Most social media platforms train AI models on user content, and few offer easy opt-outs, according to a Lifehacker report. Twitch recently allowed users to opt out, but Facebook, for example, does no…
Cal Newport's essay 'On AI Coding and Its Discontents' argues that AI coding tools trade speed for the deep thinking that builds engineering skill, and developers are seeking a middle path that preser…
Axios publisher Nicholas Johnston wrote an article describing how he uses AI chatbots to summarize books like 'The Last of the Mohicans' chapter by chapter, saying the AI has become his 'reading buddy…
A man named Mark used Meta's Ray-Ban smart glasses to film himself harassing British comedian Diane Morgan during a TV shoot on Hollywood's Walk of Fame, with the video accumulating over one million v…
A Hacker News user asked the community to share tasks that cost money through a UI but are free in code, citing ffmpeg and yt-dlp as examples of free tools that power paid video downloaders, and notin…
In a blog post, Mac Wright highlights TypeScript 7, Microsoft's rewrite of the TypeScript compiler in Go, which is significantly faster and now supports the Language Server Protocol, enabling standard…
Saber Interactive denied allegations that it replaced lead writer Stella Sacco with ChatGPT on its upcoming driving sim Rideshare 'Stimulator', but confirmed the game uses generative AI in other areas…
Saber CEO Matthew Karch denied claims that the company replaced writers with ChatGPT for the game Rideshare "Stimulator," stating the story was 'written entirely by real people' except for an experime…
A developer measured the fixed token overhead of spawning subagents in Claude Code and found it to be roughly 436,000 tokens per agent before any useful work, dwarfing the payload cost. In a compariso…
A developer who launched a web app called Dark Hours using Claude has shut it down and redirected its domain to DarkHours.app after discovering his project closely resembled the open source app, even …
A developer is betting that cross-publishing articles to Dev.to and Hashnode will drive three times more organic traffic to their AI directory sites than Bluesky posts by April 2027. The strategy leve…
Protocol Labs, Bluesky, number zero, and Witchcraft Software have published the User Controlled Authorization Network (UCAN) specification, a trustless, secure, local-first, user-originated, distribut…
Newsroom, a self-hosted, AI-ranked meta-aggregator for Hacker News, Substack, podcasts, Bluesky, Reddit, and other feeds, was released on GitHub. The Node.js-based tool combines keyword and optional A…
LinkedIn has added a button on every post allowing users to flag content that 'seems like AI slop,' according to a Bluesky post by user @scientits.bsky.social. The move comes as AI detection company P…
A developer built a Bluesky unfollow script that prunes non-mutual follows while avoiding churn flags. The script enforces a 14-day grace period before unfollowing, caps daily unfollows at 30, and onl…
A developer released Content Atomizer, a Claude skill that transforms a single piece of content into platform-optimized assets across LinkedIn, Twitter/X, Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, Threads, Bluesky,…
Meta has rolled out its Meta AI chatbot into Threads direct messages, giving the platform's 500 million monthly active users the ability to have private AI-powered conversations. The integration, whic…
A developer from Bluesky explained why the platform chose not to implement ActivityPub (AP), citing AP's lack of facilities for global aggregation to power search and algorithms, concerns over account…
Luke Kanies, founder of Puppet, explained on Hacker News why he cannot build a suite of review apps on AT Protocol due to its architectural limitation of public-by-default data, which cannot handle pr…
Bluesky's new Quests feature turns its Attie AI assistant from a custom-feed builder into a social research tool that can answer questions about information spreading across the open AT Protocol netwo…