Hacker News with Generative AI: Twitter

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

424 points by jihadjihad 10 hours ago | 81 comments

Grok, built by xAI, has labeled Musk as the top misinformation spreader on X (twitter.com)
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Generative AI, Social Media, Twitter, Misinformation, Elon Musk

8 points by doener 15 hours ago | 0 comments

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.

Cybersecurity, Social Engineering, Recruitment, Twitter

6 points by jbegley 1 day 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

What is Zombie Prompting: in 5 simple images (twitter.com)
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Generative AI, Twitter

4 points by bosky101 3 days ago | 0 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

Andrej Karpathy on the State of Web Development (twitter.com)
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Web Development, Artificial Intelligence, Twitter

47 points by mg 5 days ago | 56 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

OpenAI Is Adopting MCP (twitter.com)
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OpenAI, Twitter, Artificial Intelligence

7 points by gronky_ 7 days ago | 2 comments

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):

Social Media, Predictions, Twitter, Bluesky

11 points by hn1986 8 days ago | 0 comments

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.

Language Models, Artificial Intelligence, Debate, Technology, Twitter

6 points by chaosprint 11 days ago | 3 comments

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.

Twitter, Crypto Scams, Social Media, Account Security, Identity Theft

10 points by alin23 14 days ago | 6 comments

Running DeepSeek R1 on my desk (twitter.com)
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Deep Learning, Software, Hardware, Twitter

9 points by tambourine_man 14 days ago | 1 comments

When writing, don't mention people who've criticized you (twitter.com)
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Writing, Criticism, Social Media, Twitter

13 points by amrrs 14 days ago | 18 comments

Mastodon Is Doomed (justingarrison.com)
Mastodon is free and open source microblogging software that many people believe will be the next Twitter.

Social Media, Twitter, Open Source

6 points by mariuz 14 days ago | 3 comments

BigCo needs to buy SmallerCo to do anything interesting (twitter.com)
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Business, Acquisitions, Twitter

25 points by tosh 15 days ago | 3 comments

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 🦋

Social Media, Twitter, Bluesky, Migration, Tools

524 points by nols05 15 days ago | 213 comments

Publications from 2025 are shared more on Bluesky than on X/Twitter (bsky.app)

Social Media, Twitter, Bluesky, Data Analysis

12 points by doener 18 days ago | 0 comments

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.

Social Media, Tech, Fashion, Twitter

88 points by c5karl 19 days ago | 85 comments

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.

Social Media, Twitter, Content Creation, Business

8 points by nodumbideas 22 days ago | 0 comments

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.

Social Media, Technology, Twitter, Outage

21 points by saltysalt 23 days ago | 1 comments

Snope's six week odyssey to recover their hacked Twitter account (infosec.exchange)

Cybersecurity, Social Media, Twitter, Hacking

4 points by latexr 24 days ago | 0 comments

Another late-night Claude Code post (twitter.com)
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Claude, Social Media, Late Night, Programming, Twitter

42 points by tosh 24 days ago | 26 comments

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.

Elon Musk, Twitter, Technology, Leadership

50 points by todsacerdoti 27 days ago | 0 comments

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.

Social Media, Academia, Market Dynamics, Twitter

23 points by cratermoon 29 days ago | 8 comments

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.

Security, Tor, Twitter

13 points by tonymet 30 days ago | 1 comments

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.

Social Media, Twitter, Technology, Rebranding

11 points by skadamat 31 days ago | 3 comments

DOGE claims there are 227 unused VSCode licenses in DoL (twitter.com)
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Software, Licensing, Twitter

17 points by thefujin 35 days ago | 13 comments

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.

Cryptocurrency, Sam Bankman-Fried, Prison, Twitter

8 points by harambae 36 days ago | 1 comments

Agency > Intelligence (twitter.com)
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Agency, Intelligence, Twitter

6 points by tosh 36 days ago | 1 comments