Internet & Media
- Ask HN: Can we please limit the AI news flood?
- Instagram's head says engagement falls by half without the algorithm
- I think I hate the internet
- Rock band Muse lose social media handles to Meta’s new AI tool
- How I advertise malicious software on Google Ads
- There's a new "Google Jail" for independent wikis
- It's time for Mark Zuckerberg to resign from Meta
- TiVo to charge money for skipping commercials in your own recordings
- Doomscrolling ourselves to death
- Nitter has more working instances than before the takedowns
- New York Times and The Athletic workers demand company scrap Kalshi deal
- Three sites made 215,128 “best software” pages for AI. Perplexity cites them
- Zohran and the Short Link
- Twitter Viewer – View Twitter Without Account
- C2PA Cameras Do Not Survive Contact with Reality
- How much of HN is AI?
- One corner of China’s internet is insisting that the Tang Dynasty never existed
- Kagi added a setting for removing paywalled links from search results
- The Amazon tax
- I don't enjoy the Internet any more
- Ask HN: How do you keep up with HN these days?
- The TEMU-Fication of Software, Digital Goods and Services
- Where did the old web go? We followed 657,607 links to find out
- uBlock Origin is giving up the fight to keep ads off Facebook
- Controversial creators are benefiting from monetization programs run by Meta
- LinkedIn CringeBot 3000
- Bluesky's active user base is shrinking as its focus expands beyond the app
- As AI eats the web, the internet’s collective memory is disappearing
- The main way I've seen people turn ideologically crazy (2025)
- LinkedIn Feed Blocker
- Gentoo bugzilla closed due AI bot scraper overload
- A year of fighting scrapers on my 1.5 million-page website
- I'll be stepping back from leading product for X
- Meta Ran Ads That Contained AI-Generated Child Sexual Abuse Imagery
- TIME Is Serving AI Bots a Different Website, with Ads Built In
- Helsinki Hacker News Meetup
- AI-Generated Images Discourage Me from Reading Your Blog
- Google has abandoned Google News?
- How Google helped destroy adoption of RSS feeds (2023)
- Substack writers, you need a website
- Delayed Gratification – Proud to Be 'Last to Breaking News'
- Cloudflare's new AI traffic options for customers
- Codeberg Divides
- What happened to TheNumbers.com
- Back to Kagi
- So Reddit has decided that plain HTML is unsafe
- Late.sh – a command-line Clubhouse for computer people
- It's a shame what's happened to radio
- VTubing: How a Japanese Phenomenon Is Going Worldwide
- I Stopped “Creating Content”
- I joined the IndieWeb, here's what I learned
- If You Build It, They Will Come
- What AI did to stackoverflow in a graph
- The lost joy of music piracy
- Bluesky Trademarks ATProto
- Proof of care in the age of AI
- Ask HN: Add flag for AI-generated articles
- Death of the Status Update: Why 55% of Americans Stopped Posting on Social Media
- An update on residential proxies and the scraper situation
- Punk, or why I don't stream anymore
- AI content is everywhere on social media, especially LinkedIn
- Is The Economist Always Wrong?
- Odin, Wikipedia and engagement farming
- PeerTube is a free, decentralized and federated video platform
- Bring back crappy forums
- Most arguments are about ego, not ideas
- A retrospective of my time on the internet
- Tidal AI Policy
- Turn your site into a place people can bump into each other
- Blogging can just be stating the obvious
- Wikipedia cofounder Larry Sanger blocked from editing Wikipedia
- The brain was not designed for this much bad news
- Pre-2022 Books
- Big Tech is stoking unrest in the UK. Why?
- The European Social Stack
- Show HN: TownSquare, a tiny presence layer for websites
- There are no instances in ATProto
- W Social, public institutions and the theater of European digital sovereignty
- Hacker News but for independent blogs
- Has AI already killed self-help nonfiction books?
- What happened to nerds?
