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Plasma Bigscreen – 10-foot interface for KDE plasma

https://plasma-bigscreen.org
482•PaulHoule•12h ago•141 comments

Ki Editor - an editor that operates on the AST

https://ki-editor.org/
27•ravenical•1h ago•7 comments

Tell HN: I'm 60 years old. Claude Code has re-ignited a passion

548•shannoncc•12h ago•414 comments

UUID package coming to Go standard library

https://github.com/golang/go/issues/62026
228•soypat•10h ago•134 comments

48x32, a 1536 LED Game Computer

https://jacquesmattheij.com/48x32-introduction/
17•duck•2d ago•0 comments

this css proves me human

https://will-keleher.com/posts/this-css-makes-me-human/
282•todsacerdoti•14h ago•93 comments

QGIS 4.0

https://changelog.qgis.org/en/version/4.0/
90•jonbaer•3h ago•12 comments

Uploading Pirated Books via BitTorrent Qualifies as Fair Use, Meta Argues

https://torrentfreak.com/uploading-pirated-books-via-bittorrent-qualifies-as-fair-use-meta/
77•askl•3h ago•38 comments

Helix: A post-modern text editor

https://helix-editor.com/
180•doener•12h ago•73 comments

Galileo's handwritten notes found in ancient astronomy text

https://www.science.org/content/article/galileo-s-handwritten-notes-found-ancient-astronomy-text
151•tzury•1d ago•28 comments

Working and Communicating with Japanese Engineers

https://www.tokyodev.com/articles/working-and-communicating-with-japanese-engineers
49•zdw•3d ago•21 comments

LLMs work best when the user defines their acceptance criteria first

https://blog.katanaquant.com/p/your-llm-doesnt-write-correct-code
254•dnw•11h ago•192 comments

Lock Scroll with a Vengeance

https://unsung.aresluna.org/lock-scroll-with-a-vengeance/
23•etothet•3d ago•4 comments

Show HN: Moongate – Ultima Online server emulator in .NET 10 with Lua scripting

https://github.com/moongate-community/moongatev2
260•squidleon•22h ago•144 comments

Querying 3B Vectors

https://vickiboykis.com/2026/02/21/querying-3-billion-vectors/
58•surprisetalk•3d ago•7 comments

Modernizing swapping: virtual swap spaces

https://lwn.net/Articles/1059201/
36•voxadam•1d ago•28 comments

Editing changes in patch format with Jujutsu

https://www.knifepoint.net/~kat/kb-jj-patchedit.html
33•cassepipe•2d ago•5 comments

Sarvam 105B, the first competitive Indian open source LLM

https://www.sarvam.ai/blogs/sarvam-30b-105b
77•logicchains•4h ago•16 comments

Boy I was wrong about the Fediverse

https://matduggan.com/boy-i-was-wrong-about-the-fediverse/
17•wrxd•2h ago•6 comments

Tech employment now significantly worse than the 2008 or 2020 recessions

https://twitter.com/JosephPolitano/status/2029916364664611242
922•enraged_camel•18h ago•607 comments

Show HN: Kula – Lightweight, self-contained Linux server monitoring tool

https://github.com/c0m4r/kula
63•c0m4r•12h ago•39 comments

My application programmer instincts failed when debugging assembler

https://landedstar.com/blog/posts/how-my-application-programmer-instincts-failed-when-debugging-a...
17•lifefeed•1d ago•11 comments

CT Scans of Health Wearables

https://www.lumafield.com/scan-of-the-month/health-wearables
221•radeeyate•22h ago•47 comments

The Longing (1999)

https://www.cluetrain.com/book/longing.html
23•herbertl•3d ago•2 comments

What canceled my Go context?

https://rednafi.com/go/context-cancellation-cause/
73•mweibel•3d ago•42 comments

Launch HN: Palus Finance (YC W26): Better yields on idle cash for startups, SMBs

54•sam_palus•17h ago•78 comments

Maybe there's a pattern here?

https://dynomight.net/pattern/
138•surprisetalk•2d ago•87 comments

Entomologists use a particle accelerator to image ants at scale

https://spectrum.ieee.org/3d-scanning-particle-accelerator-antscan
131•gmays•20h ago•24 comments

Hardening Firefox with Anthropic's Red Team

https://www.anthropic.com/news/mozilla-firefox-security
577•todsacerdoti•1d ago•156 comments

From Fargo to Zebra

https://cendyne.dev/posts/2026-02-27-from-fargo-to-zebra.html
4•surprisetalk•3d ago•0 comments
Open in hackernews

Uploading Pirated Books via BitTorrent Qualifies as Fair Use, Meta Argues

https://torrentfreak.com/uploading-pirated-books-via-bittorrent-qualifies-as-fair-use-meta/
74•askl•3h ago

Comments

lukan•1h ago
The world has become so strange. In my pirate youth, I would have never imagined the big companies to argue in courts like this, basically pro piracy. And the activists are now against it, because the big guys are doing it.
elric•1h ago
Big companies are stealing to enrich themselves, while small time pirates were pirating for their own entertainment. Some of the latter went to jail. While the former rake in the dough.
DeathArrow•1h ago
I haven't changed. I was pro 20 years ago and I am pro now.
Ekaros•1h ago
Just need to get around to understand that on many subjects big companies are not uniform block... They all have their own goals and ways of profit. Other than exploiting the consumers and state.
dns_snek•1h ago
> And the activists are now against it, because the big guys are doing it.

