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A Preview of DuckDB v2.0

https://duckdb.org/2026/08/17/duckdb-20-highlights
215•ibotty•2h ago•31 comments

AI-Generated GitHub Copilot "Autofix" Allowed Compromise of Snowflake's Jira

https://www.wiz.io/blog/red-agent-snowflake-copilot-cicd-bug
101•galnagli•2h ago•45 comments

Launch HN: Speko (YC S26) – OpenRouter for Voice AI

https://speko.ai/
24•abdik•59m ago•8 comments

GPT 5.6 Sol is the best "vision" model OpenAI ever released

https://blog.roboflow.com/openai-gpt-5-6/
187•plurby•4h ago•100 comments

How to disable or avoid intrusive AI

https://www.librarian.net/notoai/
76•ColinWright•2h ago•20 comments

How to put 170 atoms in an atom

https://signoregalilei.com/2026/08/02/how-to-put-170-atoms-in-an-atom/
42•surprisetalk•2h ago•4 comments

Ask HN: Alternatives to GitHub

179•dhruv3006•2h ago•123 comments

Olo (Color)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olo_(color)
57•inigyou•5d ago•4 comments

Apple's App Tracking Transparency treated its own apps better than rivals

https://www.bundeskartellamt.de/SharedDocs/Meldung/EN/Pressemitteilungen/2026/08_17_2026_Apple_AT...
167•nyku•2h ago•59 comments

Qwen 3.8 27B is excellent, but it defaults to overthinking things

https://simonwillison.net/2026/Aug/16/qwen-38-27b/
705•bilsbie•16h ago•331 comments

How I developed an Am29000 C compiler and web browser

https://nanochess.org/am29000_c_compiler_web_browser.html
30•nanochess•19h ago•2 comments

Show HN: Sokoban AI Solver

https://mkornreich.me/projects/sokoban/
39•enjoyyourlife•3h ago•27 comments

Incident with Github.com

https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/zkxwbgr0cnmx
684•kevcampb•2h ago•487 comments

Show HN: Learn Flags Quiz

https://flagquizzes.com/
14•artiomyak•2h ago•5 comments

Anthropic's 'watermark' text adulteration in Claude is a perversion of writing

https://daringfireball.net/2026/08/anthropics_watermark_text_adulteration_in_claude_is_a_perversi...
604•ropbear•18h ago•534 comments

How to ship a database every day

https://turbopuffer.com/blog/control-plane
28•tarunnnp•2h ago•2 comments

On A.I. regulation and messaging

https://twitter.com/DarioAmodei/status/2088758816376807762
193•jacquesm•14h ago•390 comments

Show HN: Saggar, a Mac terminal that keeps sessions and your attention organized

https://saggar.marginalutility.dev/
9•mcclowes•2h ago•1 comments

Universal Health Coverage Could Save $1T and 114k Lives a Year, Yale Study

https://ysph.yale.edu/news-article/universal-health-coverage-could-save-one-trillion-dollars-and-...
183•karakoram•45m ago•209 comments

Show HN: Desktopcolors.com – A museum for solid background colors of classic OS

https://desktopcolors.com
95•vlowrian•8h ago•37 comments

How Go detects struct copies with sync.noCopy

https://func25.dev/posts/go-sync-nocopy/
45•func25•4d ago•43 comments

A third world engineer responds to “RISC-V: They should have known better”

https://rvembedded.com/blog_post/12/
589•Narishma•23h ago•304 comments

Online clinics and influencers are promoting Cialis as a longevity drug

https://www.npr.org/2026/08/17/nx-s1-5928263/cialis-viagra-tadalafil-longevity-heart-health
69•brandonb•3h ago•47 comments

Mexico crackdown on coastal development

https://yucatanmagazine.com/mexico-crackdown-on-coastal-development/
73•untiledsource•4h ago•15 comments

Linear algebra done right

https://linear.axler.net/
191•the-mitr•11h ago•67 comments

Reticulum – Decentralized Mesh Network

https://reticulum.network/
193•sudo_cowsay•16h ago•65 comments

The only known trebuchet casualty in history

https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/08/meet-the-only-known-trebuchet-casualty-in-history/
28•Tomte•2h ago•7 comments

Judge relying wholly on AI in order is covered by judicial immunity, court rules

https://reason.com/volokh/2026/08/17/judges-allegedly-relying-wholly-on-ai-in-order-is-covered-by...
22•delichon•2h ago•24 comments

AGI-64 Brings Sierra Adventures to the Commodore 64

https://meanhamster.com/news/agi-64-brings-sierra-adventures-to-the-commodore-64
118•erickhill•14h ago•17 comments

How do I permanently disable random Google Photos popup to backup photos? (2024)

https://support.google.com/photos/thread/256212140/how-do-i-permanently-disable-google-photos-pop...
199•dt3ft•3d ago•138 comments
Open in hackernews

Judge relying wholly on AI in order is covered by judicial immunity, court rules

https://reason.com/volokh/2026/08/17/judges-allegedly-relying-wholly-on-ai-in-order-is-covered-by-judicial-immunity-court-rules/
21•delichon•2h ago

Comments

__s•2h ago
This is a film, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercy_(2026_film)
delichon•1h ago
The film is framed as sci fi, but this decision underlines that right now, any judge has the freedom to replace themselves with a chatbot, in part or in full.
rcxdude•1h ago
Well, at least they don't expose themselves to civil liability by doing so. The system is generally designed so that judges don't have to answer to the participants in the cases they are presiding over. That doesn't mean they don't answer to anyone.
laughing_man•1h ago
That's the key point here. You won't be able to sue a judge who does that, but he could still be impeached. And probably would be.

