxury hotels

https://wavel.de/
1•Bluestein•10m ago•0 comments

Africa takes pragmatic approach to AI

https://gadget.co.za/pragmaticai74w/
1•Bluestein•14m ago•0 comments

The Dictionary of Newfoundland English

https://www.heritage.nf.ca/dictionary/
1•ianpenney•14m ago•0 comments

Grok 4 (Thinking) achieves new SOTA on ARC-AGI-2 (X)

https://twitter.com/arcprize/status/1943168950763950555
2•mellosouls•18m ago•0 comments

Large-scale DNA study maps 37,000 years of human disease history

https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/large-scale-dna-study-maps-37000-years-of-human-disease-history
2•XzetaU8•19m ago•0 comments

I used AI to create this short film (600 prompts, 12 days, $500 budget)

https://old.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/comments/1lvtwj3/i_used_ai_to_create_this_short_film_on_human/
1•frays•21m ago•0 comments

GoReleaser v2.11

https://carlosbecker.com/posts/goreleaser-v2.11
1•unripe_syntax•24m ago•0 comments

This Week in Rust 607

https://this-week-in-rust.org/blog/2025/07/09/this-week-in-rust-607/
2•amalinovic•25m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Boost Your Voice AI Agents with Open-Source Ten VAD

https://github.com/TEN-framework/ten-vad
6•Jingyi0321•26m ago•4 comments

Musk says his new AI model 'better than PhD level in everything'

https://www.independent.co.uk/space/elon-musk-tesla-spacex-chatgpt-twitter-b2786163.html
3•Bluestein•27m ago•0 comments

Inulin (Fiber) Supplement Appears to Boost Brain Function in Older People

https://www.sciencealert.com/cheap-daily-supplement-appears-to-boost-brain-function-in-older-people
1•hilux•28m ago•0 comments

Koch Snowflake

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koch_snowflake
1•nomilk•31m ago•0 comments

XAI launches Grok 4 alongside a $300 monthly subscription

https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/09/elon-musks-xai-launches-grok-4-alongside-a-300-monthly-subscription/
4•chaosprint•33m ago•1 comments

The Ancient History of Compression Algorithms

https://www.cs4fn.org/compression/tiro.php
1•jruohonen•36m ago•1 comments

"Ripples They Cause in the World"

https://www.shadowcat.co.uk/2025/07/09/ripples-they-cause-in-the-world/
18•todsacerdoti•38m ago•1 comments

Show HN: Coin Flipper

https://coin-flipper.com/
2•artiomyak•40m ago•2 comments

I used Claude Sonnet 4 to help a customer import their blog archive in 46 mins

https://olly.pagecord.com/i-used-claude-sonnet-4-to-help-a-customer-import-their-blog-archive-in-46-minutes
3•s_cloud•46m ago•1 comments

Rails Dashboards that scale – with SQL and dry-struct

https://pcreux.com/2025/07/09/rails-dashboards-with-sql-and-dry-struct.html
3•pcreux•49m ago•1 comments

Air India 171 investigation focused on fuel switches movement

https://theaircurrent.com/aviation-safety/ai171-investigation-fuel-control-switches/
4•dondraper36•50m ago•1 comments

Webb Telescope Model for 3D Printing: Detailed Version

https://webbtelescope.org/contents/media/products/01G2Z87WABCENV9MQ0GSE8RGHM
2•sohkamyung•52m ago•0 comments

Flox Build and Publish

https://flox.dev/blog/introducing-flox-build-and-publish/
2•jacobwg•52m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: Pricing strategy for macOS App

3•fandorin•56m ago•1 comments

Quantum Computing Cloud Service IQM Resonance Adds Freemium

https://resonance.meetiqm.com/signup
1•manzanillo•57m ago•1 comments

Goldman Asks Analysts to Swear They Haven't Lined Up Private Equity Jobs

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-07-09/goldman-asks-junior-bankers-to-swear-they-haven-t-landed-private-equity-jobs
1•gscott•59m ago•0 comments

AI blood test can predict Parkinson's disease 7 years before symptoms

https://scitechdaily.com/new-ai-based-blood-test-can-predict-parkinsons-disease-seven-years-before-symptoms/
1•karlperera•59m ago•2 comments

Show HN: What Games Play? Pacman and Battle City

https://whatgamesplay.com/pacman
1•harperhuang•1h ago•0 comments

Who needs the Metaverse? Meet the people still living on Second Life (2023)

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/jun/10/who-needs-the-metaverse-meet-the-people-still-living-on-second-life
5•Bluestein•1h ago•0 comments
Open in hackernews

I used to prefer permissive licenses and now favor copyleft

https://vitalik.eth.limo/general/2025/07/07/copyleft.html
66•bpierre•9h ago

Comments

JohnKemeny•1h ago
Crypto bros rediscovering RMS 50 years later.
cat_plus_plus•1h ago
I primarily care about individual users and developers of my stuff, not "the society" and as such make it easy for them to use my code in any project, even closed source commercial one. The exception is 3D models where I don't anticipate commercial uses and if there are I want them to talk to me and maybe pay me some money, so sharealike it is.
Liftyee•1h ago
Interesting arguments in favour of technology transfer/diffusion that I really needed. However, I wonder if letting greater economies of scale form would accelerate progress overall when those economies of scale are applied to research.

