Hacker News with Generative AI: Social Media

xAI to pay telegram $300M to integrate Grok into the chat app (techcrunch.com)
Telegram has struck a partnership with Elon Musk’s AI company, xAI, to distribute the latter’s chatbot, Grok, via Telegram and integrate it into apps available on the chat app’s platform for one year.

Artificial Intelligence, Chatbots, Social Media, Partnerships

322 points by freetonik 30 days ago | 397 comments

Bluesky user activity has declined by 23% over the past three months (bluefacts.app)
This page shows how activity and usage of Bluesky has been growing over time. You can see how many users are actively posting on Bluesky and how many posts are added to Bluesky on a daily basis.

Social Media, Data Analysis, Bluesky, Twitter Alternative

21 points by uwemaurer 30 days ago | 21 comments

Reactions and follow up to College English Majors Can't Read (kittenbeloved.substack.com)
Well, that was a wild ride. As of the time of this writing, College English majors can’t read has 120,000 views and 535 comments.

Education, Reading, Social Media, Culture

11 points by surprisetalk 30 days ago | 1 comments

Why Good Ideas Die Quietly and Bad Ideas Go Viral (newyorker.com)
A new book, “Antimemetics: Why Some Ideas Resist Spreading,” argues that notions get taken up not because of their virtue but because of their catchiness.

Ideas, Virality, Psychology, Social Media, Books

70 points by samizdis 30 days ago | 120 comments

US halts student visa appointments and plans expanded social media vetting (bbc.com)
US President Donald Trump's administration has ordered embassies to stop scheduling appointments for student visas as it prepares to expand social media vetting of such applicants.

Immigration, Politics, Social Media, Technology

19 points by layer8 31 days ago | 3 comments

US considers social media vetting for foreign university students (thenational.scot)

Social Media, Education, Immigration, International Relations, Politics

12 points by geox 31 days ago | 0 comments

It Seems Obvious That AI Will Replace Zuckerberg Within 12 to 18 Months (medium.com)

Artificial Intelligence, Meta, Mark Zuckerberg, Social Media

6 points by samsmithy 31 days ago | 1 comments

I shorted $TRUMP coin (and got to have dinner with the President) (theverge.com)
Last month, Donald Trump pushed the boundaries of government and financial ethics by announcing a contest: whoever bought and held the highest amount of the $TRUMP meme coin for an entire month would win an invite to a private dinner with the President.

Cryptocurrency, Politics, Social Media

7 points by mrtomservo 32 days ago | 1 comments

Community Notes on X Appear to Have Been Down the Past Three Days (leadstories.com)
Several users are currently reporting Community Notes on X have disappeared from their timelines.

Social Media, Twitter, Platform Issues, Community Features

14 points by mschenk 32 days ago | 0 comments

Every wondered how Facebook spoofs Gmail message list snippet text? (ycombinator.com)
E.g. Gmail inbox shows a message contains "XXX tagged you on Facebook. Take a look about what she said on you."But when you open the message, there's no "Take a look about what she said on you."Answer. The text is present but hidden:Take a look at what she said about you.And unsurprisingly whenever I do click through, I find she hasn't said anything about me.

Social Media, User Interface, Email, Web Development, Privacy

87 points by chrisjj 32 days ago | 62 comments

Show HN: XOff an open source Chrome extension to change X links to Xcancel (codeberg.org)
Xoff automatically converts all x.com links on any web page to their live xcancel.com equivalents.

Chrome Extensions, Open Source, Web Development, Social Media

9 points by jaggs 32 days ago | 1 comments

Retrieve the comments history of any YouTube user across 1.4B users (lolarchiver.com)
Retrieve the comments history of any Youtube user across 1.4 billion users & 20 billion comments recorded

YouTube, Data Scraping, Social Media, Web Archives

20 points by gonzalezj 33 days ago | 7 comments

Urgent decision: Meta may use user data for AI training (heise.de)
The Cologne Higher Regional Court has rejected an application by consumer advocates to prohibit Meta from using Facebook data for AI training, for example.

Privacy, AI, Facebook, Law, Social Media

5 points by I_am_tiberius 33 days ago | 1 comments

Tiny company with no revenue and ties to China plans to buy $300M in $TRUMP (independent.co.uk)
A tiny TikTok creator company with no revenue and ties to China plans to buy $300million in Trump’s memecoin

Cryptocurrency, China, Business, Social Media

16 points by microsoftedging 33 days ago | 8 comments

Do we need publicly-owned social networks to escape Silicon Valley? (elpais.com)
Social media is going through perhaps its worst period, in terms of its public image — and this is a phrase we’ve been able to say on any given day since at least 2016.

