Hacker News with Generative AI: Internet Culture

Reading RSS content is a skilled activity (doliver.org)
Shit's gotten weird out there. The internet has devolved from something that was mostly quirky and altruistic to something that, in many ways, is straight-up evil.
Internet Culture, Social Commentary, Technology
65 points by d0liver 9 hours ago | 29 comments
Crémieux, J'accuse (dynomight.net)
I don’t know how to internet, but I know you’re supposed to get into beefs. In the nearly five years this blog has existed, the closest I’ve come was once politely asking Slime Mold Time Mold, “Hello, would you like to have a beef?” They said, “That sounds great but we’re really busy right now, sorry.”
Blogging, Internet Culture, Humor
5 points by gregorymichael 15 hours ago | 0 comments
4chan may be dead, but its toxic legacy lives on (arstechnica.com)
It is likely that there will never be a site like 4chan again—which is, likely, a very good thing. But it had also essentially already succeeded at its core project: chewing up the world and spitting it back out in its own image.
Social Media, Internet Culture, Legacy, Toxicity
8 points by rbanffy 15 hours ago | 2 comments
Spring 83: a draft protocol intended to suggest new ways of relating online (github.com/robinsloan)
Welcome! This is a draft protocol intended to suggest new ways of relating online. If you are just discovering it, I recommend reading this narrative description. Don't miss my notes on a summer spent operating the protocol with other people, either.
Internet Culture, Social Media, Online Communication, Protocols
86 points by SinePost 3 days ago | 18 comments
The hostile internet is driving us crazy (ft.com)
Welcome to slop world: how the hostile internet is driving us crazy
Internet Culture, Mental Health, Social Media
6 points by bonefishgrill 4 days ago | 1 comments
4chan Is Dead. Its Toxic Legacy Is Everywhere (wired.com)
It’s likely that there will never be a site like 4chan again. But everything now—from X and YouTube to global politics—seems to carry its toxic legacy.
Internet Culture, Social Media, Toxicity, Politics
12 points by NotInOurNames 4 days ago | 1 comments
The movie mistake mystery from "Revenge of the Sith" (blogspot.com)
The internet, ever vigilant, began to take notice of this curious artifact around 2015 – a blink-and-you’ll-miss- it moment of a ghostly-robed figure with dark hair that appears behind Anakin Skywalker for only a frame or two just as he leaps from the panning droid to meet Obi-Wan on the lava skiff.
Movies, Star Wars, Internet Culture
453 points by CharlesW 6 days ago | 170 comments
Welcome to slop world: how the hostile internet is driving us crazy (ft.com)
Welcome to slop world: how the hostile internet is driving us crazy
Internet Culture, Mental Health, Social Media
10 points by brrrrrd 6 days ago | 1 comments
Welcome to slop world: how the hostile internet is driving us crazy (ft.com)
Welcome to slop world: how the hostile internet is driving us crazy
Internet Culture, Mental Health, Social Media
12 points by bishopsmother 7 days ago | 2 comments
4chan Sharty Hack And Janitor Email Leak (knowyourmeme.com)
April 2025 4chan Sharty Hack And Janitor Email Leak refers to the Soyjak.party community's claimed hacking of 4chan in mid April 2025, which included the restoration of the deleted /QA/ board and leaking the emails of 4chan "janitors," who are members of the site's moderation team.
Internet Culture, Online Communities, Hacking, Leaks, Moderation
710 points by LookAtThatBacon 11 days ago | 975 comments
The New Weird Virtuosos Making Jazz for the Post-Internet Age (pitchfork.com)
Led by artists like DOMi and JD Beck, a generation of rising players is infusing jazz with absurdist online irreverence. But are they playing jazz at all?
Jazz, Music, Generation Z, Internet Culture, Innovation
7 points by zeech 16 days ago | 4 comments
2025 xkcd "April 1": Push Notifications (xkcd.com)
Humor, Comics, Webcomics, Internet Culture
10 points by benley 17 days ago | 2 comments
John Titor (wikipedia.org)
John Titor and TimeTravel_0 are pseudonyms used in communications and on internet forums between 1998 and 2001 by an individual claiming to be an American military time traveler from the year 2036.[1][2]
Time Travel, Internet Culture, History, Conspiracy Theories
6 points by sans_souse 18 days ago | 0 comments
Exeter's unassuming co-op worker leads double life as 'Lord of the Logos' (devonlive.com)
Local News, Identity, Internet Culture
194 points by summoned 21 days ago | 72 comments
'Views' Are Lies (theverge.com)
Consider this a reminder or a PSA: a “view” on the internet means even less than you think.
Social Media, Internet Culture, Misinformation
5 points by pseudolus 21 days ago | 0 comments
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 43 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 48 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 51 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 52 days ago | 83 comments
Linux Equals Autism (instagram.com)
Linux, Autism, Social Media, Internet Culture
6 points by initramfs 54 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 61 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 63 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 67 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 68 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 73 days ago | 0 comments
The Enshittification Hall of Shame (slashdot.org)
Social Media, Internet Culture, Online Communities
6 points by ozornin 74 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 78 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 78 days ago | 1 comments
There is No Antimemetics Division (wikidot.com)
Fiction, Conspiracy Theories, Internet Culture
38 points by 0x62 78 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 79 days ago | 1 comments