- Facebook is paying people overseas promoting Alberta separatism
- Anti-social: It's fads, not friends, which now dominate social media feeds
- Dopamine Fracking
- The architecture of the internet creates risks for democracy
- Hacker News, Sans AI
- The desperation of NYTimes
- UK media fails to disclose defence sector links in nearly 60% of cases
- DuckDuckGo makes its 'no-AI' search engine easier to access as its traffic booms
- The Pirate Bay Remains Resilient, 20 Years After the Raid
- Meta launches Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp subscriptions
- YouTube to automatically label AI-generated videos
- DuckDuckGo search saw 28% more visits after Google said people love AI mode
- Stack Overflow’s forum is dead but the company’s still kicking
- Search engines alternatives now that Google isn't Google anymore
- Don't just paste the AI at me
- News outlets are limiting the Internet Archive’s access to their journalism
- We're testing new ad formats in Search and expanding our Direct Offers pilot
- Google Declaring War on the Web
- Apparently Google hates us now
- Google’s AI is being manipulated. The search giant is quietly fighting back
- Disney erased FiveThirtyEight
- Google changes its search box
- We stopped AI bot spam in our GitHub repo using Git's –author flag
- ABC News has taken all FiveThirtyEight articles offline
- Making the news available at no cost is a victory
- Tell NYT, Atlantic, USA Today to keep Wayback Machine
- The Rise of the Bullshittery
- Toxicity on Social Media
- Rotten Dot Com
- People Hate AI Art
- AI slop is killing online communities
- Show HN: Hallucinopedia
- Knitting bullshit
- YouTube, your RSS feeds are broken
- The fun has been optimized out of the Internet
- Stop big tech from making users behave in ways they don't want to
- Roblox shares plummet 18% as child safety measures weigh on bookings
- Russia Poisons Wikipedia
- I won a championship that doesn't exist
- I bought Friendster for $30k – Here's what I'm doing with it
- Using the internet like it's 1999
- Deezer says 44% of songs uploaded to its platform daily are AI-generated
- GitHub's fake star economy
- Everything we like is a psyop?
- FSF trying to contact Google about spammer sending 10k+ mails from Gmail account
- YouTube users get option to set their Shorts time limit to zero minutes
- A new spam policy for “back button hijacking”
- Google removes "Doki Doki Literature Club" from Google Play
- Bouncer: Block "crypto", "rage politics", and more from your X feed using AI
- A compelling title that is cryptic enough to get you to take action on it
- YouTube locked my accounts and I can't cancel my subscription
- Netflix Prices Went Up Again – I Bought a DVD Player Instead
- EFF is leaving X
- Am I German or Autistic?
- After 20 years I turned off Google Adsense for my websites (2025)
- The team behind a pro-Iran, Lego-themed viral-video campaign
- Show HN: I made a YouTube search form with advanced filters
- 12k AI-generated blog posts added in a single commit
- Show HN: I built a frontpage for personal blogs
- Men are ditching TV for YouTube as AI usage and social media fatigue grow
- r/programming bans all discussion of LLM programming
- Show HN: 30u30.fyi – Is your startup founder on Forbes' most fraudulent list?
- I'm betting on ATProto
- The bot situation on the internet is worse than you could imagine
- PC Gamer recommends RSS readers in a 37mb article that just keeps downloading
- Blocking Internet Archive Won't Stop AI, but Will Erase Web's Historical Record
- “Your frustration is the product”
- Spotify playing ads for paid subscribers
- Meta and TikTok let harmful content rise to drove engagement, say whistleblowers
- Kagi Small Web
- The “small web” is bigger than you might think
- The 49MB web page
- Grandparents are glued to their phones [video]
- Digg is gone again
- Show HN: s@: decentralized social networking over static sites
- The dead Internet is not a theory anymore
- Don't post generated/AI-edited comments. HN is for conversation between humans
- Bluesky CEO Jay Graber is stepping down
- The death of social media is the renaissance of RSS (2025)
- Ask HN: Please restrict new accounts from posting
- LLM Writing Tropes.md
- Boy I was wrong about the Fediverse
- Ars Technica fires reporter after AI controversy involving fabricated quotes
- “Microslop” filtered in the official Microsoft Copilot Discord server
- A simple web we own
- I now assume that all ads on Apple news are scams
- TikTok users can't upload anti-ICE videos. The company blames tech issues
- Celebrities say they are being censored by TikTok after speaking out against ICE
- Apple testing new App Store design that blurs the line between ads and results
- Local Journalism Is How Democracy Shows Up Close to Home
- Network of Scottish X accounts go dark amid Iran blackout
- Vietnam bans unskippable ads
- Google is dead. Where do we go now?
