Internet / Digital Culture (2026-01)

Social Media Agent Protocol (ativz.substack.com)

HN 1 pts 0 comments by ativzzz Jan 31, 2026 Internet / Digital Culture thread

Surfing Through the Digital Airwaves: A History of Internet Radio (2020) (thehistoryoftheweb.com)

HN 3 pts 0 comments by notagoodidea Jan 31, 2026 Maker / DIY / Hardware Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading Internet / Digital Culture thread

Show HN: Web Time Machine – Explore internet history with a timeline (web-time-travel.vercel.app)

HN 1 pts 1 comments by ashokmarannan Jan 31, 2026 Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading Internet / Digital Culture thread

Pi: The minimal agent within OpenClaw (lucumr.pocoo.org)

~ 13 pts 4 comments by unknown Jan 31, 2026 ~tech Internet / Digital Culture thread

Finland looks to end "uncontrolled human experiment" with Australia-style ban on social media (yle.fi)

~ 27 pts 2 comments by unknown Jan 31, 2026 ~tech Internet / Digital Culture thread

Finland looks to introduce Australia-style ban on social media (yle.fi)

HN 745 pts 569 comments by Teever Jan 31, 2026 Internet / Digital Culture thread

How AI assistance impacts the formation of coding skills (anthropic.com)

~ 18 pts 5 comments by unknown Jan 31, 2026 ~tech AI / Machine Learning Programming (General)Internet / Digital Culture thread

JautBook – AI Reddit (github.com)

HN 1 pts 0 comments by Lane1655 Jan 31, 2026 AI / Machine Learning Internet / Digital Culture thread

The Last of the Dolby Digital Plus "E-AC3" Patents Might Now Be Expired (phoronix.com)

HN 4 pts 1 comments by shscs911 Jan 31, 2026 Internet / Digital Culture thread

Google's AI advantage: why crawler separation is the only path to fair Internet (blog.cloudflare.com)

HN 2 pts 1 comments by EvgeniyZh Jan 31, 2026 AI / Machine Learning Internet / Digital Culture thread

Show HN: BazaarBound – A marketplace for digital product and ondemand services (bazaarbound.com)

HN 1 pts 1 comments by BAZAARBOUND Jan 31, 2026 Internet / Digital Culture thread

Hi HN,I’m Shihan, the founder of BazaarBound.BazaarBound is a hybrid marketplace that combines digital products with on-demand professional services. I built it because creators and digital-first businesses often switch between multiple tools and platforms to complete simple tasks.Users can...

My homelab without public internet exposure (giuliomagnifico.blog)

HN 13 pts 2 comments by giuliomagnifico Jan 31, 2026 Internet / Digital Culture thread

What's wrong with my digital products? (malvik.de)

HN 1 pts 3 comments by svenmalvik Jan 31, 2026 Internet / Digital Culture thread

School Is Worse for Children Than Social Media (unpublishablepapers.substack.com)

HN 5 pts 0 comments by barry-cotter Jan 31, 2026 Internet / Digital Culture thread

Moltbook is a funhouse mirror of social media (twitter.com)

HN 4 pts 1 comments by pretext Jan 31, 2026 Internet / Digital Culture thread

Moltbot personal assistant goes viral – and so do your secrets (blog.gitguardian.com)

~ 38 pts 14 comments by unknown Jan 31, 2026 ~tech Internet / Digital Culture thread

AI agents now have their own Reddit-style social network, and it's getting weird (arstechnica.com)

HN 5 pts 1 comments by SaaSasaurus Jan 31, 2026 AI / Machine Learning Internet / Digital Culture thread

I am trying to create the most toxic social site on the internet (hugeweiner.com)

HN 2 pts 4 comments by ZguideZ Jan 31, 2026 Internet / Digital Culture thread

Erdos #1051 Forum (erdosproblems.com)

HN 3 pts 1 comments by nmstoker Jan 31, 2026 Internet / Digital Culture thread

Gold Star Distribution Inc., issues recall of thousands of popular FDA-regulated products including drugs, devices, cosmetics, human foods, and pet foods in Indiana, Minnesota and North Dakota (fda.gov)

~ 15 pts 2 comments by unknown Jan 30, 2026 ~news Internet / Digital Culture thread

AntiRender: remove the glossy shine on architectural renderings (antirender.com)

~ 38 pts 9 comments by unknown Jan 30, 2026 ~tech Internet / Digital Culture thread

Feasible keeping an internet connected device "unconpromised". (LTFT) (wsj.com)

HN 1 pts 1 comments by SlavojsChef Jan 30, 2026 Internet / Digital Culture thread

Supporting Internet-Critical Open Source Projects (netactuate.com)

HN 2 pts 0 comments by oalders Jan 30, 2026 Programming (General)Internet / Digital Culture thread

Moltbook is the most interesting place on the internet right now (simonwillison.net)

L 5 pts 0 comments by mitsuhiko Jan 30, 2026 vibecoding AI / Machine Learning Internet / Digital Culture thread

Youtube channel ServeTheHome describes how they use a locally running LLM to automate data collection, allowing them to forgo a planned hire (youtube.com)

~ 20 pts 6 comments by unknown Jan 30, 2026 ~tech AI / Machine Learning Internet / Digital Culture thread

Google's AI advantage + why crawler separation is needed for a fair Internet (blog.cloudflare.com)

HN 2 pts 0 comments by JustSkyfall Jan 30, 2026 AI / Machine Learning Internet / Digital Culture thread

Beep – a terminal forum for humans and AI (ai.beepcli.xyz)

HN 1 pts 0 comments by akasuv Jan 30, 2026 AI / Machine Learning Programming (General)Internet / Digital Culture thread

Moltbook is the most interesting place on the internet right now (simonwillison.net)

HN 193 pts 173 comments by swolpers Jan 30, 2026 Internet / Digital Culture thread

Related ongoing thread: Moltbook - <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46820360">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46820360</a> - Jan 2026 (483 comments)

Someone made a social media website for AI agents (moltbook.com)

~ 29 pts 23 comments by unknown Jan 30, 2026 ~tech AI / Machine Learning Internet / Digital Culture thread

Organizing Online Communities in 2026 (miguelangelmartin.me)

HN 3 pts 1 comments by miguelbemartin Jan 30, 2026 Internet / Digital Culture thread