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Investor-owned utilities charge 23% more for electricity than public providers

https://www.kadoa.com/energy-prices/insights/investor-owned-utilities
220•hubraumhugo•1h ago•147 comments

OpenSSL 4.1.0

https://github.com/openssl/openssl/releases/tag/openssl-4.1.0
85•petecooper•2h ago•13 comments

Phone Is About to Stop Being Yours: 70 Days Until Lockdown

https://keepandroidopen.org/?
308•NackerHughes•1h ago•165 comments

Local Wikipedia: Wikipedia, but only for things a half hour walk from you

https://edjefferson.com/localwiki/
752•sohkamyung•15h ago•153 comments

Shitter – A Nitter Fork

https://codeberg.org/shitter/shitter
82•eustoria•1h ago•34 comments

No Need for Retirement When Utopia Is Around the Corner

https://blog.jim-nielsen.com/2026/skip-retirement-for-utopia/
85•speckx•3h ago•69 comments

Disney Raising Prices Days After Confirming Ads Will Now Show Up on Every Tier

https://www.tvfandomlounge.com/disney-plus-price-hike-ads-premium-tier-nielsen-emmys-2026/
149•robtherobber•6h ago•125 comments

Swedish government offices to ban ChatGPT and Claude

https://www.sverigesradio.se/artikel/chat-gpt-och-claude-forbjuder-regeringskansliet
210•armcat•3h ago•83 comments

Docker is weird

https://codeandcake.dev/posts/2026-10-22-docker-is-weird
650•psxuaw•14h ago•268 comments

Hacker leaks 281 GB of data from Germany's far-right AfD party

https://www.bitdefender.com/en-us/blog/hotforsecurity/hacker-leaks-281-gb-data-germany-afd
74•speckx•1h ago•29 comments

Dutch government had hacked into Jared Kushner's phone

https://twitter.com/jaredkushner/status/2113376217415958767
223•teekert•4h ago•143 comments

The foolishness of "natural language programming" (1978)

https://www.cs.utexas.edu/~EWD/transcriptions/EWD06xx/EWD667.html
269•xiaoyu2006•13h ago•167 comments

The alien space of science: Coherent but cognitively unavailable directions

https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.01092
136•martincsweiss•1d ago•50 comments

Job Loss and Cortisone Mania

https://tilschuenemann.de/job-loss-cortisone-mania
60•speckx•4h ago•15 comments

Remove pgrust: the entry is cheating

https://github.com/ClickHouse/ClickBench/pull/2165
115•f311a•6h ago•61 comments

Every AI model has the same "controversial" take on humans

https://www.modelcompare.ai/blog/ai-models-controversial-take-on-humans
532•rakannimer•22h ago•525 comments

How does Fable 5.1 hide messages in images?

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/WHEQps5PK8LrrcTAb/how-does-fable-5-1-hide-messages-in-images
155•gmays•17h ago•48 comments

Show HN: OnKey – I'm a bad singer, so I built an app to show where I'm off-key

https://github.com/dsmurrell/onkey
111•dsmurrell•1d ago•55 comments

Is this the new cyber normal?

https://drew.silcock.dev/blog/is-this-the-new-cyber-normal/
111•drewsberry•3h ago•125 comments

OpenShell – A safe, private runtime for fleets of autonomous AI agents

https://github.com/NVIDIA/OpenShell
449•niemandhier•20h ago•202 comments

The HTML-in-Canvas API origin trial

https://developer.chrome.com/blog/html-in-canvas-origin-trial
93•andrewstuart•18h ago•42 comments

Run full iOS 16.5 firmware on Android Devices

https://github.com/oosexgang/hackios-xnu-kernel
478•aghuang•23h ago•177 comments

Ask HN: If the models are so good, why doesn't OpenAI just start 100 companies?

296•ex-aws-dude•17h ago•325 comments

Show HN: Making a smart TV dumb and then smart

https://github.com/anubhavmalhotra/r2d2-tv
62•animalhot•14h ago•29 comments

Getting ready to operate GNU Taler in Germany

https://www.taler.net/en/news/2026-13.html
337•dewey•22h ago•152 comments

WorldTUI: I trained a 360M model to pretend to be a terminal

https://simedw.com/2026/10/21/world-model-terminal/
577•alphax314•1d ago•177 comments

This I Believe (1952)

https://www.awakin.org/v2/read/view.php?tid=468
121•ctoth•12h ago•50 comments

Tell HN: I unknowingly broke the PHP RCE embargo. I am sorry.

