Hacker News with Generative AI: Online Communities

The great firewall is finally broken (medium.com)
The past 48 hours have been one of the most interesting moments on the internet that I’ve ever witnessed. And I’ve watched the internet evolve, as a user of IRC terminal chats, listservs, RSS feeds, xangas, livejournals, drupals, neopets, myspaces, 4chans, omegles, phpBBs, facebooks, friendsters, twitters, justinTVs, kickstarters, snapchats, vines, turntables, activitypubs, diasporas, discords, and ATprotocols.
Internet Censorship, Social Media, Online Communities
24 points by dluan 4 days ago | 17 comments
What other communities do you use apart from HN? (ycombinator.com)
For example: apart from HN, I take part in Reddit and Bluesky. Facebook and Instagram ane inertia. Twitter/X is never more.
Social Media, Online Communities, Reddit, Bluesky, Twitter, Facebook, Instagram
59 points by stanislavb 6 days ago | 69 comments
MacStories Won't Stand for Meta's Dehumanizing and Harmful Moderation Policies (macstories.net)
Just over two years ago, MacStories left Twitter behind. We left when Elon Musk began dismantling the company’s trust and safety infrastructure, allowing hateful speech and harassment on the platform. Meta is now doing the same thing with Threads and Instagram, so we’re leaving them behind, too.
Social Media, Content Moderation, Online Communities, Censorship, Ethics
12 points by 8bitbeep 7 days ago | 0 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 8 days ago | 4 comments
Luigi Mangione's account has been renamed on Stack Overflow (evancarroll.com)
Stack Exchange is a large online crowd sourced content provider for questions and answers. The Stack Exchange network of sites includes everything from cooking, to politics, and Judaism and Islam. In 2021, it was sold to a private equity company Prosus for 1.8 billion USD. Its largest asset is Stack Overflow, a site tailored to programmers. The Stack Overflow site is a vital resource for software developers. Ideally, it makes it easy and free to ask questions and get professional assistance.
Programming, Stack Overflow, Online Communities
987 points by OsrsNeedsf2P 9 days ago | 810 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 12 days ago | 6 comments
The Evaporative Cooling Effect in Social Networks (2010) (blogs.cornell.edu)
The Evaporative Cooling Effect describes the phenomenon that high value contributors leave a community because they cannot gain something from it, which leads to the decrease of the quality of the community.
Social Networks, Community Dynamics, Online Communities
106 points by yamrzou 13 days ago | 61 comments
Show HN: Kaomoji Collection (kaomoji.meme)
Emojis, Japanese Culture, Online Communities
13 points by lanceax 15 days ago | 0 comments
Ask HN: Math (Academy) Discord Group (ycombinator.com)
I first heard about Math Academy last year here on HN. It took me some time to pull the trigger and I am now a happy subscriber looking to connect with other users - email's in my profile.
Online Communities, Education, Math, Discord
6 points by epsilon-delta 15 days ago | 6 comments
Ask HN: Where can I find human-generated content now that I've quit Reddit? (ycombinator.com)
I am so used to appending 'reddit' to the end of every Google search that I am now at a loss as to where I can find human content that isn't SEO optimised (and bullshit).
Human-Generated Content, Online Communities, Search Engines
13 points by rizs12 15 days ago | 12 comments
Autodesk deletes old forum posts suddenly (autodesk.com)
This thread is closed for comment, so I'm posting here.The title says archiving but the posts indicate >>> Unfortunately, we cannot keep the content  , which in my book  is DELETING.
Autodesk, Forums, Content Management, Online Communities, Data Deletion
250 points by nsoonhui 16 days ago | 170 comments
Show HN: Discuo – Anonymous discussions with infinite branching and 24h lifespan (discuo.com)
Originally created for developers to share their progress and discuss code, Discuo has evolved into a minimalist discussion platform covering various topics while maintaining its distraction-free essence complemented by infinite thread exploration.
Software, Discussion Platforms, Online Communities, Anonymous Communication
92 points by drdruide 17 days ago | 73 comments
Has anyone else noticed Reddit being taken over by shills/bot/trolls (ycombinator.com)
Social Media, Bots, Online Communities
66 points by thoughtcritical 26 days ago | 70 comments
Charles Stross is closing down his blog's comment section (antipope.org)
This, from Techcrunch, seems like a good summary of a bad situation facing this blog: Death Of A Forum: How The UK's Online Safety Act Is Killing Communities.
