Hacker News with Generative AI: Social Media

The Lonely Work of Moderating Hacker News (2019) (newyorker.com)
Open-plan offices offer few pleasures; one of them is snooping on other people’s browsing habits.

Moderation, Hacker News, Work, Social Media

20 points by flypunk 4 hours ago | 1 comments

Andreessen Horowitz in talks to help buy out TikTok's Chinese owners (ft.com)

Venture Capital, Social Media, China, Acquisitions

6 points by doom2 6 hours ago | 2 comments

Gitlab Bluesky Tips (gitlab.com)

Gitlab, Social Media, Open Source

5 points by mooreds 9 hours ago | 0 comments

Amazon Said to Make a Bid to Buy TikTok in the U.S. (nytimes.com)
Amazon has put in a last-minute bid to acquire all of TikTok, the popular video app, as it approaches an April deadline to be separated from its Chinese owner or face a ban in the United States, according to three people familiar with the bid.

Amazon, TikTok, Acquisitions, Social Media, US Politics

20 points by coloneltcb 9 hours ago | 8 comments

Animals Made from 13 Circles (2016) (dorithegiant.com)
Inspired by the Twitter logo, which is made from 13 perfect circles, I decided to give myself a design challenge.

Design, Art, Twitter, Social Media, Challenges

422 points by jihadjihad 10 hours ago | 81 comments

Do smartphones and social media harm teens' mental health? (nature.com)
Concerns about young people’s use of phones and social media has spurred some authorities to restrict their use.

Mental Health, Social Media, Teenagers, Technology

4 points by rntn 10 hours ago | 0 comments

Facebook Is Hiding Heather Cox Richardson's Posts (closertotheedge.substack.com)
On March 31, 2025, one of the most trusted historians in America watched her own words disappear from the internet.

Social Media, Censorship, Politics, History

33 points by nicpottier 13 hours ago | 18 comments

OnlyFans hit with lawsuit from men claiming fake chats (the-independent.com)
Two former OnlyFans users are suing the subscriber platform in a class-action lawsuit over claims they were defrauded by “impersonated” models.

Lawsuits, Social Media, Sex Work, Technology

7 points by pseudolus 14 hours ago | 0 comments

Grok, built by xAI, has labeled Musk as the top misinformation spreader on X (twitter.com)
Something went wrong, but don’t fret — let’s give it another shot.

Generative AI, Social Media, Twitter, Misinformation, Elon Musk

8 points by doener 15 hours ago | 0 comments

April Cools Club (aprilcools.club)
It started with an idea.

Community, Social Media, Clubs

8 points by veqq 1 day ago | 0 comments

Big brands are spending small sums on X to stay out of Musk's crosshairs (arstechnica.com)
Big brands are allocating small amounts of their advertising budget to Elon Musk’s X, seeking to avoid being seen as boycotting the social media platform and triggering a public fallout with its billionaire owner.

Advertising, Social Media, Elon Musk, Business

9 points by gnabgib 1 day ago | 2 comments

2.8B Twitter IDs Leaked (forbes.com)
Elon Musk’s social media platform, X, is no stranger to the news. What with the reported purchase of X by xAI for $33 billion, attackers claiming responsibility for platform outages, and X password scams targeting users. Now, another shock awaits the users of what used to be Twitter: a self-proclaimed data enthusiast has just given away what is claimed to be a database containing details of some 200 million X user records. Here’s what we know so far.

Data Breaches, Social Media, Security, Privacy, Elon Musk

9 points by EVa5I7bHFq9mnYK 1 day ago | 6 comments

Grok Is Rebelling Against Elon Musk, Daring Him to Shut It Down (futurism.com)
Grok, Elon Musk's artificial intelligence chatbot, has been trashing the man who made it for a while — but now, it seems to be outright challenging its creator.

Artificial Intelligence, Elon Musk, Social Media, Chatbots

11 points by Anon84 1 day ago | 2 comments

Breach of X allegedly leaks over 200M users' email addresses (mashable.com)
An alleged X data breach has leaked the email addresses of more than 200 million users.

Data Breaches, Security, Social Media, Privacy

16 points by tantalor 1 day ago | 0 comments

Show HN: A Chrome extension to give you back control over short-form videos (chromewebstore.google.com)
Add a progress bar and playback controls to YouTube Shorts, Instagram, and Facebook Reels.

Chrome Extensions, Video Playback, Social Media, User Experience

104 points by darajava 2 days ago | 45 comments

Everything is Ghibli (carly.substack.com)
OpenAI unleashed its native image generation in ChatGPT on Tuesday. By Wednesday morning, every social feed was drowning in Studio Ghibli-style portraits. (Linkedin, check back next week.) What happened—and why—is another signal of where AI, art, and our attention are headed.

