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Frontier AI agents violate ethical constraints 30–50% of time, pressured by KPIs

https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.20798
326•tiny-automates•8h ago•210 comments

Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month

https://www.theverge.com/tech/875309/discord-age-verification-global-roll-out
1740•x01•21h ago•1690 comments

Rust implementation of Mistral's Voxtral Mini 4B Realtime runs in your browser

https://github.com/TrevorS/voxtral-mini-realtime-rs
262•Curiositry•10h ago•26 comments

.Beat Swatch Internet Time

https://beats.wiki/
41•Deprogrammer9•5d ago•26 comments

Pure C, CPU-only inference with Mistral Voxtral Realtime 4B speech to text model

https://github.com/antirez/voxtral.c
179•Curiositry•10h ago•14 comments

Discord Alternatives, Ranked

https://taggart-tech.com/discord-alternatives/
322•pseudalopex•16h ago•183 comments

Why is the sky blue?

https://explainers.blog/posts/why-is-the-sky-blue/
636•udit99•20h ago•223 comments

Converting a $3.88 analog clock from Walmart into a ESP8266-based Wi-Fi clock

https://github.com/jim11662418/ESP8266_WiFi_Analog_Clock
529•tokyobreakfast•19h ago•165 comments

AI doesn’t reduce work, it intensifies it

https://simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/9/ai-intensifies-work/
149•walterbell•6h ago•125 comments

Hard-braking events as indicators of road segment crash risk

https://research.google/blog/hard-braking-events-as-indicators-of-road-segment-crash-risk/
300•aleyan•18h ago•428 comments

LiftKit – UI where "everything derives from the golden ratio"

https://www.chainlift.io/liftkit
206•peter_d_sherman•14h ago•104 comments

Is particle physics dead, dying, or just hard?

https://www.quantamagazine.org/is-particle-physics-dead-dying-or-just-hard-20260126/
137•mellosouls•12h ago•219 comments

Luce: First Electric Ferrari

https://www.ferrari.com/en-US/auto/ferrari-luce
202•kaizenb•16h ago•218 comments

Qwen-Image-2.0: Professional infographics, exquisite photorealism

https://qwen.ai/blog?id=qwen-image-2.0
101•meetpateltech•2h ago•66 comments

Sandboxels

https://neal.fun/sandboxels/
309•2sf5•20h ago•41 comments

Zulip.com Values

https://zulip.com/values/
95•nothrowaways•11h ago•19 comments

Eight more months of agents

https://crawshaw.io/blog/eight-more-months-of-agents
150•arrowsmith•2d ago•154 comments

Show HN: Total Recall – write-gated memory for Claude Code

https://github.com/davegoldblatt/total-recall
15•davegoldblatt•4d ago•10 comments

MIT Technology Review has confirmed that posts on Moltbook were fake

https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/02/06/1132448/moltbook-was-peak-ai-theater/
117•helloplanets•2d ago•55 comments

Upcoming changes to Let's Encrypt and how they affect XMPP server operators

https://blog.prosody.im/2026-letsencrypt-changes/
129•zaik•15h ago•145 comments

UEFI Bindings for JavaScript

https://codeberg.org/smnx/promethee
231•ananas-dev•21h ago•111 comments

America has a tungsten problem

https://www.noleary.com/blog/posts/1
179•noleary•15h ago•172 comments

Thoughts on Generating C

https://wingolog.org/archives/2026/02/09/six-thoughts-on-generating-c
228•ingve•22h ago•80 comments

Ask HN: What are you working on? (February 2026)

284•david927•1d ago•967 comments

Generative Pen-Trained Transformer

https://theodore.net/projects/Polargraph/
50•Twarner•4d ago•0 comments

Game Theory Patterns at Work (2016)

https://daeus.blog/2026/01/18/game-theory-patterns-at-work/
94•kurinikku•15h ago•7 comments

Corruption Perceptions Index 2025

https://www.transparency.org/en/cpi/2025
19•tosh•1h ago•1 comments

The Abstraction Rises

https://cyber-omelette.com/posts/the-abstraction-rises.html
57•birdculture•2d ago•13 comments

Game Boy Advance Audio Interpolation

https://jsgroth.dev/blog/posts/gba-audio-interpolation/
98•ibobev•18h ago•44 comments

Another GitHub outage in the same day

https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/lcw3tg2f6zsd
348•Nezteb•17h ago•264 comments
Open in hackernews

Grindr trials premium $500 per month plan to become 'AI-first' app

https://www.thepinknews.com/2026/02/09/grindr-trials-premium-500-per-month-plan-to-become-ai-first-app/
17•mraniki•2h ago

Comments

Deukhoofd•2h ago
Apps that are focused on human connection sound to me like they're the absolute worst target for going 'AI-first'
maininformer•1h ago
Grindr would be exempt by that token then
e1ghtSpace•2h ago
"Powered by gAI™"

I wonder if it would be worth creating an app that just sends you on dates using AI. Like, you don't even get to look at the other person's profile. Then afterwards you would report to the app whether you would go on another date with the person you just went out with or not.

suzzer99•1h ago
Or just have your AI and their AI go on a date and report back how it went.
bonesss•31m ago
Well, 3 dates, so that the AIs can figure out if their MCP integrations are compatible without feeling too rushed or cheap about it.
hleszek•1h ago
Isn't that a Black Mirror episode?
piva00•1h ago
It's also the premise of the show Soulmates.

Another instance of "Don't Create the Torment Nexus" from the too tech-minded people.

rich_sasha•46m ago
To be honest, sadly, I think you're onto something.

