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Is AI "good" yet? – tracking HN's sentiment on AI coding

https://www.is-ai-good-yet.com/#home
1•ilyaizen•8s ago•1 comments

Show HN: Amdb – Tree-sitter based memory for AI agents (Rust)

https://github.com/BETAER-08/amdb
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OpenClaw Partners with VirusTotal for Skill Security

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Show HN: Seedance 2.0 Release

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1•thelok•1m ago•0 comments

Towards Self-Driving Codebases

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Project Pterodactyl: Incremental Architecture

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

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1•blenderob•10m ago•0 comments

Crypto firm accidentally sends $40B in Bitcoin to users

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/crypto-firm-accidentally-sends-40-055054321.html
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Magnetic fields can change carbon diffusion in steel

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Fantasy football that celebrates great games

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Show HN: Animalese

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

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2•simonw•13m ago•0 comments

John Haugeland on the failure of micro-worlds

https://blog.plover.com/tech/gpt/micro-worlds.html
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The Super Sharp Blade

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1•robin_reala•23m ago•0 comments

Smart Homes Are Terrible

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2•tusslewake•25m ago•0 comments

What I haven't figured out

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1•stevekrouse•26m 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•26m ago•0 comments

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

https://twitter.com/b1rdmania/status/2020155122181869666
3•birdmania•26m ago•1 comments
Open in hackernews

Posting your property on Airbnb is now punishable offense in Sausalito, Bay Area

https://www.sfgate.com/local/article/posting-rental-airbnb-ads-fines-bay-area-sausalito-21114917.php
29•randycupertino•3mo ago

Comments

randycupertino•3mo ago
Sounds like they previously banned short-term rentals but had trouble enforcing, thus this new regulation.

> The coastal town of about 7,000 residents has prohibited rentals under 30 days since January 2019, but is now making simply posting an ad for one of these illegal properties a punishable offense. Each day an advertisement remains online counts as a new violation, according to the new ordinance that was passed unanimously on Oct. 21, and the fines escalate sharply: $1,500 for a first offense, $3,000 for a second violation within the same year, and $5,000 for each additional violation.

> Sausalito code enforcement officer Justin Goger-Malo, who took the position in February of this year, explained why this change was so crucial at a City Council meeting on Tuesday. Previously, enforcing proved to be a frustrating bottleneck as property owners disputed citations. “We’ll send out a citation, the property owner will then send us a screenshot which says, ‘Look, here it says my account’s been suspended and I canceled two reservations,’” Goger-Malo said. “It’s very easy to fake something like that.” Goger-Malo described working through six or seven cases simultaneously and receiving various forms of pushback from property owners claiming they had stopped short-term rentals or switched to longer terms.

> The advertising ban eliminates this enforcement gap. “It’s going to allow us to say, ‘You advertised it. We see that it says there’s been a rental completed,’” said Goger-Malo. “Even if you’ve canceled that rental, we now have the means going forward to be able to take some of our time back in investigating these claims and say it’s the advertising that you’re being fined for now.”

SilverElfin•3mo ago
Isn’t this basically restricting speech? Especially if you’re advertising to people across states, I would think this violates interstate commerce.
anigbrowl•3mo ago
No.
AJMaxwell•3mo ago
No. It's not considered interstate commerce when one purchases goods or services in a state one is visiting. No goods or services crossed state lines.
eesmith•3mo ago
Not at all true. From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commerce_Clause

"The Supreme Court issued several opinions supporting that use of the Commerce Clause. Heart of Atlanta Motel v. United States, 379 U.S. 241 (1964), ruled that Congress could regulate a business that served mostly interstate travelers."

Heart of Atlanta Motel made the argument that people who wanted to rent a room were neither goods nor services which crossed state lines, and argued they had a constitutional right of association so should be free to racially discriminate.

The Interstate Commerce Clause even applies to crops you grow for yourself, which aren't on the market. From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wickard_v._Filburn

"An Ohio farmer, Roscoe Filburn, was growing wheat to feed animals on his own farm. The U.S. government had established limits on wheat production, based on the acreage owned by a farmer, to stabilize wheat prices and supplies. Filburn grew more than was permitted and so was ordered to pay a penalty. In response, he said that because his wheat was not sold, it could not be regulated as commerce, let alone "interstate" commerce (described in the Constitution as "Commerce ... among the several states"). The Supreme Court disagreed ... The Court decided that Filburn's wheat-growing activities reduced the amount of wheat he would buy for animal feed on the open market, which is traded nationally, is thus interstate, and is therefore within the scope of the Commerce Clause. Although Filburn's relatively small amount of production of more wheat than he was allotted would not affect interstate commerce itself, the cumulative actions of thousands of other farmers like Filburn would become substantial. Therefore, the Court decided that the federal government could regulate Filburn's production."

This interpretation also applies to medical marijuana, quoting again https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commerce_Clause

"In a 2005 medical marijuana case, Gonzales v. Raich, the U.S. Supreme Court rejected the argument that the ban on growing medical marijuana for personal use exceeded the powers of Congress under the Commerce Clause. Even if no goods were sold or transported across state lines, the Court found that there could be an indirect effect on interstate commerce and relied heavily on a New Deal case, Wickard v. Filburn, which held that the government may regulate personal cultivation and consumption of crops because the aggregate effect of individual consumption could have an indirect effect on interstate commerce."

collingreen•3mo ago
This is bonkers. Thanks for posting it.
NeRF_ornothing•3mo ago
If only constitutional interpretation were that straightforward.
altairprime•3mo ago
You’re describing a presumably-desired outcome here but not why you think this particular limitation would be overturned as a free speech violation. On what basis would you expect that ruling to occur?
mint5•3mo ago
So what happens if someone posts a fraudulent listing of one’s property and then reports it to the city?
Cheer2171•3mo ago
Then that person is making three felonies: fraud, perjury, and frameup. AirBNB requires a lot of verification, you can't just use Tor, protonmail, and a VoIP number to list a place. That person would leave such a digital trail that would be easy to find with a subpeona. And both AirBNB and the person framed have every incentive to help with that investigation.

Frameup is a big fucking deal.

imtringued•3mo ago
Why would AirBNB have an incentive to help with the investigation? They want the law gone, which means they want people to hate the law and demand it be repealed.
marcos100•3mo ago
Wouldn't they be liable for not helping law enforcement?
theoreticalmal•3mo ago
Only if the the state worker has a subpoena signed by a judge. But it sounds like these are code enforcement people, which are generally just city employees rather than full law enforcement.