pluralistic.net on Hacker News

Ad-tech company was a delivery system for "mercenary spyware"(pluralistic.net)

45 points by samizdis 9 days ago | 9 comments

Pluralistic blog post by Cory Doctorow about an Israeli ad-tech company that served as a delivery system for mercenary spyware.

The Claude Delusion(pluralistic.net)

67 points by hn_acker 1 month ago | 56 comments

LLMs are real, AI is fake(pluralistic.net)

9 points by andy99 1 month ago | 0 comments

LLMs are real, AI is fake(pluralistic.net)

45 points by danaris 1 month ago | 15 comments

Better to Beg Forgiveness(pluralistic.net)

29 points by hn_acker 2 months ago | 14 comments

Reverse centaurs are the answer to the AI paradox (2025)(pluralistic.net)

87 points by jason_s 3 months ago | 49 comments

Zuckerberg's Increasingly Bizarre War on Whistleblowers(pluralistic.net)

113 points by deely3 3 months ago | 14 comments

The difference between "today's task" and "accretive work"(pluralistic.net)

121 points by hn_acker 3 months ago | 64 comments

Zuckerberg's war on whistleblowers(pluralistic.net)

638 points by HotGarbage 4 months ago | 232 comments

A Pluralistic blog post by Cory Doctorow about Mark Zuckerberg's and Meta's increasingly bizarre efforts against whistleblowers.

What we call "age verification" is actually mass surveillance(pluralistic.net)

671 points by hn_acker 4 months ago | 351 comments

A Pluralistic blog post by Cory Doctorow arguing that online age verification mandates amount to mass surveillance that harms the kids they claim to protect.

The (real) dead economy theory(pluralistic.net)

49 points by hn_acker 4 months ago | 18 comments

Hold on for Dear Life(pluralistic.net)

18 points by hn_acker 5 months ago | 4 comments

The AI bubble isn't like the internet bubble(pluralistic.net)

32 points by doener 5 months ago | 21 comments

A Pascal's Wager for AI Doomers(pluralistic.net)

33 points by vrganj 6 months ago | 39 comments

Love of corporate bullshit is correlated with bad judgment(pluralistic.net)

59 points by hn_acker 7 months ago | 17 comments

The future of Amazon coders is the present of Amazon warehouse workers(pluralistic.net)

14 points by martin-t 7 months ago | 1 comments

Ad-tech is fascist tech(pluralistic.net)

42 points by only_in_america 7 months ago | 7 comments

US Immigration on the Easiest Setting(pluralistic.net)

60 points by headalgorithm 8 months ago | 36 comments

The Post-American Internet(pluralistic.net)

457 points by EvanAnderson 9 months ago | 310 comments

Cory Doctorow's Pluralistic blog edition titled "The Post-American Internet," apparently based on his 39C3 talk.

Break up bad companies; replace bad union bosses(pluralistic.net)

51 points by hn_acker 10 months ago | 27 comments

The Reverse-Centaur's Guide to Criticizing AI(pluralistic.net)

15 points by doener 10 months ago | 2 comments

Google steers Americans looking for health care into "junk insurance"(pluralistic.net)

87 points by hn_acker 11 months ago | 27 comments

Disney Lost Roger Rabbit(pluralistic.net)

482 points by leephillips 11 months ago | 225 comments

Cory Doctorow's Pluralistic newsletter edition of 18 Nov 2025, about Disney losing rights to Roger Rabbit, likely via copyright termination.

The mad king's digital killswitch(pluralistic.net)

50 points by Qem 1 year ago | 13 comments

Apple's Unlawful Evil(pluralistic.net)

68 points by treadump 1 year ago | 21 comments

The (economic) AI apocalypse is nigh(pluralistic.net)

25 points by rendx 1 year ago | 36 comments

Apple threatens to stop selling iPhones in the EU(pluralistic.net)

17 points by troupo 1 year ago | 15 comments

The (economic) AI apocalypse is nigh(pluralistic.net)

71 points by baobun 1 year ago | 56 comments

The worst possible antitrust outcome(pluralistic.net)

185 points by leotravis10 1 year ago | 94 comments

"Privacy preserving age verification" is bullshit(pluralistic.net)

192 points by Refreeze5224 1 year ago | 136 comments

Maga's boss class think they are immune to American carnage(pluralistic.net)

16 points by almost-exactly 1 year ago | 0 comments

Antitrust defies politics' law of gravity(pluralistic.net)

24 points by almost-exactly 1 year ago | 15 comments

Revenge of the Chickenized Reverse-Centaurs(pluralistic.net)

161 points by GreenWatermelon 1 year ago | 93 comments

Mark Zuckerberg announces mind-control(pluralistic.net)

9 points by NotInOurNames 1 year ago | 1 comments

Mark Zuckerberg personally lost the Facebook antitrust case(pluralistic.net)

176 points by thefox 1 year ago | 53 comments

Careless People(pluralistic.net)

907 points by Aldipower 1 year ago | 473 comments

Cory Doctorow's Pluralistic post about Sarah Wynn-Williams' Facebook memoir "Careless People" and Meta's attempts to suppress it.

