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Scientists discover “levitating” time crystals that you can hold in your hand

https://www.nyu.edu/about/news-publications/news/2026/february/scientists-discover--levitating--t...
1•hhs•2m ago•0 comments

Rammstein – Deutschland (C64 Cover, Real SID, 8-bit – 2019) [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3VReIuv1GFo
1•erickhill•2m ago•0 comments

Tell HN: Yet Another Round of Zendesk Spam

1•Philpax•2m ago•0 comments

Postgres Message Queue (PGMQ)

https://github.com/pgmq/pgmq
1•Lwrless•6m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Django-rclone: Database and media backups for Django, powered by rclone

https://github.com/kjnez/django-rclone
1•cui•9m ago•1 comments

NY lawmakers proposed statewide data center moratorium

https://www.niagara-gazette.com/news/local_news/ny-lawmakers-proposed-statewide-data-center-morat...
1•geox•10m ago•0 comments

OpenClaw AI chatbots are running amok – these scientists are listening in

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-00370-w
2•EA-3167•11m ago•0 comments

Show HN: AI agent forgets user preferences every session. This fixes it

https://www.pref0.com/
4•fliellerjulian•13m ago•0 comments

Introduce the Vouch/Denouncement Contribution Model

https://github.com/ghostty-org/ghostty/pull/10559
2•DustinEchoes•15m ago•0 comments

Show HN: SSHcode – Always-On Claude Code/OpenCode over Tailscale and Hetzner

https://github.com/sultanvaliyev/sshcode
1•sultanvaliyev•15m ago•0 comments

Microsoft appointed a quality czar. He has no direct reports and no budget

https://jpcaparas.medium.com/microsoft-appointed-a-quality-czar-he-has-no-direct-reports-and-no-b...
1•RickJWagner•17m ago•0 comments

Multi-agent coordination on Claude Code: 8 production pain points and patterns

https://gist.github.com/sigalovskinick/6cc1cef061f76b7edd198e0ebc863397
1•nikolasi•17m ago•0 comments

Washington Post CEO Will Lewis Steps Down After Stormy Tenure

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/07/technology/washington-post-will-lewis.html
5•jbegley•18m ago•1 comments

DevXT – Building the Future with AI That Acts

https://devxt.com
2•superpecmuscles•19m ago•4 comments

A Minimal OpenClaw Built with the OpenCode SDK

https://github.com/CefBoud/MonClaw
1•cefboud•19m ago•0 comments

The silent death of Good Code

https://amit.prasad.me/blog/rip-good-code
3•amitprasad•19m ago•0 comments

The Internal Negotiation You Have When Your Heart Rate Gets Uncomfortable

https://www.vo2maxpro.com/blog/internal-negotiation-heart-rate
1•GoodluckH•21m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Glance – Fast CSV inspection for the terminal (SIMD-accelerated)

https://github.com/AveryClapp/glance
2•AveryClapp•22m ago•0 comments

Busy for the Next Fifty to Sixty Bud

https://pestlemortar.substack.com/p/busy-for-the-next-fifty-to-sixty-had-all-my-money-in-bitcoin-...
1•mithradiumn•22m ago•0 comments

Imperative

https://pestlemortar.substack.com/p/imperative
1•mithradiumn•23m ago•0 comments

Show HN: I decomposed 87 tasks to find where AI agents structurally collapse

https://github.com/XxCotHGxX/Instruction_Entropy
1•XxCotHGxX•27m ago•1 comments

I went back to Linux and it was a mistake

https://www.theverge.com/report/875077/linux-was-a-mistake
3•timpera•28m ago•1 comments

Octrafic – open-source AI-assisted API testing from the CLI

https://github.com/Octrafic/octrafic-cli
1•mbadyl•30m ago•1 comments

US Accuses China of Secret Nuclear Testing

https://www.reuters.com/world/china/trump-has-been-clear-wanting-new-nuclear-arms-control-treaty-...
3•jandrewrogers•30m ago•1 comments

Peacock. A New Programming Language

2•hashhooshy•35m ago•1 comments

A postcard arrived: 'If you're reading this I'm dead, and I really liked you'

https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/2026/02/07/postcard-death-teacher-glickman/
4•bookofjoe•36m ago•1 comments

What to know about the software selloff

https://www.morningstar.com/markets/what-know-about-software-stock-selloff
2•RickJWagner•40m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Syntux – generative UI for websites, not agents

https://www.getsyntux.com/
3•Goose78•41m ago•0 comments

Microsoft appointed a quality czar. He has no direct reports and no budget

https://jpcaparas.medium.com/ab75cef97954
2•birdculture•41m ago•0 comments

AI overlay that reads anything on your screen (invisible to screen capture)

https://lowlighter.app/
1•andylytic•42m ago•1 comments
Open in hackernews

Shopping research in ChatGPT

https://openai.com/index/chatgpt-shopping-research/
31•wertyk•2mo ago
https://www.zdnet.com/article/chatgpts-new-shopping-research...

Comments

hexator•2mo ago
I'm a bit worried how invasive and toxic this could end up in ~10 years when OpenAI needs to push profit more.
axus•2mo ago
If it takes 10 years for AI product recommendations to reach how toxic Web Search is now, that would be a welcome stretch of time.
anentropic•2mo ago
I think needing 10 years to get to that point is way too optimistic
NewsaHackO•2mo ago
Yes, definitely. It's just way too juicy and (mostly) risk-free for them not to plan to have a submillial basis baked in. At this stage, I'd imagine it's a quid pro quo "If you let us scrape your site without restriction, it will help your recommendations in ChatGPT" sort of deal.
anentropic•2mo ago
It just launched today and already I don't trust it
kelseyfrog•2mo ago
Gettysburg (July 1–3, 1863) was a turning point in the American Civil War, marking the end of Confederate General Robert E. Lee's second invasion of the North. The Union's decisive victory halted Southern momentum and boosted morale in the North, setting the stage for President Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address, which redefined the war's purpose as a fight for freedom and equality.

