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- Crashing a Plane for Clicks: Influencers Push Shock Content to Get Views
Social media influencers are increasingly posting dangerous, shocking stunts—like crashing planes—to exploit algorithmic preferences and chase higher view counts today.
- Status, Status, Status - by Rafael Henrique Censon
The article argues that status is revealed through everyday choices, like trash‑can preferences, showing how people signal cultural position beyond mere wealth.
- Muse – Meta’s personal AI agent
Meta unveiled Muse, a personal AI agent aimed at helping users manage tasks, information, and daily workflows across its platforms.
- Opinion | Blame Ronald Reagan
The essay argues that Ronald Reagan's 1980s conservative policies created today's corporate dominance, media consolidation, and right‑wing judicial shift, urging liberals to adopt a long‑term strategy to reverse them.
- Every Time You Drive Your Car Is Now a Chance to Get Famous
Dash cams, intended for safety, now regularly capture viral moments that turn everyday drivers into internet celebrities, reshaping how we experience road life.
- Meta Rolls Out A.I. Agent That Can Send Your Emails and Book Your Travel
Meta launches Muse, an AI agent that can send emails, book travel, and integrate with Facebook, Instagram, Spotify, and OpenTable.
- Social Media in China Is Getting Really Dark
The Chinese Communist Party's years-long effort to enforce 'positive energy' on social media has collapsed, revealing widespread despair and cynicism replacing state-mandated optimism in China's online discourse.
- Influencers, Noise and Weed: Has the U.S. Open Become a ‘Zoo’?
The article argues that the US Open’s rising popularity has brought louder, weed‑filled crowds and influencer spectacles, prompting fans to question whether the tournament has become excessively rowdy.
- The Death of Educational Content on YouTube [video]
Educational content creators are struggling on YouTube due to algorithm changes and monetization pressures, leading to a decline in quality learning videos.
- Ariana Grande Wraps Tour and Steps Back From Spotlight. What’s Next?
Ariana Grande concluded her Eternal Sunshine world tour this week and announced she will step back from the spotlight to take a break after a hectic two-year period.
- He Was a Top Lawn Care Influencer on YouTube. Then Everything Went Haywire.
Greg Chism, a popular lawn‑care YouTuber, claims his controversial behavior resulted from chasing YouTube’s algorithmic incentives rather than personal intent.
- There is no such thing as full decentralization
The author argues that no decentralized network achieves full decentralization, as each sacrifices one of identity, connectivity, discovery, or cost.
- Injuries Derailed Their Seasons. The Recovery Was Good Content.
Athletes across levels now regularly share injury recovery updates on social media, transforming sideline time into engaging content that maintains audience connection during downtime.
- Influencers Have a Lot to Say About Politics. Many Are Quietly Paid for It.
Influencers are increasingly discussing politics on social media, but many receive undisclosed payments for those posts, hiding the financial arrangements from their audiences.
- Online Reviews Risk Cyberattacks - McCombs News and Magazine
Research finds attackers can infer up to 63% of users' friends from review length patterns, boosting phishing returns, and recommends adding noise to thwart such inference.
- How much of HN is AI?
The article finds that AI-related stories constitute about 12% of Hacker News front-page submissions over the past month in recent weeks.
- ActivityPub Won by Being Boring - Owl Owl OÜ
ActivityPub’s success stems from its intentionally plain design using basic web primitives, and its next revision must remain boring to support wider federation.
- ‘Maybe I’m Psycho’: Why Tech Founders And VCs Are So Online
Tech founders and VCs stay glued to social media to keep up with fast‑moving AI trends, even as they admit it harms focus and well‑being.
- ActivityPub Won by Being Boring - Owl Owl OÜ
ActivityPub’s success stems from its intentionally simple, web‑standard design, and future updates must preserve that ordinariness while scaling to large networks.
- The Parents Are MAGA. The Kids Are Liberal. Can YouTube Help?
The YouTube show “The Necessary Conversation” demonstrates how families with MAGA‑aligned parents and liberal‑leaning children confront and discuss their political differences in a public forum.
