Shitter – A Nitter Fork(codeberg.org)
130 points by eustoria | 128 comments
Codeberg repository for Shitter, a fork of Nitter, a privacy-focused, JavaScript-free alternative Twitter front-end written in Nim.
#twitter on Hacker News
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Inside Polymarket's paid quote-retweet esports program(readergrev.com)
80 points by paimapi | 53 comments
A Readergrev investigation into Polymarket's program paying esports accounts to quote-retweet its posts while making the promotion appear organic.
Nitter: Update Oct 10th seeking funding and legal help(nitter.net)
405 points by ForHackernews | 202 comments
Nitter's homepage update reporting X Corp. cease and desist letters, the project's lack of legal counsel, and a request for funding and legal help.
XCancel service is suspended until further notice(xcancel.com)
720 points by gaganyaan | 976 comments
Notice from XCancel, an alternative Twitter/X frontend, saying the service is suspended until further notice due to ongoing legal proceedings.
Nitter and XCancel resume service after legal advice(github.com)
861 points by zImPatrick | 367 comments
GitHub commit to the Nitter repository updating the README to announce that Nitter lives, alongside XCancel resuming service after legal advice.
Nitter has more working instances than before the takedowns(codeberg.org)
687 points by Cider9986 | 359 comments
A Codeberg wiki page listing working, rate-limited, and taken-down instances of Nitter, the alternative Twitter/X front-end.
Twitter Viewer – View Twitter Without Account(twitterwebviewer.com)
536 points by motownphilly | 319 comments
A web tool for anonymously viewing public Twitter/X profiles, tweets, photos, and videos without an account, plus search and video download features.
Nitter and XCancel receive cease and desist notices(github.com)
1087 points by Banditoz | 914 comments
GitHub issue on the Nitter repository reporting that all public Nitter instances have stopped working, shown with a Twiiit redirect proxy screenshot.
Fable 5 is Back(twitter.com)
348 points by mfiguiere | 329 comments
A post on X from Anthropic's @claudeai account announcing "Fable 5 is back" with a short teaser video styled as a "Now Showing" marquee.
Danish privacy activist Lars Andersen raided by police(twitter.com)
346 points by I_am_tiberius | 305 comments
A thread by Danish privacy activist and former police officer Lars Andersen describing his arrest after masked police broke down his door over publishing the PM's personal numbers.
I admire Fabrice Bellard. He is almost certainly a better overall programmer(twitter.com)
829 points by apitman | 394 comments
A post on X by John Carmack saying he admires Fabrice Bellard, quoting a thread about Bellard's work on FFmpeg, QEMU and other software.
Today I've made the difficult decision to reduce the size of Coinbase by ~14%(twitter.com)
453 points by adrianmsmith | 707 comments
A tweet from Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong announcing that the company is reducing its workforce by about 14%.
We do not think Anthropic should be designated as a supply chain risk(twitter.com)
772 points by golfer | 413 comments
A post on X from OpenAI stating it does not think Anthropic should be designated a supply chain risk and that it has told the Department of War so.
Karpathy on Programming: “I've never felt this much behind”(twitter.com)
474 points by rishabhaiover | 511 comments
An X (Twitter) post by Andrej Karpathy reflecting on feeling behind as a programmer amid rapid AI-driven changes; the post content did not load.
My open source project was relicensed by a YC company [license updated](twitter.com)
669 points by sohzm | 343 comments
A tweet by a developer saying a Y Combinator-backed company relicensed his open source project, with a later update about the license being changed.
John Carmack talk at Upper Bound 2025(twitter.com)
492 points by tosh | 325 comments
A post on X by John Carmack about his talk at the Upper Bound 2025 AI conference; the page shows only a loading spinner.
I genuinely don't understand why some people are still bullish about LLMs(twitter.com)
611 points by ksec | 1030 comments
A post on X (Twitter) by Sabine Hossenfelder questioning why people remain bullish about large language models; the page did not load its content.
Show HN: I made a tool to port tweets to Bluesky mantaining their original date(bluemigrate.com)
487 points by nols05 | 192 comments
BlueMigrate is a web tool that imports a user's tweets from X (Twitter) to Bluesky while preserving the original post dates.
Executive wealth as a factor in return-to-office(twitter.com)
469 points by kappi | 306 comments
An X (Twitter) post by Ethan Evans arguing that executives' personal wealth influences their push for return-to-office policies; the post content did not load.
