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Study confirms experience beats youthful enthusiasm

https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/07/boomers_vs_zoomers_workplace/
1•Willingham•1m ago•0 comments

The Big Hunger by Walter J Miller, Jr. (1952)

https://lauriepenny.substack.com/p/the-big-hunger
1•shervinafshar•3m ago•0 comments

The Genus Amanita

https://www.mushroomexpert.com/amanita.html
1•rolph•7m ago•0 comments

We have broken SHA-1 in practice

https://shattered.io/
1•mooreds•8m ago•1 comments

Ask HN: Was my first management job bad, or is this what management is like?

1•Buttons840•9m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: How to Reduce Time Spent Crimping?

1•pinkmuffinere•11m ago•0 comments

KV Cache Transform Coding for Compact Storage in LLM Inference

https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.01815
1•walterbell•15m ago•0 comments

A quantitative, multimodal wearable bioelectronic device for stress assessment

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-67747-9
1•PaulHoule•17m ago•0 comments

Why Big Tech Is Throwing Cash into India in Quest for AI Supremacy

https://www.wsj.com/world/india/why-big-tech-is-throwing-cash-into-india-in-quest-for-ai-supremac...
1•saikatsg•17m ago•0 comments

How to shoot yourself in the foot – 2026 edition

https://github.com/aweussom/HowToShootYourselfInTheFoot
1•aweussom•17m ago•0 comments

Eight More Months of Agents

https://crawshaw.io/blog/eight-more-months-of-agents
3•archb•19m ago•0 comments

From Human Thought to Machine Coordination

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-digital-self/202602/from-human-thought-to-machine-coo...
1•walterbell•20m ago•0 comments

The new X API pricing must be a joke

https://developer.x.com/
1•danver0•21m ago•0 comments

Show HN: RMA Dashboard fast SAST results for monorepos (SARIF and triage)

https://rma-dashboard.bukhari-kibuka7.workers.dev/
1•bumahkib7•21m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Source code graphRAG for Java/Kotlin development based on jQAssistant

https://github.com/2015xli/jqassistant-graph-rag
1•artigent•26m ago•0 comments

Python Only Has One Real Competitor

https://mccue.dev/pages/2-6-26-python-competitor
3•dragandj•28m ago•0 comments

Tmux to Zellij (and Back)

https://www.mauriciopoppe.com/notes/tmux-to-zellij/
1•maurizzzio•28m ago•1 comments

Ask HN: How are you using specialized agents to accelerate your work?

1•otterley•30m ago•0 comments

Passing user_id through 6 services? OTel Baggage fixes this

https://signoz.io/blog/otel-baggage/
1•pranay01•30m ago•0 comments

DavMail Pop/IMAP/SMTP/Caldav/Carddav/LDAP Exchange Gateway

https://davmail.sourceforge.net/
1•todsacerdoti•31m ago•0 comments

Visual data modelling in the browser (open source)

https://github.com/sqlmodel/sqlmodel
1•Sean766•33m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Tharos – CLI to find and autofix security bugs using local LLMs

https://github.com/chinonsochikelue/tharos
1•fluantix•34m ago•0 comments

Oddly Simple GUI Programs

https://simonsafar.com/2024/win32_lights/
1•MaximilianEmel•34m ago•0 comments

The New Playbook for Leaders [pdf]

https://www.ibli.com/IBLI%20OnePagers%20The%20Plays%20Summarized.pdf
1•mooreds•34m ago•1 comments

Interactive Unboxing of J Dilla's Donuts

https://donuts20.vercel.app
1•sngahane•36m ago•0 comments

OneCourt helps blind and low-vision fans to track Super Bowl live

https://www.dezeen.com/2026/02/06/onecourt-tactile-device-super-bowl-blind-low-vision-fans/
1•gaws•37m ago•0 comments

Rudolf Vrba

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudolf_Vrba
1•mooreds•38m ago•0 comments

Autism Incidence in Girls and Boys May Be Nearly Equal, Study Suggests

https://www.medpagetoday.com/neurology/autism/119747
1•paulpauper•39m ago•0 comments

Wellness Hotels Discovery Application

https://aurio.place/
1•cherrylinedev•40m ago•1 comments

NASA delays moon rocket launch by a month after fuel leaks during test

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2026/feb/03/nasa-delays-moon-rocket-launch-month-fuel-leaks-a...
1•mooreds•40m ago•0 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.