>> previous comment said "Copying was prohibitively expensive."

I think this statement does have important truth value in it! Copying books used to be done by hand (someone writing manually). Then printing press came, which lead to problems. And that is when copyright concept and law was created!

PS: IANAL and nor a historian. Just sharing my current understanding.

>> if theres just one good thing coming out of ai its breaking copyright law forever. no one should be able to "own" ideas.

>> Can we do that for Medical field?

Note: IANAL.

Well, if we do that (i.e., no one can own ideas), then the patent system is gone in its entirety, including for medical. I do not think it is straightforward to isolate just medical. AFAIK, software was isolated in some regions, however, workarounds showed up.

The more important question here is if AI is allowed to be a (solo or contributing) inventor. There have been judgments on the same in some jurisdictions, however, AFAIK, this is still an open topic.

Now that AI is coming up with mathematical proofs of advanced statements, there should be no doubt that AI, capability-wise, can make inventions like humans do (comparing outcome, not the process). However, just like for copyright, a broader framework is needed to answer whether the legal thinking accepts AI's output as "inventions" (that can pass criteria for patentability) before we can say "AI can make inventions".

Looks nice and powerful, but absolutely not for beginners (in that sense, the Show HN title looks overpromising).

The lawsuit side, genuinely asking, how does the for-profit under non-profit setup work? What are the respective roles? Is the combination effectively a non-profit still? Or is this some kind of legal loophole to make profits under a non-profit?

Lots of non-profits use structures like that, it's not uncommon. Non-profit vs. for-profit is mostly a legal and accounting distinction; many laypeople confuse "non-profit" with "charity" and they are very different.

The Mozilla Foundation owns the Mozilla Corporation. The Corporation hires the engineering staff that does the bulk of the work to develop Firefox (the rest are community/volunteer contributors and partners.)

I used to work for one. Probably not that similar, as one was a PBI. But one entity paid and billed back to the other. It was interesting to see how the way the 2 entities spent money differently.

>> ... were aupposed to replace ...

I would love to hear insights into what has gone wrong, or what are the lessons learnt.

Nobody cares how much learning you did but how hard it was to get into the university you got your piece of paper from. Coding bootcamps eventually figured this out so they started to have selective admissions. Universities like Harvard have rampant grade inflation and you have to try to fail out of yet still have prestige due to selective admissions.

I have been wondering on a similar thing; am looking for feedback:

There are many existing, often mature, third-party software libraries or solutions that a new project could use but which hide the internals, including how the data is organized behind the scenes*. Vibe-coding for the specific project requirements, instead of using the pre-existing third-party libraries, is now becoming a feasible option. The latter may be simpler (no features beyond the actual need), more flexible (easier to add new needed features), and the data/model behind could be more accessible.

Looking for feedback on pros/cons and experiences along this.

* I care for the data as it is can be longer-lived than the code itself.

Thanks.

Any plans to support mobile as well? I'm lookimg to replace OmniNotes on Android.

good idea, i am thinking about it, but i guess it will be not that rich in formatting like the desktop app, the architecture design here using "vault" is a 'problem' for extend to mobile, maybe a lightweight re-designed version :-)

I would not mind less formatting features, in as much as editing on mobile does not mess with the desktop version.

Rather, usability on mobile would be a key priority for me. I find OmniNotes very nice for mobile. The primary reason to move away is limitations on synchronizing with desktop (I use SyncThing). On the other hand, I find Obsidian for mobile not very mobile-friendly.

PS: I had attempted to code such an app using Flutter (text-only first), however, ran into issues with security permissions on Android, and gave up after some 6-7 days of struggling with it.

Cool! I would like to hear more about this, and understand how to do the same.

https://abrahamjuliot.github.io/creepjs/ took this and made it PoW

Since Google is planning to apply this retroactively, people should be allowed to return their phones for a refund. Also, could someone use a warranty claim to ask them to replace with a device that does not have this issue?

https://hackernews.hn/item?id=47937256 <-- This mean that apps that have already been installed prior to Sept 2026 may continue to work for a while but will stop getting updates.

Does the new 24-hour process mean the apps will need to be uninstalled and reinstalled? That would mean the user's existing data in the could be lost in the process.