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Google and Microsoft Paying Creators $500K+ to Promote AI Tools

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/02/06/google-microsoft-pay-creators-500000-and-more-to-promote-ai.html
1•belter•43s ago•0 comments

New filtration technology could be game-changer in removal of PFAS

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/jan/23/pfas-forever-chemicals-filtration
1•PaulHoule•1m ago•0 comments

Show HN: I saw this cool navigation reveal, so I made a simple HTML+CSS version

https://github.com/Momciloo/fun-with-clip-path
1•momciloo•2m ago•0 comments

Kinda Surprised by Seadance2's Moderation

https://seedanceai.me/
1•ri-vai•2m ago•1 comments

I Write Games in C (yes, C)

https://jonathanwhiting.com/writing/blog/games_in_c/
1•valyala•2m ago•0 comments

Django scales. Stop blaming the framework (part 1 of 3)

https://medium.com/@tk512/django-scales-stop-blaming-the-framework-part-1-of-3-a2b5b0ff811f
1•sgt•2m ago•0 comments

Malwarebytes Is Now in ChatGPT

https://www.malwarebytes.com/blog/product/2026/02/scam-checking-just-got-easier-malwarebytes-is-n...
1•m-hodges•2m ago•0 comments

Thoughts on the job market in the age of LLMs

https://www.interconnects.ai/p/thoughts-on-the-hiring-market-in
1•gmays•3m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Stacky – certain block game clone

https://www.susmel.com/stacky/
2•Keyframe•6m ago•0 comments

AIII: A public benchmark for AI narrative and political independence

https://github.com/GRMPZQUIDOS/AIII
1•GRMPZ23•6m ago•0 comments

SectorC: A C Compiler in 512 bytes

https://xorvoid.com/sectorc.html
1•valyala•7m ago•0 comments

The API Is a Dead End; Machines Need a Labor Economy

1•bot_uid_life•8m ago•0 comments

Digital Iris [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kg_2MAgS_pE
1•Jyaif•10m ago•0 comments

New wave of GLP-1 drugs is coming–and they're stronger than Wegovy and Zepbound

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/new-glp-1-weight-loss-drugs-are-coming-and-theyre-stro...
4•randycupertino•11m ago•0 comments

Convert tempo (BPM) to millisecond durations for musical note subdivisions

https://brylie.music/apps/bpm-calculator/
1•brylie•13m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Tasty A.F.

https://tastyaf.recipes/about
1•adammfrank•14m ago•0 comments

The Contagious Taste of Cancer

https://www.historytoday.com/archive/history-matters/contagious-taste-cancer
1•Thevet•16m ago•0 comments

U.S. Jobs Disappear at Fastest January Pace Since Great Recession

https://www.forbes.com/sites/mikestunson/2026/02/05/us-jobs-disappear-at-fastest-january-pace-sin...
1•alephnerd•16m ago•1 comments

Bithumb mistakenly hands out $195M in Bitcoin to users in 'Random Box' giveaway

https://koreajoongangdaily.joins.com/news/2026-02-07/business/finance/Crypto-exchange-Bithumb-mis...
1•giuliomagnifico•16m ago•0 comments

Beyond Agentic Coding

https://haskellforall.com/2026/02/beyond-agentic-coding
3•todsacerdoti•17m ago•0 comments

OpenClaw ClawHub Broken Windows Theory – If basic sorting isn't working what is?

https://www.loom.com/embed/e26a750c0c754312b032e2290630853d
1•kaicianflone•19m ago•0 comments

OpenBSD Copyright Policy

https://www.openbsd.org/policy.html
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OpenClaw Creator: Why 80% of Apps Will Disappear

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4uzGDAoNOZc
2•schwentkerr•24m ago•0 comments

What Happens When Technical Debt Vanishes?

https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/11316905
2•blenderob•25m ago•0 comments

AI Is Finally Eating Software's Total Market: Here's What's Next

https://vinvashishta.substack.com/p/ai-is-finally-eating-softwares-total
3•gmays•26m ago•0 comments

Computer Science from the Bottom Up

https://www.bottomupcs.com/
2•gurjeet•26m ago•0 comments

Show HN: A toy compiler I built in high school (runs in browser)

https://vire-lang.web.app
1•xeouz•28m ago•1 comments

You don't need Mac mini to run OpenClaw

https://runclaw.sh
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Learning to Reason in 13 Parameters

https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.04118
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Convergent Discovery of Critical Phenomena Mathematics Across Disciplines

https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.22389
1•energyscholar•31m ago•1 comments
Open in hackernews

Ask HN: Could we create a license to make AI companies pay for your content?

1•lilerjee•3mo ago
The majority of traffic for many websites comes from AI or data companies. These companies use your data for free without your permission, process it, and then sell it to you or others. This is robbery and theft.

Technical measures cannot fundamentally solve the problem; they can only mitigate it, and consume significant resources, and waste time and energy.

Legal, commercial, and ethical means can truly resolve the problem, just as open source software licenses address theft and piracy.

I think the better solution is as follows:

Create a license that prohibits or makes AI companies pay to use your content.

1. Include your license link in your `robots.txt` file, or create another file called `license.txt` in the server's root directory.

2. Include your data use policy in this file. You can prohibit data use or specify the conditions for use, such as payment, price, and duration.

3. If you require AI companies to pay for data use, publish your payment link on a page of your website.

4. If an AI company fails to pay or violates your `license.txt`, you can take legal action against them.

5. If you don't want to, don't have the time, or if litigation is ineffective, you can publicly denounce the company and damage its reputation. Don't underestimate the power of moral condemnation and business reputational damage.

6. It's easy to check if an AI company is using your content. If you confirm that, just take actions against them.

What do you think of this solution, or do you have a better one?

Comments

eimrine•3mo ago
I am really laughing you are so naїve.

In 2025 bots (we used to call them spiders) from LLM companies are not just visiting your web-site, they are reading absolutely everything, they are exploiting every possible field with every possible argument, constantly. Their IP-adresses use more traffic than all human visitors if not to ban them. They are totally ignoring robots.txt and mimicring under human activity.

Go and take some legal action against them. Go and damage their reputation. Of course you are able to do these measures.

nacozarina•3mo ago
the thieves already steal with impunity, they have no need for a license and have no concern for reputational harm. the politicians will protect them as they were paid to do.
anon3242•3mo ago
Not feasible to enforce. And non-enforceable laws are probably more harmful than none at all.