A DOGE staffer appears to be posting DOGE work on his public GitHub(twitter.com)
322 points by amarcheschi | 244 comments
An X post by Roger Sollenberger reporting that DOGE staffer Jordan Wick appears to be posting DOGE work, including a Twitter DM downloader and geospatial data, on his public GitHub.
Defcon stiffs badge HW vendor, drags FW author offstage during talk(twitter.com)
449 points by dmitrygr | 116 comments
A Twitter/X post alleging that DEF CON failed to pay its badge hardware vendor and removed the badge firmware author from the stage during a talk.
RLHF is just barely RL(twitter.com)
337 points by tosh | 201 comments
A post by Andrej Karpathy on X arguing that RLHF is only barely reinforcement learning; the post content did not load in the capture.
I got tired of hearing that YC fired Sam, so here's what actually happened(twitter.com)
665 points by hakanderyal | 575 comments
A post by Paul Graham on X explaining the circumstances of Sam Altman leaving his role as Y Combinator president, disputing claims he was fired.
AI-generated sad girl with piano performs the text of the MIT License(twitter.com)
483 points by amichail | 180 comments
An X post by Riley Goodside sharing a video of an AI-generated song in which a sad girl with piano sings the text of the MIT License.
The Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore, Maryland Has Collapsed(twitter.com)
685 points by repelsteeltje | 509 comments
An X (Twitter) post reporting the collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore, Maryland; the post content did not load.
Hi everyone yes, I left OpenAI yesterday(twitter.com)
675 points by mfiguiere | 373 comments
A post on X by Andrej Karpathy confirming he left OpenAI, saying nothing specific prompted it and that he plans to work on personal projects.
So long and thanks for all the fish(nitter.d420.de)
429 points by proctrap | 299 comments
A Nitter instance (privacy-focused Twitter frontend) showing a Cloudflare verification challenge, apparently announcing its shutdown.
I realized chess pieces can be redesigned to be geometric attack directions(twitter.com)
715 points by aa_is_op | 229 comments
A post on X by Gray Crawford showing chess pieces redesigned as geometric symbols that indicate each piece's attack directions.
Thousands of small businesses are struggling because of R&D amortization(twitter.com)
329 points by IndoCanada | 257 comments
An X (Twitter) post about thousands of small businesses struggling due to the R&D expense amortization rule (Section 174); the post content did not load.
0% of the phrases of the original Wikipedia "Ship of Theseus" article remain(twitter.com)
367 points by fortran77 | 84 comments
A post by @depthsofwiki noting that the Wikipedia "Ship of Theseus" article has been edited 1792 times since 2003 and none of its original phrases remain.
Omg.lol: An Oasis on the Internet(blakewatson.com)
706 points by blakewatson | 310 comments
A personal blog post by Blake Watson describing omg.lol, a community web service, as a refuge after leaving Twitter.
A lost X-Files song(twitter.com)
427 points by tptacek | 155 comments
A viral X/Twitter post by @laurenancona describing hearing a country song in an X-Files episode bar scene and trying to Shazam it, starting a lost-song mystery.
I think I need to go lie down(twitter.com)
684 points by mfbx9da4 | 428 comments
A post on X by Kevin Cannon (@multikev) saying "I think I need to go lie down," with attached media that had not loaded.
The slow death of authenticity in an attention economy(coryzue.com)
415 points by czue | 285 comments
Cory Zue's blog post explaining his growing pessimism about Twitter and how engagement-driven tactics erode authenticity in an attention economy.
My uBlock Origin filters to remove distractions(github.com)
414 points by mig4ng | 166 comments
A GitHub repository of personal uBlock Origin filter lists that hide distracting elements like feeds and recommendations on sites such as Twitter/X and LinkedIn.
What do I think about Community Notes?(vitalik.ca)
340 points by fbrusch | 190 comments
Vitalik Buterin's blog post analyzing Twitter/X's Community Notes feature, its algorithm, and its role in content moderation.
We reduced the cost of building Mastodon at Twitter-scale by 100x(blog.redplanetlabs.com)
856 points by tekacs | 317 comments
Red Planet Labs blog post by Nathan Marz describing how they built a Twitter-scale Mastodon implementation at 100x lower cost using their Rama platform.
