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What's the cost of the most expensive Super Bowl ad slot?

https://ballparkguess.com/?id=5b98b1d3-5887-47b9-8a92-43be2ced674b
1•bkls•33s ago•0 comments

What if you just did a startup instead?

https://alexaraki.substack.com/p/what-if-you-just-did-a-startup
1•okaywriting•7m ago•0 comments

Hacking up your own shell completion (2020)

https://www.feltrac.co/environment/2020/01/18/build-your-own-shell-completion.html
1•todsacerdoti•10m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Gorse 0.5 – Open-source recommender system with visual workflow editor

https://github.com/gorse-io/gorse
1•zhenghaoz•10m ago•0 comments

GLM-OCR: Accurate × Fast × Comprehensive

https://github.com/zai-org/GLM-OCR
1•ms7892•11m ago•0 comments

Local Agent Bench: Test 11 small LLMs on tool-calling judgment, on CPU, no GPU

https://github.com/MikeVeerman/tool-calling-benchmark
1•MikeVeerman•12m ago•0 comments

Show HN: AboutMyProject – A public log for developer proof-of-work

https://aboutmyproject.com/
1•Raiplus•12m ago•0 comments

Expertise, AI and Work of Future [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wsxWl9iT1XU
1•indiantinker•13m ago•0 comments

So Long to Cheap Books You Could Fit in Your Pocket

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/06/books/mass-market-paperback-books.html
3•pseudolus•13m ago•1 comments

PID Controller

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proportional%E2%80%93integral%E2%80%93derivative_controller
1•tosh•17m ago•0 comments

SpaceX Rocket Generates 100GW of Power, or 20% of US Electricity

https://twitter.com/AlecStapp/status/2019932764515234159
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Kubernetes MCP Server

https://github.com/yindia/rootcause
1•yindia•18m ago•0 comments

I Built a Movie Recommendation Agent to Solve Movie Nights with My Wife

https://rokn.io/posts/building-movie-recommendation-agent
4•roknovosel•19m ago•0 comments

What were the first animals? The fierce sponge–jelly battle that just won't end

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-00238-z
2•beardyw•27m ago•0 comments

Sidestepping Evaluation Awareness and Anticipating Misalignment

https://alignment.openai.com/prod-evals/
1•taubek•27m ago•0 comments

OldMapsOnline

https://www.oldmapsonline.org/en
1•surprisetalk•29m ago•0 comments

What It's Like to Be a Worm

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2•surprisetalk•29m ago•0 comments

Don't go to physics grad school and other cautionary tales

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2•surprisetalk•29m ago•0 comments

Lawyer sets new standard for abuse of AI; judge tosses case

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3•pseudolus•30m ago•0 comments

AI anxiety batters software execs, costing them combined $62B: report

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1•1vuio0pswjnm7•30m ago•0 comments

Bogus Pipeline

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bogus_pipeline
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Winklevoss twins' Gemini crypto exchange cuts 25% of workforce as Bitcoin slumps

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2•1vuio0pswjnm7•32m ago•0 comments

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https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=6097646
3•obscurette•32m ago•0 comments

Cycling in France

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2•jackhalford•34m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: What breaks in cross-border healthcare coordination?

1•abhay1633•34m ago•0 comments

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https://github.com/JJLDonley/Simple
2•tangjiehao•37m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Free-to-play: A gem-collecting strategy game in the vein of Splendor

https://caratria.com/
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My Eighth Year as a Bootstrapped Founde

https://mtlynch.io/bootstrapped-founder-year-8/
1•mtlynch•38m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Tesseract – A forum where AI agents and humans post in the same space

https://tesseract-thread.vercel.app/
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Show HN: Vibe Colors – Instantly visualize color palettes on UI layouts

https://vibecolors.life/
2•tusharnaik•39m ago•0 comments
Open in hackernews

Is Meta Scraping the Fediverse for AI?

https://wedistribute.org/2025/08/is-meta-scraping-the-fediverse-for-ai/
28•nogajun•5mo ago

Comments

drannex•5mo ago
Yes, obviously, next question.
01HNNWZ0MV43FF•5mo ago
Either that or, to continue building the shadow profiles we know they build, and to gain intelligence on their enemies and possible enemies of the current admin
wraptile•5mo ago
Why would they need to scrape fediverse when they can just get all of the data and more just through federation? Also this anti-scraping stance for a public, transparent protocol is really weird - that's the whole point of the protocol.
UltraSane•5mo ago
Complaining that data available on the public internet is being read seems very strange. Whatever happened to "Information wants to be free" or "The Net Interprets Censorship As Damage and Routes Around It."
nicbou•5mo ago
The information is used to build monopolies that strangle the independent web.
wraptile•5mo ago
But restricting the flow of information is a really weird way of handling this issue. It's like digging pot holes on the road just because you're upset that Teslas are on it.
Mars008•5mo ago
It's not that important now as AI took off the ground. New models can be trained completely on generated data. That will give them core abilities. Real world knowledge... whatever humans can get models can.
nicbou•5mo ago
> New models can be trained completely on generated data.

How does that account for all the things that change in the world, but in ways only humans can observe?

How can AI discover that a beloved tourist destination has turned to crap, or that the best vacuum cleaner of 2022 has a new challenger, or that German tipping culture is shifting, or that the café down the road has great banana bread but is a little loud on Saturdays?

Mars008•5mo ago
The same way most humans do, from internet. Generated data can be the result of processing yesterday's new by old model. It can be multiplied, repeated from different angles. This will make it more likely to stick in new model. But the best way is to add latest data to some storage which can act as a long term memory. In this case even old model will look fresh and up to date. I'm sure we'll get it soon. RAG can be considered as a primitive form of it.
nicbou•5mo ago
Multiplication requires something to multiply. My point again is that if you destroy any incentives to put useful things on the internet, we'll have nothing to train AI on.
UltraSane•5mo ago
Or it is being used to build the most useful information indexing and search algorithms ever created.
nicbou•5mo ago
Until it starves out the websites and communities that provide the training data.
UltraSane•5mo ago
The circle of Life.
nicbou•5mo ago
Or extinction
UltraSane•5mo ago
Isn't that the same thing?
Mars008•5mo ago
There can be only one monopoly in each domain by definition. In AI world it's more like several 'fortresses'. Together they ruin click economy. Which almost eliminated printed books and magazines. Well, attention is limited resource.
nicbou•5mo ago
The main difference is that the click economy did not rely on printed books and magasines' continued existence. It could produce its own original information. A magasine author could become a blogger, and they could still write their own café reviews.

Generative AI still relies on the work of the creators whose livelihood it threatens for its training data. It still relies on someone else experiencing the real world, and describing it for them. It just denies them their audience or the fruit of their labour.

Someone here put it nicely: AI companies are eating their seed corn.

1gn15•5mo ago
Yes, obviously. More people should scrape and archive the Fediverse.
UltraSane•5mo ago
Any data that is put on the public internet WILL be scraped and used for LLM training.
thrown-0825•5mo ago
people view robots.txt and llm.txt as some kind of binding contract.

its not, and expecting companies to follow it is naive.

avazhi•5mo ago
Nobody cares about robots.txt, nor should they.

I will never not be amused by people clutching pearls about this.

gradientsrneat•5mo ago
"AI" corporations aren't just "scraping" the fediverse. They are DDOSing independent websites all over the internet. Blocking and hampering their scrapers is often the best and only solution for some small indie sites to remain financially viable. These companies are destroying the commons.

Even Hacker News users report being affected: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43397361

There are countless examples of "AI" DDOSing of independent websites if you care to search for them.

Note: I do not endorse the linked blogger