- YouTube's CEO limits his kids' social media use – other tech bosses do the same
- Tell HN: Happy Thanksgiving
- I am stepping down as the CEO of Mastodon
- YouTube erased more than 700 videos documenting Israeli human rights violations
- FocusTube: A Chrome extension that hides YouTube Shorts
- What Americans die from vs. what the news reports on
- The Mac app flea market
- Weaponizing Ads: How Google and Facebook Ads Are Used to Wage Propaganda Wars
- Melvyn Bragg steps down from presenting In Our Time
- The staff ate it later
- ArchiveTeam has finished archiving all goo.gl short links
- Wired Called Our AirGradient Monitor 'Not Recommended' over a Broken Display
- AI is killing the web – can anything save it?
- As AI kills search traffic, Google launches Offerwall to boost publisher revenue
- YouTube's new anti-adblock measures
- TikTok is harming children at an industrial scale
- Snapchat is harming children at an industrial scale?
- Leaked data reveals Israeli govt campaign to remove pro-Palestine posts on Meta
- Bye, Prime
- Revolt: Open-Source Alternative to Discord
- TikTok's algorithm exhibited pro-Republican bias during 2024 presidential race
- Bluesky now has 30 million users
- Hacker News for Gamedev
- Goodbye, Slopify
- Facebook ban on discussing Linux?
- Ask HN: Anyone else find LLM related posts causing them to lose interest in HN
- AI slop, suspicion, and writing back
- First Look: Loops, by Pixelfed – Decentralised TikTok Competitor (2024)
- OpenAI just put the final nail in the coffin of the open World Wide Web
- PhysicsForums and the Dead Internet Theory
- Bluesky's science takeover: 70% of Nature poll respondents use platform
- How we scaled Slack to support 1000s of developers
- Show HN: I built an active community of trans people online
- Show HN: I organized Bluesky feeds by categories and growth rankings
- Show HN: Trolling SMS spammers with Ollama
- Ask HN: Organize local communities without Facebook?
- Meta Censoring '#Democrat' on Instagram
- Elon Musk appears to make back-to-back fascist salutes at inauguration rally
- Escape the walled garden and algorithm black boxes with RSS feeds
- Why Twitter is such a big deal (2009)
- IsMyXFeedFucked – Analyze How Your X Feed's Impacting You
- We need to protect the protocol that runs Bluesky
- ATProto and the ownership of identity
- I've been advocating for RSS support, and you should too
- Nepenthes is a tarpit to catch AI web crawlers
- I ditched the algorithm for RSS
- Australian Open resorts to animated caricatures to bypass broadcast restrictions
- Show HN: I built a fair alternative to Product Hunt for indie makers
- Platforms systematically removed a user because he made "most wanted CEO" cards
- In the belly of the MrBeast
- Let's Quit X
- Ask HN: Is maintaining a personal blog still worth it?
- Ask HN: Am I the only one here who can't stand HN's AI obsession?
- The Origins of Wokeness
- Mastodon announces new European non-profit, change of CEO
- I deleted my social media accounts
- The mistake of yearning for the 'friendly' online world of 20 years ago
- OpenAI's bot crushed this seven-person company's web site 'like a DDoS attack'
- A three month review of kagi search and the orion web browser (2024)
- Pushing the whole company into the past on purpose
- How to delete your Facebook account
- Luigi Mangione's account has been renamed on Stack Overflow
- Facebook is removing stories about pornographic ads
- Microsoft disguises Bing as Google to fool inattentive searchers
- Mark Zuckerberg: Fact-checking on Meta is too "politically biased"
- It's time to get back to our roots around free expression
- Ending our third party fact-checking program and moving to Community Notes model
- Collection: More Doctors Smoke Camels
- Software is eating the world, all right (2024)
- Show HN: Filter out engagement bait and politics on your X/Twitter feed
- Ads chew through half of mobile data
- Social media distorts perceptions of norms (2024)
- I'm quitting the Washington Post
- Perplexity got ads
- Be a property owner and not a renter on the internet
- Autodesk deletes old forum posts suddenly
- Meta Wants More AI Bots on Facebook and Instagram
- Happy New Year 2025
- AI companies cause most of traffic on forums
- 4.5M Suspected Fake Stars in GitHub
- Trying to use Bluesky without getting burned again
- Google's Results Are Infested, Open AI Is Using Their Playbook from the 2000s
- Twtxt is a decentralised, minimalist microblogging service for hackers
- Something is wrong on the Internet
- More than 140 Kenya Facebook moderators sue after diagnoses of PTSD
- Ergo Chat – A modern IRC server written in Go
- Google, the search engine that's forgotten how to search
- Is stuff online worth saving?