You would probably have a really good shot at an appeal, too.

FireBeyond•31m ago
"Probably" would be impeached? The bar for impeachment and recall would appear to be exceptionally high, often rising to the level of "national news coverage and extended outrage" (witness the judge on the Brock case).
delichon•1h ago
In U.S. history only 8 federal judges have been convicted and removed. In a normal year the number is zero, out of ~870. For state judges, about 11 are removed per year out of ~30,000. They can be held accountable, but it takes something extraordinary, and worst case they retire early. If a judge confesses to full self-replacement that might do it. Too many load bearing emdashes wouldn't be enough.
treebeard901•54m ago
All officers of the court have various forms of immunity. All of the rights, rules, and statutes they are required by law to uphold only goes as far as how much of that in group someone is, or how much money someone has to uphold their rights when infringed upon.

In practice the entire system has become political, corrupted or both. As a result, the only rights most people have are those where officers of a court are only limited by where their immunity ends. They can and do violate the law and ignore large parts of it if it suits them.

Assuming someone has the resources to even get any oversight at all, in most cases those involved will investigate each other and decide they have done nothing wrong. Even in the unlikely event that someone proves an illegal act, they will just claim immunity.

FireBeyond•34m ago
To be removed as a judge you have to do shit so egregious, like taking kickbacks from the prison industry to sentence children into their custody and work programs, to the point it is an open secret (where your own Facebook shows you hanging out with the CEOs of such companies, and your conviction rates and sentencing for juveniles is so far on the curve it couldn't possibly be coincidence) and even then it will take YEARS, all the while you go on doing it.
ButlerianJihad•48m ago
This was an interesting and engrossing film with an attractive sci-fi/AI setting, whose moral and theme, of course, had absolutely nothing at all to do with AI.
SpicyLemonZest•1h ago
This is just how the US legal system works. When a judge has made a terrible decision for dumb reasons, you appeal it, you don’t sue the judge. There’d be a similar result if you sued a judge for ruling against you at the instructions of their cult leader or something.
abeppu•41m ago
But did the judge make the decision? I think there's a real question of whether this is a failure of due process rights. But I also think supreme Court Justices need to be awake for the court to actually hear arguments, so what do I know.
zdragnar•28m ago
That is what the article and judgement was about- they can certainly use that argument to appeal the case, but not to hold the judge in the case personally liable.
SpicyLemonZest•27m ago
There would be a real question if the judge in fact used AI. The plaintiff's complaint (https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nvd.176...) makes it pretty clear that he's just nuts and had no real reason to think she did.

But of course a court can't dismiss someone's complaint on the grounds that they're nuts; in order to rule on the substance of this case, a court would have to conduct new hearings to gather all the details about the original hearing in which AI was allegedly used. The purpose of judicial immunity is to push all objections to judicial decisions through the appellate courts, which don't have to re-hear everything before issuing a ruling.

ferngodfather•1h ago
This is not real life.
xhkkffbf•1h ago
Different rules for the rulers and the proles has been a big part of life on Earth for eternity. Why shouldn't we be surprised that this judge thinks it's okay to do things that a grade schooler can't.
freejazz•52m ago
The way to challenge a judge's opinion is to appeal it, not personally sue the judge. These responses are histrionic and misinformed.
FireBeyond•30m ago
Appeals are not automatic. Another judge has to decide whether you have standing to appeal - you can't just say "don't like the result, redo!"
zdragnar•26m ago
Right, there needs to be procedural grounds for appeal, and this case is entirely about the judge violating procedural rules by delegating away their judgement. It's a perfect example of a case for an appeals court.
AngryData•22m ago
Doesn't seem that way for people with money though.
freejazz•48m ago
Volokh Conspiracy is just culture war ragebait.
zdragnar•29m ago
The wasn't a single opinion presented in that very short article. It was largely quoting and restating what happened- the judge isn't personally liable via civil suit.

Other articles by volokh might be intentionally incendiary (I haven't read them) but this one is as bland as bland gets.

dgrin91•40m ago
I just read a story of a guy trying to prompt inject his court submissions to win because he thought the court was using AI. I guess he just got the wrong judge: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/08/suspecting-court...
AngryData•24m ago
The US justice system is a farce, 90% of the time it is merely used as an extortion racket to fund the cops, courts, and local jail. Corruption is rampant, friends of the court regularly get away with breaking the law, and the only two considerations cops use when arresting people is will it make their fragile ego feel better, and will the charges result in a significant profit for the court/cops.
dmitrygr•8m ago
This is how you get vigilante justice. It is only held back by people believing that the state will treat them fairly in a court. Once the majority no longer believe that, you get chaos. I am entirely sure we do not want that. The correct action would be to make an EXTREME example of this judge: disbarment, prison, etc...