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Atlas Airborne (Boston Dynamics and RAI Institute) [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UNorxwlZlFk
1•lysace•1m ago•0 comments

Zen Tools

http://postmake.io/zen-list
1•Malfunction92•3m ago•0 comments

Is the Detachment in the Room? – Agents, Cruelty, and Empathy

https://hailey.at/posts/3mear2n7v3k2r
1•carnevalem•3m ago•0 comments

The purpose of Continuous Integration is to fail

https://blog.nix-ci.com/post/2026-02-05_the-purpose-of-ci-is-to-fail
1•zdw•6m ago•0 comments

Apfelstrudel: Live coding music environment with AI agent chat

https://github.com/rcarmo/apfelstrudel
1•rcarmo•6m ago•0 comments

What Is Stoicism?

https://stoacentral.com/guides/what-is-stoicism
3•0xmattf•7m ago•0 comments

What happens when a neighborhood is built around a farm

https://grist.org/cities/what-happens-when-a-neighborhood-is-built-around-a-farm/
1•Brajeshwar•7m ago•0 comments

Every major galaxy is speeding away from the Milky Way, except one

https://www.livescience.com/space/cosmology/every-major-galaxy-is-speeding-away-from-the-milky-wa...
2•Brajeshwar•7m ago•0 comments

Extreme Inequality Presages the Revolt Against It

https://www.noemamag.com/extreme-inequality-presages-the-revolt-against-it/
2•Brajeshwar•8m ago•0 comments

There's no such thing as "tech" (Ten years later)

1•dtjb•8m ago•0 comments

What Really Killed Flash Player: A Six-Year Campaign of Deliberate Platform Work

https://medium.com/@aglaforge/what-really-killed-flash-player-a-six-year-campaign-of-deliberate-p...
1•jbegley•9m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: Anyone orchestrating multiple AI coding agents in parallel?

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https://github.com/gabrywu-public/knowledge-bank
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3•sinisterMage•17m ago•2 comments

Take a trip to Japan's Dododo Land, the most irritating place on Earth

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2•zdw•17m ago•0 comments

British drivers over 70 to face eye tests every three years

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c205nxy0p31o
18•bookofjoe•17m ago•7 comments

BookTalk: A Reading Companion That Captures Your Voice

https://github.com/bramses/BookTalk
1•_bramses•18m ago•0 comments

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

https://www.is-ai-good-yet.com/#home
3•ilyaizen•19m ago•1 comments

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https://github.com/BETAER-08/amdb
1•try_betaer•20m ago•0 comments

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https://openclaw.ai/blog/virustotal-partnership
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Leisure Suit Larry's Al Lowe on model trains, funny deaths and Disney

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1•thelok•20m ago•0 comments

Towards Self-Driving Codebases

https://cursor.com/blog/self-driving-codebases
1•edwinarbus•21m ago•0 comments

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YLoXodz1N9A
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FOSDEM 26 – My Hallway Track Takeaways

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1•birdculture•23m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Env-shelf – Open-source desktop app to manage .env files

https://env-shelf.vercel.app/
1•ivanglpz•27m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Almostnode – Run Node.js, Next.js, and Express in the Browser

https://almostnode.dev/
1•PetrBrzyBrzek•27m ago•0 comments

Dell support (and hardware) is so bad, I almost sued them

https://blog.joshattic.us/posts/2026-02-07-dell-support-lawsuit
1•radeeyate•28m ago•0 comments

Project Pterodactyl: Incremental Architecture

https://www.jonmsterling.com/01K7/
1•matt_d•28m ago•0 comments
Open in hackernews

More than 20% of videos shown to new YouTube users are 'AI slop', study finds

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/dec/27/more-than-20-of-videos-shown-to-new-youtube-users-are-ai-slop-study-finds
75•schu•1mo ago

Comments

aeternum•1mo ago
YouTube already slaps creators with demonetization for a wide array of topics and copyright strikes for minor sound clips.

They could easily require creators to label videos that have AI-generated video and also build detection tools themselves. Will they?

add-sub-mul-div•1mo ago
Google is in the business of selling slop creation tools. They want you to consume it, they don't want to provide ways to filter it out.
blibble•1mo ago
I assume the end game is youtube will eventually almost entirely be their own slop

at which point they won't have to pay pesky creators

DoctorOW•1mo ago
YouTube (and really any social media) was kind of a mistake. You can argue traditional mass media was imperfect, but at least it was up to public scrutiny. An algorithm is manipulative in a much more opaque way.
scotty79•1mo ago
YouTube is amazing repository of millions of practical skills and knowledge. It's achievement at least on par with Wikipedia. Calling it a mistake just because there's some entertainment there as well that not everybody is fond of is a bit harsh.
DoctorOW•1mo ago
I would say the funding model is what makes the difference.

