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Show HN: Seedance 2.0 Release

https://seedancy2.com/
1•funnycoding•21s ago•0 comments

Leisure Suit Larry's Al Lowe on model trains, funny deaths and Disney

https://spillhistorie.no/2026/02/06/interview-with-sierra-veteran-al-lowe/
1•thelok•24s ago•0 comments

Towards Self-Driving Codebases

https://cursor.com/blog/self-driving-codebases
1•edwinarbus•42s ago•0 comments

VCF West: Whirlwind Software Restoration – Guy Fedorkow [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YLoXodz1N9A
1•stmw•1m ago•1 comments

Show HN: COGext – A minimalist, open-source system monitor for Chrome (<550KB)

https://github.com/tchoa91/cog-ext
1•tchoa91•2m ago•0 comments

FOSDEM 26 – My Hallway Track Takeaways

https://sluongng.substack.com/p/fosdem-26-my-hallway-track-takeaways
1•birdculture•3m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Env-shelf – Open-source desktop app to manage .env files

https://env-shelf.vercel.app/
1•ivanglpz•6m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Almostnode – Run Node.js, Next.js, and Express in the Browser

https://almostnode.dev/
1•PetrBrzyBrzek•6m ago•0 comments

Dell support (and hardware) is so bad, I almost sued them

https://blog.joshattic.us/posts/2026-02-07-dell-support-lawsuit
1•radeeyate•7m ago•0 comments

Project Pterodactyl: Incremental Architecture

https://www.jonmsterling.com/01K7/
1•matt_d•7m ago•0 comments

Styling: Search-Text and Other Highlight-Y Pseudo-Elements

https://css-tricks.com/how-to-style-the-new-search-text-and-other-highlight-pseudo-elements/
1•blenderob•9m ago•0 comments

Crypto firm accidentally sends $40B in Bitcoin to users

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/crypto-firm-accidentally-sends-40-055054321.html
1•CommonGuy•10m ago•0 comments

Magnetic fields can change carbon diffusion in steel

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/01/260125083427.htm
1•fanf2•11m ago•0 comments

Fantasy football that celebrates great games

https://www.silvestar.codes/articles/ultigamemate/
1•blenderob•11m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Animalese

https://animalese.barcoloudly.com/
1•noreplica•11m ago•0 comments

StrongDM's AI team build serious software without even looking at the code

https://simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/7/software-factory/
2•simonw•12m ago•0 comments

John Haugeland on the failure of micro-worlds

https://blog.plover.com/tech/gpt/micro-worlds.html
1•blenderob•12m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Velocity - Free/Cheaper Linear Clone but with MCP for agents

https://velocity.quest
2•kevinelliott•13m ago•2 comments

Corning Invented a New Fiber-Optic Cable for AI and Landed a $6B Meta Deal [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y3KLbc5DlRs
1•ksec•14m ago•0 comments

Show HN: XAPIs.dev – Twitter API Alternative at 90% Lower Cost

https://xapis.dev
2•nmfccodes•15m ago•1 comments

Near-Instantly Aborting the Worst Pain Imaginable with Psychedelics

https://psychotechnology.substack.com/p/near-instantly-aborting-the-worst
2•eatitraw•21m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Nginx-defender – realtime abuse blocking for Nginx

https://github.com/Anipaleja/nginx-defender
2•anipaleja•21m ago•0 comments

The Super Sharp Blade

https://netzhansa.com/the-super-sharp-blade/
1•robin_reala•22m ago•0 comments

Smart Homes Are Terrible

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/02/smart-homes-technology/685867/
2•tusslewake•24m ago•0 comments

What I haven't figured out

https://macwright.com/2026/01/29/what-i-havent-figured-out
1•stevekrouse•25m ago•0 comments

KPMG pressed its auditor to pass on AI cost savings

https://www.irishtimes.com/business/2026/02/06/kpmg-pressed-its-auditor-to-pass-on-ai-cost-savings/
1•cainxinth•25m ago•0 comments

Open-source Claude skill that optimizes Hinge profiles. Pretty well.

https://twitter.com/b1rdmania/status/2020155122181869666
3•birdmania•25m ago•1 comments

First Proof

https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.05192
8•samasblack•27m ago•4 comments

I squeezed a BERT sentiment analyzer into 1GB RAM on a $5 VPS

https://mohammedeabdelaziz.github.io/articles/trendscope-market-scanner
1•mohammede•28m ago•0 comments

Kagi Translate

https://translate.kagi.com
2•microflash•29m ago•0 comments
Open in hackernews

Walling Off the Open Internet to Stop AI May End Up Breaking Everything Else

https://www.techdirt.com/2025/09/08/were-walling-off-the-open-internet-to-stop-ai-and-it-may-end-up-breaking-everything-else/
16•hn_acker•5mo ago

Comments

hn_acker•5mo ago
The original title is:

> We're Walling Off The Open Internet To Stop AI—And It May End Up Breaking Everything Else

HardwareLust•5mo ago
Note that this is a major plot point in Cyberpunk 2077 lore.
jnxx•5mo ago
The argument is like it is unethical to lock my front door because this also stops people which genuinely only want to enter to have a look at my living room.

That's not how boundaries work.

rolph•5mo ago
thats right, no AI queries, means exactly that.

just like signs such as no trespassing: active shooting range; or apiary[bee] yard; or open shaft mines, means that exactly, and in my region, signage is sufficient no gate or fence required.

every so often someone thinks they are too important for that to apply and they find out the signage is no joke when they encounter the target line, and backstop being hit from somewhere uprange; or violate the space of a bee hive; or fall into a shaft. some even have the nerve to complain this is a threat.

robots.txt == no trespassing == stay out unless invited

traspler•5mo ago
„Hey I have this nice picture in my living room. If you want to see it just come by.“ - People actually do. - „How dare they!“
RiverCrochet•5mo ago
"Front door" is to "entering" as "plain HTTP request (public)" is to "authenticated HTTP request (login)."

An AI that is randomly guessing passwords to an authentication/login endpoint is clearly malicious.

I think it's more like this:

Is it unethical to lock/obstruct the public sidewalk in front of your house because it blocks people who only want to pass by and look at the house?

JohnFen•5mo ago
genAI itself is rapidly rendering large portions of the web worthless and/or unsustainable, so it seems that the web is doomed either way.
blibble•5mo ago
> We’re creating a two-tier internet: sites that can be found and accessed through modern tools, and sites that can’t. Guess which tier will thrive?

the former tier will shortly be 100% AI slop, so the latter

personally I'd be willing to sacrifice the internet if it renders generative AI impotent

there are many possible futures that are bleaker than a world without internet

altairprime•5mo ago
We did just fine before crawlers had indexed the internet. We’ll do just fine without them. It will be more difficult to find answers, and it will be more difficult to hate communities. Double win.
aorth•5mo ago
Most of this reads as disingenuous to me. Not all of us have the capacity or skill to scale so we need to take drastic measures to keep services up.

I do believe in and love the open web. But the AI scrapers need to change, not me! They're the ones with the money and the 10x engineers (apparently). Read my sitemap and crawl my content from one IP, don't just haphazardly crawl and click every damn link and search term from hundreds or thousands of IPs every day!