- Ask HN: What should I do with meet.hn?
- AI slop is already invading Oregon's local journalism
- How WhatsApp for business changed the world
- Cold Email Handbook
- Browsing negative content online makes mental health struggles worse: Study
- Kagi Teams
- The correct amount of ads is zero
- Stephen King to shut down his 3 radio stations in Maine
- Facebook's Little Red Book
- ’Brain rot‘ named Oxford Word of the Year 2024
- An 83-year-old short story by Borges portends a bleak future for the internet
- The Engagement Is Better on Bluesky
- The deterioration of Google
- Breaking the 4Chan CAPTCHA
- Who Is Jay Graber, the CEO of Bluesky?
- In Praise of Print: Reading Is Essential in an Era of Epistemological Collapse
- Bluesky is on the verge of overtaking Threads in all the ways that matter
- This website is hosted on Bluesky
- The tech utopia fantasy is over
- The AI reporter that took my old job just got fired
- The meme-ification of the “Demon Core”
- Google stops letting sites like Forbes rule search for "Best CBD Gummies"
- What is the origin of the lake tank image that has become a meme? (2021)
- Bluesky is ushering in a pick-your-own algorithm era of social media
- Ask HN: Bluesky Accounts Worth Following for HN Enthusiasts
- Bluesky just crossed 20M users
- Scientific American's departing editor and the politicization of science
- 20 years of Google Scholar
- The Bluesky firehose viewed in the style of a Windows XP screensaver
- Bluesky is currently gaining more than 1M users a day
- We’re receiving about 3,000 reports/hour
- Maybe Bluesky has "won"
- 1M people have joined Bluesky in the last day
- We're experimenting with advertising
- Daisy, an AI granny wasting scammers' time
- Why the Guardian is no longer posting on X
- Visualizing 13M Bluesky users
- Two upstart search engines are teaming up to take on Google
- Bluesky adds 700k new users in a week
- I Don't Have Spotify
- IMG_0416
- Learning not to trust the All-In podcast
- ChatGPT Search
- I attended Google's creator conversation event, and it turned into a funeral
- Hi Google, please stop pooping the bed: a desperate plea from the indie web
- RIP botsin.space
- Why so few Matt Levines?
- 200k subscribers flee 'Washington Post' after Bezos blocks Harris endorsement
- Ask HN: What are you working on? (October 2024)
- Ibis: Federated Wikipedia alternative
- The Fediverse is getting its own TikTok competitor called Loops
- Bluesky Is Not Decentralized
- Before you buy a domain name, first check to see if it's haunted
- Quit Social Media (2016)
- Ribbonfarm Is Retiring
- Kagi Update: AI Image Filter for Search Results
- How I Experience Web Today (2021)
- Why pay for a search engine
- The TikTok documents: Stripping teens and boosting 'attractive' people
- Large language models reduce public knowledge sharing on online Q&A platforms
- The web I want vs. the one we have
- Meteorologists get death threats as hurricane conspiracy theories thrive
- Helping wikis move away from Fandom
- Nearly all of the Google images results for "baby peacock" are AI generated
- The Remarkable Life of Ibelin
- Anatomy of an internet argument
- Why I'm leaving Medium: AI policy
- Don't build your castle in other people's kingdoms (2021)
- Bots, so many bots
- Ask HN: Should you reply STOP to unwanted texts?
- Amusing Ourselves to Death (2009)
- CNN and USA Today have fake websites, I believe Forbes Marketplace runs them
- X (Twitter) blocks links to hacked JD Vance dossier
- Being Raised by the Internet
- Why I still blog after 15 years
- Google Cache is fully dead
- Twitter/X will let people you've blocked see your posts
- YouTube Premium is getting a big price hike internationally
- The Collapse of Self-Worth in the Digital Age
- Forbes Marketplace: The Parasite SEO Company Trying to Devour Its Host
- Show HN: I made crowdwave – imagine Twitter/Reddit but every post is a voicemail
- Twitter shut off API access; users volunteering their own data for an open API
- Ask HN: Is there any place on the internet capable of freedom of speech?
