Hacker News with Generative AI: Internet Culture

Fediverse Donut Club (sethmlarson.dev)
I propose the creation of a "Fediverse Donut Club" with an every-other-week #FediDonutFriday event where everyone in Fediverse Donut Club procures and shares pictures of donuts to meet others in the Fediverse.
The world beneath the shadows of YouTube's algorithm (bbc.com)
There's a secret side of YouTube, just beyond the guiding hand of the algorithm – and it’s nothing like what you know. The vast majority of YouTube's estimated 14.8 billion videos have almost never been seen. Until now.
Anime fans stumbled upon a mathematical proof (scientificamerican.com)
Math solutions can be found in surprising places, including the dark realms of the Internet. In 2011 an anonymous poster on the now infamously controversial image board 4chan posed a mathematical puzzle about the cult classic anime series The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya. Though the bulletin board has become littered with hateful, violent and extreme content, that original post led to a solution to the sophisticated math problem.
The Dead Planet Theory (arealsociety.substack.com)
Everyone loves to talk about the Dead Internet Theory, but less often discussed is how few people “do things” in any venue or on any platform.
Linux Equals Autism (instagram.com)
I Suddenly Lost My Enthusiasm for Interneting (durmonski.com)
As someone who has spent years contributing to the digital noise (via blogging), working in the IT sector, and existing long enough to remember when “going online” meant hearing the tortured screams of a dial-up modem, I have to admit – I’ve lost my enthusiasm for interneting.
Page is under construction: A love letter to the personal website (localghost.dev)
If you take just one thing away from this article, I want it to be this: please build your own website. A little home on the independent web.
Death of South Korean actor at 24 sparks discussion about internet culture (apnews.com)
South Korean actor Kim Sae-ron’s death this week has triggered an outpouring of grief and calls for changes to the way the country’s celebrities are treated in the public arena and on social media, which critics say can foster a culture of harassment.
Cleo from Math StackExchange's Identity Has Been Revealed? (youtube.com)
Terence Tao on the Ongoing Process of "Enshittification" (mathstodon.xyz)
The Enshittification Hall of Shame (slashdot.org)
As Internet enshittification marches on, here are some of the worst offenders (arstechnica.com)
Two years ago, a Canadian writer named Cory Doctorow coined the phrase "enshittification" to describe the decay of online platforms.
As Internet enshittification marches on, here are some of the worst offenders (arstechnica.com)
Two years ago, a Canadian writer named Cory Doctorow coined the phrase "enshittification" to describe the decay of online platforms.
There is No Antimemetics Division (wikidot.com)
As Internet enshittification marches on, here are some of the worst offenders (arstechnica.com)
Two years ago, a Canadian writer named Cory Doctorow coined the phrase "enshittification" to describe the decay of online platforms.
As Internet enshittification marches on, here are some of the worst offenders (arstechnica.com)
Two years ago, a Canadian writer named Cory Doctorow coined the phrase "enshittification" to describe the decay of online platforms.
Brandolini's law – Amount of energy needed to refute bullshit (wikipedia.org)
Brandolini's law, also known as the bullshit asymmetry principle, is an internet adage coined in 2013 by Alberto Brandolini, an Italian programmer, that emphasizes the effort of debunking misinformation, in comparison to the relative ease of creating it in the first place.
Streisand Effect (wikipedia.org)
The Streisand effect is an unintended consequence of attempts to hide, remove, or censor information, where the effort instead increases public awareness of the information.
Brandolini's Law (wikipedia.org)
Brandolini's law, also known as the bullshit asymmetry principle, is an internet adage coined in 2013 by Alberto Brandolini, an Italian programmer, that emphasizes the effort of debunking misinformation, in comparison to the relative ease of creating it in the first place.
The Web We Lost (2012) (anildash.com)
The tech industry and its press have treated the rise of billion-scale social networks and ubiquitous smartphone apps as an unadulterated win for regular people, a triumph of usability and empowerment.
Stories I Refuse to Believe (tedunangst.com)
The internet is filled with stories that purport to teach us a valuable lesson or something about how the world works, and they’re really important because they really happened.
Stories from the Internet (dbrgn.ch)
A collection of internet folklore.
TILs Are Junk Food (antonz.org)
I have a very low opinion of public TILs ("Today I Learned"). You probably guessed that from the title. Here is my reasoning.
4chan became the home of the elite reader (newstatesman.com)
It’s a Friday in early January and someone on 4chan has invented a new philosophical doctrine: “esoteric Kantianism”. “You must not take Kant’s words at face value,” the anonymous user warns – readers who do so will only take away shallow insights about the half-blind “normie mind”. “You must read between the lines.”
Be a property owner and not a renter on the internet (den.dev)
The year is 2025. The internet in the shape that we’ve known it in the early 2000s is no longer there. Or, not quite in the shape that we’ve seen it before. This is not just plain nostalgia talking - the vibrant ecosystem of blogs, feeds, personal sites, and forums has been usurped by a few mega-concentrated players.
Blogs rot. Wikis wait (j3s.sh)
blogs rot. wikis wait.
Wikipedia: List of Citogenesis Incidents (wikipedia.org)
In 2011, Randall Munroe in his comic xkcd coined the term "citogenesis" to describe the creation of "reliable" sources through circular reporting.[1][2] This is a list of some well-documented cases in which Wikipedia has been the source.
Something is wrong on the Internet (lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com)
I just read two long diatribes on the Internet about what’s wrong with . . . well pretty much everything.
Never Forgive Them (wheresyoured.at)
In the last year, I’ve spent about 200,000 words on a kind of personal journey where I’ve tried again and again to work out why everything digital feels so broken, and why it seems to keep getting worse, despite what tech’s “brightest” minds might promise.
Never Forgive Them (wheresyoured.at)
In the last year, I’ve spent about 200,000 words on a kind of personal journey where I’ve tried again and again to work out why everything digital feels so broken, and why it seems to keep getting worse, despite what tech’s “brightest” minds might promise.