Hacker News with Generative AI: Twitter

Show HN: I made a faster way to tweet than X (tweettoilet.com)
Instantly tweet from any page with opening Twitter
Theft of the Millenium (twitter.com)
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They Criticized Musk on X. Then Their Reach Collapsed (nytimes.com)
They Criticized Musk on X. Then Their Reach Collapsed.
Even the Densest Metal Doesn't Exceed USPS Shipping Weight Limit (nerdist.com)
Twitter can be a terrible place, but it’s also full of fun facts. Here’s one for today: it’s impossible to exceed the 70 pound weight limit of the US Postal Service’s (USPS) small flat rate box.
Doge came in, data went out, and Russians started attempting logins (twitter.com)
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Why am I still on Twitter? (therectangle.substack.com)
Every day, no matter how hard I try, I succumb to the same habit: picking up whatever device is nearest to me and browsing Twitter. Or — if you have brainworms — the site known as X.
All of the Data That Elon Musk's Doge May Have on You and Your Family (gizmodo.com)
As Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency burrows through the federal government like a tape worm, it has increasingly requested (and been given) access to large amounts of information on the American public.
Musk sets the stage for Tesla to bail out Twitter/xAI at an insane valuation (electrek.co)
Elon Musk, who already suggested Tesla invest in xAI, is now setting the stage for the public company under his control to grossly overpay for xAI, a private company under his control that just absorbed Twitter (X).
Elon Musk sets stage for Tesla to bail out Twitter/xAI at an insane valuation (electrek.co)
Elon Musk, who already suggested Tesla invest in xAI, is now setting the stage for the public company under his control to grossly overpay for xAI, a private company under his control that just absorbed Twitter (X).
An anonymous Twitter account sent markets reeling today (ft.com)
An anonymous Twitter account sent markets reeling today
Elon Musk's X to clamp down on parody accounts (bbc.co.uk)
X is bringing in stricter rules around parody accounts.
Elon Musk sets the stage for Tesla to bail out Twitter/xAI (electrek.co)
Elon Musk, who already suggested Tesla invest in xAI, is now setting the stage for the public company under his control to grossly overpay for xAI, a private company under his control that just absorbed Twitter (X).
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.
Grok, built by xAI, has labeled Musk as the top misinformation spreader on X (twitter.com)
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Someone is trying to recruit security researchers in a bizarre hacking campaign (techcrunch.com)
Someone is making precisely that tantalizing, bizarre, and clearly sketchy job offer. The person is using what looks like a series of fake accounts with avatars displaying photos of attractive women and sliding into the direct messages of several cybersecurity professionals and researchers on X in the last couple of weeks.
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. 
What is Zombie Prompting: in 5 simple images (twitter.com)
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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.
Andrej Karpathy on the State of Web Development (twitter.com)
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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.
OpenAI Is Adopting MCP (twitter.com)
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Might Be Time for Me to Collect Being Right Points for My Bluesky Prediction (daringfireball.net)
Yours truly back in May 2023, in a thread on Mastodon (at the time, you needed an invitation code to get into Bluesky, and it was just a few months after Musk’s takeover and remaking of what was once Twitter):
MCP – Flash in the Pan or Future Standard? (langchain.dev)
Model Context Protocol (MCP) is creating quite the stir on Twitter – but is it actually useful, or just noise? In this back and forth, Harrison Chase (LangChain CEO) and Nuno Campos (LangGraph Lead) debate whether MCP lives up to the hype.
My deleted Twitter account was instantly taken over by crypto scammers (ycombinator.com)
A few months ago I deactivated my Twitter/X accounts because I got tired of the community there. After the expiration date has passed, the username was immediately snatched, gone through the “blue checkmark” process (I never had one) and started posting cryptocoin pumping content.
Running DeepSeek R1 on my desk (twitter.com)
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When writing, don't mention people who've criticized you (twitter.com)
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Mastodon Is Doomed (justingarrison.com)
Mastodon is free and open source microblogging software that many people believe will be the next Twitter.
BigCo needs to buy SmallerCo to do anything interesting (twitter.com)
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Show HN: I made a tool to port tweets to Bluesky mantaining their original date (bluemigrate.com)
Import your tweets to Bluesky in a few clicks 🦋
Publications from 2025 are shared more on Bluesky than on X/Twitter (bsky.app)