- Mozilla exits the Fediverse and will shutter its Mastodon server in December
- AI: Markets for Lemons, and the Great Logging Off (2022)
- LinkedIn blocked due Meshtastic video in private chat
- Bluesky Reaches 10M Accounts
- How to succeed in MrBeast production (Leaked PDF)
- Google Has Officially Killed Cache Links
- Show HN: Meet.hn – Meet the Hacker News community in your city
- I wish I didn't miss the '90s-00s internet
- Cohost to shut down at end of 2024
- Breaking Down OnlyFans' Economics
- FBI recommends using an ad blocker (2022)
- Have ‘hobby’ apps become the new social networks?
- alphaXiv: Open research discussion on top of arXiv
- Jennifer in paradise: the story of the first Photoshopped image (2014)
- 1M Users
- AnandTech Farewell
- The secret inside One Million Checkboxes
- A post by Guido van Rossum removed for violating Python community guidelines
- New Anti-Toxicity Features on Bluesky
- What's your favorite RSS feed reader?
- The Fall of StackOverflow: A Data-Driven Analysis
- U.S. Ambassador says Canadians are consuming 'unhealthy' amount of American news
- Zuckerberg claims regret on caving to White House pressure on content
- Ask HN: Why Is Stack Overflow Fading Away?
- Facebook Banned Me for Life Because I Help People Use It Less (2021)
- Reddit banned me for developing Geddit
- The YouTube like button glows when you say "smash that like button" [video]
- 13ft – A site similar to 12ft.io but self-hosted
- Disrupting a covert Iranian influence operation
- Why won't some people pay for news? (2022)
- Are we living in the age of info-determinism?
- SponsorBlock – skip sponsor segments on YouTube
- OnlyFans' porn juggernaut fueled by a deception
- Online Dating
- Captain Disillusion debunks David Beckham beach kicks [video]
- On Front Porch Forum, politics is fair game but unkindness is prohibited
- Susan Wojcicki has died
- The News Is Information Junk Food (2022)
- Partisan bot-like accounts continue to amplify divisive content on X
- A year of Meta's news ban in Canada
- Meta has run hundreds of ads for cocaine, opioids and other drugs
- Dear AI Companies, instead of scraping OpenStreetMap, how about a $10k donation?
- The lie of music discovery algorithms
- OpenAI Announces SearchGPT
- Mapping Hacker News to find who knows what in the HN community
- X redesigns water pistol emoji back to a firearm
- Google is the only search engine that works on Reddit now, thanks to AI deal
- Why is it so hard to share links on LinkedIn?
- Re: Do people IRL know you have a blog?
- Glasgow 2024 Hugo Awards Statement – 22 July, 2024
- User returns after 100k-hours ban to continue conversation that got them banned
- AI paid for by Ads – the GPT-4o mini inflection point
- Amazon's Kindle Direct Publishing is a dystopian nightmare
- Newpipe/yt-dlp stops working
- The internet is already over (2022)
- YouTube's eraser tool removes copyrighted music without impacting other audio
- I Received an AI Email
- Google dropping continuous scroll in search results
- What everyone gets wrong about the 2015 Ashley Madison scandal
- MTV news website goes dark, archives pulled offline
- A journey into Kindle AI slop hell
- Nobody knows what's going on
- “Attention assault” on Fandom
- Pop culture has become an oligopoly (2022)
- You've Read Your Last Free Article, Such Is the Nature of Mortality
- YouTube embeds ads into videos to beat ad blockers
- Group chats rule the world
- All three game console makers have now abandoned X integration
- A new term, ‘slop’, has emerged to describe dubious A.I.-generated material
- The Backrooms of the Internet Archive
- X has new rules that officially allow porn
- The Intellectual Obesity Crisis (2022)
- Napster sparked a file-sharing revolution 25 years ago
- Tiny number of 'supersharers' spread the majority of fake news
- Stop Using Discord
- Twitter is now attention roulette and ultimately meaningless
- Young women fall out of love with dating apps
- Google just updated its algorithm. The Internet will never be the same
- Google Search Is Now a Giant Hallucination
- The Washington Post Tells Staff It's Pivoting to AI
- Google's AI-generated search results keep citing The Onion
- Show HN: HackerNews but for research papers
- DuckDuckGo was down
- Bluesky adds direct messages
- How to Turn Off AI Overview in Google and Set "Web" as Default
- Show HN: Pls Fix – Hire big tech employees to appeal account suspensions
- How Shadow Banning Can Silently Shift Opinion Online
- How I Made Google's "Web" View My Default Search
- Ask HN: Video streaming is expensive yet YouTube "seems" to do it for free. How?
