Hacker News with Generative AI: Social Media

E.U. Prepares Major Penalties Against Elon Musk's X (nytimes.com)
European Union regulators are preparing major penalties against Elon Musk’s social media platform X for breaking a landmark law to combat illicit content and disinformation, said four people with knowledge of the plans, a move that is likely to ratchet up tensions with the United States by targeting one of President Trump’s closest advisers.
European Union, Social Media, Regulation, Elon Musk, Law
20 points by 2OEH8eoCRo0 5 hours ago | 5 comments
TikTok Faces Fine over €500M for EU Data Sent to China (bloomberg.com)
TikTok owner ByteDance Ltd. is set to be hit by a privacy fine of more than €500 million ($553 million) for illegally shipping European users’ data to China, adding to the growing global backlash over the video-sharing app.
Privacy, Data Protection, Social Media, China, Europe
9 points by impish9208 15 hours ago | 1 comments
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 1 day 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 1 day ago | 2 comments
Amazon Submits Bid for TikTok with US Sale Deadline Nearing (bloomberg.com)
Days before an April 5 deadline for TikTok to find a buyer or get shut out of its biggest market, the list of potential outcomes for the video app got a lot longer.
Acquisitions, Social Media, Business, TikTok, China
56 points by frutiger 1 day ago | 83 comments
Gitlab Bluesky Tips (gitlab.com)
Gitlab, Social Media, Open Source
5 points by mooreds 1 day 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 1 day ago | 9 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
623 points by jihadjihad 1 day ago | 105 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 1 day 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
38 points by nicpottier 2 days ago | 19 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 2 days 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
9 points by doener 2 days ago | 0 comments
April Cools Club (aprilcools.club)
It started with an idea.
Community, Social Media, Clubs
8 points by veqq 2 days 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 2 days 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 2 days 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 2 days 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 2 days 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
123 points by darajava 3 days ago | 54 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
212 points by ghuntley 3 days ago | 339 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 3 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 3 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 3 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 3 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 3 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 4 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-_- 5 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 5 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 5 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 5 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
115 points by CHEF-KOCH 5 days ago | 15 comments