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507karma·56submissions·June 1, 2025
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The old web doesn't necessarily mean the oldest web. 12-17 years ago was very much an older fairly different era of the web that's worth analyzing even if it's on the younger side of th…
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There is a good argument for barring anyone from being in a position of power like that who is too old to be around for the second half of FAFO. He has nothing to lose but the american people and thei…
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Thanks for compiling this list.
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Ah thanks you're right! I'd overlooked or forgotten some of what happened last year:
https://kansasreflector.com/2025/11/11/marion-county-agrees-... https:&#…
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Another article about it:
https://www.niemanlab.org/2026/08/remember-that-raid-on-a-sm... Here is the the old thread from august 13, 2023 back when it first got attention:
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I had a bit of a funny situation happen where putting myself on the do not call list stopped calls from more reputable sources but also caused an even bigger increase in sketchy calls. I switched to u…
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It's neat seeing what other millennials were up to for online gaming outside the anglosphere especially since a lot of those sites are still up. The writing definitively has ai involved but it se…
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Our idea of a public/private privacy division where private recording is discouraged and public is a free for all really feels dated. I know personally I'd love to see a private/local&#…
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Our idea of a public/private privacy division where private recording is discouraged and public is a free for all really feels dated. I know personally I'd love to see a private/local&#…
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Reminds me a bit of this article that got submitted a few times recently and got a little discussion: https://aeon.co/essays/silicon-valley-has-a-science-fiction-... https:/…
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Hey thanks for adding customizable rss feeds! Super handy feature Is there any chance the feed items could also have a direct link to the hn post? Right now I'm trying them, clicking through to y…
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Seirdy pretty regularly updates that list so a lot of it isn't from 2021. Currently the last update happened about a year ago.
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They had their 15th birthday late last year:
https://www.slow-journalism.com/delayed-gratification-magazi... If you feel interested in following them but it feels too high traffic or …
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In my experience the best way to improve budget/old android phone performance is to disable as much random preinstalled crap as possible. Some stuff you can't disable directly through phone …
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Seems like there is potentially multiple layers of trump drama going on with that bridge:
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/jul/16/trump-admin... "Dem…
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I like a lot of things about bubbles but it seems to surface a lot of negative posts that are mainly just rants. A good chunk of articles in the daily/weekly briefings kind of feel like an indie …
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The dev even offers free pro licenses to those who can't afford them: "I shall add that if for some unfortunate reason you're not able to afford a license, just email me and i shall off…
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It's great seeing some more varied takes on search engines like this. That's essentially the same reason I use inoreaders rss search to find articles when I want to revisit them etc and it h…
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For searches where you want more that just the first result and want a depth of results to go through and maybe even check out more than the first page of results I like to use meta-search engines tha…
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I've been wanting something like this for a while now but as an extension that runs locally. Just something I can click to get a quick response telling me if the article seems like ai so I can fo…
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Personally my favorite spiritual successor to stumbleupon has been cloudhiker.net. I found kagis to be too personal blog focused for my tastes. I love that kagi is doing so much of this out in the ope…