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Tech Bro Saga: big tech critique essay series

1•dikobraz•44s ago•0 comments

Show HN: A calculus course with an AI tutor watching the lectures with you

https://calculus.academa.ai/
1•apoogdk•4m ago•0 comments

Show HN: 83K lines of C++ – cryptocurrency written from scratch, not a fork

https://github.com/Kristian5013/flow-protocol
1•kristianXXI•9m ago•0 comments

Show HN: SAA – A minimal shell-as-chat agent using only Bash

https://github.com/moravy-mochi/saa
1•mrvmochi•9m ago•0 comments

Mario Tchou

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mario_Tchou
1•simonebrunozzi•10m ago•0 comments

Does Anyone Even Know What's Happening in Zim?

https://mayberay.bearblog.dev/does-anyone-even-know-whats-happening-in-zim-right-now/
1•mugamuga•11m ago•0 comments

The last Morse code maritime radio station in North America [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GzN-D0yIkGQ
1•austinallegro•13m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Hacker Newspaper – Yet another HN front end optimized for mobile

https://hackernews.paperd.ink/
1•robertlangdon•14m ago•0 comments

OpenClaw Is Changing My Life

https://reorx.com/blog/openclaw-is-changing-my-life/
1•novoreorx•22m ago•0 comments

Everything you need to know about lasers in one photo

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Commercial_laser_lines.svg
2•mahirsaid•24m ago•0 comments

SCOTUS to decide if 1988 video tape privacy law applies to internet uses

https://www.jurist.org/news/2026/01/us-supreme-court-to-decide-if-1988-video-tape-privacy-law-app...
1•voxadam•25m ago•0 comments

Epstein files reveal deeper ties to scientists than previously known

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-00388-0
2•XzetaU8•32m ago•0 comments

Red teamers arrested conducting a penetration test

https://www.infosecinstitute.com/podcast/red-teamers-arrested-conducting-a-penetration-test/
1•begueradj•39m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Open-source AI powered Kubernetes IDE

https://github.com/agentkube/agentkube
1•saiyampathak•43m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Lucid – Use LLM hallucination to generate verified software specs

https://github.com/gtsbahamas/hallucination-reversing-system
1•tywells•45m ago•0 comments

AI Doesn't Write Every Framework Equally Well

https://x.com/SevenviewSteve/article/2019601506429730976
1•Osiris30•49m ago•0 comments

Aisbf – an intelligent routing proxy for OpenAI compatible clients

https://pypi.org/project/aisbf/
1•nextime•49m ago•1 comments

Let's handle 1M requests per second

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W4EwfEU8CGA
1•4pkjai•50m ago•0 comments

OpenClaw Partners with VirusTotal for Skill Security

https://openclaw.ai/blog/virustotal-partnership
1•zhizhenchi•51m ago•0 comments

Goal: Ship 1M Lines of Code Daily

2•feastingonslop•1h ago•0 comments

Show HN: Codex-mem, 90% fewer tokens for Codex

https://github.com/StartripAI/codex-mem
1•alfredray•1h ago•0 comments

FastLangML: FastLangML:Context‑aware lang detector for short conversational text

https://github.com/pnrajan/fastlangml
1•sachuin23•1h ago•1 comments

LineageOS 23.2

https://lineageos.org/Changelog-31/
2•pentagrama•1h ago•0 comments

Crypto Deposit Frauds

2•wwdesouza•1h ago•0 comments

Substack makes money from hosting Nazi newsletters

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2026/feb/07/revealed-how-substack-makes-money-from-hosting-nazi...
4•lostlogin•1h ago•0 comments

Framing an LLM as a safety researcher changes its language, not its judgement

https://lab.fukami.eu/LLMAAJ
1•dogacel•1h ago•0 comments

Are there anyone interested about a creator economy startup

1•Nejana•1h ago•0 comments

Show HN: Skill Lab – CLI tool for testing and quality scoring agent skills

https://github.com/8ddieHu0314/Skill-Lab
1•qu4rk5314•1h ago•0 comments

2003: What is Google's Ultimate Goal? [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xqdi1xjtys4
1•1659447091•1h ago•0 comments

Roger Ebert Reviews "The Shawshank Redemption"

https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/great-movie-the-shawshank-redemption-1994
2•monero-xmr•1h ago•0 comments
Open in hackernews

Baba Yaga License

https://smallandnearlysilent.com/baba-yaga/LICENSE.txt
10•todsacerdoti•5mo ago

Comments

ezekg•5mo ago
Too ambiguous. The main driver behind open source’s success is largely in some way, shape, or form "profit." Saying nobody can profit by using the project essentially limits its use to strict personal-use, and even then — it depends on how deep "profit" goes, and what "profit" means.

In any case, you can say that in a clearer way.

lproven•5mo ago
Heh. We both said the same, here and on Lobsters. :-)

I have been speculating for over a year about a FOSS license that stipulates and specifies free use.

What I wanted to do was write one that was less absolute: take this, use it, do as thou wilt, so long as you do not accept money for it. But if you use it in such a way as to make money, you must pay us a percentage.

This is more absolute, but I approve.

38•5mo ago
You talk like you've never seen an NC license

https://polyformproject.org/licenses/noncommercial/1.0.0

lproven•5mo ago
I like this. I like the style, the language, and the concept.

I wonder if it qualifies as a Free Software or open source licence?

jethronethro•5mo ago
And here I thought that this was a license that lets you send John Wick after the people who violate it ...
_g0wg•5mo ago
I love it. The world needs more magical things and less legalese.

I also added "you can't use this to make money" in my license [1] but I was a bit more specific, and I don't think I'm quite finished with the language yet. It feels a bit too specific but also not specific at all, weird mix. Also mine is in a purposefully-unenforceable version of legalese. I really like your magical approach. I've been describing myself as a metamagical artificer for a while now. You might just inspired me to rewrite mine.

Mine goes a bit more extreme than yours though. Not only does mine disallow parasites from using my software, it also disallows abusers of every kind. Bigots too. And the state. In fact lawyers and governments are explicitly disallowed from interpreting or enforcing my license.

- [1]: [url-redacted]

lproven•5mo ago
This simply seems to me like a parody, and as such, I find it annoying. Was that the intention?
_g0wg•5mo ago
I was honestly never sure how much of a joke or how serious I wanted it to be. I do intend on using my own license for my own code, and those are more-or-less the terms I place on who can use my software and who can't. I don't want my stuff being used for profit or to harm people. If someone came and asked me "hey can I use your X for Y", this document is the things I'd tell them no about.

I explicitly reject legalism and fully intend on having as a condition of the license that it cannot be interpreted by legal professionals, and I fully intend on it being invalid in a court of law, and I fully intend on never trying to enforce it.

Those are "serious" stances of mine, but a consequence of having those views is that I can't truly take this class of document seriously. I already knew it was useless to follow legal protocol to the letter in my license since it's inadmissible, so I thought why not have some fun with it.

A lot of the weird characters are vaguely related to the concept on that line of the license. The 3/5 symbol is the index for the anti-social-hierarchy clause. The lambda is the symbol for the recursive (infectious) license clause. The $ is the anti-money clause. And so on... Not all of them are related to something, some I couldn't find any good symbol for.

lproven•5mo ago
I wasn't the only one who liked it. There is now a sequel to this, by Lars Marowsky-Brée with an extra stanza by Alan Cox.

https://opensourcerer.eu/a-new-compact/index.html