Hacker News with Generative AI: News

News Is Blocked on Meta's Feeds in Canada. Here's What Fills the Void (nytimes.com)
Hyperpartisan and misleading content from popular right-wing pages such as Canada Proud is thriving on Facebook as the election nears.
Social Media, Censorship, Elections, Canada, News
29 points by bko 2 days ago | 41 comments
Matt Mullenweg is unbanning anyone ever banned from Wordpress.org (twitter.com)
Something went wrong, but don’t fret — let’s give it another shot.
WordPress, Social Media, Software, News
12 points by archy_ 3 days ago | 3 comments
AP News Site Down? (apnews.com)
Pope Francis' funeral to be held Saturday, with public viewing starting Wednesday
News, Religion, Events
7 points by mikequinlan 4 days ago | 4 comments
Building our "native-AI newsroom" (regenerator1.com)
Hello, everyone! Today, we’re taking a break from the pointless and destructive trade war (Pres Trump has an excellent off-ramp — let’s hope he takes it!) to talk about a homegrown AI experiment. Thank you for subscribing to Regenerator!
Artificial Intelligence, News, Experimentation
16 points by coloneltcb 4 days ago | 5 comments
Pope Francis has died (bbc.co.uk)
Pope Francis has died at the age of 88, the Vatican has announced.
Religion, News, World Events
221 points by rowanajmarshall 5 days ago | 18 comments
Russian Propaganda Has Now Infected Western AI Chatbots – New Study (forbes.com)
A troubling trend in which most western AI chatbots are unknowingly spreading Russian propaganda has been uncovered by a NewsGuard audit published last week.
AI, Propaganda, Russia, News, Disinformation
48 points by nabla9 7 days ago | 55 comments
News from Bluesky (news.0x0.boo)
Popular world news, with high engagement on Bluesky:
Social Media, News, Bluesky
10 points by 0x0boo 7 days ago | 1 comments
The world needs you to consume less news (danbartlett.co.uk)
It’s considered good and upstanding to stay on top of world affairs. You want to be educated about the world, right? But there is so much to keep up on. So much injustice to counter.
Media Consumption, News, Current Events, Social Responsibility
9 points by danbartlett 8 days ago | 3 comments
A deadly E. coli outbreak hit 15 states, but the FDA chose not to publicize it (nbcnews.com)
An E. coli outbreak linked to romaine lettuce ripped across 15 states in November, sickening dozens of people, including a 9-year-old boy in Indiana who nearly died of kidney failure and a 57-year-old Missouri woman who fell ill after attending a funeral lunch. One person died.
Food Safety, Health, Public Health, Government Regulation, News
24 points by perihelions 8 days ago | 6 comments
Show HN: I Built a Site to Track U.S. Tariff Updates in Real Time (tariffstatus.com)
News, Trade, Government, Web Development
13 points by ryanarroyo 9 days ago | 2 comments
Synology press release regarding changes to HDD compatibility (reddit.com)
Germany, Düsseldorf - 16.04.2025 - Following the success of the high-performance series, the company is now also relying more heavily on Synology's own storage media for the Plus series models to be released from 2025. As a result, users will benefit from higher performance, increased reliability and more efficient support.
Storage, Hardware, Synology, Compatibility, News
6 points by ahamez 9 days ago | 3 comments
Belgian teens arrested with 5k smuggled ants (cnn.com)
Crime, News, Animals, Belgium
8 points by mooreds 10 days ago | 7 comments
ChatGPT politician image generation hack (cbc.ca)
New updates to ChatGPT have made it easier than ever to create fake images of real politicians, according to testing done by CBC News.
Artificial Intelligence, Generative AI, Politics, News, Media
7 points by PapaRad 13 days ago | 0 comments
Russian Propaganda Has Now Infected Western AI Chatbots – New Study (forbes.com)
A troubling trend in which most western AI chatbots are unknowingly spreading Russian propaganda has been uncovered by a NewsGuard audit published last week.
