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What if Hacker News had a optical illusion captcha?
By asking visitors to correctly say which direction of say, four (up, down, left or right) a part of a captcha appears to be "moving", it filters out the bots while allowing humans with optical illusion fooled eyeballs to pass the test. Given 16 of those captcha requests in a row and given...
Researchers ran an unauthorized AI persuasion experiment on Reddit users (404media.co)
Sidephone - Your simple second phone (sidephone.com)
Unauthorised AI Bots on Reddit Are Eroding Sociality (mssv.net)
Building a Wikipedia MCP Server (dida.do)
Show HN: Reddit Anywhere – Find Reddit discussions for any webpage (chromewebstore.google.com)
Hey HN! This is my first development project, and I wanted to share it with you all<p>I built Reddit Anywhere because I kept manually searching Reddit for discussions about articles and videos I was reading&#x2F;watching, and I wanted to automate it.<p>The extension is pretty straightforward: it add...
Ask HN: Reddit Alternative?
Im looking for a forum for more non-tech light-hearted discussion.<p>Reddit has become annoying to the point where if you make jokes that are even a little bit &quot;violent&quot;, your account gets suspended.<p>What do you guys use. Is Lemmy any good?
Show HN: Indie Compass – A CRM built for Reddit lead gen and outreach (indiecompass.app)
Hi HN,<p>I built Indie Compass (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;indiecompass.app" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;indiecompass.app</a>) because managing leads and conversations from Reddit using spreadsheets and scattered DMs felt inefficient and prone to error. Many potential connections were getting l...
Show HN: Hacker News Menu Bar App for Raycast – View Stories over N Points (raycast.com)
I wanted a way to get notified about high-engagement stories on HN (e.g., 500+ points), so I built this Raycast menubar extension. It uses the HN API to filter and display top stories right from your menu bar.<p>It was quick to build - just half a day.<p>Code: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#...
Bot farms invade social media to hijack popular sentiment (fastcompany.com)
A comparative analysis across extremist Reddit communities (nature.com)
Gen Z ditch Meta and turn to Tumblr as a social media safe space (thetimes.com)
Wikipedia: Database Download (en.wikipedia.org)
Eleven people killed after SUV rams into Vancouver street festival - police &#34;confident&#34; not an act of terrorism (cbc.ca)
Ask HN: Thoughts on using mainstream social media via a web browser?
I’m curious if anyone here uses mainstream social media (Facebook, X&#x2F;Twitter, Pinterest, etc) via a web browser.<p>I’m interested in use cases where a browser is the primary access method.<p>If yes, what is your experience and would you recommend it?
Trump DOJ Threatens Wikipedia's Nonprofit Status over Alleged 'Propaganda' (gizmodo.com)
Digital Junkfood on Social Media: To Each Their Own Poison [pdf] (eelcoherder.com)
Smallweb – Your Internet Folder (smallweb.run)
What are the best niche software tools you&#39;re using?
Japan has successfully used drones to trigger and guide lightning strikes - and keep flying (dailygalaxy.com)
Image Stacks and iPhone Racks – Building an Internet Scale Meme Search Engine (findthatmeme.com)
A nonsense phrase has been occurring in scientific papers, suggesting artificial intelligence data contamination (sciencealert.com)
Social media and map apps blamed for record rise in mountain rescue callouts (theguardian.com)
D.C. Prosecutor Threatens Wikipedia's Tax-Exempt Status (thefp.com)
Wikipedia’s nonprofit status questioned by D.C. U.S. attorney (washingtonpost.com)
What If Hacker News Was a Spreadsheet?
What if Hacker News was a spreadsheet?<p>Well now it is:<p>We&#x27;ve been reimagining the spreadsheet for live data at Paradigm.<p>As a fun side project, we asked ourselves: what if HN itself was a sheet?<p>So we built it!<p>https:&#x2F;&#x2F;app.paradigmai.com&#x2F;sheets&#x2F;public&#x2F;57563f21...
Bot farms invade social media to hijack popular sentiment (fastcompany.com)
Discourse and the Fediverse (blog.discourse.org)
Social media affect me more than I thought (ergaster.org)
Don’t buy stuff from old AI people (youtube.com)