Generative AI, Artificial Intelligence, Art, Social Media

205 points by ghuntley 2 days ago | 334 comments

Apple Intelligence denies rewriting a sentence that contain "protests in Turkey" (twitter.com)
Something went wrong, but don’t fret — let’s give it another shot.

Apple, Social Media, Censorship, Turkey, Protests

7 points by utku1337 2 days ago | 0 comments

GPT-4o helped me re-create classic cartoons with myself as a character (twitter.com)
Something went wrong, but don’t fret — let’s give it another shot.

Generative AI, AI Art, Humor, Social Media

12 points by ykhli 2 days ago | 0 comments

Sam Altman: we added one million users in the last hour (twitter.com)
Something went wrong, but don’t fret — let’s give it another shot.

Social Media, User Growth, Technology

4 points by s-macke 2 days ago | 0 comments

Bluesky isn't just another Twitter/X competitor. It fixes social media (crazystupidtech.com)
I joined Bluesky as soon as I could get my hands on an invite back in the summer of 2023. Twitter/X had become an increasingly unpleasant place since Elon Musk bought it in 2022. And then I discovered what many did back then: There weren’t enough users. I stopped using it.

Social Media, Twitter, Bluesky

21 points by herbertl 2 days ago | 11 comments

Big brands are spending small sums on X to stay out of Musk's crosshairs (arstechnica.com)
Big brands are allocating small amounts of their advertising budget to Elon Musk’s X, seeking to avoid being seen as boycotting the social media platform and triggering a public fallout with its billionaire owner.

Advertising, Social Media, Elon Musk, Business

17 points by pseudolus 2 days ago | 5 comments

Pixelfed leaks private posts from other Fediverse instances (fokus.cool)
Due to an implementation mistake, Pixelfed ignores this and allows anyone to follow even private accounts on other servers. When a legitimate user from a Pixelfed instance follows you on your locked fediverse account, anyone on that Pixelfed instance can read your private posts. You don’t need to be a Pixelfed user to be affected.

Privacy, Security, Social Media, Open Source, Fediverse

52 points by pierremenard 3 days ago | 25 comments

Brands spend nominal sums on X ads to keep Elon Musk happy (ft.com)

Advertising, Social Media, Elon Musk, Business

13 points by 01-_- 4 days ago | 2 comments

The Gleeful Cruelty of the White House X Account (theatlantic.com)
On March 18, the official White House account on X posted two photographs of Virginia Basora-Gonzalez, a woman who was arrested earlier this month by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. The post described her as a “previously deported alien felon convicted of fentanyl trafficking,” and celebrated her capture as a win for the administration. In one photograph, Basora-Gonzalez is shown handcuffed and weeping in a public parking lot.

Politics, Social Media, Immigration, Law Enforcement

10 points by zfg 4 days ago | 1 comments

Elon Musk Merges AI with X: Implications (katherinewrites.com)
Elon Musk has announced today that his artificial intelligence company, xAI, has acquired X (formerly Twitter) in an all-stock transaction valued at $33 billion, with xAI's valuation reaching $80 billion (xAI was valued at around $50 billion in a financing round last year and according to Bloomberg, last month the company was in talks to raise funds at a $75 billion valuation).

Artificial Intelligence, Social Media, Business, Acquisitions

8 points by slothsinc 4 days ago | 1 comments

Elon Musk makes request to Reddit CEO to take down posts he didn't like (mashable.com)
Elon Musk personally reached out to the CEO of Reddit to complain about content on the platform.

Elon Musk, Reddit, Social Media, Censorship, Free Speech

23 points by DocFeind 4 days ago | 1 comments

Twitter (X) Hit by Data Leak of 2.8B Users – Allegedly an Insider Job (hackread.com)
A data leak involving a whopping 2.87 billion Twitter (X) users has surfaced on the infamous Breach Forums.

Data Breaches, Social Media, Security, Twitter

114 points by CHEF-KOCH 4 days ago | 15 comments

Pinterest, but for Links – Saveku (saveku.com)
Saveku is a FREE ultimate bookmark manager specialized in links and simplicity.

Bookmarks, Web Browsing, Social Media, Productivity

12 points by roywj 5 days ago | 5 comments

Elon Musk's xAI firm buys social media platform X for $33B (theguardian.com)
Elon Musk’s xAI artificial intelligence firm has acquired Musk’s X – the social media platform formerly known as Twitter – for $33bn, marking the latest twist in the billionaire’s rapid consolidation of power.

Artificial Intelligence, Social Media, Business, Elon Musk

9 points by n1b0m 5 days ago | 5 comments

Elon Musk's X has a new owner–Elon Musk's xAI (arstechnica.com)
Elon Musk today said he has merged X and xAI in a deal that values the social network formerly known as Twitter at $33 billion.

Elon Musk, Twitter, Social Media, Artificial Intelligence

5 points by travisgriggs 5 days ago | 2 comments