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The tragedy of the commons, AI edition

https://www.economist.com/britain/2026/08/06/the-tragedy-of-the-commons-ai-edition
31•simonpure•2h ago

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Versipelle•50m ago
https://archive.ph/mi3zu
dozerly•47m ago
Maybe we need a better-scaling legal system that does not take years to resolve simple disputes. I am not convinced AI can replace lawyers, but more people having access to the law without extremely costly fees does sound good to me.
MichaelZuo•6m ago
I don’t see how that helps?

A lawyer isn’t going to sign on to take liability risk unless they spend quite a lot of time analyzing the AI’s outputs for possible blunders?

So it structurally can’t cost significantly less.

mwkaufma•12m ago
Tellingly, the legal tendency The Economist finds alarming involves workers asserting their rights.
underlipton•10m ago
I'll read the article once I can get past the paywall, but something important to note in the meantime:

"The tragedy of the commons" was debunked years ago: https://aeon.co/essays/the-tragedy-of-the-commons-is-a-false...

  The features of successful systems, Ostrom and her colleagues found, include clear boundaries (the ‘community’ doing the managing must be well-defined); reliable monitoring of the shared resource; a reasonable balance of costs and benefits for participants; a predictable process for the fast and fair resolution of conflicts; an escalating series of punishments for cheaters; and good relationships between the community and other layers of authority, from household heads to international institutions.

How I use LLMs to learn complex topics

https://laurentiugabriel.github.io/blog/articles/how-i-use-llms-to-learn/
204•laurentiurad•2h ago•107 comments

New Zealand lost its music media, and what we're building to replace it

https://propelmusic.co.nz/articles/the-sound-went-quiet-nz-music-media
20•berghoffer•1h ago•4 comments

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

131•david927•4h ago•474 comments

Saying No

https://rozumem.xyz/posts/19
96•rozumem•3h ago•79 comments

Is it all just vapourware?

https://kirahowe.com/2026/aug/8/is-it-all-just-vapourware
52•Lyngbakr•48m ago•53 comments

Mea Culpa – Dark Hours

https://blog.terrygodier.com/2026/08/09/mea-culpa-dark-hours.html
505•satvikpendem•8h ago•227 comments

The Hacker's Renaissance

https://phrack.org/issues/72/19#article
15•yu3zhou4•1h ago•5 comments

Cool URIs Don't Change (1998)

https://www.w3.org/Provider/Style/URI
135•Klaster_1•7h ago•28 comments

The tragedy of the commons, AI edition

https://www.economist.com/britain/2026/08/06/the-tragedy-of-the-commons-ai-edition
31•simonpure•2h ago•5 comments

Deletes all instances of Microsoft's GDID and prevents minting of new ones

https://github.com/yegors/deGDID
42•campuscodi•1h ago•28 comments

Taxi drivers rarely die of Alzheimer's

https://theconversation.com/taxi-drivers-rarely-die-of-alzheimers-how-complex-mental-maps-and-spa...
108•jader201•6h ago•88 comments

Tuxedo No. 2 – Cocktail recipes

https://tuxedono2.com
7•smartmic•1h ago•0 comments

OpenChamber: An Agentic Development Environment

https://openchamber.dev/
78•hexomancer•4h ago•44 comments

"I loved every minute of it, however hard it had been" [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GS7CxAtV5Ks
8•jackdoe•2d ago•5 comments

John C. Lilly on solid state intelligence and the elimination of man (1978)

https://kibotronics.net/unlisted/lilly-machines/
105•Kiboneu•8h ago•59 comments

How not to turn ideologically crazy

https://blog.andymasley.com/p/the-main-way-ive-seen-people-turn
14•mef•1h ago•11 comments

Everything you do is being recorded

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/2026/05/ai-wearable-surveillance-countermeasures/687203/
142•ike_usawa•10h ago•125 comments

Crickets as Pets

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crickets_as_pets
65•Michelangelo11•4d ago•30 comments

How Golden Is Silence, Actually?

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2026/08/10/silence-kate-mcloughlin-book-review
18•tintinnabula•3d ago•6 comments

I Made Tinnitus My Friend (Then It Disappeared)

https://mynoise.net/vlog.php?ep=20260803
16•gregsadetsky•3h ago•3 comments

Show HN: Alphabet Soup, a multiplayer game, build the longest word to win

https://alphabetsoup.club
10•johnchinjew•1h ago•5 comments

Windows 11's built-in Weather app wastes more than 1 GB of RAM

https://www.notebookcheck.net/Windows-11-s-built-in-Weather-app-wastes-more-than-1-GB-of-RAM.1364...
258•akyuu•6h ago•216 comments

Show HN: A Project Oberon System version running on RISC-V instead of RISC-5

https://github.com/rochus-keller/OberonSystem/tree/op2-rv32
93•Rochus•9h ago•16 comments

Two wheels, a few tradeoffs, and gas prices

https://blog.raed.dev/posts/motocycle/
8•Raed667•2h ago•2 comments

When Compilers Disagree About UTF‑8

https://nemanjatrifunovic.substack.com/p/when-compilers-disagree-about-utf8
15•rbanffy•4d ago•4 comments

Ransomware gangs skip the CEO, head straight for the 40-something IT manager

https://www.theregister.com/security/2026/08/09/ransomware-gangs-skip-the-ceo-head-straight-for-t...
55•joebuckwilliams•2h ago•21 comments

Reviving a four year old reMarkable 2

https://oskrim.github.io/hardware/2026/08/09/remarkable-over-ssh.html
101•tremguy•10h ago•82 comments

Archival Resource Key (Ark) Alliance

https://arks.org/
3•cxr•1h ago•0 comments

There Are Magic Hexagons of Every Order

https://gukov.dev/math/2026/08/02/new-magic-hexagons.html
174•gukoff•14h ago•28 comments

Every fast write moves work somewhere else

https://www.shayon.dev/post/2026/220/every-fast-write-moves-work-somewhere-else/
52•shayonj•6h ago•19 comments