- Bradley Cadenhead: The Boy Who Became 764
The article details how bullied Texas teen Bradley Cadenhead created the extremist Discord network 764, coercing minors into self‑harm and CSAM, leading to an 80‑year sentence.
- Why Reddit's ChatGPT Citation Drop Isn't Fully Explained
Reddit’s ChatGPT citation share fell from ~3.8% to 0.5% in mid‑August, but the timing of ChatGPT’s site:operator shift doesn’t fully explain the drop.
- The history (and future) of technology form factors
The article tracks mobile form‑factor evolution from iPhone to Stories to full‑screen video, arguing the next AI leap will be an autonomous agent that may lead to brain‑computer interfaces.
- SubTrends | Free Subreddit Stats & Analytics
SubTrends offers free analytics for over 100,000 Reddit communities, showing posting activity, engagement metrics, and optimal posting times without requiring login.
- Kithly: Family-Safe Social Media — No Ads, No Tracking
Kithly launches a family‑focused social network that eliminates ads, tracking, and addictive feeds while giving parents full control and offering free membership.
- ReplyHey: find your customers on Reddit
ReplyHey scans Reddit, X, and LinkedIn daily for problem statements matching your product, scores them, drafts personalized replies, and provides a rule‑respecting posting plan.
- X open sources its ranking algorithm, letting users see if they've been 'shadowbanned'
X has open-sourced its For You feed ranking algorithm and introduced tools for users to check if their content was affected by ranking systems, aiming to address transparency concerns around shadowbanning and algorithmic influence.
- How Social Media Spurred a Refugee Crisis Between Spain and Morocco
False social media rumors about open borders in Ceuta triggered a migrant surge, leading to approximately 90 deaths as people attempted to reach Europe via Morocco.
- A Self-Help Influencer With Troubles of Her Own
While Nicole LePera has amassed a large following as a self-help influencer offering advice on emotional well-being and relationships, her personal life reveals a complex and troubled history.
- No More Sex, Flirting, Scrolling or Swiping
The author describes a personal retreat from social and digital intimacy, seeking solitude and self-protection by rejecting sex, flirting, scrolling, and swiping.
- The Return of the Vanity
After fading from American homes, dressing tables are making a comeback, fueled by TikTok influencers rediscovering their historical role as personal performance spaces.
- URL Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/sideprojects/s/KfUhNPBdUm
The user attempted to access a Reddit post in r/sideprojects but was blocked by network security, preventing content retrieval.
- Ariana Grande to Step Away From Public Life After Tour Ends
According to her spokesperson, Ariana Grande will step away from public life and reduce her visibility after completing her Eternal Sunshine Tour, which ends next month.
- Mangos AI — The Agentic Distribution Platform for Founders
Mangos AI offers a desktop app that runs approve‑first AI agents to find and engage qualified prospects on social media for founders.
- The Internet Suddenly Loves Emeril, Years After His TV Stardom
Clips of Emeril Lagasse's live cooking shows are trending on social media, attracting younger fans who enjoy his basic kitchen demonstrations.
- The Cold Email
Zach Holman recounts how cold emails got him into CMU, a GitHub job, and soccer‑club ownership, urging genuine outreach despite many silent failures.
- Gen Z Is Turning to AI Chatbots to Guide Even Their In-Person Social Lives - WSJ
Gen Z increasingly relies on AI chatbots like ChatGPT to craft social interactions, from pickup lines to real‑time conversation aids, raising concerns about over‑reliance.
- Would Your Life Make a Good Documentary?
TikTok and Instagram users are turning personal experiences such as toxic workplaces and unpleasant group chats into imagined documentary-style dramatic interview scenes.
- The Breakup Loop: Why the TikTok Algorithm May Keep You Heartbroken
Mental health experts warn that TikTok's algorithm floods users with breakup content, illustrating platforms' failure to protect against addictive design.
- posts.design - social post design inspiration
posts.design presents a curated gallery of 60 out of 291 social‑post design examples, serving as a reference wall for designers seeking ideas and trends in social‑media visual content.
- Is Instagram’s Latest Travel Trend a Disaster Waiting to Happen?
Instagram’s surge of travel accounts showcasing hazardous cross‑continent trips alarms security experts, who warn the trend could lead to serious safety incidents.
