Hacker News with Generative AI: Information

Informative site with EOL dates of everything (endoflife.date)
End-of-life (EOL) and support information is often hard to track, or very badly presented. endoflife.date documents EOL dates and support lifecycles for various products.

Software, Technology, Support, Information

7 points by keks24 59 days ago | 1 comments

MIT Committee Report on the Changing Nature of Information (1983) [pdf] (archive.org)
Ask the publishers to restore access to 500,000+ books.

Information, Academia, Publishing, Archives

31 points by iloveburritos89 88 days ago | 5 comments

Bring Back Shortwave (spectator.co.uk)
Aeschylus is credited first for the time-worn aphorism that in war, truth is the first casualty. But in the next major conflict, truth could find itself joined by virtually all information.

Warfare, Media, Information, Technology

178 points by austinallegro 139 days ago | 111 comments

How They Control You (defragzone.substack.com)
We can fact-check anything in seconds, learn from endless resources, and stay informed 24/7. So, why are the masses still so easy to manipulate? Simple: manipulation is a science, and those who master it always win. Politicians and leaders know the secret formula to control people’s fears, emotions, and instincts. The result? The same old con, working better than ever.

Manipulation, Psychology, Politics, Social Media, Information

12 points by frag 248 days ago | 18 comments

The Illusion of Information Adequacy (plos.org)

Information, Psychology, Bias, Research

29 points by omk 286 days ago | 7 comments

Bo-En.info (bo-en.info)

Websites, Information, Online Resources

3 points by OmarShehata 288 days ago | 0 comments

What Is Privacy For? (newyorker.com)
We often want to keep some information to ourselves. But information itself may be the problem.

Privacy, Information, Technology, Society

8 points by mitchbob 292 days ago | 3 comments

Seeing Like a Network (strangeloopcanon.com)
We’re living through a phase change that is at the root of a lot of our societal problems. It’s the fact that our information networks have become much more dense.

Networks, Society, Information, Technology, Phase Change

73 points by yamrzou 308 days ago | 12 comments

Are we living in the age of info-determinism? (newyorker.com)

Philosophy, Information, Determinism

64 points by pseudolus 345 days ago | 100 comments

He Was an FBI Informant–and Inspired a Generation of Violent Extremists (wired.com)

FBI, Extremism, Terrorism, Law Enforcement, Information

5 points by Teever 357 days ago | 5 comments

The Encyclopedia Project, or How to Know in the Age of AI (publicbooks.org)

Artificial Intelligence, Knowledge, Information, Education

20 points by rendx 396 days ago | 1 comments

Wikipedia: 97% of all articles lead to Philosophy (wikipedia.org)