frontpage.
newsnewestaskshowjobs

Open Source @Github

fp.

Open in hackernews

Choose Cookies Once Law (State of Utopia's 2nd Law)

https://stateofutopia.com/laws/2/law2.html
3•logicallee•1h ago

Comments

logicallee•1h ago
I got tired of the cookie banner situation so I had AI draft and ratify a law against it.

This law was authored by ChatGPT 5.5, I made a few changes, then it was approved and ratified by Claude 4.8 after fixing a couple of typos. (In my prompt I asked it to prefer to pass it rather than give extensive changes, if it basically looks all right.)

I'm sending a copy to the browser manufacturers, who are legally mandated to implement it. Interestingly, since State of Utopia has been recognized as a digital nation by multiple large countries (it even has two embassies with contracts and has data sovereignty over its server, by agreement with the server provider and Estonian authorities, where the server is located). So, it has jurisdiction to engage in this type of action.

If the browser manufacturers implement it, it saves about 4.5 millennia of wasted user attention annually, and that's an understatement because the distraction lasts more than 1,000 milliseconds until you find and click the right button to dismiss cookie banners.

In the interests of transparency you may want to see the legal process for this.

Here is ChatGPT drafting the first version of the law:

https://chatgpt.com/share/6a33fce3-27e4-83eb-8913-a2b5a97ff5...

I made a few changes and here is Claude ratifying it:

https://claude.ai/share/49a52bc3-726b-4b22-90d8-021c063a0731

(I made the changes it suggested.) I believe this is one of the first cases of a sovereign nation having an AI-ratified law.

The Makings of a Good Bioweapon

https://www.owlposting.com/p/the-makings-of-a-good-bioweapon
1•crescit_eundo•26s ago•0 comments

Coinbase AI Adviser

https://www.coindesk.com/business/2026/06/16/coinbase-intoduces-ai-advisor-stock-options-and-pre-...
1•AnhTho_FR•1m ago•0 comments

Apple's Tim Cook Says Price Increases Are 'Unavoidable'

https://www.cnet.com/tech/mobile/apples-tim-cook-says-price-increases-are-unavoidable/
1•speckx•3m ago•0 comments

Prof. Sarah Paine – Round Up of Grand Strategy and Geopolitics

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OS1NZLgKM2c
1•lifeisstillgood•5m ago•0 comments

September 2025 NPM Attack Hit 2.6B Weekly Downloads. Most Found Out on Twitter

https://datanexusmcp.com/blog/npm-supply-chain-attack-2025/
1•jsmudda•5m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Motion-contact-sheet – give a coding agent eyes for motion

https://github.com/Kallin/motion-contact-sheet
1•kal9000•6m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Jsonl-tools – secure paste bin for agent run traces

https://jsonl-tools.dev/
1•vierliam•7m ago•0 comments

Show HN: One hundred LLMs Generating a HTML/CSS Solar System

https://aibenchy.com/showcase/solar-system-animation/
2•XCSme•7m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Asili – open-source, privacy-first in-browser DNA PGS scoring

https://github.com/techninja/asili
2•techninja42•9m ago•1 comments

SCOTUS backs marijuana user's challenge to gun ban

https://spectrumlocalnews.com/us/snplus/politics/2026/06/18/supreme-court-decision-opinion-texas-...
1•pavel_lishin•10m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Pi Extension to Maximize AI credits across Cursor, Codex, ClaudeCode

https://github.com/sathish316/pi-omniagent-extensions/
1•sathish316•10m ago•0 comments

Nolen Royalty (One Million Chessboards) on Making Things

https://digitalseams.com/blog/nolen-royalty-on-making-things
1•bobbiechen•11m ago•0 comments

Ancient DNA is rewriting the history of plague

https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2026/06/17/ancient-dna-is-rewriting-the-history-...
1•Brajeshwar•12m ago•0 comments

Fees for public records? A bill could kneecap CA transparency laws

https://oaklandside.org/2026/06/17/public-records-act-ab-1821-pacheco-fees/
1•coloneltcb•14m ago•0 comments

The AI Ceiling Is Lower Than Anyone Is Saying

https://addozhang.medium.com/the-ai-ceiling-is-lower-than-anyone-is-saying-765179051ece
1•addozhang•14m ago•1 comments

Strands Daily Hint

https://puzzlenudge.com/
1•kevin_cody•15m ago•0 comments

Preparing Specs for AI Coding Agents

https://forkline.dev/blog/assignment-layer-team-visible-specs/
1•pando85•15m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Pg-tail – tail -f for PostgreSQL

https://github.com/AndreaBeggiato/pg-tail
1•pigno•15m ago•0 comments

Show HN: WebRTC P2P networking based Counter-Strike 1.6 on the web

https://www.surfski2.com/
1•possiblelion•16m ago•0 comments

Average US gas price drops below $4 – barely

https://www.cnn.com/2026/06/18/business/us-gas-price-below-4-dollars
1•Bender•16m ago•0 comments

Cores and Seams: AI, Crypto, and the Future of the Firm

https://arcove.substack.com/p/cores-and-seams
1•portmantoad•16m ago•1 comments

Show HN: KubeKosh – Self-Hosted Kubernetes Playground in a Docker Container

https://github.com/zeborg/kubekosh
2•zeborg•17m ago•0 comments

Waymo recalls 4k robotaxis to stop them driving into construction zones

https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/18/waymo-recalls-nearly-4000-robotaxis-to-stop-them-driving-into-h...
2•boh•18m ago•0 comments

The guaranteed contiguous memory allocator (2025)

https://lwn.net/Articles/1015000/
1•gregsadetsky•19m ago•0 comments

Benchmarking OpenZFS vs. EXT4 for My NAS

https://heitorpb.github.io/bla/zfs-vs-ext4/
1•hpb42•19m ago•0 comments

A simpler way to synthesize user feedback

https://askperidot.com/
1•mawrtini•20m ago•0 comments

How far behind is open-source AI?

https://yaroslavvb.github.io/artificial-analysis-oss-lag/
1•eternal_braid•21m ago•0 comments

How much $ you spend for AI to code?

1•raghuu•22m ago•0 comments

Spy world panic as Tulsi Gabbard prepares to unleash bombshell file dumps

https://www.dailymail.com/news/article-15904593/cia-tulsi-gabbard-bill-pulte-mkultra.html
1•Bender•24m ago•1 comments

New Opaquer .NET Obfuscator a powerful new tool for protecting .NET applications

https://opaquer.net/index.html
1•Rustemsoft•24m ago•0 comments