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CaMeL agent to protect against indirect prompt injection

https://github.com/google/adk-samples/blob/main/python/agents/camel/README.md
1•honorious•11s ago•1 comments

Neuromuscular Aim Assist [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9alJwQG-Wbk
1•eproxus•47s ago•0 comments

Vibe coded an AI that judges your clothes

https://nokasa.co/fitcheck
1•prasadlingawar•1m ago•0 comments

U.S. alcohol consumption drops to a 90-year low, new poll finds

https://www.sfchronicle.com/food/wine/article/drink-alcohol-americans-poll-20812180.php
1•littlexsparkee•1m ago•0 comments

FFmpeg 8.0 Merges OpenAI Whisper Filter for Automatic Speech Recognition

https://www.phoronix.com/news/FFmpeg-Lands-Whisper
1•mikece•3m ago•0 comments

Notice of Availability: Public Playground Safety Handbook Update

https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/08/13/2025-15374/notice-of-availability-public-playground-safety-handbook-update
1•impish9208•3m ago•0 comments

Circular Tone Generator

https://rumble.monster
1•bean_man•4m ago•0 comments

Anno 2030: 3 technologies that will disrupt our lives within 5 years

https://www.medsiri.com/post/the-promise-of-a-healthy-future
1•sp3000•4m ago•0 comments

Open Source Visa / Mastercard Competitor: Zenobia Pay

https://zenobiapay.com/blog/open-source-payments
1•rprend•4m ago•1 comments

OSS Chrome extension for browser automation without external processes

https://genie.gensx.com/
1•evboyle•4m ago•0 comments

Trump Just Militarized the Capital – What Comes Next?

https://onegex.com/trump-just-militarized-the-capital-what-comes-next/
4•Vivaed•6m ago•0 comments

Can You Gerrymander Your Party to Power?

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/us/politics/congressional-gerrymandering-redistricting-game.html
4•jaredwiener•9m ago•0 comments

No more 'Sanity Checks.' Inclusive language guide bans problematic tech terms

https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/12/inclusive_language_guide_gets_an/
1•Bender•10m ago•0 comments

Scrumping to social rituals: How fermented fruit shaped human community life

https://phys.org/news/2025-07-scrumping-social-rituals-fermented-fruit.html
1•PaulHoule•10m ago•0 comments

OpenAI brings back GPT-4o after user revolt

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2025/08/openai-brings-back-gpt-4o-after-user-revolt/
2•voxadam•10m ago•0 comments

Chipmaker Patch Tuesday: Many Vulnerabilities Addressed by Intel, AMD, Nvidia

https://www.securityweek.com/chipmaker-patch-tuesday-many-vulnerabilities-addressed-by-intel-amd-nvidia/
1•Bender•10m ago•0 comments

Launch HN: Golpo (YC S25) – AI-generated explainer videos

https://video.golpoai.com/
4•skar01•10m ago•1 comments

Google Easter Egg: NASA Dart

https://www.google.com/search?q=NASA+DART
1•theastrowolfe•11m ago•0 comments

Erlang/OTS SSH exploit rated 10.0 targets critical infrastructure

https://www.scworld.com/news/erlangots-ssh-exploit-rated-100-targets-critical-infrastructure
1•Bender•12m ago•0 comments

Show HN: iMessage MCP: Give Your LLM Access to Your Messages

https://wyattjoh.ca/blog/imessage-mcp
2•wyattjoh•16m ago•0 comments

Lisa Su Runs AMD–and Is Out for Nvidia's Blood

https://www.wired.com/story/lisa-su-runs-amd-and-is-out-for-nvidias-blood/
2•ChrisArchitect•16m ago•1 comments

Show HN: JSR MCP: Give Your LLM Complete Access to the JavaScript Registry

https://wyattjoh.ca/blog/jsr-mcp
1•wyattjoh•16m ago•0 comments

GPT-5 is going so well for OpenAI there's now a 'show additional models' switch

https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/13/gpt5_updated_again/
2•rntn•18m ago•0 comments

Love the Fig (2016)

https://www.newyorker.com/tech/annals-of-technology/love-the-fig
2•mooreds•19m ago•0 comments

OpenAI Moves Fast and Breaks ChatGPT

https://spyglass.org/openai-chatgpt-gpt-5-backlash/
3•thm•21m ago•0 comments

Many Colorado teachers must spend more than 40% of their income on rent

https://coloradosun.com/2025/08/13/colorado-teacher-housing-struggles-keystone-policy-center-report/
3•mooreds•22m ago•0 comments

Laravel Boost

https://blog.laravel.com/announcing-laravel-boost
2•virgildotcodes•23m ago•0 comments

Show HN: GetGPTScore – one-time check for your brand's AI visibility (ChatGPT)

1•nobench•23m ago•0 comments

The US-China Fight over Panama's Canal Has an Unexpected Winner

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/features/2025-08-13/panama-canal-fight-between-us-and-china-has-an-unexpected-winner
2•TMWNN•24m ago•0 comments

OpenID AuthZEN Interop

https://authzen-interop.net/
2•mooreds•26m 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/
27•nogajun•15h ago

Comments

drannex•13h ago
Yes, obviously, next question.
01HNNWZ0MV43FF•13h 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•13h 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•12h 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•12h ago
The information is used to build monopolies that strangle the independent web.
wraptile•11h 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•10h 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•6h 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?

UltraSane•11h ago
Or it is being used to build the most useful information indexing and search algorithms ever created.
nicbou•7h ago
Until it starves out the websites and communities that provide the training data.
UltraSane•1h ago
The circle of Life.
Mars008•10h 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•7h 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•13h ago
Yes, obviously. More people should scrape and archive the Fediverse.
UltraSane•13h ago
Any data that is put on the public internet WILL be scraped and used for LLM training.
thrown-0825•10h 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•7h ago
Nobody cares about robots.txt, nor should they.

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

gradientsrneat•1h 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