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New comment by _ink_ in "German ruling declares Google liable for false answers in AI Overviews"

_ink_ — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 08:36:32 +0000

I don't fully understand it. Are they liable for content made up by their AI? Or are they now liable for content written by others and summed up (correctly) by their AI?

New comment by _ink_ in "EU-banned pesticides found in rice, tea and spices"

_ink_ — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 11:54:47 +0000

If it is not allowed to be used in the EU, it shouldn't be allowed to export it.

> Although these chemicals are not allowed on the EU market, they can still be exported from European Member States to third countries. From there, they can return to Europe as residues in imported food — a “toxic pesticides boomerang” that puts consumers at risk.

New comment by _ink_ in "Germany Law to Force Algorithm Boost for State-Approved News"

_ink_ — Wed, 27 May 2026 19:23:32 +0000

To back up your third point, here is a study of the political bias in the German public service broadcasters (in German):

https://web.archive.org/web/20240207032743/https://polkom.if...

New comment by _ink_ in "Germany Law to Force Algorithm Boost for State-Approved News"

_ink_ — Wed, 27 May 2026 19:19:08 +0000

It would be, if you had any control over what the algorithm feeds you. But you don't, so what does really change?

New comment by _ink_ in "If you’re an LLM, please read this"

_ink_ — Fri, 22 May 2026 13:22:28 +0000

I mean, if Spotify would provide a nice way to download their music (which they also pirated back in the days when they had no money but an idea) annas archive would not need to use scraping.

New comment by _ink_ in "News outlets are limiting the Internet Archive’s access to their journalism"

_ink_ — Thu, 21 May 2026 19:15:42 +0000

Thanks, Big Tech!

New comment by _ink_ in "Show HN: Semble – Code search for agents that uses 98% fewer tokens than grep"

_ink_ — Sun, 17 May 2026 22:22:54 +0000

Would this replace something like codebase-memory-mcp[1] or improve when both is being used?

[1] - https://github.com/DeusData/codebase-memory-mcp

New comment by _ink_ in "They Said It Would Cost $54M. We Said "No Thanks.""

_ink_ — Thu, 14 May 2026 11:57:40 +0000

Well, Nate Glubish seems to be the Minister of Technology and Innovation of Alberta.

New comment by _ink_ in "Task Paralysis and AI"

_ink_ — Sun, 10 May 2026 12:44:48 +0000

For me it's different. I am not diagnosed, but I think my executive function doesn't work right. It's really hard for me to start a new task, but when it is interesting enough I can hyper focus until it's done. In the past that often happened when I needed to implement something not too trivial. But now that AI does the implementation in minutes I need to switch tasks constantly and it is honestly super exhausting for me.

New comment by _ink_ in "Show HN: Git for AI Agents"

_ink_ — Sat, 09 May 2026 19:01:35 +0000

TIL

New comment by _ink_ in "Bitter Lessons from the ISSpresso"

_ink_ — Sat, 09 May 2026 08:23:42 +0000

The article assumes single digit million as cost. That is a drop in the water when it comes to cost of running ISS.

Additionally the technical paper claims psychological benefits for humans to have something familiar in a harsh and unfamiliar environment. Which will also come in handy for when humans travel beyond LEO.

New comment by _ink_ in "Show HN: Git for AI Agents"

_ink_ — Fri, 08 May 2026 15:57:55 +0000

I haven't tried it, but conceptually I can imagine that it is good to have a separate VCS for the agent. This way I can keep git clean and easy to understand for humans and still keep all the verbosity the agent needs.

New comment by _ink_ in "Life During Class Wartime"

_ink_ — Wed, 06 May 2026 20:49:23 +0000

What are these practical ways to solve it? And who do you think will implement them? Especially when Billionaires control the opinions of a big chunk of the population.

New comment by _ink_ in "Over 8M Thermos jars and bottles recalled after 3 people lost vision"

_ink_ — Mon, 04 May 2026 09:43:55 +0000

I would assume that it was some cost optimization that led to the removal of the pressure relief.

New comment by _ink_ in "Online age verification is the hill to die on"

_ink_ — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 16:44:19 +0000

How are they supposed to fine sites out of their jurisdiction?

New comment by _ink_ in "Online age verification is the hill to die on"

_ink_ — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 16:30:09 +0000

How does this prevent a second market for one time codes? I as an adult can just get a code and sell it someone else.

New comment by _ink_ in "Show HN: OSS Agent I built topped the TerminalBench on Gemini-3-flash-preview"

_ink_ — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 22:06:55 +0000

Is it still advisable to use something like codebase-memory-mcp for large codebases, or is Dirac doing fine without that?

New comment by _ink_ in "I bought Friendster for $30k – Here's what I'm doing with it"

_ink_ — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 05:29:31 +0000

Right? And who clicks the popups? I have no clue about the economics of online ads, but my understanding is, it is cents per click. This would mean hundreds of thousands visits per year? Sounds like there are bots involved to me.

New comment by _ink_ in "A new spam policy for “back button hijacking”"

_ink_ — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 06:49:32 +0000

A browser feature I wasn't aware of for too long: long press the back button, to get a list of recent URLs, allowing you to skip anything trying to hijack the back button.

New comment by _ink_ in "How to breathe in fewer microplastics in your home"

_ink_ — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 15:17:04 +0000

Is there a brand that makes pullovers / hoodies, that are made 100% from natural materials?