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Hacker News - Wed, 06/10/2026 - 11:08pm
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Hacker News - Wed, 06/10/2026 - 11:05pm
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Today's NYT Mini Crossword Answers for Thursday, June 11

CNET Feed - Wed, 06/10/2026 - 10:06pm
Here are the answers for The New York Times Mini Crossword for June 11.
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Ask HN: Releasing code under AGPLv3, but want to block LLM reconstruction?

Hacker News - Wed, 06/10/2026 - 9:14pm

I am preparing to release a software project under the AGPLv3. The goal is traditional copyleft reciprocity - if you use it or host it, share your changes.

However, I am realistic about the current legal landscape. Big tech corps are treating public code as free raw material for LLM training under the banner of "Fair Use". I am concerned that a company will ingest my codebase and use an LLM to effectively launder the logic, allowing their users to prompt a clean, closed-source recreation of my software without triggering the AGPL.

Do we have a licence specifically to prevent this but still keep OSS healthy and alive? Do we have a llm.txt / robots.txt that LLM scrapers respect? I feel that the whole OSS model is under threat here, even more than before (e.g. big corps earn billions from Linux instances without having to pay any software licensing cost, but they're more than happy to charge others for their own OS).

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48485069

Points: 3

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Pynder – crowdsourcing and tracking scam call data

Hacker News - Wed, 06/10/2026 - 9:06pm

Article URL: https://pynder.net/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48484997

Points: 1

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Manus registered my domain in their own name and won't release it

Hacker News - Wed, 06/10/2026 - 8:55pm

I run a small job-search SaaS at jobmatch.bot. In April I bought the domain through Manus's website builder. "Buy Your Domain Instantly... Your App, Your Address" is how their blog markets the feature. I paid, built my product on it, 300+ users signed up.

In May I decided to move hosting off Manus. That is when I found out:

- The domain was registered to Manus's own entity (Butterfly Effect Pte. Ltd.), not to me.

- The registrar is Global Domain Group LLC (ICANN IANA ID 3956), a white-label registrar whose own homepage advertises "ensuring domains registered through GDG are not associated with a popular registrar".

- The registrar's RDAP abuse contact phone is literally "+1.0000000".

- The ICANN 60-day transfer lock expired June 2. The domain is still clientTransferProhibited as of June 10, and my requests for the auth code (or a change of registrant) have been refused or ignored since early June.

I filed an ICANN transfer complaint on June 3 and have escalated to Amazon Registry (the .bot registry operator) and Singapore's consumer-protection channels. Butterfly Effect is a Singapore company. Meta acquired it in December for a reported $2B+ and integrated its operations; China's regulator ordered the deal unwound in April and Meta has said it will comply, so who exactly owns Manus right now is genuinely unclear. None of that changes who is holding my domain.

My migration has been done for a month - the new stack runs in parallel production. The only thing Manus still controls is the DNS.

The lesson I would pass on: if you "buy a domain" inside a website builder, check the WHOIS immediately. If you are not the registrant, you do not own the domain. Your platform does, and you will discover what that means exactly when you try to leave.

Has anyone successfully gotten a domain out of Manus / Global Domain Group? Was there a support channel or escalation path that actually worked?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48484931

Points: 1

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