And then you realize that, ironically, LLMs and archive.today, both actual bots, can scrape the site just fine. The latter also serving you the content with no paywalls, ads, JavaScript, permalinks that 404 after a year, and all the other anti-features. It's almost as if news websites looked at the pains one has to go through to legally play a video game in 2026 and all unanimously went "I want this!".
And then a few years later when the site shuts down because nobody was willing to pay for the content that it would still be around if you and others had just ponied up the cost of one morning latte each month.
The linked site shows me two subscription options, $289/year or $29 every 4 weeks. Expensive latte.
The economics of online new seem challenging. Bloomberg is $399/year. Wall Street Journal is $715/year. NY Times is $390/year. Washington Post $140/year.
That's a couple thousand dollars a year, just to have a handful of mainstream news sites. Add in local or regional sites, or content focused on hobbies, niche interests, etc and a person is looking at a huge chunk of their income (keep in mind median individual income in USA is $40k) going to reading the news.
Please don't post shallow dismissals or focus on trivialities. Let's focus on the substance of the project. It's a good sign that an early stage project hasn't devoted a lot of time or cost into their logo.
I'm sorry, but going on that website made me feel like I was being greeted by an AI support technician or recruiter.
I understand—these days, there are more reasons to vibe a landing page than not. To many, however, this page is going to be their first encounter with the project. While it sure is shallow to judge a book solely by its cover, in this case, the cover just blatantly screams "we haven't even tried"... Can you really blame people for not looking beyond it if even its own creator gave it a similar amount of attention? Especially in 2026, when everything preys on your attention and generating plausibly-looking low-effort projects has never been easier?
We just need you to observe the guidelines, no matter the topic or no matter how much it seems justifiable to overlook them in a particular case. They've been largely constant for nearly 20 years, and HN only continues to be a place where people want to discuss important topics because we have guidelines and uphold them daily. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.
Fair. I wish low quality submissions received similar treatment to low quality comments, or at least had their own category, separate from the main page.
There will always be a range of views about whether an article is good or not; there's no universal definition of “low quality submission”. HN’s ethos is to surface content that “gratifies intellectual curiosity”. Often we only really know whether an article fits that description once we see the discussion thread. You're welcome to flag submissions you think are not fit for HN, or to email hn@ycombinator.com to point out why an article is unfit for the front page. And you can make a substantive comment critiquing the article.
Iceland is already part of Schengen, EFTA, and NATO. They're in the best position there is, having negotiated the best the EU has to offer but not the bad parts, such as the Euro, Pfizer deals, the migration and asylum pact, or age verification. I can't imagine them joining the EU being anything but a massive downgrade for them.
Note that, unlike Corellium, this isn't about emulating an iPhone. Apple is providing an iOS kernel for Virtualization.framework in PCC/cloudOS images and this project pairs it with the iOS user-space and patches to make everything run. Applications can very easily tell it apart from the real thing.
You are expecting everyone to be as aware of these issues as you are. I don't think white supremacy has as large of a share of the mindspace in south korea as you think - not every issue (even if it has a wikipedia page!) is burned into everyone's mind across the globe. But I am happy to hear that every time you pick a username, you make sure it is free of dog whistles in all cultures and that the letters and numbers cannot be picked out or rearranged in a way that hints at one.
I don't like it. I don't take any offence. It just triggers the same AI;DR for me.
If I think the task requires a human to think about it. And the person is the human paid to think about it. Whether I get a wall of AI text, prompt, or an entire AI conversation... there is no human insight in it.
If that person took the time to think about the problem, had a chat with the AI, and understood the output, surely they can take the final step and tell me the short result/summary themselves, right?
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However, if I had to choose lesser evil, I would of course prefer to have a link to the AI conversation over having a wall of text directly in the conversation.
This. While I'm generally opposed to using LLMs to make changes in critical parts of systems, a vibed spec just naturally prompts a vibed implementation.
It's an industry where companies with "open" right in the name lobby against open models and training on stolen data is viewed as more ethical than training on existing models. It takes some time to catch up with reality there.
I once saw a sign at a railway station in the UK that actually did say "normal service will be operating between the 12th of July and 18th of August" (or something like that). Made me laugh. At the time Anglia Railways had a rail replacement bus literally every weekend.
I thought they should rename to Anglia Busways and have bus replacement trains instead.
"1 nine" tends to mean "90% availability" i.e. 37 days of downtime per year.
9% availability would be an uptime of ~33 days a year, I think at that point, we're pushing the semantics of "available" if the service is down the entire year except one month on average.
Since "N nines" for positive integers N denotes an uptime of 1 – 10^(–N), I think it's fair to analytically continue that formula, and say that 9% availability corresponds to 0.041 nines!
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