Hacker News

New stories

Live mirror
30 storiesupdated just nowView source snapshot
  1. Anthropic is planning to launch its IPO in November(wsj.com ↗)
    discuss
  2. Valve has open-sourced Lepton, its tool to bring Android games to Steam(theverge.com ↗)
    discuss
  3. Exclusive-Anthropic sets up biology lab as it ramps AI drug program(yahoo.com ↗)
    discuss
  4. I Hate Workday(nelson.cloud ↗)
    discuss
  5. Y Combinator's PAC is throwing money at Republicans across the country(gazetteer.co ↗)
    discuss
  6. War may be coming. Are we psychologically ready?(bbc.com ↗)
    discuss
  7. Flawed AI Intel Brought US to the Brink of Confronting China, Claims Report(ndtvprofit.com ↗)
    discuss
  8. AI cloud provider Nscale files for IPO on $140.6M revenue, $1.02B net loss(cnbc.com ↗)
    discuss
  9. Show HN: Find Street Parking in NYC(avi.nyc ↗)
    discuss
  10. Software-Based Live Migration for RDMA – Proceedings of the ACM Sigcomm 2025(acm.org ↗)
    discuss
  11. Anthropic sets up a bio research lab for physical experiments(engadget.com ↗)
    2comments
  12. Show HN: Prohibition of Nuclear Launch Automation
    discuss
  13. A CPU Backdoor (2025)(phrack.org ↗)
    discuss
  14. Show HN: TypeSeer – on-device autocomplete for every text field on macOS(typeseer.com ↗)
    1comments
  15. Show HN: Rediagram – put the diagrams you have on your brand(rediagram.app ↗)
    discuss
  16. We Must Create the Shit Machine(mcsweeneys.net ↗)
    1comments
  17. Intel Appears to End Its Bug Bounty Program(phoronix.com ↗)
    discuss
  18. DeepSeek v4.1 Flash avg 102 tps on 4x RTX6000 pro max-q, 2.1x up from v4-flash(level1techs.com ↗)
    2comments
  19. We were right (about passkeys) all along(mailpace.com ↗)
    discuss
  20. Stack Overflow relaunched Developer Story (who certifies that a human wrote it?)(stackoverflow.blog ↗)
    discuss
  21. Friday Facts #446 – An ARM and a Frame(factorio.com ↗)
    discuss
  22. The Pain Axis: LLMs Represent Self-Directed Harm and Act to Relieve It(arxiv.org ↗)
    discuss
  23. I Have Been a DelGuard
    discuss
  24. The Mic Is On. So Is Live Auto-Tune.(nytimes.com ↗)
    1comments
  25. Institutional Parasitism in Open Technology Communities(wasabisys.com ↗)
    discuss
  26. UK could force phone companies to add 'anti-theft protections'(bbc.com ↗)
    discuss
  27. Using jev to improve product experiences is pretty crazy(elvex.com ↗)
    3comments
  28. What I learned from using FreeBSD as a main OS for a summer(divanv.com ↗)
    discuss
  29. A Lack of Honesty Is the Ultimate Killer(phillipspobrien.substack.com ↗)
    discuss
  30. Ask HN: What do you think of Noul, a new decision primitive
    discuss

Ask HN: Am I bad for asking chatbot a question on AI porn

1 pointsby 3h ago
4 comments
Some time ago there was an occurrence where I bumped into advertisement which openly advertised AI tool with the use-case of using photos of your friends for generating videos as an advertiser feature.

I mean, I wasn't knowledgeable much on this type of thing, so I asked DeepSeek 'Would it be unethical to use photos of your friend to create AI porn with them?' Well, of course, I've got the positive answer to this question and forgot of this thing.

But sometime later I began ruminating on it heavily, plus the fact that I had the thought of doing it to photos of my friend for some seconds at the time, and although I didn't give it any serious notice, it still got hard.

So like this I tried to off-load some of the things that I've had on my mind on reddit, and I was always clear on the fact that I didn't do any AI porn with my friend, but just the fact that I researched this question instead of innately knowing the answer made the people uproar in the comments, and enraged about my conduct.

So I want to understand if I really deserve the blame, or have I just found myself in the middle of strangely puritan culture which would pile on me for a sort of a thought crime? What do you think?

3h agoHN ↗

nah, ask them whatever you want, but...

- do not blindly trust their output, they are sycophants

- your session may or may not be recorded, it can be used as evidence in court

don't beat yourself up about it, we all have questionable thoughts, it's a constant thunderstorm in our minds, lots of randomness and jumbling, practice calming the sea (Conquest of Mind is my goto book)

reddit is notorious for dog piling and hyperbolics, pay it little attention

3h agoHN ↗

have I just found myself in the middle of strangely puritan culture which would pile on me for a sort of a thought crime?

I would certainly find it very strange and off-putting if my friends were making porn of me, whether that was AI-assisted or if they were making drawings with pencil on paper. I don't think that makes me particularly puritanical.

Keep that stuff in your head.

2h agoHN ↗

It's not that. I meant that I was clear that I didn't do anything with it or intended to. And I wasn't asking if that's okay to do, but just expressed that I felt bad that this thought came to me, and I asked the thing.

They acted like just because of that I already committed some sort of a moral crime I need to atone for.

2h agoHN ↗

Everyone has all sorts of thoughts, some more intrusive than others. It's our actions that count.