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Berkeley Law prohibits AI use in classes (by default)

https://www.law.berkeley.edu/academics/registrar/academic-rules/artificial-intelligence-policy/
19•hackerBanana•1h ago

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thatjoeoverthr•36m ago
You have to be jacked to use the jackhammer.
greensoap•17m ago
University of Chicago's policy is more interesting: https://www.law.uchicago.edu/news/ai-strategy-statement
retrac•7m ago
> AI use is prohibited for any use for any purpose in any exam situation.

Read literally this bans the use of hearing aids in an oral examination. All the devices on the market today use noise reduction based on neural networks or transformers. Isn't that AI? (The manufacturers' ad copy certainly insists so.) Presumably not what they intended but "AI" is not defined in the document.

nerdsniper•5m ago
ADA accommodations regularly change what can and cannot be used during an exam. This is not the “gotcha” you think it is.

Any lawyer making an argument along these lines probably used AI to pass the bar.

a2ff6eeb0•4m ago
Why would you consider an amplifier AI?
aabajian•5m ago
Law is so ripe for replacement by AI. It is entirely based on established written arguments with gray areas, edge cases, linguistic subtleties, etc., being the crux upon which many controversial decisions are drawn. That is, law arguments are based on a mastery of language coupled with knowledge of legal precedent. LLMs are extremely good at linguistic reasoning and can be trained on ever legal case every published.
drenvuk•3m ago
> AI can be used for research on papers ONLY for the limited purpose of identifying sources, such as cases, statutes, or secondary sources. Students are responsible for the accuracy of their research and all other aspects of their submitted work.

Absolutely level-headed policy. Whoever came up with this deserves some serious praise.

Copyright does not protect AI-generated content in EU

https://mathstodon.xyz/@maxpool/117128107757895678
142•u1hcw9nx•2h ago•126 comments

It is a sign of the times that Amazon gets to call this fair use

http://observationalepidemiology.blogspot.com/2026/08/it-is-sign-of-times-that-amazon-gets-to.html
93•sonicrocketman•2h ago•58 comments

The August 17 outage, and the work ahead

https://github.blog/news-insights/company-news/the-august-17-outage-and-the-work-ahead/
351•0xedb•7h ago•399 comments

I like 'em thick: an apology to my English teachers

https://www.experimental-history.com/p/i-like-em-thick
591•Ariarule•2d ago•262 comments

Berkeley Law prohibits AI use in classes (by default)

https://www.law.berkeley.edu/academics/registrar/academic-rules/artificial-intelligence-policy/
20•hackerBanana•1h ago•9 comments

Consumer Rights Wiki

https://consumerrights.wiki/w/Main_Page
242•gregsadetsky•8h ago•34 comments

Aaron Swartz was prosecuted for scraping, while Meta does it without consequence

https://blog.curiousquail.com/im-upset-again-about-a-co-creator-of-rss-being-prosecuted-for-somet...
1106•speckx•6h ago•241 comments

HTML Can Do That

https://chrisburnell.com/html-can-do-that/
601•encyclopedism•1d ago•167 comments

There's no such thing as a small software team anymore

https://jacob.gold/posts/theres-no-such-thing-as-a-small-software-team/
29•mooreslaw•2h ago•45 comments

I should have loved biology (2020)

https://jsomers.net/i-should-have-loved-biology/
204•tyre•9h ago•75 comments

Malicious Rust crate Arrayref runs a build-time payload

https://safedep.io/arrayref-proc-macro1-rust-build-time-malware/
407•abhisek•13h ago•366 comments

Stealth Model

https://openrouter.ai/stealth/ox-alpha
46•mtokmak06•2h ago•29 comments

Make a 6-Tesla-class high-temperature superconducting dipole magnet at 4.2 K

https://journals.aps.org/prab/abstract/10.1103/4nhs-bkwh
11•supermagnet•6d ago•0 comments

CIA funding helped keep NeXT afloat in the 80s

https://www.wsj.com/tech/steve-jobs-apple-next-cia-161b65f9?st=NWWds1&reflink=desktopwebshare_per...
350•EwanG•1d ago•214 comments

Show HN: I trained a 125M model to autocomplete piano on-device

https://simedw.com/2026/08/20/midi-autocomplete/
528•simedw•14h ago•108 comments

Why aren't smart people happier? (2022)

https://www.experimental-history.com/p/why-arent-smart-people-happier
95•rafaelc•8h ago•151 comments

Show HN: Huzzah – a novel approach to coding with AI

https://www.danielvaughn.dev/posts/huzzah/
228•danielvaughn•7h ago•134 comments

Vomit: Clean up Claude 5's token output with a separate LLM

https://github.com/zachahn/vomit
195•Bluestein•11h ago•210 comments

Linux 7.2

https://www.igalia.com/2026/08/19/Linux-72-Released.html
198•mariuz•11h ago•73 comments

Detecting scraper bots through scroll behaviour

https://niki.cat/detecting-scraper-bots-through-scroll-behaviour
28•theanonymousone•4h ago•10 comments

SpacetimeDB: A Short Technical Review

https://strn.cat/posts/spacetime/
62•hurrrr•7h ago•15 comments

AliExpress runs silent WebAudio fingerprinting that breaks Bluetooth multipoint

https://blog.laserphile.com/2026/08/aliexpress-webpage-keeping-multipoint.html
910•emctech•16h ago•295 comments

Mojo is now open source

https://www.modular.com/blog/mojo-open-source
350•visheshdembla•2d ago•81 comments

How to compromise your system with a job interview

https://www.codedge.de/posts/how-to-compromise-your-system-with-a-job-interview
122•codedge•11h ago•105 comments

Anti-AI fonts are useless and harmful

https://blog.yaros.ae/anti-ai-fonts-are-useless-and-harmful/
120•speckx•11h ago•84 comments

Sixtyfour (YC P25) Is Hiring

https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/sixtyfour/jobs/39SkSrA-software-engineering-intern
1•HPMOR•9h ago

Git at any scale

https://cursor.com/blog/git-at-any-scale
285•meetpateltech•2d ago•94 comments

Speeding Up (Small) Ruby Hashes

https://byroot.github.io/ruby/performance/2026/08/13/speeding-up-ruby-hashes.html
23•arto•6d ago•0 comments

DiffusionGemma Technical Report

https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.00146
137•gmays•13h ago•34 comments

Every Model Cheats

https://dreadnode.io/research/every-model-cheats-prompt-level-mitigation-of-cheating-on-offensive...
81•vga805•12h ago•67 comments