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.
Social Media, Community, Food, Internet Culture
39 points by SethMLarson 20 days ago | 27 comments
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.
YouTube, Algorithms, Video Content, Internet Culture
14 points by srameshc 25 days ago | 2 comments
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.
Mathematics, Anime, Internet Culture
513 points by classichasclass 28 days ago | 232 comments
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.
Internet Culture, Social Media, Online Communities
125 points by sebg 29 days ago | 83 comments
Linux Equals Autism (instagram.com)
Linux, Autism, Social Media, Internet Culture
6 points by initramfs 31 days ago | 0 comments
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.
Internet Culture, Personal Experiences, Technology, Social Media, Web Development
9 points by durmonski 38 days ago | 2 comments
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.
Personal Websites, Web Development, Web Design, Internet Culture
242 points by spzb 40 days ago | 106 comments
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.
Celebrities, Social Media, South Korea, Internet Culture, Mental Health
12 points by geox 44 days ago | 6 comments
Cleo from Math StackExchange's Identity Has Been Revealed? (youtube.com)
Internet Culture, Online Communities, Social Media
14 points by ta8645 45 days ago | 2 comments
Terence Tao on the Ongoing Process of "Enshittification" (mathstodon.xyz)
Mathematics, Social Commentary, Internet Culture
9 points by yo_yo_yo-yo 50 days ago | 0 comments
The Enshittification Hall of Shame (slashdot.org)
Social Media, Internet Culture, Online Communities
6 points by ozornin 51 days ago | 1 comments
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.
Internet Culture, Technology, Criticism, Social Media
11 points by rbanffy 55 days ago | 0 comments
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.
Internet Culture, Online Platforms, Technology, Criticism
12 points by stalfosknight 55 days ago | 1 comments
There is No Antimemetics Division (wikidot.com)
Fiction, Conspiracy Theories, Internet Culture
38 points by 0x62 55 days ago | 3 comments
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.
Internet Culture, Online Platforms, Technology, Criticism
12 points by pseudolus 56 days ago | 1 comments
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.
Internet Culture, Online Platforms, Criticism, Technology, Social Media
12 points by CharlesW 56 days ago | 8 comments
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.
Misinformation, Social Media, Internet Culture, Communication, Information Management
27 points by punnerud 57 days ago | 2 comments
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.
Censorship, Information Control, Public Awareness, Internet Culture
5 points by yagizdegirmenci 58 days ago | 0 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
6 points by throw0101a 60 days ago | 0 comments
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.
Social Media, Technology, Web Development, Internet Culture
10 points by _jove 60 days ago | 0 comments
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.
Internet Culture, Storytelling, Truth
3 points by akkartik 71 days ago | 0 comments
Stories from the Internet (dbrgn.ch)
A collection of internet folklore.
Internet Culture, Folklore, Storytelling
53 points by ColinWright 81 days ago | 10 comments
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.
TILs, Opinions, Internet Culture, Online Communities
15 points by ingve 83 days ago | 4 comments
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.”
Online Communities, Philosophy, Internet Culture
22 points by New_Statesman 87 days ago | 6 comments
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.
Web Development, Internet Culture, Decentralization
330 points by dend 90 days ago | 257 comments
Blogs rot. Wikis wait (j3s.sh)
blogs rot. wikis wait.
Web Development, Content Management, Internet Culture
196 points by j3s 91 days ago | 126 comments
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.
Wikipedia, Circular Reporting, Citogenesis, Internet Culture
7 points by paulgb 96 days ago | 0 comments
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.
Internet Culture, Criticism, Opinion
74 points by toss1 102 days ago | 101 comments
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.
Technology, Internet Culture, Personal Essays, Digital Ethics
28 points by throwaway81523 104 days ago | 1 comments
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.
Technology, Personal Essays, Internet Culture
21 points by wgx 107 days ago | 9 comments