Hacker News with Generative AI: Reddit

Reddit Will Introduce Paywalls in 2025 (pcmag.com)
Reddit plans to introduce paywalls at some point in 2025, according to CEO Steve Huffman.
Reddit CEO confirms plans to introduce paywalls for exclusive content (techspot.com)
A hot potato: Reddit will be introducing something that few users are likely to want later this year: paywalls. CEO Steve Huffman has confirmed that the platform will be introducing the ability for some Redditors to create content that only paid members can see, though it won't apply to any subreddits currently available.
Reddit mods are fighting to keep AI slop off subreddits. They could use help (arstechnica.com)
Mods ask Reddit for tools as generative AI gets more popular and inconspicuous.
Reddit CEO says paywalls are coming soon (gizmodo.com)
Reddit, a platform founded in part on the premise of openly and widely sharing information, is ready to put up some paywalls.
Show HN: I Built a Reddit-style Bluesky client – still rough, but open to ideas (threadsky.app)
A community-driven platform that brings Reddit-style discussions to Bluesky. Join our growing community to discover, share, and engage with content in a familiar format.
Reddit plans to lock some content behind a paywall this year, CEO says (arstechnica.com)
Reddit is planning to introduce a paywall this year, CEO Steve Huffman said during a videotaped Ask Me Anything (AMA) session on Thursday.
Ask HN: What intelligent forums exist outside of HN? (ycombinator.com)
Twitter has long been declining, and Reddit has recently seemed to get much worse for me. Blind is just for bragging about your salary and making insensitive comments about race and sex.
Reddit community banned as user spat with Musk intensifies (bbc.com)
Reddit has temporarily banned one of its communities - and removed another - after X owner Elon Musk claimed comments made by the site's users about his employees were breaking the law.
Reddit is mass purging NSFW subs (reddit.com)
r/rule34 has been banned
5 years of maintaining India's largest dev community on the web (bhupesh.me)
I have been part of the r/developersIndia community team since its inception in Jan 2020. A lot has happened since we started this initiative, this post is my personal collection of some learnings as someone behind the scenes along with my failures, community’s successes & some tips for folks thinking to build a community of their own or well for folks who are just interested in what went behind the scenes.
OpenAI used this subreddit to test AI persuasion (techcrunch.com)
OpenAI used the subreddit, r/ChangeMyView, to create a test for measuring the persuasive abilities of its AI reasoning models.
Reddit won't interfere with users revolting against X with subreddit bans (arstechnica.com)
Reddit is staying out of the current revolt against social media website X and, to a lesser degree, Meta, on its platform.
Ask HN: What percentage of Twitter/X's traffic comes from Reddit? (ycombinator.com)
I'm curious. Can we do the math?<p>What percentage of Twitter traffic comes from reddit?<p>What percentage of reddit subs (weigted by membership?) have banned that type of link?<p>The question being, will this reddit ban of that other social media site make even a small dent in their traffic?
F1 subreddit with 4.8M subscribers bans Twitter/X content (crash.net)
An independent Formula 1 subreddit has caused a stir with a bold new plan.
Reddit won't interfere with users revolting against X with subreddit bans (arstechnica.com)
Reddit is staying out of the current revolt against social media website X and, to a lesser degree, Meta, on its platform.
Elon Musk Reddit Ban: List of Subreddits Blocking X Links (newsweek.com)
Some of Reddit's biggest communities have started to ban content from Elon Musk's social media site X, formerly Twitter.
Reddit sports mods, users calling for a ban on X links in posts (mashable.com)
In the fallout of Elon Musk’s baffling appearance during President Donald Trump’s inauguration, a curious new front in the ongoing online culture war has emerged: a push by Reddit sports mods and users to ban links to X (formerly known as Twitter).
Mint Mobile is banning posts in Reddit about RCS (reddit.com)
Kind of embarrassing that mint Mobile still does not support RCS in iPhone (i.redd.it)
Some Hulu users have to answer questions about the ads shown to them to continue (reddit.com)
The Saga of Elon Musk's Path of Exile Account (reddit.com)
Documenting the Saga of "Elon Musk's" Account
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.
USPS website's banner alerts are simply someone un/commenting the HTML (reddit.com)
The USPS website's banner alerts are simply someone commenting and un-commenting the html (i.redd.it)
Astral AI startup demos how to flood the Y Combinator subreddit (twitter.com)
The war against headlight brightness (theringer.com)
The crusade against bright headlights has picked up speed in recent years, in large part due to a couple of Reddit nerds. Could they know what’s best for the auto industry better than the auto industry itself?
I've acquired a new superpower (danielwirtz.com)
Yesterday, I was browsing Reddit. Midway through my feed, I stumbled upon a video from a German TV show, where a 9-year-old girl demonstrated her ability to quickly identify the difference between two seemingly similar images.
ReddAPI: The Simplest Way to Access Reddit's Data (ycombinator.com)
I’m excited to share something we’ve been working on: ReddAPI.online, a lightweight, developer-friendly API for Reddit.
Former UAL Pilot, Talks about Korean Flight Training (2014) (reddit.com)
From a former UAL check captain.
Will Stock Market Success Mean the End of Reddit? (slate.com)
If you spent $1,000 on shares of Tesla at the start of 2024, you’d be sitting on nearly $1,700 now—a 70 percent gain, about double the returns of the overall stock market. A resurgent Bitcoin is up even more, yielding a return of 120 percent for crypto true believers. And then there’s Nvidia, the A.I. chip darling, whose shares skyrocketed 172 percent in 2024—turning $1,000 from a year ago into almost $2,700 today.
I just found out I've been using my dishwasher wrong for 7 years (reddit.com)
I just found out I’ve been using my dishwasher wrong for 7 years, and honestly, I’m questioning my life choices.
Population Density Maps: R/MapPorn (reddit.com)