Reading up on social-news

Hacker Trends indexes 18 years of Hacker News comments to let users compare term frequency over time, built on Upstash Redis Search.

A Hacker News discussion argues that social media feeds, including HN, have shifted from connecting friends to delivering addictive content and fads.

A site that displays Hacker News front page stories in a newspaper-like grid layout with AI-generated summaries, gaining attention and discussion on HN itself.

Ask.com, the iconic question-based search engine, shut down on May 1, 2026, after 30 years of operation.

Burning Man's annual MOOP map reveals steady improvement in post-event cleanup, demonstrating accountability and community commitment to leave-no-trace principles.

Hacker News updated its guidelines to prohibit posting AI-generated or AI-edited comments, aiming to preserve human conversation.

A user suggests restricting new accounts from posting on Hacker News to combat increasing AI-generated content and spam.

A Hacker News user asks for high-quality news sources like HN for marketing, legal, and sales; commenters suggest Lobste.rs, Reddit, NASA Space Flight, and Punchbowl News.

Using RSS feeds reveals the hidden structure of online content, including SEO articles and paywall circumvention, contrasting with curated homepages.

New accounts on Hacker News are significantly more likely to use em-dashes, suggesting bot or AI-generated content is on the rise.

Hacker News commenters debate whether vitamin D and omega-3 supplements are more effective than antidepressants for depression, citing personal anecdotes and warning against mega-dosing.

Y Combinator's redesigned homepage foregrounds founder stories and before/after photos of its most successful startups, including Airbnb, Stripe, and OpenAI.

Show HN posts have increased 125% year-over-year, now making up 15% of all HN submissions.

GPT-5.2 cites Elon Musk's Grokipedia on topics like Iran and Holocaust deniers, raising concerns about misinformation propagation.

A study finds that 65% of Hacker News posts have negative sentiment, and those negative posts tend to receive more points and comments than positive ones.

Simon Willison ranked as the most popular blogger on Hacker News for the third consecutive year in 2025, based on analysis of domain score data.

A curated list aggregates books most frequently mentioned on Hacker News in 2025, with SICP, Clean Code, and Crafting Interpreters topping programming mentions.

A user asks how Hacker News works, and the community explains it is a curiosity-driven forum that resists gaming and promotion.

A Reddit tip helped identify Claudio Manuel Neves Valente as a suspect in both a campus shooting and the murder of an MIT professor.

macOS 26.2 enables RDMA over Thunderbolt for clustering multiple Macs into fast AI inference nodes, prioritizing capacity over throughput.

An LLM retroactively grades decade-old Hacker News predictions, sparking debate on hindsight bias, surveillance, and the value of public web archives.

A HN user proposes forbidding "I asked $AI, and it said" replies; commenters mostly oppose a ban, preferring downvotes to discourage low-effort posts.

A list of 1,225 hand-picked games selected purely by the curator's instinct, not genre or rating.

Yandori News Flow uses HNSW clustering to track how stories spread across 200k websites in real time, showing propagation timelines.

After ten years of maintaining a blog with minimal readership, the author finds value in writing for personal satisfaction and skill development rather than audience size.

check-projects is a fast, cross-platform CLI and TUI tool for checking the Git status of multiple categorized projects concurrently.

A Hacker News discussion critiques the article's centrist framing, arguing that social media polarization stems from platform scale, manufactured consent, and vocabulary misalignment rather than individual insanity.

Kagi compiles a collection of humorous search results that went hilariously

Facebook's page deletion feature is deliberately hidden behind multiple interfaces, making it nearly impossible for users to delete their own pages.

The piece argues that feeling like you're trying does not mean you are actually taking effective new actions to solve a problem.

HN commenters criticize Anthropic's security report as vague, unsubstantiated FUD that lacks technical evidence and seems designed to lobby for regulation or investment.

A look at Forrester founder George Colony, who repeatedly predicted the Web's death over three decades but was consistently wrong as the Web evolved.

AI World Clocks generates a new analog clock every minute from 13 different AI models, using only 2000 tokens per clock, to compare their visual generation capabilities.

Hacker News is a social news website focusing on computer science and entrepreneurship, run by the investment firm Y Combinator.