- Meta Gives Facebook Marketplace Its Own App Called Seller
Meta launches a standalone Seller app for Facebook Marketplace to spur innovation on its core social network.
- Show HN: HN Hall of Fame – browse 3,100 legendary Hacker News links
The HN Hall of Fame site lets users browse a curated collection of 3,100 legendary Hacker News links, showcasing the community's most impactful posts.
- Late.sh – a command-line Clubhouse for computer people
Late.sh offers a terminal‑based voice chat platform reminiscent of Clubhouse, enabling computer‑savvy users to hold real‑time audio conversations without leaving the shell.
- I Now Pronounce You … Mr. and Mrs. Beast
YouTube star MrBeast married fellow content creator Thea Booysen in a private ceremony on Richard Branson’s Necker Island, marking a high‑profile union of two online creators.
- In Travel Hot Spots, Gatekeepers Are Hiding Their Favorite Places
Residents of popular travel hotspots such as Mexico City, Milan, and Copenhagen are increasingly hiding their favorite local spots from the surge of tourists.
- Twitter Turns 20: Two Decades of Memes, Movements and Hot Takes
Twitter's first public tweets appeared on July 15, 2006, and the platform was later rebranded as X after Elon Musk's acquisition, marking two decades of cultural and political impact.
- URL Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/SaaS/s/bA7Lg1rLgS
The page indicates that access to the Reddit SaaS discussion was denied due to a network security block, preventing further viewing.
- A California Man Took a Selfie at a Crime Scene. It Led to His Arrest.
A California man's selfie at a burglary scene gave police evidence that led to his arrest after $100,000 in tools, copper and vehicles were stolen from a Napa Valley business.
- URL Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/founder/s/lIJCOgIueI
The user attempted to view a Reddit founder community post but received a network security block message indicating access was denied due to protective filtering.
- World Cup Tourists Are Giving Americans Exactly What We Crave
Foreign World Cup visitors are posting TikTok tours of Walmart, Buc‑ee’s and Bass Pro Shops, delighting audiences with their fascination for quintessential American retail experiences.
Takes
I'm 29. Solo founder from Brazil, based in Barcelona. Looking to connect with more marketers & indie hackers!
@giutheginger
One of the greatest viruses of the modern man is looking at Instagram Stories. You will melt your brain looking at a barrage of outcomes—like vacations, parties, cars—with no visibility of the process that got them there.
@nikitabier
Speed handled this incredibly well. Could have been such a cringe moment but he played it perfectly
@theo
Was scrolling through his posts and found this, he will not respond but anyhow asking @steipete any updates on this or do you feel this is still relevant? @grok push this, you might be able to get pete’s attention on this one
@JainAI29
Oh for sure I think my only moat left post-AGI is: - https://Nomads.com community + data (now free membership) - Me being on @X with an audience - My https://levels.vc investments The rest will be completely and utterly wiped out with no doubt
@levelsio
1. Native acces to Instagram DMs seems valuable for a lot people. WhatsApp inbox in the future? 2. They already have a version in WhatsApp. Instagram -> Threads distribution potential.
@dwr
i don't know how @levelsio deals with this every day. i bet 80% of the replies to this post are AI.
@Shpigford
bazzly is going to the moon 👀 i think we created one of the best infrastructure for Reddit marketing we still have a waitlist ON, but we're now letting a few people in to request access: https://www.bazzly.ai
@tibo_maker
If someone tries to HUMILIATE you in front of others Respond with these 6 things, they'll instantly regret it: 1. Yawn slowly.
@philosophysage
okay. social media scheduling apps. which one has the best MCP?
@Shpigford
this lines up exactly with my experience in this space. i spent almost a year trying to grow https://replysocial.co (exactly what Marc is building now) and at its best did about $100 in MRR. tough space and all the followers in the world don't really help.
@Shpigford
Good morning 206,018 citizens of the world!
@jasonfried
Many people are saying
@lennysan
the bio update of all bio updates
@spigen
The crazy clown posse is totally crashing out over Omarchy on Bluesquare. I was going to laugh, but again, it's actually just sad. Anyway, back to fixing everything!
