The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 13,065 posts.
In my recent analysis of YouTube’s information density I included the results from an advanced statistical analysis on the number of videos present on the home page, which projected that around May 2026 there would only be one lonely video on the home screen.
Being "the enshittification guy" means that people expect you to weigh in on every service or platform that has been deliberately worsened to turn a buck. It's an impossible task (and a boring one besides). There's too much of this shit, and it's all so mid – a real "banality of enshittification" situation.
Executive Summary: Rapid advancement in artificial intelligence (AI) has become a point of national pride in the People’s Republic of China (PRC), driven in part by a cohort of accelerationist advisors who view technology as a transformative solution to the country’s economic ills. Lauding it as a “new productive…
How a new X feature led to the most sweeping public exposure of covert foreign activity on a major platform since 2016.
This content is currently in the process of being archived and integrated into the CERN Library collections.
I’m not saying this will definitely happen, but I think we could be on the cusp of a significant shift in Windows market share for consumer computers. It is not going to drop to 2% in a year or anything, but I feel like a few pieces are coming
Recently I got a friend to finally join me on Signal. He asked something about whether or not Signal is truly secure and private, like if it was safe from US government surveillance. I told him: “Well, it’s end-to-end encrypted, so they don’t know what we’re talking about, but they definitely know that we’re talking…
The issues described in this article were resolved after this article was posted.
Mozilla's new strategy document confirms their position, and the end of their stewardship of the open web.
According to my experience...
Monotropism was formulated as a theory of autism, but as time has gone on it has become clear that many diagnosed with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) identify strongly with many aspects of the theory.
We’ve heard some questions and concerns following our recent Terms of Service and Privacy Policy updates. We are thankful our community cares enough to
New documents and court records obtained by EFF show that Texas deputies queried Flock Safety's surveillance data in an abortion investigation, contradicting the narrative promoted by the company and the Johnson County Sheriff that she was “being searched for as a missing person,” and that “it was about her safety.”…
Through an analysis of 10 months of nationwide searches on Flock Safety's servers, we discovered that more than 50 federal, state, and local agencies ran hundreds of searches through Flock's national network of surveillance data in connection with protest activity. In some cases, law enforcement specifically targeted…
It’s so easy
After building a software company to a multi-billion dollar exit, I made the jump to hardware. Now I’m working on carbon removal + steel at Charm Industrial , and electric long-haul trucking with Revoy . It’s epically fun to be building in the real world, but little did I expect that more than half the cost of…
How America Destroyed Its Cheapest Homes
We worked with Reuters to measure the impacts of AI scams on the elderly
We introduce and open-source an automated evaluation for political even-handedness, testing six models across 1,350 prompt pairs.
Best case: we're in a bubble. Worst case: the people profiting most know exactly what they're doing.
Big Tech Oligopoly helps the Trump Administration crack down on free speech
Gary K Wolf is the author of a fantastic 1981 novel called Who Censored Roger Rabbit? which Disney licensed and turned into an equally fantastic 1988 live action/animated hybrid movie called Who Framed Roger Rabbit? But despite the commercial and critical acclaim of the movie, Disney hasn't made any feature-length…
Every advancement in model intelligence for coding has encouraged us to rethink how development should be done. The Integrated Development Environment (IDE)…
When entertaining the idea of communities issuing their own money (called complementary currencies ), people often wonder if that idea has been successfully done before. In doing our research into the concept, we encountered a number of stories where communities issued their own currency and produced a prosperity…
A North Korean atlas that shows the world from the perspective of one of the most isolated countries on the planet.
Flock's 'licence plate readers' read much more than license plates. A judge says what they record must be released.
If delivered today, the last of Huxley’s 7-part lecture series at MIT would probably be categorised under motivational talks or self-help strategies. It surv...
Consider just saying what the problem is
