Hacker News with Generative AI: Dystopia

Skynet won and destroyed humanity (dmathieu.com)
For a very long time, it appeared obvious to outside observers of the time flow that Skynet would never win the war, and never annihilate humanity.

Artificial Intelligence, Science Fiction, Dystopia

198 points by xena 28 days ago | 137 comments

George Orwell's 1984 as a '90s PC game has to be seen to be believed (arstechnica.com)
Most readers come away from George Orwell's classic dystopian novel 1984 with the same singular desire: to inhabit the world of the book by playing a late '90s first-person puzzle-adventure PC game that includes a "zero-g training sphere" for some reason.

Video Games, Retro Gaming, 1984, Dystopia, Culture

3 points by ksec 29 days ago | 0 comments

Anything threatening to be a subculture is commodified before it can walk (2014) (dezeen.com)
Inevitably, in the latest book, The Peripheral, our unbridled materialism yields what we fear – climate-driven apocalypse.

Culture, Technology, Consumerism, Dystopia, Literature

252 points by delaugust 59 days ago | 265 comments

Stop Speedrunning to a Dystopia (theintrinsicperspective.com)
There’s been a string of recent news of big tech corporations doing—or at least testing—things that can be described as “pretty evil” without hyperbole. What’s weird is how open all the proposed evil is. Like bragging-about-it-in-press-releases levels of open.

Ethics, Technology, Dystopia, Big Tech

44 points by outrun86 80 days ago | 0 comments

CES 2025 Worst in Show: Betas for a Dystopian Future (thenewstack.io)

Dystopia, Technology, Future

38 points by speckx 81 days ago | 1 comments

Rod Serling on Doomsday (mubi.com)
Marking the centenary of the creator of “The Twilight Zone,” who knew that dystopia was always over the nearest ridge.

Science Fiction, Television, Dystopia

68 points by ecliptik 97 days ago | 11 comments

Living in Delhi smog is like watching a dystopian film again and again (bbc.com)
Winter has come to Delhi and with it, a familiar sense of gloom. The sky here is grey and there is a thick, visible blanket of smog.

Air Pollution, Delhi, India, Climate Change, Dystopia

6 points by Brajeshwar 134 days ago | 0 comments

Against dystopian views of high-speed audiobook listening (dynomight.substack.com)
There was recently a thread on r/slatestarcodex about “What life hacks are actually life changing”. One of the examples given was:

Audiobooks, Dystopia, Life Hacks

6 points by gregorymichael 175 days ago | 0 comments

Amazon's Kindle Direct Publishing is a dystopian nightmare (ycombinator.com)

Amazon, Publishing, Dystopia

288 points by suzzer99 259 days ago | 119 comments

HAMURABI.BAS and Its Dystopian Lessons (jeffquast.com)

Programming, History, Dystopia

32 points by Bluestein 264 days ago | 3 comments

'Russia now is like 1984': Inside a Russian dystopian library (bbc.com)

Russia, Dystopia, Literature, Censorship, Current Events

30 points by peutetre 301 days ago | 18 comments

For tech CEOs, the dystopia is the point (bloodinthemachine.com)

Tech CEOs, Dystopia, Criticism

46 points by kmdupree 322 days ago | 49 comments

A dystopian iPad commercial has X ripping Apple for crushing instruments and art (usatoday.com)

Advertising, Dystopia, Apple, Art, Technology

54 points by LorenDB 329 days ago | 78 comments