Hacker News with Generative AI: Web

On Google’s Policy Change Towards Fingerprinting (lukaszolejnik.com)
While I once hoped 2017 would be the year of privacy, 2024 closes on a troubling note, a likely decrease in privacy standards across the web. I was surprised by the recent Information Commissioner’s Office post, which criticized Google’s decision to introduce device fingerprinting for advertising purposes from February 2025. According to ICO, this change risks undermining user control and transparency in how personal data is collected and used.
Dilberito (archive.org)
Help Dilbert increase his life expectancy by eating good food, exercising, and avoiding fatty food. Move Dilbert and help him do jumping jacks and pushups., Every food has a point value. Dilberitos have 100% of your required food. Collect all the food to get a Dilberito.Game was created by Scott Adams to promote the ill-fated and failed Dilberito:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dilberito
State of Mozilla 2024 (mozilla.org)
Mozilla stands for putting people and communities in control of how technology shows up in their lives. In 1998, that meant taking the web in a better direction. In 2024, it means doing the same for AI, and making sure that open source wins again in the AI era.
Bluesky Starter Pack Directory (blueskystarterpack.com)
Over 42,063 Bluesky starter packs to help you get started on Bluesky. Find and follow amazing accounts based on your interests!
Europeans spend 575M hours clicking on cookie banners a year (substack.com)
Europeans spend 575 million hours clicking on cookie banners a year.
Wiby – Search Engine for the Classic Web (wiby.me)
Submit a page here!
What RSS reader do you use? (lobste.rs)
I figured Lobsters has a lot of people that still use RSS still.
Nobody Here (nobodyhere.com)
Mijn naam is Jogchem Niemandsverdriet en het spijt me van alles wat gaat komen.
WordPress, Drama, Leadership, and the Web (anderegg.ca)
The WordPress saga continues.
The Age of PageRank Is Over (2022) (kagi.com)
When Sergey Brin and Larry Page came up with the concept of PageRank in their seminal paper The Anatomy of a Large-Scale Hypertextual Web Search Engine (Sergey Brin and Lawrence Page, Stanford University, 1998) they profoundly changed the way we utilize the web.
Europeans Spend 575M Hours Clicking Cookie Banners Every Year (legiscope.com)
Europeans Spend 575 Million Hours Clicking Cookie Banners Every Year
Gopher and the Lynx Web (2019) (carcosa.net)
As part of the ongoing revitalization of gopher, there has been quite a bit of discussion about what, exactly, is good about gopher, and whether you can separate that from what’s bad about the world wide web.
The Social Web Did Not Begin in 2008 (bix.blog)
Some folks have gotten themselves together as something they’re calling the Social Web Foundation, and I’ll cut to the chase: this is an attempt by ActivityPub partisans to rebrand the confusing “fediverse” terminology, and in the process, regardless of intent, shit on everything else that’s been the social web going back twenty-five years.
A new path for Kyber on the web for Chrome (googleblog.com)
Chrome will switch from supporting Kyber to ML-KEM
EPUBCheck – The official conformance checker for ePub publications (github.com/w3c)
Apple Maps launches on the web in new public beta (9to5mac.com)
WebCrawler – search engine operating for 30 years (wikipedia.org)
CheerpX is x86 virtualization to run executables and OS client-side (leaningtech.com)
TUAW Returns as a Gross, Zombie AI-Generated Garbage Site (sixcolors.com)
Webring Starter: a modern, simple webring (github.com/krusynth)
Microsoft will launch its long awaited mobile game store in July via the web (neowin.net)
Tell HN: We should snapshot a mostly AI output free version of the web (ycombinator.com)
96% of US hospital websites share visitor info with Meta, Google, data brokers (theregister.com)