Hacker News with Generative AI: Content Creation

In the belly of the MrBeast (kevinmunger.substack.com)
It’s been a year since I sent off the proofs for The YouTube Apparatus (now free to download!), and I haven’t been following the platform as closely while I was focused more on Twitch, TikTok and moving to Italy.
YouTube, Social Media, Content Creation, MrBeast
501 points by stafford_beer 4 days ago | 394 comments
Reflections on 1 Year of (Trying to) Become Successful on YouTube (chaserensberger.com)
In 2024, my friend and I started making YouTube videos. This article is just some housekeeping I’m doing to keep track of progress for this channel. I hope that some people find it valuable. I offer some advice in this article, but everything should be taken with a grain of salt, as we are not (hopefully yet) a successful channel. If you’re interested in getting in touch, there is contact information at the end of the article.
YouTube, Content Creation, Blogging, Personal Experiences, Advice
36 points by ChaseRensberger 7 days ago | 31 comments
Software creators are the new content creators (workingtheorys.com)
No, this isn’t the end of software, but it is the beginning of a new software era. And I like the media industry analogy, but it’s an evolution, not a death.
Software Development, Content Creation, Media Industry, Evolution
10 points by antelopetracks 12 days ago | 3 comments
My approach to running a link blog (simonwillison.net)
I started running a basic link blog on this domain back in November 2003—publishing links (which I called “blogmarks”) with a title, URL, short snippet of commentary and a “via” link where appropriate.
Blogging, Web Development, Personal Projects, Content Creation
29 points by robenkleene 15 days ago | 10 comments
Your content is better than AI (articulation.blog)
There's no doubt, 2024 has been the year of AI
Artificial Intelligence, Content Creation
6 points by dustywusty 21 days ago | 1 comments
AI-Generated Images Discourage Me from Reading Your Blog (nelson.cloud)
I have a growing hatred for AI-generated images in blogs. It makes me wonder if the text in the blog posts is AI-generated to some extent. It’s always disappointing seeing these images in blogs run by individuals. I expect this from corporate blogs but not indie blogs.
Artificial Intelligence, Blogging, Content Creation, Design, Opinion
93 points by nelsonfigueroa 24 days ago | 49 comments
Founder Mode and the Art of Mythmaking (charity.wtf)
I’ve never been good at “hot takes”. Anyone who knows anything about marketing can tell you that the best time to share your opinion about something is when everyone is all worked up about it. Hot topics drive clicks and eyeballs and attention en masse.
Marketing, Storytelling, Startups, Content Creation
6 points by komuW 31 days ago | 0 comments
Show HN: Only Fans (onlyfanz.top)
Social Media, Content Creation, Web Development
10 points by benkaiser 33 days ago | 3 comments
OnlyFans models are using AI impersonators to keep up with their DMs (wired.com)
One of the more persistent concerns in the age of AI is that the robots will take our jobs.
Artificial Intelligence, Social Media, Content Creation, Entertainment
368 points by impish9208 38 days ago | 615 comments
Regarding – and, Well, Against – Substack (daringfireball.net)
Substack, Blogging, Content Creation
4 points by everybodyknows 39 days ago | 0 comments
Over half of long posts on LinkedIn are likely AI-generated (originality.ai)
We have likely all experienced the same feeling on LinkedIn within the last couple of years… seeing a long-form post and suspecting it of being AI-generated but the author is passing it off as their own thought leadership.
Artificial Intelligence, Social Media, Content Creation, LinkedIn
65 points by cdme 51 days ago | 41 comments
Show HN: I built our SEO workflow into a simple tool for small dev teams (getpostie.com)
Generate high-quality, search-optimized blog posts with AI assistance. Built for small teams who want to attract more traffic with less effort.
SEO, Development Tools, AI, Content Creation, Marketing
10 points by heyinzyh 53 days ago | 8 comments
My blog is a digital garden, not a blog (joelhooks.com)
The phrase "digital garden" is a metaphor for thinking about writing and creating that focuses less on the resulting "showpiece" and more on the process, care, and craft it takes to get there.
Writing, Digital Gardens, Blogging, Content Creation
14 points by vie00001 55 days ago | 0 comments
Don't Call It a Substack. (anildash.com)
Email's been here for years. But the reason Substack wants you to call your creative work by their brand name is because they control your audience and distribution, and they want to own your content and voice, too. You may not think you care about that today, but you will when you see what they want to do with it.
Substack, Content Creation, Email Marketing, Digital Media
43 points by bookofjoe 57 days ago | 26 comments
Don't Call It a Substack (anildash.com)
Email's been here for years. But the reason Substack wants you to call your creative work by their brand name is because they control your audience and distribution, and they want to own your content and voice, too. You may not think you care about that today, but you will when you see what they want to do with it.