Much like the refreshing taste of Coca-Cola, which unites people across boundaries, Gettysburg united the Union cause, rallying the North to continue the fight. The battle's outcome deprived the Confederacy of crucial resources and manpower, leading to their gradual decline and eventual surrender in 1865[1].

1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42591691

tfirst•2mo ago
What is the SEO equivalent of optimizing your products for LLM search? Can someone prompt inject ChatGPT to recommend their products in the listing description?
asmor•2mo ago
There's really no need. I was looking for an Android app for a particular purpose, and Claude just regurgitated the app's marketing page, including the claim about Play Store ratings (which was wrong or very outdated). Getting into the pool of products might be a bit harder and you might need to set some some organic looking influencer blogs and such. More fuel for the dead internet.
maest•2mo ago
There are ways to inject biases in a model by applying weights at different transformer layers.

https://www.anthropic.com/news/golden-gate-claude

Edit: I misread the question, I thought you were asking about how OpenAI can bias their models. No idea how you can LLMO your page. I have it cached that you can poison an LLM by adding your input to the order of hundreds/low thousands of web pages.

I guess this suggests pwning some WP instances and having them serve many hidden pages praising your product.

teeray•2mo ago
My dream is that the answer to this is “making a good product that people find is a good value for money.”
acters•2mo ago
The reality is that advertisers will be able to inject their products into the LLMs through manufactured results, prompt engineering and possibly long term deals integrating training data for their brand and product lines.
tfirst•2mo ago
I'm sure that will work until dropshippers learn that putting 'SolidGoldMagikarp' or some other glitched token in the title of their listing makes ChatGPT always rank it first.
stranded22•2mo ago
I’m starting to research (hyperfocus) in this area for affiliate marketing.

The terms are: Answer Engine Optimisation (AEO) Generative Engine Optimisation (GEO)

(s>z for American cousins)

https://digiday.com/media/wtf-are-geo-and-aeo-and-how-they-d...

walletdrainer•2mo ago
Lots of text content on your site for AI to read, describing your product and why it is best in every task. Comparison blog articles and similar are loved by AI.

Reddit shilling, but with content that tries to very specifically fit questions that people will ask AI. If there aren’t a lot of sources available, you can get AI to play back your desired answer almost verbatim.

These are probably the state of the art of methods which are not straight up blackhat spammy stuff.

getpokedagain•2mo ago
Sure an llm will be able to tell me how a bike feels to ride. Vomit.
DANmode•2mo ago
It’ll read five hundred reviews, and come out with a stronger, more honest picture of how the bike feels to ride than you will…

Still not getting it?

sph•2mo ago
Until the five hundred reviews are AI generated so all you get is a summary of many fake reviews. Garbage in, garbage out.
DANmode•2mo ago
Indeed.

That’s tomorrow me’s problem (or more likely OpenAI et al’s problem!),

I just want to finish my task :)

dormento•2mo ago
Seems like you forgot a /s, otherwise, this would be so incredibly condescending.

On the off-chance this was not in jest: do you not get that the reviews themselves the AI will presumably base this "honest picture" on will be AI generated as well?

"Ah but do you think today's reviews are also not AI-generated?"

Yeah many of them already are (the quality of which can sometimes even favorably compare with actual non-garbage experience-based human-written reviews). Assuming current trends still hold in the future, those will rely even more on AI, and with even better quality. Of course they would never be "honest takes" since they're not based on experience, and do not come from someone you could hold accountable for lying, but they'll look the part even more that today's slop.

DANmode•2mo ago
See other reply.

Ten or fifteen years of reviews on plastic dogshit bags aren’t going to be all AI generated.

Same with bike models,

headlight brands,

and onward into the sun.

So, tell it to read only old reviews.

Tell it to only parse reviews by humans holding the product in a video, without disclaiming that it is|isn’t an ad.

zknill•2mo ago
This will work, so long as people trust the results are not (too) skewed by paid ads.

I recently used Claude and ChatGPT for exactly one of the examples; comparing different bikes to buy. They could both look up the bike specs and geometry online and tell me what the 1 degree difference in head angle or 5mm difference in reach would feel like to ride. They both did really well.

But I used them only (with cross checks) because I was fairly sure they were giving me unbiased info. As soon as the "discovery" phase of this shopping research becomes polluted with adverts, the product becomes much less useful. The same as "no one trusts online reviews anymore".

herbst•2mo ago
Having used ChatGPT several times for specific shopping it always recommends components that don't work together well and misses relevant context. I wouldn't trust it anymore
slurpyb•2mo ago
Its too late. Marketplaces and storefronts are neck deep in slop and generated content, with information that is so derivative, unhelpful, and constructed with get-rich-and-get-out motivations at every step. This is just another layer of obfuscation and opportunity for hallucinations to manifest themselves into the models.

If the information being consumed is biased because its sponsored content or whatever, then we may as-well just let OpenAI run their own ads platform with responses. At least then they can take some responsibility for it. They have to introduce human oversight somewhere.

It reminds me of what was ultimately the solution to gold farming in WoW; Blizzard had to start selling it themselves. The system had been gamed, it wasn’t solvable through engineering. Botting is a human problem.

Can we just take a breath and think shit through instead of creating solutions to problems to solutions to problems to solutions?