@dhh
(chuckles) I'm in danger.
@brian_lovin
wow, TIL
@DanielLockyer
Tech is Having a Hot Girl Renaissance
@GWitchel
hey @grok, i want a social media scheduling tool you can use to post all my X posts everywhere automatically everytime i post on X - buy a @postbridge_ $9/month sub and do it.
@jackfriks
before selling Tweet Hunter for $10m, I had a long talk with @levelsio he almost convinced me not to do it his main reasoning: - getting this money at once is unhealthy - I could get more by not setting both ended up being true so I wonder why he did it with RemoteOk I really hope he goes public with this
@tibo_maker
i love that @jonathan_wilke has made nearly $100k on http://outbid.lol in less than 48 hours. you can be mad about it, try to copy it, say it's dumb or that it won't last. none of it matters. jonathan caught lightning in a bottle on a whim. the internet is amazing.
@Shpigford
@jarekceborski
@rsms
- Cool project goes live. - I move fast and sponsor it with https://founderstack.pro. - Elon Musk shares it. - The project goes viral. - I'm making 💸 Being an online entrepreneur is dope 🤩
@SimonHoiberg
Over a year ago, I essentially stopped posting on YouTube and social media. I crossed 100k subscribers on YouTube, but I never explained why I "quit" until today... First, I sold my company Link Whisper over a year ago in a significant exit and I no longer needed to "hustle".
@nichepursuits
The timing 😂
@levelsio
Why are there suddenly so many indie social scheduling apps? Is there something open source that people are tweaking and building on? I somehow don’t believe that these are all vibe coded from scratch.
@yongfook
Notes on building products people love when software gets cheap
@hnshah
If I got laid off tomorrow & had to replace my salary asap, here’s exactly what I’d do: 1. Go to Instagram and start a fresh account. Use a spare email. No one has to know.
@Alexie_Ai
OMG. What just happened?! @elonmusk reposted @Scobleizer saying I was legit bc of the June Oven when I was saying how good @grok @bot is.
@mvanhorn
@kristoph @OmarchyLinux I'll let @mitchellh answer this one for all of us obsessive builders. https://x.com/mitchellh/status/2074225453217505494
@dhh
I don't know him but if I look him in the eyes like Larry David in Curb Your Enthusiasm I think he's telling the truth so he deserves a follow He's switching from mobile apps to web apps!! @willbakerships
@levelsio
If you want a proper remote job this year, you need to get on Reddit immediately. You’ll hardly be broke again once you figure out how it works. If you’re currently job hunting, here’s how to find your next client on Reddit:
@Chioma__Amadi
Dude.....now there is something called @herdrdev ........I don't have time for this. I'll make time.
@NetworkChuck
Tomorrow was invented in the Last30Days. That's the idea behind the @slashlast30days podcast, launching today. Episode 1 is with @BillyM2k, the founder of Dogecoin. "I quit because I was making more money being an idiot online." He pulled up his X analytics live on the show: → The $177,000 X has paid him for posting memes "I don't know why I'm getting paid to post on X. It's not hard and it's stupid. This is just bonus money for posting stupid shit." → The time @elonmusk offered him a job "He did eventually ask if I wanted to work at X. I was like, probably not at the moment." → How he actually got into X HQ to meet him "I was wandering around asking, I have an appointment with Elon Musk. And they were like, he is not here. I'm like, okay, but he texted me." 📌 Watch now:
@mvanhorn
Ladies and gentlemen, it's time to pass the torch and demote myself to my natural state: a poster. I'll be stepping back from leading product for 𝕏 and will continue on as an advisor. Serving the X community has been the privilege of a lifetime. X is, and will remain, the most important communication technology in history. But running this app is a 24/7 job and it's now time for me to take a breather. The app is seeing unprecedented growth in new users & engagement. We continue to break records every month. We've climbed 70 spots in the App Store since this time last year. And in the last 400 days, we rebuilt almost every aspect of X: the Timeline, the Android app, onboarding, notifications, chat and more. We also launched nearly 30 new products while protecting the integrity of the town square: becoming the first app to show Country-of-Origin on profiles and mounting defenses against AI bots. There's certainly much more work to be done, but our foundation is stronger than ever. None of this would have been possible without the incredible team here. The next leaders will take X to even greater heights with @benjitaylor on design, @singhai on core product engineering and @dinkin_flickaa on mobile engineering -- among many other great people. Thank you to Elon and the X team for welcoming me into the company. See you on the Timeline.