Online Communities, Censorship, Legislation, UK
14 points by pavel_lishin 28 days ago | 4 comments
Jesse Singal: Bluesky Has a Death Threat Problem (thefp.com)
Recently, like a lot of journalists, I joined Bluesky, a social media platform that is enjoying a burst of postelection growth and positive press attention. It’s been lauded as a “kinder, gentler”—and, perhaps most importantly, more left-wing—alternative to X, which is increasingly seen as infested with what a Bluesky user might call “MAGA chuds.”
Social Media, Online Communities, Journalism, Censorship
12 points by rurp 29 days ago | 6 comments
BonkysInferno (forum.rec.net)
Online Communities, Discussion Forums
12 points by akkartik 30 days ago | 0 comments
WordPress Forces Users to Agree That Pineapple Is Good on Pizza (gizmodo.com)
Welcome to WordPress! What is your opinion of pineapple on pizza? Answer wisely or you will be unable to login.
WordPress, Online Communities, Food, User Experience
20 points by twapi 32 days ago | 18 comments
IRATA.ONLINE: A Community for Retro-Computing Enthusiasts (irata.online)
IRATA.ONLINE is provided for the benefit of retro-computing users to have a place to socialize, and develop interesting multi-user, interactive, and graphical games and social applications.
Retro-Computing, Community, Online Communities, Games, Social Applications
218 points by Bluestein 34 days ago | 59 comments
Ask HN: What's a good alternative to The Verge now it's login-gated? (ycombinator.com)
For the last few years I’ve mainly just checked The Verge for the latest tech news. Alas, I will not be creating an account just to browse.
Tech News, Websites, Online Communities
4 points by mnfrmcddlykrnl 35 days ago | 9 comments
WordPress CEO quits community Slack after court injunction (404media.co)
Automattic, the company that owns WordPress.com, is required to remove a controversial login checkbox from WordPress.org and let WP Engine back into its ecosystem after a judge granted WP Engine a preliminary injunction in its ongoing lawsuit.
WordPress, Lawsuits, Online Communities, Software
147 points by davidcollantes 37 days ago | 59 comments
The Depths of Wikipedians (asteriskmag.com)
A conversation about yogurt wars, German hymns, tropical cyclones, and the people who make Wikipedia function.
Wikipedia, Online Communities, Culture
195 points by Brajeshwar 39 days ago | 91 comments
What's up with Lobste.rs blocking the Brave browser? (lobste.rs)
A couple of days ago, the Brave browser stopped loading lobste.rs, just showing an error page. Now, I get a bare block of text:
Web Browsers, Online Communities, Website Issues
79 points by veqq 41 days ago | 92 comments
Show HN: Belief.garden – a social network for civil discussion (belief.garden)
belief.garden allows you to share your views and opinions on various subjects - e.g. economics, politics, eating habits or philosophy of will, in the form of a public profile you can link in your bio on other social media.
Social Media, Online Communities, Opinion Sharing, Civil Discourse
11 points by klntsky 45 days ago | 4 comments
Establishing an etiquette for LLM use on Libera.Chat (libera.chat)
For better or for worse, controversially perhaps, we are now immersed in an online landscape laden with LLMs.
Online Communities, Ethics
58 points by easeout 55 days ago | 54 comments
Establishing an etiquette for LLM use on Libera.Chat (libera.chat)
For better or for worse, controversially perhaps, we are now immersed in an online landscape laden with LLMs.
Online Communities, Ethics, Internet Culture
6 points by greyface- 56 days ago | 0 comments
Ask HN: Is there an HN-like forum for woodworking? (ycombinator.com)
I figured I’d ask the main source of woodworkers, former software engineers and tech worker burnouts. I’m looking for a place where I can expand my knowledge and horizons much like here, but for woodcraft and adjacent things.
Woodworking, Online Communities, Tech Industry, Hobbies
5 points by ok_dad 61 days ago | 6 comments
Purity Spiral (wikipedia.org)
A purity spiral is a theory which argues for the existence of a form of groupthink in which it becomes more beneficial to hold certain views than to not hold them, and more extreme views are rewarded while expressing doubt, nuance, or moderation is punished (a process sometimes called "moral outbidding").
Groupthink, Social Dynamics, Political Polarization, Online Communities, Social Media
16 points by throw0101b 66 days ago | 1 comments
Your Discord Community Is Dead (bearblog.dev)
There's a special kind of sadness to an empty Discord server. The meticulously planned category structure. The welcome bot with its automated messages. And in every channel, the same tumbleweeds rolling by.
Community Management, Discord, Online Communities
16 points by andout_ 69 days ago | 0 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 73 days ago | 0 comments
Ask HN: The Web Post ChatGPT? (ycombinator.com)
The humble chat thread is rapidly becoming the defacto interface to information for so many right now.
ChatGPT, Online Communities, Information Retrieval
7 points by canterburry 77 days ago | 8 comments