Artificial Intelligence, Propaganda, News, Russia, Western Media
14 points by croes 17 days ago | 1 comments
AP wins reinstatement to White House events (apnews.com)
At least 58 dead and 160 injured in a roof collapse at a nightclub in the Dominican Republic
News, Politics, Dominican Republic, Accidents
42 points by jaredwiener 18 days ago | 10 comments
Publishers say traffic to their sites has plummeted due to Google AI Overviews (bloomberg.com)
In the absence of clear answers from Google, creators have struggled to discern how much of their pain is due to AI Overviews or due to other changes in search.
Google Search, AI, Publishing, Traffic, News
19 points by coloneltcb 18 days ago | 7 comments
Apple's mouse is so bad Tim Cook uses another brand at work (2024) (glassalmanac.com)
In a rare behind-the-scenes glimpse, Tim Cook revealed that his desk setup includes a mouse that isn’t even made by Apple—and honestly, it’s hard to blame him.
Apple, Technology, Hardware, Consumer Products, News
38 points by mandeepj 19 days ago | 83 comments
'Exploding' Tunnock's teacakes cleared by tests to fly again (bbc.co.uk)
Food, Safety, News, UK
67 points by zeristor 21 days ago | 35 comments
Where Is Naomi Wu? (2024) (ofb.biz)
It was such a cute gadget.
Tech News, Social Media, News, Popular Culture
15 points by trbutler 21 days ago | 0 comments
NSA Director and Deputy Fired (cnn.com)
Government, Politics, News, Security
10 points by anigbrowl 22 days ago | 3 comments
Show HN: Duolingo-style exercises but with real-world content like the news (fluentsubs.com)
Education, Language Learning, News, Technology
472 points by ph4evers 25 days ago | 184 comments
Ex-FCC chairs from both parties say CBS news distortion investigation is bogus (arstechnica.com)
The Federal Communications Commission's news distortion investigation into CBS drew a public rebuke from a bipartisan group of five former FCC commissioners, including two former chairmen.
Media, Politics, Government Regulation, News, CBS
16 points by pmags 27 days ago | 1 comments
The Guardian flourishes without a paywall (nymag.com)
There was a time in media when having a billionaire owner was an asset.
Media, Business, Journalism, News
623 points by bookofjoe 28 days ago | 519 comments
Take this on-call rotation and shove it (scottsmitelli.com)
The familiar blue and gold intro graphic fills the screen every evening at six o’clock on the dot. The jabbing staccato string music conjures up vague secondhand memories of what a teletype machine might have sounded like. A high angle view of the studio floor with the large Lexan-clad desk in the middle, then a cross dissolve to a two shot of the presenters for this newscast.
News, Television, Satire
191 points by mirawelner 30 days ago | 148 comments
Tufts student: Video shows masked agents arresting Rumeysa Ozturk (bostonglobe.com)
Tufts University, News, Arrest, Surveillance, Law Enforcement
184 points by perihelions 31 days ago | 51 comments
Game Informer Is Back (gameinformer.com)
The whole team has returned, and we can’t wait to connect with you again.
Gaming, Media, News
11 points by haxfenx 31 days ago | 0 comments
Good drug news – More important things happening in biotechnology and medicine (worksinprogress.news)
We recently released Issue 18 of Works in Progress. Read about prehistoric psychopaths, fertility on demand and the king of fruits here. Today on Links in Progress Asimov Press’s Niko McCarty and our own Saloni Dattani return to review more important things happening in the world of biotechnology and medicine.
Biotechnology, Medicine, Science, News, Health
12 points by therabbithole 32 days ago | 2 comments
Two women who spied for Russia tracked down and named by BBC (bbc.com)
Two women who were part of a Russian spy network run from the UK are named for the first time today by a BBC investigation.
Russia, Espionage, News, UK, Journalism
13 points by impish9208 33 days ago | 0 comments
'Naive' science fan faces jail for plutonium import (yahoo.com)
A "science nerd" who wanted to collect all the elements of the periodic table could face jail time after ordering radioactive material over the internet.
Science, Crime, News, Nuclear Physics
189 points by geox 34 days ago | 158 comments
‘The Celts: A Modern History’ by Ian Stewart Review (historytoday.com)
Around the 1990s, the historical Celts endured something of an identity crisis. First in academic articles, then in popular books, and eventually in newspaper headlines, people started loudly declaring that ‘Celts’ did not really exist.
History, Identity, Academia, Books, News
107 points by lermontov 36 days ago | 43 comments