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Oh, good: Discord's age verification rollout has ties to Palantir co-founder

https://www.pcgamer.com/software/platforms/oh-good-discords-age-verification-rollout-has-ties-to-palantir-co-founder-and-panopticon-architect-peter-thiel/
51•absqueued•3h ago

Comments

jauntywundrkind•2h ago
Why does the whole world smell like a giant gamergate? Why is there just no shame, the same endless bad pervading it's way everywhere?
nofriend•2h ago
what does this have to do with gamergate? If you smell the same thing everywhere you go, you might want to check under your nose.
MengerSponge•1h ago
Because these things are linked

https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/23/us/gamergate-harassment-reddi...

ipaddr•1h ago
You must be new the internet was toxic before their was an internet. I've seen BBS fights where people would find out where someone lived and shoot up the place, set it on fire or attack another person. Some BBS scenes attracted some shady characters.
intermerda•1h ago
Okay grandpa let's get you to bed.

Gamergate directly brought the shitty 4chan kind of toxicity and harassment to the national stage. No we didn't have this kind of "trolling" by a major political party and the POTUS himself. To pretend otherwise is either being intentionally dense or merely ignorant.

add-sub-mul-div•1h ago
The ways that data has been weaponized to amplify insecure people's fear of social change and "others" in order to vote against their own economic interests are novel and fascinating. Yes, obviously the pattern has played out before the internet. But if you approach it with curiosity rather than writing it off because it looks similar on the surface to something you've seen before, it's actually very interesting.
ecshafer•1h ago
People speaking out against immoral behavior and people in power/media trying to cover it up by dismissing their claims and trying to undermine their argument by misrepresentation? Gamergate was just the internet hitting a critical mass of people where the clamoring of people was big enough to make news outside of the bubble.
remslave•1h ago
Matrix/Element seems the best drop-in replacement for Discord. Can set up chatrooms in Discord "server"-style, or as persistent DMs with others. In the chatrooms, you can make text chat spaces and call spaces. No dedicated voice chat space, you just dont turn on webcam for the call spaces. Pretty sure it uses same voip tech. Selfhostable if you want. Encrypted. Really it is just a barebones but functional Discord. Matrix can be bridged to Discord as well so you can talk between either, should help ease the transition period for anyone jumping ship.
conception•23m ago
Stoat, Zulip, and Mattermost are other options.

Element was a bit too raw for me - mobile wasn’t great either. Ymmv

hulitu•5m ago
The age verification is pushed (lobbied) by the same companies which collect data: Palantir, Google, Meta, Microsoft, Apple and others.

How do you think EU and UK came to this idea ? Google was pushing it from some time but they needed a "legal framework".

In the future they will not need your phone anymore for border or house searches.

Show HN: SQL-tap – Real-time SQL traffic viewer for PostgreSQL and MySQL

https://github.com/mickamy/sql-tap
55•mickamy•3h ago•7 comments

Show HN: I spent 3 years reverse-engineering a 40 yo stock market sim from 1986

https://www.wallstreetraider.com/story.html
158•benstopics•4d ago•36 comments

Understanding the Go Compiler: The Linker

https://internals-for-interns.com/posts/the-go-linker/
37•valyala•5d ago•0 comments

The Three Year Myth

https://green.spacedino.net/the-three-year-myth/
4•surprisetalk•3d ago•0 comments

NPMX – a fast, modern browser for the NPM registry

https://npmx.dev
76•slymax•5h ago•37 comments

Show HN: Data Engineering Book – An open source, community-driven guide

https://github.com/datascale-ai/data_engineering_book/blob/main/README_en.md
136•xx123122•9h ago•11 comments

Cogram (YC W22) – Hiring former technical founders

https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/cogram/jobs/LDTrViN-ex-technical-founder-product-engineer
1•ricwo•30m ago

Backblaze Drive Stats for 2025

https://www.backblaze.com/blog/backblaze-drive-stats-for-2025/
41•Brajeshwar•2h ago•5 comments

GPT-5.2 derives a new result in theoretical physics

https://openai.com/index/new-result-theoretical-physics/
455•davidbarker•12h ago•313 comments

Common Lisp Screenshots: today's CL applications in action

http://www.lisp-screenshots.org
88•_emacsomancer_•2d ago•24 comments

Building a TUI is easy now

https://hatchet.run/blog/tuis-are-easy-now
200•abelanger•13h ago•138 comments

Do Not Outsource Judgement

https://dncrews.com/do-not-outsource-judgement-76f9e5be61b9
10•mawaldne•1h ago•5 comments

Font Rendering from First Principles

https://mccloskeybr.com/articles/font_rendering.html
135•krapp•6d ago•19 comments

Gradient.horse

https://gradient.horse
214•microflash•4d ago•45 comments

Adventures in Neural Rendering

https://interplayoflight.wordpress.com/2026/02/10/adventures-in-neural-rendering/
24•ingve•3d ago•1 comments

The EU moves to kill infinite scrolling

https://www.politico.eu/article/tiktok-meta-facebook-instagram-brussels-kill-infinite-scrolling/
501•danso•10h ago•518 comments

An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me – More Things Have Happened

https://theshamblog.com/an-ai-agent-published-a-hit-piece-on-me-part-2/
363•scottshambaugh•6h ago•180 comments

gRPC: From service definition to wire format

https://kreya.app/blog/grpc-deep-dive/
118•latonz•4d ago•16 comments

Babylon 5 is now free to watch on YouTube

https://cordcuttersnews.com/babylon-5-is-now-free-to-watch-on-youtube/
112•walterbell•22h ago•60 comments

Fix the iOS keyboard before the timer hits zero or I'm switching back to Android

https://ios-countdown.win/
1408•ozzyphantom•17h ago•692 comments

Monosketch

https://monosketch.io/
755•penguin_booze•19h ago•133 comments

Ask HN: Are there examples of 3D printing data onto physical surfaces?

8•catapart•10h ago•8 comments

Faster Than Dijkstra?

https://systemsapproach.org/2026/02/09/faster-than-dijkstra/
121•drbruced•4d ago•71 comments

WolfSSL sucks too, so now what?

https://blog.feld.me/posts/2026/02/wolfssl-sucks-too/
106•thomasjb•21h ago•81 comments

Advanced Aerial Robotics Made Simple

https://www.drehmflight.com
122•jacquesm•5d ago•10 comments

I'm not worried about AI job loss

https://davidoks.blog/p/why-im-not-worried-about-ai-job-loss
238•ezekg•12h ago•403 comments

OpenAI has deleted the word 'safely' from its mission

https://theconversation.com/openai-has-deleted-the-word-safely-from-its-mission-and-its-new-struc...
477•DamnInteresting•9h ago•243 comments

CSS-Doodle

https://css-doodle.com/
149•dsego•23h ago•16 comments

How did the Maya survive?

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2026/feb/12/apocalypse-no-how-almost-everything-we-thought-we-kn...
122•speckx•16h ago•100 comments

The wonder of modern drywall

https://www.worksinprogress.news/p/the-wonder-of-modern-drywall
102•jger15•1d ago•162 comments