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2•safe_duck7727•3m ago•0 comments

Billionaires demand more babies but make parenthood unaffordable

https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2026/1/16/billionaires-demand-more-babies-but-make-parenthood-...
2•Qem•4m ago•0 comments

How children lost the right to roam in four generations

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-462091/How-children-lost-right-roam-generations.html
1•mhb•5m ago•0 comments

Ammobia says it has reinvented a century-old technology

https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/13/ammobia-says-it-has-reinvented-a-century-old-technology/
1•rmason•6m ago•0 comments

Polar Vortex Breakdown May Trigger Weeks of Extreme Cold

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1•amichail•8m ago•0 comments

A16Z: The Power Brokers

https://www.notboring.co/p/a16z-the-power-brokers
1•rmason•9m ago•0 comments

Book Review: The Perfectionists by Simon Winchester

https://www.eleanorkonik.com/p/review-the-perfectionists-by-simon
1•paulpauper•9m ago•0 comments

The truth Elon left out

https://openai.com/index/the-truth-elon-left-out/
7•colesantiago•9m ago•0 comments

The Great Divergence

https://johnlawrenceaspden.substack.com/p/the-great-divergence
1•paulpauper•10m ago•0 comments

An app can be a meal kit

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1•cjlm•12m ago•0 comments

Show HN: AI health agent that nags you on WhatsApp instead of a dashboard

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1•erenkaradag•17m ago•1 comments

The Engineer to Executive Translation Layer

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3•lucidplot•20m ago•1 comments

Origin of Quake3's Fast InvSqrt() (2006)

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1•6581•20m ago•0 comments

White House seeks emergency power auction for largest US electric grid

https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/white-house-seeks-emergency-power-auction-largest-us-ele...
4•bikenaga•22m ago•0 comments

Trapped in the Hell of Social Comparison

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1•7777777phil•22m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: Who's Using DuckDB in Production?

2•yakkomajuri•23m ago•0 comments

Ripple - Elegant TypeScript UI Framework

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1•Charmunk•23m ago•1 comments

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1•TMWNN•25m ago•0 comments

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Letting Claude Play Text Adventures

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4•varjag•31m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: Those who quit tech, moved back home, what do you do?

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2•TheGuyWhoCodes•36m ago•0 comments

I Made a Million Dollar Product from My Dorm Room

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1•RGBCube•38m ago•0 comments

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3•ohare93•38m ago•1 comments

What we know about Iran's Internet shutdown

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4•kwar13•39m ago•1 comments

Revelations from Elon Musk's lawsuit against OpenAI

https://sources.news/p/20-revelations-from-elon-musks-lawsuit
1•donsupreme•40m ago•1 comments

Ripple and UC Berkeley Launch the University Digital Asset Xcelerator (UDAX)

https://ripple.com/insights/ripple-and-uc-berkeley-launch-the-university-digital-asset-xcelerator...
2•mikhael•41m ago•0 comments
Open in hackernews

DuckDuckGo is asking for a Yes or No vote on AI

https://duckduckgo.com/vote
16•jaredcwhite•1h ago

Comments

minimaxir•1h ago
This is a confusing marketing campaign because DDG is very much aware that the people voting on this poll are not a representative sample of DDG users.
chrisjj•1h ago
I'd be interested to hear the source of that info.
minimaxir•1h ago
That's just standard sampling bias: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sampling_bias

It's why public internet polls are more for fun/validating confirmation bias than actually gleaning actionable statistical insight, and why no one does them anymore. In this particular instance, the presentation and call-to-action rules out the "fun" angle of the poll.

chrisjj•1h ago
So... who is it confusing, exactly?
minimaxir•58m ago
Confusing is my personal perspective, interpreting the campaign in good faith.
PaulHoule•1h ago
Yeah, but there are enough passionate anti-AI people out there that reaching out to them could be the killer marketing move of 2026. The poll is 4% Yes, 96% No when I checked it. It's pretty clear that pro-AI marketing falls flat, see "Copilot + PC"

People pushing AI might get investors today, but companies that take a stand against it might get the customers. Pick one.

minimaxir•1h ago
If you vote Yes AI, you get a link to https://yesai.duckduckgo.com/ which references http://duck.ai/, DDG's AI platform, and the passionate anti-AI people don't like anything AI adjacent which DDG is doing.

DDG is trying to have their cake and eat it too.

add-sub-mul-div•1h ago
What does having both an AI and a non-AI mode have to do with the vote not being a representative sample? Did they promote this vote exclusively to one camp or the other?
minimaxir•47m ago
Another aspect of internet polls as a marketing technique (and a poor source of representative opinion) is to implicitly encourage voters to brigade a certain option, which just increases visibility to the poll especially if it's a contentious topic.

Case in point: https://bsky.app/profile/lexfeathers.ca/post/3mckp3y57d52b

divbzero•51m ago
This looks like a marketing campaign to me too. It makes sense to just give users an option: In fact, users can already turn off AI in DDG search results by clicking the settings icon on the top right corner of the Search Assist panel.
chrisjj•1h ago
Currently 4% v 96%.
semilin•48m ago
As it stands I don't know what this poll means. Does "No AI" mean that generative AI should never be used or offered? Does "Yes AI" mean that generative AI should be used for everything all the time?

One might accuse me of being intentionally daft, asserting this to be a simple sentiment poll, but I genuinely can't tell. If it were the case, this should ask "do you overall like or dislike generative AI?" Either way this encourages a lack of nuanced thinking on the subject which both tech bro shills and instinctual AI-luddites oft suffer from. The results of this poll are uninterpretable and the effects on the quality of discourse can only be negative.

reify•45m ago
Tor Browser and The mullvad browser have NoAI enabled as default

or add it yourself

  https://noai.duckduckgo.com/?q=%s
Kim_Bruning•13m ago
"Yes AI or No AI?" What's the actual question? What am I answering? How is this measured? What are the consequences?