Hacker News with Generative AI: Internet Culture

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.

Misinformation, Internet Culture, Social Media, Programming

15 points by throw0101c 3 days ago | 3 comments

We Asked the Creator of 'Rotating Sandwiches': Why? (2023) (digg.com)
If you feel like the internet is a lot less fun these days, you're not alone. For many of us, the online experience now consists of algorithm-driven sameness, punctuated by dangerous misinformation and the occasional horrifying image. But amidst all that, there's still Rotating Sandwiches — one of the few remaining sites on the internet that exist purely for fun, silliness or simply no reason at all.

Internet Culture, Humor, Web Design, Creative Projects

3 points by cainxinth 10 days ago | 0 comments

Every internet fight is a speech fight (pluralistic.net)
Every internet fight is a speech fight: And every internet fight is a sovereignty fight.

Internet Culture, Speech, Sovereignty

5 points by hn_acker 11 days ago | 0 comments

Elwood Edwards, voice of AOL's 'you've got mail' alert, has died (nytimes.com)
Elwood Edwards, an announcer who voiced the ubiquitous AOL email alert “You’ve got mail!” at a time when many Americans were just beginning to learn how to navigate the internet, died on Tuesday at his home in New Bern, N.C. He was 74.

Technology, Obituary, Internet Culture

165 points by tysone 13 days ago | 32 comments

Reddit sleuths track down the band behind the internet's most mysterious song (theverge.com)
Members of Reddit’s r/ThatMysteriousSong community have finally identified what they call “The Most Mysterious Song on the Internet,” a new wave tune that a teenager recorded to cassette sometime around 1984, as reported yesterday by 404 Media.

Music, Reddit, Internet Culture, Online Communities

14 points by thunderbong 16 days ago | 0 comments

The Backrooms Wiki (daytenrose.substack.com)
Happy Halloween!

Internet Culture, Creepypasta, Online Communities

40 points by surprisetalk 21 days ago | 71 comments

Disenshittify the Web one small step at a time (deshittify.us)
While the enshittification of the Web (and beyond) might seem far greater than any individual can even make the slightest dent in–you, we, can deshittify the Web one small piece at a time. Something you like or use or do that's become enshittified? Disenshittify it.

Web Development, Social Commentary, Internet Culture

6 points by philonoist 22 days ago | 0 comments

Morsing of the Dead [video] (youtube.com)

Humor, Video, Music, Internet Culture

14 points by cenazoic 26 days ago | 2 comments

Tim Burton: The internet makes me quite depressed (bbc.com)
Director Tim Burton has revealed that being on the internet makes him feel "quite depressed".

Internet Culture, Celebrities, Mental Health

28 points by tartoran 28 days ago | 53 comments

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.

Misinformation, Internet Culture, Social Media, Information Management, Psychology

4 points by smig0 28 days ago | 0 comments

Stages of Denial (2020) (beyondloom.com)
It is a lazy Tuesday afternoon. Perhaps you were idly browsing your favorite news aggregator, or visiting The Orange Website to wade through murky startup groupthink in search of interesting links.

Psychology, Denial, Internet Culture

35 points by pabs3 33 days ago | 13 comments

I Hate the Letter F (reddit.com)
No F's in the chat for him (i.redd.it)

Humor, Reddit, Internet Culture

84 points by thunderbong 33 days ago | 57 comments

DHH's response to Mullenweg's response of DHH's blog post (twitter.com)

Software, Social Media, Internet Culture, Blogging

18 points by rob 38 days ago | 7 comments

ACF has been hijacked (anderegg.ca)
It’s super late at night on Thanksgiving weekend in Canada. I shouldn’t be thinking about weird internet drama, but here we are.

Internet Culture, Online Communities, Canada

226 points by GavinAnderegg 39 days ago | 81 comments

Forums Are Still Alive (aftermath.site)
Internet forums are still alive and kicking and full of information and interesting people. Here are the ones I could find that are alive and well.

Internet Culture, Online Communities, Social Media

62 points by jsheard 43 days ago | 11 comments

The blogosphere is in full bloom. The rest of the internet has wilted (theguardian.com)
If you log into Dave Winer’s blog, Scripting News, you’ll find a constantly updated note telling you how many years, months, days, hours, minutes and seconds the blog has been running. Sometime tomorrow morning the year field will switch to 30. Which will mean that every single day for three decades Dave’s blog will have been stirring things up.