The activists are against it because the big guys are exploiting us small guys, again. Nobody would give a shit if Meta was just torrenting Nintendo's IP and OpenAI was torrenting Netflix IP, except the lawyers working for these companies.

willis936•1h ago
It's not like there has been some change in principle and some sort of knife to sharpen. "2005 personal pirate" was about making art accessible. "2025 corpo pirate" is about killing art.
GrinningFool•9m ago
2005 piracy had little to do to with making art accessible. For the most part it seemed more like getting for free the digital things we couldn't pay or and/or felt entitled to, with many justifications layered on top.
Imustaskforhelp•44m ago
The problem is that laws don't apply to these big companies but to the small guys. It isn't as if piracy has suddenly become legal for everybody.

Oh no, its just legal for the big companies. The laws are different for everybody and that's what activists are worried about :)

plutokras•34m ago
I have no issue with anyone pirating. In my country — and soon in Italy as well — all storage media sales include a small levy (Artisjus) intended to compensate copyright holders for losses from piracy. One could argue it's unfair if you're not actually using the media for copying, but having been forced to pay it regardless, I have no moral qualms about pirating content I don't feel like paying for.

By the same token, AI companies are in no position to complain when their models are scraped and distilled.

jagged-chisel•7m ago
How does that money get distributed? If I create a film, how they decide if I’m worthy enough to receive some of that money?
w4yai•1h ago
Oh, how the tables have turned...
heavyset_go•1h ago
I remember in the 90s and 2000s, the FBI would go after homeless people selling bootleg VHS and DVDs on the street lol
ReptileMan•59m ago
Since the creation of the USA the only real crime a person could do was being poor.
sigwinch•45m ago
ICE played an important role in those cases with long supply chains. Seems quaint now, but I think we should acknowledge any criminal who does not participate in a child abuse ring. Those counterfeit DVDs were not illegal content, just illegal storefronts. If today’s ICE or FBI uncovered such a ring, who would they call first?
Sayrus•1h ago
> Anyone who uses BitTorrent to transfer files automatically uploads content to other people, as it is inherent to the protocol. In other words, the uploading wasn’t a choice, it was simply how the technology works.

What an argument to make in court. It can be proved false in minutes by the plaintiffs.

Ekaros•1h ago
I can't believe that no one has ever tried that one before... So do we now roll back all of the previous copyright cases where downloading music with bittorrent has been prosecuted?
Sayrus•1h ago
From my understanding, Meta's use of the pirated book was accepted as fair use and the plaintiffs admitted to no harm. In the case of pirated music and films, neither of those points are made. Copyright holders assume people who pirate would have bought the content, usually even assuming that one download is one lost sale. And I am not aware of a single case where watching or listening to pirated content was accepted as fair use.

It is interesting to follow how this plays out for Meta and how that will impact future cases.

Hamuko•1h ago
We consumers just need BiTorrent clients that come with LLM training code incorporated, as that transforms the downloads into fair use (according to the very expensive Meta legal team).
RobotToaster•7m ago
One of the underlying issues is that punitive damages seem to be the norm in US courts.

In the UK you can only claim for the actual damages incurred, which at most will be the profit you would've made on the sale of that book. Which makes most claims for private infringement uneconomical for corporations.

applfanboysbgon•53m ago
> So do we now roll back all of the previous copyright cases where downloading music with bittorrent has been prosecuted

No, because those cases were pirating-while-poor. This is pirating-while-trillion-dollar-corporation, which falls under a completely different section of the law.

mcherm•31m ago
At this stage, you are going to far in claiming that. So far, all that happened is that Meta's lawyers claimed it was fair use. They are paid to try every argument they can think of that might work. Just because they make the argument doesn't mean the court will find it has any merit.
throw73848595•1h ago
This. You can set upload speed to zero, and download entire dataset without uploading anything. Slower but doable.
gmokki•48m ago
When I pull the trigger and the bullet kills an another person, it is just how technology works. Why would I be responsible if I choose to use it or not?
swarnie•29m ago
I'm going to need a copy of your latest bank statement before i can accurately answer that.
gus_massa•47m ago
I agree, that people used to be called "leechers". Somewhat related xkcd https://xkcd.com/553/
bell-cot•1h ago
Gut reaction: Judge needs to upload Meta's lawyers to jail cells, explaining "that's simply how the technology works".
villgax•1h ago
Literally admitting to theft & whining about the modus which got them caught lol
carlosjobim•45m ago
A related case:

"Anthropic agrees to pay $1.5B US to settle author class action over AI training"

https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/anthropic-ai-copyright-sett...

david_shi•38m ago
At some point, the contradiction of "law as something impartial" and "law bends to the whims of power" will need to be resolved.
postepowanieadm•32m ago
Bad news, it's already been resolved.
senko•32m ago
Wholly agreed.

The way Disney &co coopted law to pack their coffers is a travesty: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_Term_Extension_Act

tormeh•26m ago
We're reaching levels of "move fast and break things" previously only thought possible under laboratory conditions.

Seriously? They couldn't be bothered setting upload speed to 0?

Havoc•17m ago
Meanwhile some kid downloads a song and gets lynched for it
chazburger•16m ago
Copyrights and patents are tools of communists and need to be banned and overturned in the age of AI. Would save countless lives and improve billions more.
dizzy9•11m ago
Some of us are old enough to remember when the RIAA sued children for downloading Metallica albums on filesharing networks. They sued for $100,000 per song, an absurd amount when you consider that even stealing a physical album would amount only to around $1 per song. What was bizarre was that courts took the figure seriously, even if they typically settled cases for around $3,000, still around 30x actual damages. The legal maximum was $150,000 per infringement: when a staffer leaked an early cut of the Wolverine movie, the studio could only sue for that much.