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How I do and don't use agents

https://twitter.com/jessfraz/status/2019975917863661760
1•tosh•5m ago•0 comments

BTDUex Safe? The Back End Withdrawal Anomalies

1•aoijfoqfw•8m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Compile-Time Vibe Coding

https://github.com/Michael-JB/vibecode
1•michaelchicory•10m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Ensemble – macOS App to Manage Claude Code Skills, MCPs, and Claude.md

https://github.com/O0000-code/Ensemble
1•IO0oI•14m ago•1 comments

PR to support XMPP channels in OpenClaw

https://github.com/openclaw/openclaw/pull/9741
1•mickael•14m ago•0 comments

Twenty: A Modern Alternative to Salesforce

https://github.com/twentyhq/twenty
1•tosh•16m ago•0 comments

Raspberry Pi: More memory-driven price rises

https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/more-memory-driven-price-rises/
1•calcifer•21m ago•0 comments

Level Up Your Gaming

https://d4.h5go.life/
1•LinkLens•25m ago•1 comments

Di.day is a movement to encourage people to ditch Big Tech

https://itsfoss.com/news/di-day-celebration/
2•MilnerRoute•27m ago•0 comments

Show HN: AI generated personal affirmations playing when your phone is locked

https://MyAffirmations.Guru
4•alaserm•27m ago•3 comments

Show HN: GTM MCP Server- Let AI Manage Your Google Tag Manager Containers

https://github.com/paolobietolini/gtm-mcp-server
1•paolobietolini•29m ago•0 comments

Launch of X (Twitter) API Pay-per-Use Pricing

https://devcommunity.x.com/t/announcing-the-launch-of-x-api-pay-per-use-pricing/256476
1•thinkingemote•29m ago•0 comments

Facebook seemingly randomly bans tons of users

https://old.reddit.com/r/facebookdisabledme/
1•dirteater_•30m ago•1 comments

Global Bird Count Event

https://www.birdcount.org/
1•downboots•31m ago•0 comments

What Is Ruliology?

https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2026/01/what-is-ruliology/
2•soheilpro•32m ago•0 comments

Jon Stewart – One of My Favorite People – What Now? with Trevor Noah Podcast [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=44uC12g9ZVk
2•consumer451•35m ago•0 comments

P2P crypto exchange development company

1•sonniya•48m ago•0 comments

Vocal Guide – belt sing without killing yourself

https://jesperordrup.github.io/vocal-guide/
2•jesperordrup•53m ago•0 comments

Write for Your Readers Even If They Are Agents

https://commonsware.com/blog/2026/02/06/write-for-your-readers-even-if-they-are-agents.html
1•ingve•54m ago•0 comments

Knowledge-Creating LLMs

https://tecunningham.github.io/posts/2026-01-29-knowledge-creating-llms.html
1•salkahfi•54m ago•0 comments

Maple Mono: Smooth your coding flow

https://font.subf.dev/en/
1•signa11•1h ago•0 comments

Sid Meier's System for Real-Time Music Composition and Synthesis

https://patents.google.com/patent/US5496962A/en
1•GaryBluto•1h ago•1 comments

Show HN: Slop News – HN front page now, but it's all slop

https://dosaygo-studio.github.io/hn-front-page-2035/slop-news
7•keepamovin•1h ago•1 comments

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https://github.com/justin55afdfdsf5ds45f4ds5f45ds4/EmpusaAI
1•justinlord•1h ago•0 comments

Show HN: Bitcoin wallet on NXP SE050 secure element, Tor-only open source

https://github.com/0xdeadbeefnetwork/sigil-web
2•sickthecat•1h ago•1 comments

White House Explores Opening Antitrust Probe on Homebuilders

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-02-06/white-house-explores-opening-antitrust-probe-i...
1•petethomas•1h ago•0 comments

Show HN: MindDraft – AI task app with smart actions and auto expense tracking

https://minddraft.ai
2•imthepk•1h ago•0 comments

How do you estimate AI app development costs accurately?

1•insights123•1h ago•0 comments

Going Through Snowden Documents, Part 5

https://libroot.org/posts/going-through-snowden-documents-part-5/
1•goto1•1h ago•0 comments

Show HN: MCP Server for TradeStation

https://github.com/theelderwand/tradestation-mcp
1•theelderwand•1h 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