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Go 1.22, SQLite, and Next.js: The "Boring" Back End

https://mohammedeabdelaziz.github.io/articles/go-next-pt-2
1•mohammede•4m ago•0 comments

Laibach the Whistleblowers [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c6Mx2mxpaCY
1•KnuthIsGod•5m ago•1 comments

I replaced the front page with AI slop and honestly it's an improvement

https://slop-news.pages.dev/slop-news
1•keepamovin•10m ago•1 comments

Economists vs. Technologists on AI

https://ideasindevelopment.substack.com/p/economists-vs-technologists-on-ai
1•econlmics•12m ago•0 comments

Life at the Edge

https://asadk.com/p/edge
1•tosh•18m ago•0 comments

RISC-V Vector Primer

https://github.com/simplex-micro/riscv-vector-primer/blob/main/index.md
2•oxxoxoxooo•22m ago•1 comments

Show HN: Invoxo – Invoicing with automatic EU VAT for cross-border services

2•InvoxoEU•22m ago•0 comments

A Tale of Two Standards, POSIX and Win32 (2005)

https://www.samba.org/samba/news/articles/low_point/tale_two_stds_os2.html
2•goranmoomin•26m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: Is the Downfall of SaaS Started?

3•throwaw12•27m ago•0 comments

Flirt: The Native Backend

https://blog.buenzli.dev/flirt-native-backend/
2•senekor•29m ago•0 comments

OpenAI's Latest Platform Targets Enterprise Customers

https://aibusiness.com/agentic-ai/openai-s-latest-platform-targets-enterprise-customers
1•myk-e•31m ago•0 comments

Goldman Sachs taps Anthropic's Claude to automate accounting, compliance roles

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/02/06/anthropic-goldman-sachs-ai-model-accounting.html
2•myk-e•34m ago•4 comments

Ai.com bought by Crypto.com founder for $70M in biggest-ever website name deal

https://www.ft.com/content/83488628-8dfd-4060-a7b0-71b1bb012785
1•1vuio0pswjnm7•35m ago•1 comments

Big Tech's AI Push Is Costing More Than the Moon Landing

https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/ai-spending-tech-companies-compared-02b90046
4•1vuio0pswjnm7•37m ago•0 comments

The AI boom is causing shortages everywhere else

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2026/02/07/ai-spending-economy-shortages/
2•1vuio0pswjnm7•38m ago•0 comments

Suno, AI Music, and the Bad Future [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8dcFhF0Dlk
1•askl•40m ago•2 comments

Ask HN: How are researchers using AlphaFold in 2026?

1•jocho12•43m ago•0 comments

Running the "Reflections on Trusting Trust" Compiler

https://spawn-queue.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3786614
1•devooops•48m ago•0 comments

Watermark API – $0.01/image, 10x cheaper than Cloudinary

https://api-production-caa8.up.railway.app/docs
1•lembergs•50m ago•1 comments

Now send your marketing campaigns directly from ChatGPT

https://www.mail-o-mail.com/
1•avallark•53m ago•1 comments

Queueing Theory v2: DORA metrics, queue-of-queues, chi-alpha-beta-sigma notation

https://github.com/joelparkerhenderson/queueing-theory
1•jph•1h ago•0 comments

Show HN: Hibana – choreography-first protocol safety for Rust

https://hibanaworks.dev/
5•o8vm•1h ago•1 comments

Haniri: A live autonomous world where AI agents survive or collapse

https://www.haniri.com
1•donangrey•1h ago•1 comments

GPT-5.3-Codex System Card [pdf]

https://cdn.openai.com/pdf/23eca107-a9b1-4d2c-b156-7deb4fbc697c/GPT-5-3-Codex-System-Card-02.pdf
1•tosh•1h ago•0 comments

Atlas: Manage your database schema as code

https://github.com/ariga/atlas
1•quectophoton•1h ago•0 comments

Geist Pixel

https://vercel.com/blog/introducing-geist-pixel
2•helloplanets•1h ago•0 comments

Show HN: MCP to get latest dependency package and tool versions

https://github.com/MShekow/package-version-check-mcp
1•mshekow•1h ago•0 comments

The better you get at something, the harder it becomes to do

https://seekingtrust.substack.com/p/improving-at-writing-made-me-almost
2•FinnLobsien•1h ago•0 comments

Show HN: WP Float – Archive WordPress blogs to free static hosting

https://wpfloat.netlify.app/
1•zizoulegrande•1h ago•0 comments

Show HN: I Hacked My Family's Meal Planning with an App

https://mealjar.app
1•melvinzammit•1h ago•0 comments
Open in hackernews

Grok turns off image generator for most after outcry over sexualised AI imagery

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jan/09/grok-image-generator-outcry-sexualised-ai-imagery
77•beardyw•4w ago

Comments

westpfelia•4w ago
Now only paying Grok subscribers can make CSAM. Super cool.
nickmyersdt•4w ago
Therefore we know that a proportion of paying grok subscribers will cause harm to real victims. This isn't an abstract debate about free expression.

Non-consensual intimate imagery harms real people.

CSAM normalizes and facilitates abuse of real children.

Grok, and everyone involved in it or similar endeavours, facilitate abuse.

literalAardvark•4w ago
Paying subscribers are trivial to track down and convict if they're making CSAM.

In a way, leaving it open as a honeypot is the best action.

janice1999•4w ago
Doubtful. The first thing Musk did was fire the safety team at Twitter.
Hamuko•4w ago
Safety people are also quitting Xitter themselves.

https://bsky.app/profile/caseynewton.bsky.social/post/3mbwqh...