Substack, Email Marketing, Content Creation, Digital Media, Ownership
15 points by marban 59 days ago | 3 comments
Don't Call It a Substack (anildash.com)
Email's been here for years. But the reason Substack wants you to call your creative work by their brand name is because they control your audience and distribution, and they want to own your content and voice, too. You may not think you care about that today, but you will when you see what they want to do with it.
Substack, Email Marketing, Content Creation, Business, Social Media
16 points by tobr 59 days ago | 0 comments
POSSE: Publish (on your) Own Site, Syndicate Elsewhere (indieweb.org)
POSSE is an abbreviation for Publish (on your) Own Site, Syndicate Elsewhere, the practice of posting content on your own site first, then publishing copies or sharing links to third parties (like social media silos) with original post links to provide viewers a path to directly interacting with your content.
Content Creation, Blogging, Social Media
16 points by thunderbong 61 days ago | 0 comments
Why YouTube Sponsors Are Almost Always Terrible (youtube.com)
YouTube, Marketing, Advertising, Content Creation
17 points by RicoElectrico 62 days ago | 8 comments
Show HN: 8arms – Marketing Campaign Generation (8arms.ai)
Don't create blog posts and social media campaigns from scratch. Using cutting edge AI, 8arms will generate content for you. Edit and approve, get shortform versions for all social platforms.
Marketing, Artificial Intelligence, Content Creation, Social Media
7 points by bleakbin 66 days ago | 1 comments
Blog Writing for Developers (2023) (rmoff.net)
Writing is one of the most powerful forms of communication, and it’s useful in a multitude of roles and contexts. As a blog-writing, documentation-authoring, twitter-shitposting DevEx engineer I spend a lot of my time writing. Recently, someone paid me a very nice compliment about a blog I’d written and asked how they could learn to write like me and what resources I’d recommend.
Software Development, Writing, Content Creation, Blog Writing, Technical Communication
255 points by mooreds 74 days ago | 43 comments
If you need the money, don't take the job (bitfieldconsulting.com)
It’s late, and the campfire is burning low. My fellow content creator Zack Proser and I are sitting on a log, chowing down on s’mores and enjoying a few spine-chilling tales of terror about my horrible career.
Career Advice, Content Creation
271 points by gus_leonel 76 days ago | 157 comments
Textcasting: Applying the Philosophy of Podcasting to Text (2022) (textcasting.org)
Content Creation, Philosophy, Digital Media, Writing
25 points by surprisetalk 81 days ago | 0 comments
Why so few Matt Levines? (gwern.net)
Why are popularizing educational newsletter-frequency writers of important fields like Matt Levine for finance so rare? Because most fields are too slow or ambiguous, and writers of the right combination of expertise, obsession, and persistence are also rare.
Writing, Finance, Education, Content Creation
263 points by iNic 81 days ago | 141 comments
AI Slop Is Flooding Medium (wired.com)
AI slop is flowing onto every major platform where people post online—and Medium is no exception.
Artificial Intelligence, Content Creation, Online Platforms, Medium
78 points by minimaxir 81 days ago | 73 comments
Build an Interactive Text-to-Podcast Experience with GPT-4o Real Time API (2024) (aymenfurter.ch)
We’ve all been there — you have an article or a training you want to dive into, but your day is packed, and you just can’t seem to fit it in. Much of the content we consume daily is only available in one format. It might be a YouTube video, an article, or a podcast. However, the form of content often depends more on the author’s preference than on the nature of the topic itself.
Artificial Intelligence, GPT-4, Content Creation, Podcasts
9 points by aymenfurter 90 days ago | 0 comments
Ribbonfarm Is Retiring (ribbonfarm.com)
After several years of keeping it going in semi-retired, keep-the-lights-on (KTLO) mode, I’ve decided to officially fully retire this blog.
Retirement, Blogging, Online Communities, Content Creation
178 points by Arubis 90 days ago | 131 comments
Our trashy domain killed our reach – don't make the same mistake (ycombinator.com)
We've built a edtech platform to help students consume study material more efficiently, by leveraging AI to create and review (human-like) quizzes, flashcards, summaries and a chat room where you can talk to the uploaded documents.
EdTech, Artificial Intelligence, Learning, Education, Content Creation
19 points by brka 95 days ago | 25 comments
Adobe unveils AI video generator trained on licensed content (arstechnica.com)
On Monday, Adobe announced Firefly Video Model, a new AI-powered text-to-video generation tool that can create novel videos from written prompts.
Artificial Intelligence, Video Editing, Content Creation, Adobe
8 points by LorenDB 95 days ago | 1 comments
Show HN: I built an idea to video app (frameloop.ai)
Create engaging videos on any topic, in various styles, without advanced editing skills. Streamline your content creation process.
Video Editing, Content Creation, Software, AI
8 points by zhacker 95 days ago | 2 comments
Twitter will pay its Premium users to engage with each other (theverge.com)
X is making a big change to how creators can earn money from the platform.
Social Media, Business, Monetization, Content Creation
7 points by jrflowers 100 days ago | 1 comments