- 38% of webpages that existed in 2013 are no longer accessible a decade later
- A forged Apple employee badge
- Online censorship's institutional power
- The Downfall of DeviantArt
- I don't want to spend my one precious life dealing with Google's AI search
- Jike: The obscure social media app beloved by China's tech scene
- Romance author gets locked out of Google Docs for "inappropriate" content
- The most talented person in the world
- The Age of Rage: Why Are People Are So Angry?
- Apple apologizes for iPad 'Crush' ad that 'missed the mark'
- StackOverflow is banning accounts that delete answers in protest against OpenAI
- The best way to have complex discussions?
- I was at the clapperboard for Orson Welles' drunk wine commercial (2021)
- Please don't share our links on Mastodon
- Reddit is full of bots: thread reposted comment by comment, 10 months later
- 30% of Children Ages 5-7 Are on TikTok
- Google made me ruin a perfectly good website (2023)
- Google is feeling pretty pumped about a new way of showing you ads on YouTube
- Jeff Lawson buys The Onion
- Tribler: An attack-resilient micro-economy for media
- Leaving Substack
- 'Expensive' Streaming Services Are a Key Reason for Americans to 'Pirate'
- The man who killed Google Search?
- Ask HN: Is Hacker News under attack from spam bots?
- Jonathan Haidt blames teenage depression, anxiety on smartphones, social media
- Reddit is taking over Google
- How the Food Industry Pays Influencers to Shill Blueberries, Butter, and More
- MKBHDs for Everything
- Amazon is filled with garbage e-books, this is how they get made
- We need to rewild the internet
- NPR suspends veteran editor as it grapples with his public criticism
- TwitchAdSolutions – Blocking Twitch Ads
- LLMs Are This Close to Destroying the Internet
- Yes, social media is a cause of the epidemic of teenage mental illness
- Hacker News (HN) – Part 1: analysis
- Almost no one cares if your site is not on social media
- Cory Doctorow on Kagi Search
- A16Z blogs are just glorified marketing
- Is social media behind an epidemic of teenage mental illness?
- Tell HN: Reddit now blocks VPN access via browser, 'old' subdomain included
- Shutting down the letsblock.it project and its official instance
- Launch HN: Lumona (YC W24) – Product search based on Reddit and YouTube reviews
- Banner blindness
- Blue Ball Machine
- Google will start showing AI-powered search results for users who didn't opt-in
- The Reddits
- OpenAI's chatbot store is filling up with spam
- YouTube now requires to label their realistic-looking videos made using AI
- Ahead of IPO, Reddit blends advertising into user posts
- U.S. is investigating Meta for role in drug sales
- DARPA to launch efforts that will bolster defenses against manipulated media
- Ibis, a federated Wikipedia alternative
- Bluesky's stackable approach to moderation
- The internet is slipping out of our reach
- Are We Watching the Internet Die?
- World War II 'rumor clinics' helped America battle wild gossip
- New ways we're tackling spammy, low-quality content on Search
- Kagi and Wolfram
- Rogue editors started a competing Wikipedia that's only about roads
- Don't Use Discord for FOSS (2021)
- The internet feels fake now. It's all just staged videos and marketing
- Can we get more decentralised than the Fediverse?
- X becoming a 'ghost town' of bots as AI-generated spam content floods internet
- The creator economy can't rely on Patreon
- Google helped destroy adoption of RSS feeds (2023)
- Vice website is shutting down
- Google cut a deal with Reddit for AI training data
- Bluesky announces data federation for self hosters
- YouTube dominates TV streaming in US, per Nielsen's latest report
- Kagi Sidekick (alpha)
- Why is no one making a new version of old Facebook?