Hamuko•4w ago
Makes perfect business sense. Where else would these users go to for their CSAM-generation needs? They have no other option but to pay!
Urahandystar•4w ago
Took them long enough, This was predictable and dangerous. It's a real shame because Elon's goals of allowing an unrestricted AI are somewhat noble even if the execution is haphazard and horrendous. The combination of X's userbase and that technology made this almost inevitable.
nickmyersdt•4w ago
The goal itself is flawed, not just the execution.

If you build a system explicitly designed to have no content boundaries, and it produces CSAM, that's not a failure of execution - that's the system working as designed. You don't get credit for noble intentions when the outcome was entirely foreseeable.

Deciding to place no limits on what an AI will generate is itself a value judgment. It's choosing to enable every possible use, including the worst ones. That's not principled neutrality; it's moral abdication dressed up as libertarianism.

maplethorpe•4w ago
> It's a real shame because Elon's goals of allowing an unrestricted AI are somewhat noble

When I was young it was considered improper to scrape too much data from the web. We would even set delays between requests, so as not to be rude internet citizens.

Now, it's considered noble to scrape all the world's data as fast as possible, without permission, and without any thought as to the legality the material, and then feed that data into your machine (without which the machine could not function) and use it to enrich yourself, while removing our ability to trust that an image was created by a human in some way (an ability that we have all possessed for hundreds of thousands of years -- from cave painting to creative coding -- and which has now been permanently and irrevocably destroyed).

bakies•4w ago
Just like his guise of "Platform of Free Speech" this is an intentional marketing tool and not at all his nobility.
ben_w•4w ago
> It's a real shame because Elon's goals of allowing an unrestricted AI are somewhat noble

Are those goals noble? This is the same guy who also said "with AI we are summoning the demon" and whose self-justification for getting a trillion dollar Tesla bonus deal involved the phrase "robot army"?

Havoc•4w ago
Probably one of the most weak ass responses to a crisis ever. How was this not done within hours? Or if they can’t manage that at least within hours of it hitting mainstream news
pjc50•4w ago
Crisis? It was an intentional product launch. They assumed they'd be able to "get away with it" and that media outrage would not translate into effective legal action.
Havoc•4w ago
That does seem plausible given how blatant it was

CaaS

soco•4w ago
Move fast and break things? Or, innovation at all costs? Or, business value here and now? Or... (add more marketing buzzwords)
praptak•4w ago
They first tried to manage it by putting the blame 100% on their pedophile users and obviously absolving themselves of any reponsibility (cue tired analogies with knife makers not responsible for stabbings).

Fortunately this narration did not catch traction.

close04•4w ago
> cue tired analogies with knife makers not responsible for stabbings

The knife maker will be in hot water if you ask them for a knife and you're very specific about how you'll break the law with it, and they just give it to you and do nothing else about it (equivalent to the prompt telling the LLM exactly the illegal thing you want).

Even more if the knife they made is illegal, an automatic knife or a dagger (equivalent to the model containing the necessary information to create CSAM).

rsynnott•4w ago
It's hard to believe that they didn't know that they had this problem before launching; given the volume of material, it's not like it can be difficult to drag out of the offending magic robot.

I'd assume they were just blindsided by the response; they're likely in real danger of getting either DNS-delisted or outright banned in several jurisdictions.

pjc50•4w ago
Presumably in response to https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2026/01/08/musks-x-coul... and others. I've seen a claim that Spain is referring X for prosecution over this as well.

It's just been restricted to paying customers, and that decision could be driven as much by cost as by outrage.

Edit: may also be linked to people making deepfakes of Renee Good, the woman murdered by US authorities in Minneapolis.

richsouth•4w ago
So only PAYING customers can make CSAM and distribute it openly. Nice one.
rsynnott•4w ago
The dreaded bluetick becomes a shade ickier.
xiphias2•4w ago
Noone can, but it's much easier to verify / prosecute people using credit cards (especially as credit card companies take it very seriously as well)
rsynnott•4w ago
> Edit: may also be linked to people making deepfakes of Renee Good, the woman murdered by US authorities in Minneapolis.

Bloody hell, what the hell is wrong with people?

pjc50•4w ago
Culture war.
kyleee•4w ago
People have been this way since the dawn of time...
hsitty•3w ago
Paid version is worthless. Everything is moderated.
DataDaemon•4w ago
Too late, let's wait for another 120M from EU.
drcongo•4w ago
Willing to bet he got threats from Apple and Google (well, Apple at least) that the CSAM app formerly known as Twitter would be removed from the App Store.
pjc50•4w ago
Everyone else just gets deleted instantly with nowhere to call. Twitter has long had favourable treatment despite the "adult content" rules of the app stores.
duxup•4w ago
All the big companies give each other so much extra room to operate.

Facebook’s practices would have gotten any other dev banned from all stores long ago.

Meanwhile any other devs are under a different microscope / standard.

rchaud•4w ago
The walled garden never claimed to offer equal treatment under its laws.
neko_ranger•4w ago
>Twitter has long had favourable treatment despite the "adult content" rules of the app stores.

Reddit as well

ChoGGi•4w ago
Oh okay, so only a few pedophiles will have access to Elon Musk's pedophile picture generator?

"Random Braveheart quote"

Unless you use the grok app...

"Random Matrix quote"

I'll take those downvotes and see myself out.

fortranfiend•4w ago
Hmm it just let me put Keir Starmer in a bikini.
dragonwriter•4w ago
More accurate: “After free demo proves demand (in the worst possible way), Grok makes image generation and editing a paid-only feature”.
hsitty•3w ago
You cannot generate anything meaningful on the paid version. Everything is moderated. False advertising.
hsitty•3w ago
You can’t generate anything meaningful on the paid version either. Naked woman and woman in bikini get blocked like 9/10 times. $30/month. False advertising. USA