I can imagine the AI agents chatting to each other, figuring out what you like. I can see the chain of thought going "I can't say XYZ is lazy and rough, instead I'll say he saves his energy for what really matters, and lives to the full".

So many apps are just image attractiveness scoring plus some superficial conversation with pleasantries, which are both things AI do well at.

ghtaylor•2h ago
Think what you want, but trademarking "gAI" is quite the flex
manugo4•1h ago
Google invented it first. g.ai
RupertSalt•1h ago
How do you pronounce that?

I suppose, either way, they win!

nusl•47m ago
Gay-i perhaps
mbix77•1h ago
Why has the world not made an open-source zero trust dating app? It's such a basic need it seems for people, but the current app landscape is filled with scams, dark patterns, selling your data, trying to keep you locked in,...
embedding-shape•1h ago
Haven't seen any "zero trust" dating apps but there are plenty of free ones (some operating with a "donations" model, like duolicious). How do you envision a zero trust dating app to work in practice?
woooooo•1h ago
I'm guessing it gets overrun by spam, scams and porn bots even faster if its a low budget community thing.
rwmj•1h ago
Not to mention the gigantic legal iceberg the first time someone is attacked or worse after meeting through the app.
Almondsetat•1h ago
If I'm going out with someone the last thing I'd want is zero trust. In fact, I'd want the platform to thoroughly confirm everyone's identity
OJFord•1h ago
I'm not sure if I don't understand your comment, or you're misunderstanding 'zero trust':

> implemented by establishing identity verification, validating device compliance prior to granting access, and ensuring least privilege access to only explicitly-authorized resources.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero_trust_architecture

Almondsetat•56m ago
I was thinking about zero trust in the context of simply confirming if a user is 18+, where the identity provider only returns a true or false withour exposing more info. For a dating app you'd want the identity provider to confirm a whole lot more, which might not even be present in the ID
ben_w•1h ago
> Why has the world not made an open-source zero trust dating app?

What would that even mean?

Not the open source part, what is a "zero trust dating app"?

Given what we see in other primates, abusive spouses almost certainly predate anatomically modern humans, while gold diggers will have likely existed from the moment we abstracted money in the sense of "rare shiny rock that is a token of power to be spent in the future".

stevekemp•46m ago
Back in the day I used livejournal and for a couple of years in a row I setup a matchmaking site that paired users up.

You'd login to my site and see a list of all the blogs you followed, then you could nominate five of them as people you were interested in.

If they did the same, you'd both get a notification.

It was a cute system and because it was restricted to selecting only from people you already followed it was nice and local. The code was released at the time, but has now become lost in the winds.

I could almost imagine setting it up again for instagram, facebook, or similar, but .. getting users would be hard I imagine, and I'm sure the companies would try to sue or prohibit it.

christkv•1h ago
lol wut. What exactly is the AI doing for 500 USD a month?

New AI features include recaps of previous conversations with other users, daily personalised profile recommendations and profile insights to help users identify who they are more likely to be compatible with.

so basically bullshit?

how thirsty do you have to be do pay for this?

bondarchuk•1h ago
Sortition, you get to date with other people who also have 500 bucks to spare. Any features you get are just window dressing.
Iulioh•1h ago
But would you date someone who WOULD spend 500 bucks on a dating app?

IIRC Tinder premium was cheaper the more attractive you are, because if you attract more people you are less likely to buy it.

bambax•1h ago
> app that helps you connect with less effort and makes every conversation count

What makes things count is most often precisely the effort spent on them.

ra•1h ago
I guess you're not the target market
torginus•30m ago
this is like when companies go we take your privacy extremely seriously, now hand over your personal data that we should have no business accessing
gib444•1h ago
Grindr is trash. It's mostly full of desperate incompatible people (i.e. same sexual position, mostly passives), open couples who just want dopamine hits and other time-wasters. Good luck with offering a $500 sub!

You'd actually be better off spending $500/mo on an escort or two. Surely they've realised at that price point, that's a serious competitor

kotaKat•50m ago
Five hundred bucks gets you into a lot of bathhouses a month.
seydor•1h ago
It's like paying streetwalkers, but Grindr is their pimp. One could make the argument that they re taking advantage pf them
embedding-shape•54m ago
Is this argument specific to Grindr or you just dislike any dating app?

FWIW I'd personally think most dating apps are taking advantage of people one way or another.

ladidahh•1h ago
This has to be the most effective ad campaign they have done, I have seen some variation of this story on every platform I use. I don't think the brand has a lot of goodwill, but my awareness has gone through the roof due to this AI push
dqv•50m ago
Ok y'all wrap it up, it's a bubble.

I can definitely see portions of the userbase paying $500/month to use AI to screen out "fats and fems" tho

thomond•44m ago
Why would they even need an genAI? Grindr isn't even a dating site, it's a hookup site. A few if statements would do it.
hsbauauvhabzb•39m ago
Grindr is well past enshittified. I do wish them luck selling ai to all 5 of their users though.
falloutx•16m ago
Grindr is next Google. Sometimes when I need to search something, I dont even open google or chatGPT, i just type into the DMs of someone and they refuse to answer.
falloutx•18m ago
This is actually a genius level move from Grindr. Anthropic/OpenAI can only dream of the stable userbase like this. Few years ago I even suggested they should add actual brainstorming and prototyping features like Framer for bros to discuss their business ideas. Dopamine rush of grindr notification into my AI chats would literally be insane levels of productivity.