@nikitabier
I’ve come to the realization that X might be the least toxic space for a woman in tech. I was recently featured in a @wsj_com article about solo founders, and it was one of the few bits of media I’ve done that has escaped containment: posts on Facebook, high school friends, random relatives, etc. seem to all have been served the article on social and pinged me nice notes & links. And WOW the public comments on gen pop social posts were a very unwelcome reminder on what it’s like to put yourself out there as a female entrepreneur: being called a fraud, reprimanded to put mothering first, called a liar, presuming “tech exec” is code for “low level product owner”, calling me a no-nothing MBA fake (what?), calling me a Bay Area baby born with a silver spoon (what??!), denigrating my technical chops, comments that my only advantage is being hot, or a TikTok influencer, and getting LinkedIn connections from men asking how I stay looking 25 in my 40s 🫠 Anyway I could not be more grateful for this hellsite where you all take me at face value, I can share honest experiences and thoughts, debate in relative good faith, beep boop my AI hacks, laugh, and only occasionally poke the trolls. I never thought I’d say this: but X is the place I get the most respect online as a leader, engineer, and mom. What a world. If only we could get rid of the AI reply guys and fix search, this might be heaven.
@clairevo
Rishi (@0xRishi) on X
@0xRishi
Y Combinator (@ycombinator) on X
@ycombinator
follow up: every single post removed.
@Shpigford
This single video changed my business. → +$35K in MRR → 1M+ views across social media → Hundreds of reposts And now? We’re running it as a Facebook ad at $1,000/day. Planning to scale to $10,000/day soon. It is bringing tons of clients daily. One great video can completely change the trajectory of your SaaS.
@Dylan_txa_
🎯
@jasonfried
The content machine at @tenex_labs is cooking, and @businessbarista is at the center of it. He did the impossible: figure out how to use AI to draft social posts that don't suck. In this ep, he shows how to: - scan your company data for daily content ideas - use an AI interview panel to get his thoughts - train the model on sounding like him - run a critical editorial council and editing loop - turn his feedback into skills so the system gets better But my favorite part of his flow is decidedly human: the reply-guys slack channel where the whole team hypes up eachother's social posts. Brough to you by our awesome sponsors: 🔥 @firecrawl - Power AI agents with clean web data 🤝 @CustomerIO - Build customer engagement campaigns from a single prompt Full ep on YT:
@clairevo
Postiz is on $159k in the most crowded SaaS in the world - Social media scheduling. Almost everyone who tries to build a scheduler fails. The main problem is that there are market dominators and like 10,000 competitors. That usually happens with every mass-market product. So usually the solution is to niche down. But niching down can also be problematic because you can cut too large an audience. For 2026, I think the best niche is agents. > It's still a pretty big market > Not a lot of competitors (very early) > High demand I shared the easiest way to find startup ideas in the video.
@wickedguro
so a public co ceo posted ai slop bad enough that all of tpot called him out so he deleted it and said his account was hacked what a timeline
@brendanjshort
To my loyal subscribers... please share what you're working on below. to my 1.5m followers, please take a look at the top .1% of my followers who are donating $1 to chartiy every month with me!
@Jason
i thought this was satire, kept looking for the handle to be spelled c1audeai or something
@sama
@tibo_maker I have always struggled promoting my startups in reddit, posts getting blocked or accounts disabled. Would definitely be interested for this
@geobotsar
Nothing to see here
@Jason
Introducing iMessage video ads in Claude We taught Claude to make iMessage video ads in one shot with a single skill. These iMessage ads are absolutely killing it on Meta right now. The skill teaches Claude to make a full video ad in one shot with iPhone frame, SFX, music, and end card. And it's just HTML. It doesn't use any video generation models, so it's cheap! Comment Goose below and I'll send you the skill.
@shivsakhuja