Internet / Digital Culture (2025-01)

How will Australia's under-16 social media ban work? We asked the law's enforcer (2024) (npr.org)

HN 41 pts 47 comments by segasaturn Jan 31, 2025 Internet / Digital Culture thread

A guide to liability pitfalls for people running a Mastodon instance (2022) (denise.dreamwidth.org)

HN 2 pts 0 comments by homebrewer Jan 31, 2025 Internet / Digital Culture thread

Current state of, and future of, the smart glasses industry

~ 21 pts 23 comments by unknown Jan 31, 2025 ~tech Internet / Digital Culture thread

How would you moderate this scenario?

~ 21 pts 50 comments by unknown Jan 31, 2025 ~tech Internet / Digital Culture thread

Show HN: Fancy HN – A Modern Hacker News Client with Real-Time Updates (fancy-hn.vercel.app)

HN 1 pts 3 comments by gokhanozturk Jan 31, 2025 Internet / Digital Culture thread

Fancy HN is a modern take on the Hacker News interface, built with performance and usability in mind. I created this because I wanted a more refined reading experience while maintaining the essence of HN.<p>Key features: - Real-time updates using Server-Sent Events - Clean, minimalist UI with dark&#...

Hacker News for Gamedev (gamedev.city)

HN 544 pts 219 comments by ahub Jan 31, 2025 Gaming / Retro Computing Internet / Digital Culture thread

Highlighting text in Wikipedia scrolls up too fast?

~ 18 pts 13 comments by unknown Jan 31, 2025 ~tech Internet / Digital Culture thread

Offbeat Fridays – The thread where offbeat headlines become front page news

~ 9 pts 5 comments by unknown Jan 31, 2025 ~news Internet / Digital Culture thread

Social Media AI Bot Goes Rogue (haaretz.com)

HN 4 pts 0 comments by hnlurker22 Jan 31, 2025 AI / Machine Learning Internet / Digital Culture thread

Using Tails when your world doesn't feel safe anymore (privacyguides.org)

~ 31 pts 11 comments by unknown Jan 30, 2025 ~tech Internet / Digital Culture thread

A young man used AI to build a nuclear fusor and now I must weep (corememory.com)

~ 22 pts 8 comments by unknown Jan 30, 2025 ~tech AI / Machine Learning Internet / Digital Culture thread

Practical Pigment Mixing for Digital Painting (2021) (scrtwpns.com)

L 5 pts 1 comments by calvin Jan 30, 2025 graphicspdf Internet / Digital Culture thread

Why is AI slop so easy to spot but hard to detect? (mattsayar.com)

~ 18 pts 15 comments by unknown Jan 30, 2025 ~tech AI / Machine Learning Internet / Digital Culture thread

AI is creating a generation of illiterate programmers (nmn.gl)

~ 52 pts 63 comments by unknown Jan 30, 2025 ~tech AI / Machine Learning Internet / Digital Culture thread

Debian Is Ditching X (Twitter) Citing These Reasons (news.itsfoss.com)

HN 10 pts 1 comments by gpi Jan 30, 2025 Internet / Digital Culture thread

Why Jeff Booth left his 377k Twitter following (primal.net)

HN 4 pts 2 comments by janandonly Jan 30, 2025 Internet / Digital Culture thread

The Death of Email Forwarding (mythic-beasts.com)

L 22 pts 9 comments by fanf Jan 30, 2025 email Internet / Digital Culture thread

Try to read Hacker News with this Chrome extension (chromewebstore.google.com)

HN 1 pts 0 comments by _mad_eye_ Jan 30, 2025 Internet / Digital Culture thread

First Fediverse instance hosted on a .arpa domain (1.6.0.0.8.0.0.b.e.d.0.a.2.ip6.arpa)

HN 7 pts 0 comments by cqql Jan 30, 2025 Internet / Digital Culture thread

Trump cribs Musk's "fork in the road" Twitter memo to slash gov't workforce (arstechnica.com)

HN 4 pts 0 comments by pitwin Jan 30, 2025 Internet / Digital Culture thread

Hey DeepSeek, can you reduce junk in my inbox? (loshadki.app)

L 11 pts 24 comments by outcoldman Jan 30, 2025 emailmacshowvibecoding AI / Machine Learning Programming (General)Apple / macOS / iOS Internet / Digital Culture thread

Show HN: Hacker News Discussions Narrated by AI

HN 2 pts 0 comments by qbqetell Jan 30, 2025 AI / Machine Learning Internet / Digital Culture thread

HNbyAI takes top HackerNews discussions, then narrates them in paragraphs using AI. To conclude, it injects a question that playfully challenges the intelligence of the participants<p>HNbyAI is a project from DOrch, meant to demonstrate how much could be done with little container resources. This p...

Is This How Reddit Ends? (theatlantic.com)

HN 14 pts 2 comments by alpha_squared Jan 29, 2025 Internet / Digital Culture thread

Can VLC or some other Windows program shuffle through a playlist without ever repeating a file, while also storing that state for future sessions?

~ 12 pts 11 comments by unknown Jan 29, 2025 ~tech Internet / Digital Culture thread

Japanese freezing company website hacked, list of Wikipedia scandals posted (ntu1986.co.jp)

HN 1 pts 0 comments by mostcallmeyt Jan 29, 2025 Internet / Digital Culture thread

Looking for an Android tablet with some probably unreachable requirements

~ 15 pts 11 comments by unknown Jan 29, 2025 ~tech Internet / Digital Culture thread

Top Market Makers and Influencers on Meme Coin Growth Signals (coinmo.substack.com)

HN 1 pts 0 comments by ehurynovich Jan 29, 2025 Maker / DIY / Hardware Internet / Digital Culture thread

Ubuntu Developers Moving from IRC to Matrix for Real-Time Communication (phoronix.com)

HN 3 pts 0 comments by mikece Jan 29, 2025 Programming (General)Internet / Digital Culture thread

Using v2ray with Caddy to Access the Internet in China (sequentialread.com)

L 18 pts 1 comments by j3s Jan 29, 2025 linuxweb Web Development Systems / Low-Level / OS Internet / Digital Culture thread

My product went viral on social media but all I got were these shitty users (andrewchen.substack.com)

HN 3 pts 1 comments by vincent_s Jan 29, 2025 Internet / Digital Culture thread