Tell HN: t.co is adding a five-second delay to some domains
325 points by xslowzone | 172 comments
Tell HN post reporting that Twitter's t.co link shortener adds a consistent ~5 second redirect delay to domains like NYTimes.com and threads.net.
First claimed successful replication of LK-99(twitter.com)
551 points by b800h | 255 comments
A tweet by Andrew Cote reporting a claimed replication of the LK-99 superconductor by a Huazhong University team, explaining the levitation evidence and its caveats.
Unicode Character “𝕏” (U+1D54F)(compart.com)
369 points by t0m44c | 264 comments
Compart reference page for the Unicode character 𝕏 (U+1D54F, Mathematical Double-Struck Capital X), showing its glyph and details.
Twitter has officially changed its logo to ‘X’(techcrunch.com)
619 points by pallas_athena | 1459 comments
TechCrunch news article reporting that Twitter officially replaced its bird logo with an 'X' as part of its rebrand.
Nitter is working again(github.com)
356 points by linusg789 | 77 comments
GitHub pull request #927 "Fix everything" in the Nitter repo, merged to restore functionality using a new bearer token and updated Twitter endpoints.
“It appears that Twitter is DDoSing itself”(sfba.social)
356 points by mmastrac | 209 comments
A Mastodon post showing a Firefox network console screenshot of Twitter's web client flooding its own servers with repeated requests, effectively self-DDoSing.
Twitter Is DDOSing Itself(sfba.social)
1275 points by ZacnyLos | 208 comments
A Mastodon post with videos showing Twitter's web client firing about 10 requests per second at its own servers after Twitter started requiring login to read tweets.
Tell HN: Twitter switched temporarily to rate limited mode
467 points by 3cats-in-a-coat | 413 comments
Hacker News discussion of Elon Musk's announcement that Twitter temporarily limited daily post reads per account to counter data scraping.
Twitter now requires an account to view tweets(techcrunch.com)
1123 points by celsoazevedo | 867 comments
TechCrunch article reporting that Twitter now requires users to log in to an account to view tweets.
Former US SEC attorney: 'Get out of crypto platforms now'(twitter.com)
320 points by legrande | 393 comments
A tweet by former SEC Internet Enforcement chief John Reed Stark urging people to exit crypto trading platforms amid a growing US regulatory crackdown.
An Excel error led Austria's SPÖ to announce the wrong candidate as the winner(twitter.com)
372 points by vinnyglennon | 170 comments
A tweet by Jon Stone reporting that Austria's SPÖ announced the wrong leadership election winner because of an Excel spreadsheet error.
What Wikipedia Did(twitter.com)
401 points by doener | 207 comments
Tweet by Jimmy Wales contrasting Wikipedia's court fight against Turkey's ban with Elon Musk's decision to restrict tweets in Turkey.
Linda Yaccarino is the new CEO of Twitter(twitter.com)
442 points by lopkeny12ko | 916 comments
Elon Musk tweet announcing Linda Yaccarino as Twitter's new CEO; the tweet content did not load in the capture.
When you lose the ability to write, you also lose some of your ability to think(twitter.com)
874 points by blueridge | 532 comments
Paul Graham Twitter thread observing people rapidly switching to ChatGPT for writing and warning that losing the ability to write erodes thinking.
NPR quits Twitter after being labeled as 'state-affiliated media'(wbur.org)
436 points by davidbarker | 493 comments
WBUR-hosted NPR News article reporting that NPR stopped posting on Twitter after the platform labeled it 'state-affiliated media'.
Substack Notes Launched(on.substack.com)
698 points by theolivenbaum | 196 comments
Substack CEO Chris Best's tweet thread announcing that Substack Notes, a short-form posting feature, is now available to everyone.
A Baby GPT(twitter.com)
396 points by tosh | 89 comments
Tweet by Andrej Karpathy showing a tiny GPT with two tokens and context length 3 viewed as a finite state Markov chain, explaining learned transition probabilities.
Twitter's Recommendation Algorithm(blog.twitter.com)
1670 points by jonknee | 605 comments
GitHub repository twitter/the-algorithm-ml containing the open-sourced machine learning code for Twitter's recommendation algorithm.
The Twitter API is now effectively unmaintained(snarfed.org)
363 points by edent | 461 comments
Ryan Barrett's blog post arguing the Twitter API is effectively unmaintained, citing the decline of Twitter employee posts on the developer forum.