Hacker News with Generative AI: Web

Decentralizing Schemes (tbray.org)
I’m a fan of decentralized social media and that’s partly because I enjoy using it. But mostly because history teaches that decentralization is the best basis for sustainable, resilient online conversation. (Evidence? Email!) For the purpose of this essay, let’s assume that you agree with me. Let’s also assume that our online life is still Web-flavored.

Decentralization, Social Media, Web, History

39 points by NotInOurNames 18 days ago | 18 comments

Google Search switching to Google․com around the world (9to5google.com)
Google Search is now getting rid of these country code top-level domain names (ccTLD) in favor of using google.com globally.

Google, Search, Domain Names, Web

7 points by alentred 22 days ago | 1 comments

TLS certificate lifetimes will officially reduce to 47 days (digicert.com)
The CA/Browser Forum has officially voted to amend the TLS Baseline Requirements to set a schedule for shortening both the lifetime of TLS certificates and the reusability of CA-validated information in certificates. The first user impacts of the ballot take place in March 2026.

Security, Cybersecurity, TLS, Certificates, Web

512 points by crtasm 24 days ago | 675 comments

Show HN: Webtor – open-source torrent streaming engine (webtor.io)

Open Source, Streaming, Software, Torrents, Web

34 points by vintikzzzz 30 days ago | 12 comments

Show HN: A recommendation system to explore the non-commercial web (browserbuddy.com)
Prompt your feedSign In Customize your feedPick from the options or start with a prompt.ProgrammingDesignStartupsArtifical IntelligenceArtLiteratureMathFashionFaith/SpiritualityBegin

Recommendations, Web, Open Source, Browsers, User Experience

10 points by alien0006 46 days ago | 4 comments

Let's knock down social media's walled gardens – Tim Berners-Lee (ft.com)
Let’s knock down social media’s walled gardens

Social Media, Web, Privacy, Technology

113 points by walthamstow 54 days ago | 98 comments

Hacker News is old enough to vote - Happy 18th Birthday HN (wikipedia.org)
Hacker News (HN) is a social news website focusing on computer science and entrepreneurship.

Anniversaries, Social Media, Technology, Web

8 points by irs 80 days ago | 4 comments

The Death of the Web (2024) (garry.net)
When I was in school, in the mid 90s, I got on the internet for the first time.

Web, Technology, Internet, Future

72 points by mark_mcnally_je 85 days ago | 73 comments

LLMs put the free web at risk (ycombinator.com)
My cofounder and I think the rise of AI has put the free web at risk.

Web, Artificial Intelligence

10 points by anfernan 91 days ago | 19 comments

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.

Privacy, Google, Web, Advertising, Regulations

48 points by MasterPI 119 days ago | 60 comments

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

Games, Health, Humor, Artificial Intelligence, Web

12 points by Bluestein 125 days ago | 0 comments

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.

Mozilla, Open Source, Artificial Intelligence, Web

8 points by walterbell 139 days ago | 2 comments

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!

Social Media, Bluesky, Community, Startups, Web

6 points by mooreds 155 days ago | 0 comments

Europeans spend 575M hours clicking on cookie banners a year (substack.com)
Europeans spend 575 million hours clicking on cookie banners a year.

Europe, Privacy, Cookies, Web, User Experience

79 points by rholmes84 172 days ago | 101 comments

Wiby – Search Engine for the Classic Web (wiby.me)
Submit a page here!

Search Engines, Web, Internet, Nostalgia

81 points by OuterVale 173 days ago | 20 comments

What RSS reader do you use? (lobste.rs)
I figured Lobsters has a lot of people that still use RSS still.

RSS, News Readers, Technology, Web

8 points by speckx 179 days ago | 1 comments

Nobody Here (nobodyhere.com)
Mijn naam is Jogchem Niemandsverdriet en het spijt me van alles wat gaat komen.

Personal, Apology, Web

7 points by wkjagt 183 days ago | 0 comments

WordPress, Drama, Leadership, and the Web (anderegg.ca)
The WordPress saga continues.

WordPress, Leadership, Web

8 points by GavinAnderegg 203 days ago | 0 comments

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.

Search Engines, History, Google, Algorithms, Web

76 points by dotcoma 207 days ago | 66 comments

Europeans Spend 575M Hours Clicking Cookie Banners Every Year (legiscope.com)
Europeans Spend 575 Million Hours Clicking Cookie Banners Every Year

Privacy, User Experience, Europe, Technology, Web

25 points by Thiebaut 209 days ago | 28 comments

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.

Internet, Web, Gopher, Technology

11 points by pabs3 219 days ago | 2 comments

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.

Social Media, History, Technology, Web

54 points by erlend_sh 226 days ago | 62 comments

A new path for Kyber on the web for Chrome (googleblog.com)
Chrome will switch from supporting Kyber to ML-KEM

Chrome, Security, Encryption, Web

10 points by throw0101c 234 days ago | 1 comments

EPUBCheck – The official conformance checker for ePub publications (github.com/w3c)

EPUB, Validation, Standards, Web

146 points by auraham 260 days ago | 25 comments

Apple Maps launches on the web in new public beta (9to5mac.com)

Apple, Maps, Web, Beta

7 points by cpeterso 289 days ago | 5 comments

WebCrawler – search engine operating for 30 years (wikipedia.org)