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Achieving Ultra-Fast AI Chat Widgets

https://www.cjroth.com/blog/2026-02-06-chat-widgets
1•thoughtfulchris•1m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Runtime Fence – Kill switch for AI agents

https://github.com/RunTimeAdmin/ai-agent-killswitch
1•ccie14019•4m ago•1 comments

Researchers surprised by the brain benefits of cannabis usage in adults over 40

https://nypost.com/2026/02/07/health/cannabis-may-benefit-aging-brains-study-finds/
1•SirLJ•5m ago•0 comments

Peter Thiel warns the Antichrist, apocalypse linked to the 'end of modernity'

https://fortune.com/2026/02/04/peter-thiel-antichrist-greta-thunberg-end-of-modernity-billionaires/
1•randycupertino•6m ago•1 comments

USS Preble Used Helios Laser to Zap Four Drones in Expanding Testing

https://www.twz.com/sea/uss-preble-used-helios-laser-to-zap-four-drones-in-expanding-testing
2•breve•11m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Animated beach scene, made with CSS

https://ahmed-machine.github.io/beach-scene/
1•ahmedoo•12m ago•0 comments

An update on unredacting select Epstein files – DBC12.pdf liberated

https://neosmart.net/blog/efta00400459-has-been-cracked-dbc12-pdf-liberated/
1•ks2048•12m ago•0 comments

Was going to share my work

1•hiddenarchitect•16m ago•0 comments

Pitchfork: A devilishly good process manager for developers

https://pitchfork.jdx.dev/
1•ahamez•16m ago•0 comments

You Are Here

https://brooker.co.za/blog/2026/02/07/you-are-here.html
3•mltvc•20m ago•0 comments

Why social apps need to become proactive, not reactive

https://www.heyflare.app/blog/from-reactive-to-proactive-how-ai-agents-will-reshape-social-apps
1•JoanMDuarte•21m ago•1 comments

How patient are AI scrapers, anyway? – Random Thoughts

https://lars.ingebrigtsen.no/2026/02/07/how-patient-are-ai-scrapers-anyway/
1•samtrack2019•21m ago•0 comments

Vouch: A contributor trust management system

https://github.com/mitchellh/vouch
2•SchwKatze•21m ago•0 comments

I built a terminal monitoring app and custom firmware for a clock with Claude

https://duggan.ie/posts/i-built-a-terminal-monitoring-app-and-custom-firmware-for-a-desktop-clock...
1•duggan•22m ago•0 comments

Tiny C Compiler

https://bellard.org/tcc/
1•guerrilla•24m ago•0 comments

Y Combinator Founder Organizes 'March for Billionaires'

https://mlq.ai/news/ai-startup-founder-organizes-march-for-billionaires-protest-against-californi...
1•hidden80•24m ago•2 comments

Ask HN: Need feedback on the idea I'm working on

1•Yogender78•25m ago•0 comments

OpenClaw Addresses Security Risks

https://thebiggish.com/news/openclaw-s-security-flaws-expose-enterprise-risk-22-of-deployments-un...
2•vedantnair•25m ago•0 comments

Apple finalizes Gemini / Siri deal

https://www.engadget.com/ai/apple-reportedly-plans-to-reveal-its-gemini-powered-siri-in-february-...
1•vedantnair•26m ago•0 comments

Italy Railways Sabotaged

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/czr4rx04xjpo
5•vedantnair•26m ago•0 comments

Emacs-tramp-RPC: high-performance TRAMP back end using MsgPack-RPC

https://github.com/ArthurHeymans/emacs-tramp-rpc
1•fanf2•27m ago•0 comments

Nintendo Wii Themed Portfolio

https://akiraux.vercel.app/
2•s4074433•32m ago•2 comments

"There must be something like the opposite of suicide "

https://post.substack.com/p/there-must-be-something-like-the
1•rbanffy•34m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: Why doesn't Netflix add a “Theater Mode” that recreates the worst parts?

2•amichail•35m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Engineering Perception with Combinatorial Memetics

1•alan_sass•41m ago•2 comments

Show HN: Steam Daily – A Wordle-like daily puzzle game for Steam fans

https://steamdaily.xyz
1•itshellboy•43m ago•0 comments

The Anthropic Hive Mind

https://steve-yegge.medium.com/the-anthropic-hive-mind-d01f768f3d7b
1•spenvo•43m ago•0 comments

Just Started Using AmpCode

https://intelligenttools.co/blog/ampcode-multi-agent-production
1•BojanTomic•44m ago•0 comments

LLM as an Engineer vs. a Founder?

1•dm03514•45m ago•0 comments

Crosstalk inside cells helps pathogens evade drugs, study finds

https://phys.org/news/2026-01-crosstalk-cells-pathogens-evade-drugs.html
2•PaulHoule•46m 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.