Social Media, Technology, Silicon Valley, Public Policy

17 points by belter 33 days ago | 15 comments

The Day Elon Musk Decided to Personally Rip Servers Out of a Data Center (2023) (techdirt.com)
Back on Christmas Eve of last year there were some reports that Elon Musk was in the process of shutting down Twitter’s Sacramento data center.

Elon Musk, Twitter, Data Centers, Technology, Social Media

6 points by sirobg 33 days ago | 0 comments

Space Selfie (crunchlabs.com)
Here's the Deal: We're Going to Space. And Now it's Free for Everyone! #SPACESELFIE

Space Travel, Social Media, Technology

160 points by rossdavidh 34 days ago | 38 comments

X continues to suffer bugs following Thursday outage (techcrunch.com)
For over 24 hours, many X users, including this reporter, have been experiencing issues with the site’s basic functionality.

Social Media, Technology, Bugs, Outages

10 points by mellosouls 34 days ago | 0 comments

X (fka Twitter) is out of service (ycombinator.com)
After problems with notifications, DMs, and other features over the last couple of days, now the site doesn't work at all, unable to load posts in any feed.

Social Media, Technology, Twitter, Downtime, Issues

27 points by intellectronica 34 days ago | 6 comments

Digg co-founder offers to save Pocket as Mozilla winds it down (9to5mac.com)
Just one day after Mozilla confirmed it’s shutting down Pocket, Digg co-founder and chairman Kevin Rose has stepped up with a public offer to take it over.

Acquisitions, Tech News, Social Media, Web Browsing

13 points by AdmiralAsshat 35 days ago | 0 comments

Digg founder Kevin Rose offers to buy Pocket from Mozilla (techcrunch.com)
Digg, the Web 2.0-era link aggregator that’s now being given a second chance at life, is open to buying Mozilla’s read-it-later app, Pocket.

Tech Acquisitions, Social Media, Web 2.0, Mozilla, Pocket

7 points by gorbachev 35 days ago | 0 comments

Google's Veo3 Is Already Deepfaking All of YouTube's Most Smooth-Brained Content (gizmodo.com)
Wake up, babe, new viral AI video generator dropped. This time, it’s not OpenAI’s Sora model in the spotlight, it’s Google’s Veo 3, which was announced on Tuesday during the company’s annual I/O keynote. Naturally, people are eager to see what chaos Veo 3 can wreak, and the results have been, well, chaotic. We’ve got disjointed Michael Bay fodder, talking muffins, self-aware AI sims, puppy-centric pharmaceutical ads—the list goes on.

Artificial Intelligence, Video Generation, Google, YouTube, Social Media

27 points by thunderbong 36 days ago | 20 comments

Twitter down as users of Elon Musk's X app report major issues (mirror.co.uk)

Twitter, Social Media, Technology, Elon Musk, App Issues

10 points by andrewfromx 36 days ago | 1 comments

FTC investigates media watchdog over Musk's X boycott claims, document shows (theguardian.com)
The US Federal Trade Commission has demanded documents from Media Matters about possible coordination with other media watchdogs accused by Elon Musk of helping orchestrate advertiser boycotts of X, according to a document seen by Reuters on Thursday.

Elon Musk, Social Media, FTC, Lawsuits, Media

10 points by mitchbob 36 days ago | 0 comments

I used to shoot $500k pharma commercials. I made this for $500 in Veo 3 (twitter.com)
Something went wrong, but don’t fret — let’s give it another shot.

Video Production, Advertising, Budget, Technology, Social Media

10 points by enraged_camel 36 days ago | 1 comments

Social media platforms: what's wrong, and what's next (scottgoci.com)
I think we need a new social media platform to emerge from the web.

Social Media, Technology, Criticism

45 points by eggbrain 36 days ago | 58 comments

Update from Dianna [video] (youtube.com)

Videos, News, Social Media

9 points by sieste 36 days ago | 1 comments

Ask HN: How to Make Friendster Great? (ycombinator.com)
I bought the domain friendster.com because I loved the old Friendster and wanted to bring it back. I built a social network on the site and have started to invite people from the waitlist. I'd like to make Friendster great again - do you have ideas on what I should do?

Social Media, Nostalgia, Entrepreneurship, Web Development

98 points by ca98am79 37 days ago | 141 comments

Discord Unveiled: A Comprehensive Dataset of Public Communication (2015-2024) (arxiv.org)
Discord has evolved from a gaming-focused communication tool into a versatile platform supporting diverse online communities.