Blogging, Internet Culture

13 points by watchdogtimer 47 days ago | 0 comments

Cory Doctorow With a Plan to Halt the Internet's Enshittification (hackaday.com)
Those of us old enough to remember BBS servers or even rainbow banners often go down the nostalgia hole about how the internet was better “back in the day” than it is now as a handful of middlemen with a stranglehold on the way we interact with information, commerce, and even other people.

Internet Culture, Technology, Social Commentary

9 points by rolph 48 days ago | 2 comments

Why does man print "gimme gimme gimme" at 00:30? (2017) (stackexchange.com)

Music, Culture, Internet Culture

1058 points by jamesy0ung 48 days ago | 409 comments

Anatomy of an internet argument (defenderofthebasic.substack.com)
I’ve spent the last 6 months arguing daily on the internet, and I’ve gotten *really* good at it.

Online Communication, Internet Culture, Social Media, Opinion

181 points by nkurz 50 days ago | 115 comments

The Disenshittify Project (deshittify.us)
While the enshittification of the Web (and beyond) might seem far greater than any individual can even make the slightest dent in–you, we, can deshittify the Web one small piece at a time. Something you like or use or do that's become enshittified? Disenshittify it.

Web Development, Social Commentary, Internet Culture

5 points by speckx 50 days ago | 0 comments

Dead Internet (2023) (darkfutura.substack.com)
Have you plucked away at this thing they call the ‘Internet’ lately? Checked the news, watched an instructional video, browsed desultorily for interesting corners? Notice anything unusual? Like the lack of warmth, the moribund pallor? The breathless unresponsiveness? Maybe we should take its pulse. What’s that? It works just fine, you say?

Internet Culture, Opinion, Social Commentary, Technology

36 points by KqAmJQ7 51 days ago | 62 comments

With Bluesky, the social media echo chamber is back in vogue (ft.com)
With Bluesky, the social media echo chamber is back in vogue

Social Media, Social Networks, Internet Culture, Censorship

5 points by musha68k 56 days ago | 5 comments

Cat memes went viral 100 years ago (bbc.com)
In the age of social media, we're living through a communications revolution. But this isn't the first one, nor is it the first time cats have been at the centre of social change.

Social Media, History, Cats, Internet Culture

143 points by zdw 57 days ago | 37 comments

Being Raised by the Internet (jimmyhmiller.github.io)
I grew up relatively poor. I was fortunate enough to have a roof over my head, clean water, electricity, a computer, internet, and cable tv. But food was often harder to come by. This may seem like a contradiction, but when your mom has left to marry her uncle and your dad has schizophrenia, you aren’t really in charge of how the money is spent.

Personal Experiences, Poverty, Internet Culture

837 points by DamonHD 57 days ago | 312 comments

Honey, YouTubers are poisoning the kids (trend-mill.com)
My nieces, who range in age between 4 and 11, act as a gateway for me to understand what “the kids are into” these days. But they also show me in real time just how much the Internet is influencing their daily lives.

Social Media, Children, Parental Concerns, Internet Culture

68 points by herbertl 59 days ago | 84 comments

Posting Is the Most Powerful Force in the Universe (2023) (infinitescroll.us)
Over the course of several months in 2022, Jack Teixeira threw his life away.

Social Media, Internet Culture, Power, Military, News

30 points by apsec112 60 days ago | 14 comments

"Dead Internet theory" comes to life with new AI-powered social media app (arstechnica.com)
On Monday, software developer Michael Sayman launched a new AI-populated social network app called SocialAI that feels like it's bringing that conspiracy theory to life, allowing users to interact solely with AI chatbots instead of other humans.

Artificial Intelligence, Social Media, Internet Culture, Conspiracy Theories

4 points by OkGoDoIt 63 days ago | 4 comments

Fighting Enshittification (eff.org)

Internet Culture, Censorship, Social Media

8 points by asix66 63 days ago | 0 comments

Ask HN: I miss the internet of the 90s/00s. What should I do? (ycombinator.com)
I really miss the internet of the 90s and 00s. It wasn’t exploited with advertisements, short videos and other addictive content. It was simpler. We didn’t have to accept cookies on every page. It was exciting and it was adventurous. It felt like a hike through the forest but not it feels like a walk through Times Square. I miss things like IRC chat rooms, bulletin boards, newsgroups, DOS prompts, under construction websites. I find myself sucked into the addictive world of the platforms and want to desperately stop and get back to experimentation and adventure. Where can I go to get back some of that feeling?