Fundamentally, I think the best companies have a symbiotic (or at least respectful) relationship with their customers and not an adversarial one.

fsflover•4m ago
> I think the best companies have a symbiotic (or at least respectful) relationship with their customers and not an adversarial one.

What are examples of large companies like this?

o11c•49m ago
> we are not able to opt out of diffusion of progress. People move between companies and between countries and take their ideas and talents with them.

Never forget that Industry itself came to America by way of direct theft. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Slater

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If you care about your users, you should always prefer some copyleft license.

Prefer permissive licenses only if you want to subsidize big business. Hopefully you have a plan for when they decide to take it closed-source and outcompete you. You probably don't, though, since that's not mentioned in the aggressive "use permissive licenses" marketing campaign they've been running for the last decade or two.

Permissive licenses can fit in a niche for software that has already been implemented many times. But the downsides remain, and why aren't you just using the existing code directly? The main occasion on which I will consider it is when everybody else is doing it wrong (and content to do so), and I as a user keep getting annoyed at hitting those limitations.

The second-worst reason to use permissive licensing is arguably "I don't understand how to dynamic linking".

jjcob•39m ago
Permissive licenses enable small or individual developers (like myself) to sell software based on them.

With copyleft licenses, developers always have to sell stuff adjacent to the software (support, individual development, software-as-a-service).

With permissive licenses, developers can just sell a license to the software itself. Much easier, much more direct.

It's the reason why there is much more tooling around permissive licensed projects vs. projects with a GPL style license.

Permissive licenses are win-win: Proprietory developers win because they get to sell licenses, users win because they have more tools they can use.

o11c•26m ago
That does not follow. You might as well make it "source available" and sell proprietary licenses.
jjcob•11m ago
I think you misunderstood. My software is not permissive. My software is closed source, but based on a big open source project with a permissive license. It's a tool that helps users of the big open source solution.

I can sell licenses to my tool because it is closed source.

If the big open source project was licensed under a copyleft license, I would have to make my tool open source as well. Then I would have a hard time selling licenses.

I couldn't have spent the last 10 years building a tool for the open source software, and users of the open source software would have had fewer tools available.

sampullman•12m ago
I'm not completely familiar with the details and haven't done it myself, but what's stopping you from selling non-restrictive licenses to a GPL project? Can't you just etch out an exception for each customer?
jjcob•7m ago
I'm not sure what you are suggesting. My tool is classic shareware: You download a free version, and if you like it you pay to remove feature restrictions. Companies pay per device the tool runs on. I'm not sure how I would implement this when distributing a GPL licensed program? Customers could just remove the license checking code and distribute it for free?
MangoToupe•3m ago
I just don't really want to support the sale of any software. I see it as directly harmful compared to subsidizing the development of modifiable, free software, which is the true allure of computation.
bigstrat2003•31m ago
> If you care about your users, you should always prefer some copyleft license.

There is no possible way for users to be hurt by a permissive license. Even if some company were to make a closed source fork, who cares? The original is still there, still just as free as it ever was.

> Prefer permissive licenses only if you want to subsidize big business. Hopefully you have a plan for when they decide to take it closed-source and outcompete you.

I prefer permissive licenses because I'm making a gift to the commons. It strikes me as hypocritical to say "I'm giving this to you, but only if you things the way I approve of". Thus, I make it completely free for all users, whatever they want to do with it. You may not see it that way, which is fine. But I'm sick of the false idea of "you're just subsidizing big business" being promulgated. That isn't true.

And why would I care if someone "outcompetes" me? My gift to society is still there to be used if people want, or not if they don't want. It doesn't diminish or harm my efforts in any way.

dedup•16m ago
> Even if some company were to make a closed source fork, who cares?

They can add sufficiently popular functionality to said closed source fork and make the open source original a) obsolete and b) incompatible with the combined ecosystem, and thus deprive the users of a feasible free option.

MangoToupe•4m ago
> But I'm sick of the false idea of "you're just subsidizing big business" being promulgated. That isn't true.

All the permissively licensed code that came with my mac disagrees. This is even more true of iphone software: you can technically look at some of the code that comes with it, but you can't modify it.

o11c•2m ago
As a reminder, the GPL (or any other Free Software license, by definition - it's "Freedom 0" in the list) places absolutely no restrictions on users. Its provisions only kick in for those who want to go beyond merely using the software.
Animats•31m ago
This is the Ethereum guy. Was something forked and made proprietary that he needs to be open source?
kwar13•15m ago
This comment makes no sense. Can you give a single precedent for him to have behaved that way?
jandrewrogers•30m ago
I just want anyone to be able to use my code. It isn’t ideological for me, I don’t care what people do with it. No one is harmed by a permissive license and I explicitly want to minimize the obligations of anyone using my code. I’d probably make most of it public domain if it wasn’t for the fact that some jurisdictions don’t recognize that concept.

I’ve written thousands of lines of copyleft code. I don’t see a practical benefit if you don’t want to obligate users of that code.

kwar13•16m ago
I might not always agree with Vitalik but he's always a joy to read.
qalmakka•16m ago
My favourite licence has always been the MPLv2. It's basically the best of both worlds, it's copyleft for your code while keeping the ability to statically link (crucial for Rust, Go and other languages that do that by default).
bgwalter•5m ago
Copyleft of course is of limited use since the FSF slept through the desktop to Internet service transition and now sleeps through the "AI" transition.

GPLv4 should be AGPL+no-AI if it is supposed to have any effect.