Hacker News with Generative AI: Social Media

Elon Musk Says He'll 'Fix' Community Notes on X After It Disagreed with Him (gizmodo.com)
Elon Musk is not happy with Community Notes, the crowdsourced fact-checking program that adds notes to correct misinformation on his social media platform X. And the billionaire says he’s now going to “fix” Community Notes so that it agrees with him, claiming without evidence that it’s being manipulated by governments and the media.

Social Media, Elon Musk, Misinformation, Censorship

11 points by nickthegreek 23 minutes ago | 3 comments

Behind Musk's X Turnaround: Pick-and-Choose Financials (bloomberg.com)
Even as Elon Musk’s X Holdings Corp. basks in a valuation facelift, the social-media platform remains mired in debt and its improved fortunes owe much to heavily adjusted financials and investors’ fear of missing out.

Finance, Social Media, Elon Musk, Business, Valuation

12 points by toomuchtodo 1 hour ago | 9 comments

Germany: Far-right political bias ahead of federal elections in X and TikTok (techcrunch.com)
Recommendation algorithms operated by social media giants TikTok and X have shown evidence of substantial far-right political bias in Germany ahead of a federal election that takes place Sunday, according to new research carried out by Global Witness.

Social Media, Politics, Germany, Elections, Research

13 points by doener 8 hours ago | 9 comments

Do ambiguous images provide psychological insights? Testing a popular claim (peerj.com)
Social media posts and websites claim that the way in which people perceive ambiguous images reveals insights into their personality and thinking style.

Psychology, Perception, Image Interpretation, Social Media, Research

11 points by thinkingemote 8 hours ago | 8 comments

Twitch limiting uploads to 100 hours, deleting the rest starting April 19th (twitter.com)

Twitch, Video Streaming, Content Management, Social Media, Policy Changes

3 points by aestetix 18 hours ago | 2 comments

Trump: "Long Live the King" (twitter.com)

Politics, Social Media, Donald Trump

87 points by babelfish 22 hours ago | 49 comments

When imperfect systems are good: Bluesky's lossy timelines (jazco.dev)
Often when designing systems, we aim for perfection in things like consistency of data, availability, latency, and more.

System Design, Software Engineering, Social Media

728 points by cyndunlop 1 day ago | 279 comments

Visualized: Presidential Executive Orders (opicdata.com)
I am hearing more about Executive Orders right now than I have in my lifetime. Given, I am only 25 years old, so maybe this happens every time we get a new president. However, on the airwaves I listen to (mainly Reddit, Google, and what my fiance tells me) there is a lot more discourse and hate towards Executive Orders.

Politics, Government, Social Media

13 points by bigshirtjonny 2 days ago | 18 comments

Hacker News is old enough to vote - Happy 18th Birthday HN (wikipedia.org)
Hacker News (HN) is a social news website focusing on computer science and entrepreneurship.

Anniversaries, Social Media, Technology, Web

8 points by irs 2 days ago | 4 comments

Amazon Kills yet Another Service (neowin.net)
Amazon is reportedly killing Inspire, its short-form video and photo feed for discovering products, launched back in 2022.

Amazon, Business, Social Media, Product Development

16 points by bundie 2 days ago | 4 comments

X Prevents Research on Potential Election Interference (freiheitsrechte.org)
The social media platform X denied researchers access to public data on its platform. Together with Democracy Reporting International (DRI), we achieved a major success in summary proceedings.

Social Media, Election Interference, Research, Lawsuits

59 points by doener 2 days ago | 35 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 2 days ago | 6 comments

Brian Krebs: I've been on Mastodon more than 2 years now (infosec.exchange)

Social Media, Security, Mastodon

24 points by sohkamyung 2 days ago | 1 comments

Show HN: Live-updating version of the 'What a week, huh?' meme (dlazaro.ca)
What a week, huh?

Humor, Memes, Social Media, Web Development

800 points by dlazaro 3 days ago | 153 comments

Reddit Will Introduce Paywalls in 2025 (pcmag.com)
Reddit plans to introduce paywalls at some point in 2025, according to CEO Steve Huffman.

Social Media, Business, News, Reddit, Monetization

39 points by madmanweb 3 days ago | 33 comments

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, Social Media, Business, Monetization, Content Creation

9 points by belter 3 days ago | 6 comments

Meta Says It'll Tattle to Trump If EU Keeps Being Mean (gizmodo.com)

Meta, European Union, Politics, Law, Social Media

8 points by taimurkazmi 3 days ago | 1 comments

Washington Post backs out of 'Fire Elon Musk' ad order (thehill.com)
The Washington Post this week backed out of a “Fire Elon Musk” advertising order that was to run as a wrap on some of its Tuesday editions, according to the advocacy group Common Cause.

Media, Business, Politics, Social Media

16 points by nabla9 3 days ago | 0 comments

GNU/Darwin (2000) (gnu-darwin.org)
It has been amusing to watch the office of the President and Georgetown University professors responding to the culture shock of multiband social media.

Operating Systems, History, Social Media

6 points by lizstar_ 3 days ago | 4 comments

Show HN: share Signal links on X without getting censored (vercel.app)
Twitter is blocking links to Signal. Use this tool to circumvent that.

Social Media, Privacy, Censorship, Twitter

10 points by rpastuszak 3 days ago | 0 comments

XAI told me I either had to delete the post, or face being fired (twitter.com)

Artificial Intelligence, Social Media, Censorship, Employment

26 points by weinzierl 3 days ago | 19 comments

An early social un-network (paperstack.com)
With one thing and another I’ve recently been feeling quite nostalgic for the technology landscape of my early university days (around 1990) and so I wanted to write a little bit about that.

Nostalgia, Technology, Social Media, 1990s

89 points by dcminter 3 days ago | 21 comments

Cleo from Math StackExchange's Identity Has Been Revealed? (youtube.com)

Internet Culture, Online Communities, Social Media

14 points by ta8645 3 days ago | 2 comments

X users are unable to post “Signal.me” links (disruptionist.com)
Elon Musk’s social media platform, X, is currently banning links to “Signal.me,” a URL used by the encrypted messaging service Signal.

Social Media, Censorship, Elon Musk, Signal

780 points by confusing3478 3 days ago | 746 comments

Big tech has disrupted the social contract (basedfob.substack.com)
You may have heard of Turo. They’ve been in the news lately because both vehicles used in the New Year’s Day Attacks this year were rented from Turo. In a statement responding to the incidents, the company had this to say:

Social Media, Technology, Business, Crime

135 points by herbertl 4 days ago | 115 comments

'Reading is part of my identity': the woman taking on Goodreads owner Amazon (theguardian.com)

Reading, Amazon, Books, Identity, Social Media

23 points by rorylawless 4 days ago | 2 comments

Why the Algorithm Hates You (cognitivewonderland.substack.com)
Science, philosophy, and science fiction geekiness, with a special interest in neuroscience and philosophy of mind. Publishes weekly on Thursdays.

Algorithms, Bias, Social Media

9 points by tblancha 5 days ago | 2 comments

The True Costs of Being on YouTube (carlalallimusic.substack.com)
I started my YouTube channel in earnest in October, 2021, shortly before That Sounds So Good, my second cookbook, came out. A little over three years later, on January 29, 2025, I uploaded the 177th episode of Carla’s Cooking Show. That video, for a cheddar burger named after my mom, is my last for now, and possibly forever.

YouTube, Content Creation, Social Media, Costs, Personal Experience

82 points by exolymph 5 days ago | 68 comments

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.