Scripting News: Wednesday, February 4, 2026
Here's a news page with stories from the most-quoted blogs on Hacker News. A brilliant idea. All I did was give each item a category, and shortened the URL. The brief writeup is here. #
No one else can see this message. You are the only real person. The rest of us are alien robots sent here to test you.#
I wrote an app that implements Inbound RSS for WordPress sites. Three months ago, a few little glitches but remarkably reliable. Open source. That's how I have scripting.com output hooked up to daveverse.org input. It stopped working this morning, not sure why. This is actually a test to see if this works. (Postscript: It did work. But I have two earlier posts today that did not get through.)#
Automattic shipped a WordPress plugin that adds a source:markdown element to a WordPress feed. This is very cool. We've added this to the feed for daveverse site. #
We need a short name for ChatGPT-like product. If I want to make a general statement about products in the category, there is, as far as I know, no word to use. Same with Twitter and tweet, so I call them twitter-like products and use tweet for posts to any twitter-like product. The whole idea of a different name (like toot, skeet) for each service is linguistic travesty. Anyway, ChatGPT-like is also an unacceptable term. If it had a fun name like OurMind -- then OurMind-like would work. If only William Safire were here. #
Linkblog items for the day
Should AI chatbots have ads? Anthropic says no. arstechnica.com
Judge blocks Trump administration's stripping of Haitians' protected status. theguardian.com
ChatGPT is asked about local news 1 million times per week, OpenAI says. niemanlab.org
Inbound RSS for WordPress sites. github.com
Don't Let ICE Freeze Voting. meidasplus.com
The toxic culture that killed Alex Pretti. inquirer.com
What if they wrote stories like this about politics, speculate on what's really happening, not giving credence to press releases. cbssports.com
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