- Yulia Navalnaya’s X account was suspended
- Big media publishers are inundating the web with subpar product recommendations
- Diseconomies of scale in fraud, spam, support, and moderation
- A steep rise of Hacker News in Google rankings
- Pro CCP 'spamouflage' network pivoting to focus on US election
- The majority of traffic from X may have been fake during the Super Bowl
- Kagi Changelog 2/13: Faster and more accurate instant answers and Wikipedia page
- Ask HN: Nitter officially declared "over" today – alternatives?
- YouTube Oddities
- The dating app paradox
- The Catalogue of UK Entrances to Hell (2002)
- Nextdoor's Heisensubscribe (and Other Dark Patterns)
- OPML is underrated
- Why it's impossible to agree on what's allowed
- “Wherever you get your podcasts” is a radical statement
- The three million toothbrush botnet story isn't true
- Why I Live in IRC (2015)
- TikTok Is Destroying Itself from the Inside Out
- Bluesky and the AT Protocol: Usable decentralized social media
- Bluesky signups are now open to the public
- How Condé Nast bought and destroyed Pitchfork
- Stract: Open-souce, non-profit search engine
- How Quora died
- Stories removed from the Hacker News Front Page, updated in real time
- Google search drops cache link from search results
- A writer fabricated a series of stories for Atlas Obscura
- "If nothing changes, all remaining Nitter instances will go down eventually"
- Why do people post on [bad platform] instead of [good platform]?
- Sports Illustrated implosion shows the ugly, ongoing collapse of U.S. journalism
- Netflix is turning into cable TV
- Apple Maps wrongly lists restaurant permanently closed, costing owner thousands
- The Downward Spiral of Technology
- Why isn't Bluesky a peer-to-peer network?
- Google search is losing the fight with SEO spam, study says
- Surf the web like it's 1999
- The quiet death of Ello's big dreams
- Examples of AI rip-offs making their way into Google News
- Bing Gained Less Than 1% Market Share Since Adding Bing Chat
- Which word begins with "y" and looks like an axe in this picture? (2017)
- Is Google Getting Worse? A Longitudinal Investigation of SEO Spam in Search [pdf]
- Bluesky has launched RSS feeds
- YouTube begins new wave of slowdowns for users with ad blockers enabled
- YouTube is loading slower for users with ad blockers yet again
- Posthog is closing their Slack community in favor of forum
- Incels need more mental health help, have "fundamental thinking errors"
- I'm sorry but I cannot fulfill this request it goes against OpenAI use policy
- YouTube strikes again, it seems
- The young people sifting through the internet's worst horrors
- The Internet Is Full of AI Dogshit
- Scammy AI-Generated Books Are Flooding Amazon
- Tell HN: Bash.org is no more
- Israeli group claims it’s using back channels to censor “inflammatory” content
- Gmail and Yahoo’s 2024 inbox protections and what they mean for email programs
- Where Have All the Websites Gone?
- How meta built the infrastructure for Threads
- Higher fees, more ads: streaming cashes in by using the old tactics of cable TV
- Ask HN: What to do with text from old, unarchived, online forums?
- LinkedIn ad prices up as X plummets
- How do we stop Meta in 2024? We fix the information loop
- Tom Scott: After ten years, it's time to stop making videos [video]
- Happy New Year HN!
- How to run a small social network (2019)
- Compare Google, Bing, Marginalia, Kagi, Mwmbl, and ChatGPT
- Wikipedia daily most viewed pages
- Kagi – Sourcing from Brave Search, improved image search, and new Safari ext
- You've just been fucked by psyops [video]
- Amazon Prime Video starts showing ads in January unless you pay $2.99/month xtra
- A list of Hacker News's undocumented features and behaviors
- Positive news from 2023
- Unblocking User Freedom: the right to use adblockers
- Tell HN: Merry Christmas
- The era of American computer magazines has drawn to a close
- Study: TikTok Global Platform Anomalies Align with CCP Geostrategic Objectives [pdf]
- Meta censors pro-Palestinian views on a global scale, report claims
- Posts, profiles, and user search are now available without login
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- TikTok says it's not the algorithm, teens are just pro-Palestine
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