Wikipedia sells information (in the form of "Donate or this could all go away") and is financially incentivized to make that information comprehensive and high quality. YouTube sells influence, and it is precisely that practice I object to.

Think about the videos on your homepage, in your recommended videos, which publishers you hear from immediately and which disappeared. I can see it trying to manipulate me.

andsoitis•1mo ago
> Think about the videos on your homepage, in your recommended videos, which publishers you hear from immediately and which disappeared. I can see it trying to manipulate me.

There are billions of videos on YouTube with millions getting added every day.

YouTube has to decide what to put in front of you.

scotty79•1mo ago
You are not required to browse the home page nor any recommendation list.
blharr•1mo ago
Except it's also a battleground for a ton of insidious recommendations that now distract you instead of educate you.

I know many people who spend 10 hours+ a day just listening to inflammatory content

It's also not just the consumers. So many great educational channels have been forced to appeal to click bait or lower quality content because of the nature of the platform

brendyn•1mo ago
You can download the entirety of Wikipedia. YouTube is blocking YouTube downloaders. It's a crime against humanity that they lured people into to contribute videos to this platform. By losing money for years before being acquired, they ensured nobody could possibly compete with their own video platform. Its not a nonforprofit or library. They can freely censor, restrict, and edit videos as they please, especially for deceased accounts.
The_President•1mo ago
Seems like a mistake to rely on it for anything other than entertainment or simple education. Perhaps what makes it a mistake is now it's yet another vehicle for distraction content gaming for attention space. Parents will attest, that it's wonderful to put a tablet in front of a child to instantly hush them, but then it becomes a dependency where it is increasingly harder to control outbursts of emotion without resorting to the tablet. It's become a like a drug to children, and the mistake is in seeing the process as benevolent until this far along.
bfkwlfkjf•1mo ago
> Seems like a mistake to rely on it for anything other than entertainment

I disagree, shouldn't be used even for entertainment. Going to YouTube for entertainment and relying on it to guide you is how you end up being radicalised on certain topics.

The_President•1mo ago
Entertainment: Nothing wrong with watching the football game on it. Agree that certain other types of "entertainment" material on there is toxic.
favflam•1mo ago
I started seeing AI slop of US military members celebrating their 1776 USD "bonus".
upupupandaway•1mo ago
I constantly think whether it’s viable to build robust software to get rid of slop, AI or non AI. I see tough challenges (platforms don’t care), but also see value. Does anyone have an opinion?
tim333•1mo ago
It would probably be good if it worked. Not quite sure how you'd automatically detect it.
blharr•1mo ago
Before you used to manage your own subscriptions or communities to join. That was enough. My suggestion would be just having a whitelist for the channels or sources you want to follow that push non-slop content.
tehwebguy•1mo ago
Make sure to always select “Don’t recommend this channel” for garbage
bfkwlfkjf•1mo ago
I'm not gonna be working for Google for free. If they want me to do this they can pay.
andsoitis•1mo ago
The idea of downvoting channels or videos like this is to punish the channel / poster.
bfkwlfkjf•1mo ago
That's how Google wants you to think.
galkk•1mo ago
One of most brutal things is amount of slop on kids channels.

Huntrx singing soda pop, Lego singing soda pop, Sonic singing soda pop, ponies singing soda pop… the amount of slop there is brutal

. I literally don’t see any way to approach it except just banning YouTube and downloading and curating videos in advance.

jenthoven•1mo ago
In Australia, kids aren't allowed to have YouTube accounts anymore, which means that they'll get served this generic lineup of shorts described in this article. 33% brain rot....I wonder if kids will see more and more brainrot since the algorithm doesn't know anything about them. Tabula rasa.
bignurgle•1mo ago
the other 80% is porn-lite, its disgusting
Bender•1mo ago
That 20% becomes 90+% if one accidentally clicks on the AI slop which tells me that Youtube somehow know they are AI slop and are profiteering off it thus it will never go away in my opinion. If I click on that crap I have to exit the browser, run Bleachbit and start over again. I never log into Youtube and now I am extra careful to avoid clicking on that crap.