Hacker News with Generative AI: Decline

An Age of Illiteracy (fiddlersgreene.substack.com)
Civilizational decline is anticlimactic. For all our contemporary fascination with collapse, degeneration’s lived experience is humiliatingly ordinary. It’s just a series of broken systems, ruined people, and things falling apart.

Society, Decline, Culture

4 points by paulpauper 40 days ago | 0 comments

Turning Down Upspin Infrastructure (groups.google.com)
Upspin, like Unix and Plan 9, was intended to foster communities of sharing, but has been less successful at that than we hoped. As a consequence, with regret, we have decided to turn down the central infrastructure such as the keyserver over the coming months

Software, Infrastructure, Communities, Sharing, Decline

11 points by 4ad 50 days ago | 5 comments

The Deterioration of Google (baldurbjarnason.com)
This post announcing the closure of Giant Freakin Robot set me on a bit of a journey into the state of Google.

Google, Technology, Web Search, Decline

20 points by rapnie 147 days ago | 18 comments

America's Greyhound bus stations are disappearing (cnn.com)

Transportation, Public Transit, Decline, United States

42 points by drewr 186 days ago | 55 comments

We're Watching Facebook Die (wheresyoured.at)

Social Media, Facebook, Decline, Meta, Social Networks

59 points by marban 310 days ago | 58 comments