Against Transparency(pluralistic.net)

54 points by NotInOurNames 1 year ago | 9 comments

Two weak spots in Big Tech economics(pluralistic.net)

6 points by hn_acker 1 year ago | 1 comments

Keir Starmer appoints Jeff Bezos as his "first buddy"(pluralistic.net)

8 points by RazZziel 1 year ago | 0 comments

It's not a crime if we do it with an app(pluralistic.net)

745 points by keepit 1 year ago | 448 comments

A Pluralistic blog post by Cory Doctorow arguing that companies use apps to do things that would be illegal if done directly; the page rendered blank.

Nurses whose shitty boss is a shitty app(pluralistic.net)

23 points by healsdata 1 year ago | 1 comments

Reverse engineers bust sleazy gig work platform(pluralistic.net)

86 points by hn_acker 1 year ago | 10 comments

Academic economists get big payouts when they help monopolists beat antitrust(pluralistic.net)

31 points by kaffeeringe 2 years ago | 4 comments

America's best-paid CEOs have the worst-paid employees(pluralistic.net)

60 points by janandonly 2 years ago | 26 comments

Apple vs. the "Free Market"(pluralistic.net)

70 points by jrepinc 2 years ago | 81 comments

Creative workers deserve better than a choice as to who rips them off(pluralistic.net)

86 points by dougb5 2 years ago | 63 comments

Surveillance Pricing(pluralistic.net)

5 points by ssklash 2 years ago | 1 comments

Cory Doctorow on Kagi Search(pluralistic.net)

44 points by simonebrunozzi 2 years ago | 15 comments

The antitrust case against Apple(pluralistic.net)

8 points by jrepinc 2 years ago | 0 comments

The Coprophagic AI Crisis(pluralistic.net)

19 points by MrVandemar 2 years ago | 2 comments

Google Reneged on the Monopolistic Bargain(pluralistic.net)

45 points by EventH- 2 years ago | 16 comments

Apple to EU: "Go fuck yourself"(pluralistic.net)

42 points by bertman 2 years ago | 20 comments

Apple to EU: "Go fuck yourself"(pluralistic.net)

28 points by jlpcsl 2 years ago | 2 comments

I Got Scammed(pluralistic.net)

25 points by ColinWright 2 years ago | 3 comments

Solar is a market for (financial) lemons(pluralistic.net)

79 points by Timothee 2 years ago | 49 comments

The Cult of Mac(pluralistic.net)

8 points by headalgorithm 2 years ago | 1 comments

2024's public domain is a banger(pluralistic.net)

81 points by matijao 2 years ago | 22 comments

What kind of bubble is AI?(pluralistic.net)

10 points by worik 2 years ago | 7 comments

It All Started with a Mouse(pluralistic.net)

18 points by teddyh 2 years ago | 2 comments

If buying isn't owning, piracy isn't stealing(pluralistic.net)

1007 points by jay_kyburz 2 years ago | 473 comments

Cory Doctorow's Pluralistic blog post arguing that if buying digital media isn't owning it, then piracy isn't stealing.

"If buying isn't owning, piracy isn't stealing"(pluralistic.net)

18 points by frogulis 2 years ago | 1 comments

Cory Doctorow: The real AI fight(pluralistic.net)

12 points by ohjeez 2 years ago | 3 comments

The Great Enshittening(pluralistic.net)

12 points by mrtnmgs 2 years ago | 0 comments

Amazon's bestselling bitter lemon energy drink was bottled delivery driver piss(pluralistic.net)

8 points by croes 3 years ago | 0 comments

Leaving Twitter had no effect on NPR's traffic(pluralistic.net)

282 points by jkestner 3 years ago | 150 comments

One of America's most corporate-crime-friendly judges forced to recuse himself(pluralistic.net)

54 points by rbanffy 3 years ago | 14 comments

Apple fucked us on right to repair (again)(pluralistic.net)

80 points by jrepinc 3 years ago | 17 comments

Open Circuits: The Inner Beauty of Electronic Components(pluralistic.net)

120 points by samizdis 3 years ago | 27 comments

Paying consumer debts is basically optional in the United States(pluralistic.net)

35 points by tpaschalis 3 years ago | 42 comments

Kickstarting a book to end enshittification, because Amazon will not carry it(pluralistic.net)

291 points by CharlesW 3 years ago | 131 comments

Tesla’s Dieselgate(pluralistic.net)

23 points by rbanffy 3 years ago | 3 comments

Why they're smearing Lina Khan(pluralistic.net)

38 points by vo2maxer 3 years ago | 1 comments

‘We buy ugly houses’ is code for ‘we steal vulnerable peoples’ homes’(pluralistic.net)

59 points by deegles 3 years ago | 42 comments

How Amazon makes everything you buy more expensive, no matter where you buy it(pluralistic.net)

43 points by Sindisil 3 years ago | 19 comments

Everything advertised on social media is overpriced junk(pluralistic.net)

204 points by headalgorithm 3 years ago | 124 comments