Hacker News with Generative AI: Twitter

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)
Bluesky quickly sold out of the T-shirt its CEO wore to troll Mark Zuckerberg (techcrunch.com)
When Bluesky CEO Jay Graber took the SXSW stage this week, she managed to make fun of Mark Zuckerberg without mentioning Meta at all.
An Engagement Bait Translator (nodumbideas.com)
When Elon Musk took over Twitter (“X”), he introduced creator payments in an attempt to get people to post more. For a few months, my timeline was full of screenshots of posters flexing their giant payouts.
X down: Twitter not working amid major outage (the-independent.com)
X has gone down in what appears to be a major and global outage.
Snope's six week odyssey to recover their hacked Twitter account (infosec.exchange)
Another late-night Claude Code post (twitter.com)
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Who Is the Doge and X Technician Branden Spikes? (krebsonsecurity.com)
At 49, Branden Spikes isn’t just one of the oldest technologists who has been involved in Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). As the current director of information technology at X/Twitter and an early hire at PayPal, Zip2, Tesla and SpaceX, Spikes is also among Musk’s most loyal employees. Here’s a closer look at this trusted Musk lieutenant, whose Russian ex-wife was once married to Elon’s cousin.
Bluesky will trap academics in the same way Twitter/X did (lse.ac.uk)
Commercial platforms and social media companies are designed to maximise switching costs in order to retain users. Reflecting on the rise of Bluesky, Mark Carrigan warns the same market dynamics could ensnare academic Bluesky users.
Ask HN: Is X.com's (Twitter) Tor Broken? (ycombinator.com)
The preferred TOR location for X.com (twitter) has a broken cert (expired 2023) and returns 503 for all requests.
We Don't Need a New Twitter (newyorker.com)
The recent stumbles of Twitter, which is in the process of being rebranded as X, and the likely ill-fated attempts of Threads to do better, present an opportunity to pause and reconsider this particular trajectory of our digital world.
DOGE claims there are 227 unused VSCode licenses in DoL (twitter.com)
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Sam Bankman-Fried tweets from prison, aligns himself with DOGE efficiency (cryptoslate.com)
SBF takes aim at management while seeking pardon, hinting at workforce misalignments from a prison cell.
Agency > Intelligence (twitter.com)
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More than 20 Musk staffers resign over DOGE's 'dismantling of public services' (theguardian.com)
More than 20 civil service employees resigned on Tuesday from Elon Musk’s so-called “department of government efficiency” (Doge), saying they were refusing to use their technical expertise to “dismantle critical public services”.
Andrej Karpathy: Agency > Intelligence (twitter.com)
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