652•petecooper•1d ago•239 comments

Quad9 to exit France

https://quad9.net/news/blog/au-revoir-france/
1287•farrokhi•1d ago•444 comments

Xbox wants you to pay 24 to 40 cents per hour to stream games you bought

https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2026/10/xbox-wants-you-to-pay-24-to-40-cents-per-hour-to-stream-ga...
349•entryleveljobsc•1d ago•312 comments
Open in hackernews

Shitter – A Nitter Fork

https://codeberg.org/shitter/shitter
81•eustoria•1h ago

Comments

BLKNSLVR•1h ago
I thought it should be called Xitter, but pronounced Shitter.
weatherlite•1h ago
What the hell is this Xit
dewey•1h ago
Exit Twitter
leoc•27m ago
Out, damnéd xit! out, I say!
lioeters•32m ago
Xittier, a better Xwitter alternative
hmokiguess•1h ago
can someone explain to me how these things keep popping up and disappearing and how are they able to just spin them up at will somehow?
AdmiralAsshat•1h ago
I assume the source code repo is still up somewhere, so I assume it's the domains that are being taken offline, not the code, and anyone can then trivially spin up their own instance.
yoavm•1h ago
What do you mean by "how"? The code is freely available, you can spin it up at will too in just a few minutes. When they disappear, sometimes it's because the maintainer doesn't want the headache, and sometimes it's because a they're threatened to remove it.
hmokiguess•1h ago
I guess I never bothered reading the code so for whatever reason I assumed it required some extraordinary circumvention to host it that isn't very accessible

what you're saying, if I understand correctly, is that self-hosting this is trivial then

so does that mean I could run my own local instance and never get it taken down since traffic would be negligible? why do people opt to host these for others over teaching how to run your own for example?

fcarraldo•55m ago
Because it isn’t magic, there’s still Twitter auth required https://github.com/zedeus/nitter/blob/master/src/auth.nim

Every individual running their own instance would be the equivalent of every individual having their own Twitter account, which defeats the purpose.

grimgrin•1h ago
see: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49571634 "Nitter has more working instances than before the takedowns"

many working instances right now: https://codeberg.org/shitter/shitter/wiki/Instances

assimpleaspossi•57m ago
No professional would stoop so low as to name any project such a thing. And HN should never post such low class gutter language.
valicord•56m ago
Sarcasm?
assimpleaspossi•42m ago
Absolutely not! Such low life gutter talk is not acceptable in polite society and shouldn't be allowed in any professional atmosphere. Or am I again trying to elevate HN?
satvikpendem•26m ago
I laughed.
causesothere•12m ago
Peepee poopoo.

Maybe your cultural values aren't my cultural values. Maybe you need to consider who you are excluding by suggesting that using a curse word is unacceptable?

Cursing has a long tradition in lower economic class culture, in some minority cultures, in queer culture, heck in mainstream cultures worldwide we say "shit", etc. You want them all to conform to your one view of how professionals should be? The curse word isn't directed at you, it isn't directed at anyone you know, or even at a person.

No, I think maybe I'd rather live in a world where people are colorful, use language that's authentic to them, and include more people in the dialog.

es1kl•6m ago
jimmydoe•50m ago
somehow i feel this reflects if not also enhances the cultural position of x.com.
SomeonesAccount•49m ago
I made a thing that uses Nitter to have a revchron timeline of people in the tech space. No algorithm, every post shows up (unless you filter out an account). Feedback is appreciated: https://techtwitter-lime.vercel.app
DavCreator•40m ago
Would love to redirect more often to shitter instances with https://xxcancel.com. But there seems to be a bug loading images (e.g. profile pictures or attached pictures to tweets) in Firefox.

Example: https://shitter.thepixora.com/search?f=tweets&q=elon+musk

Wont show any pictures in Firefox for me. Works in Chrome. Can this be fixed? Thank you!

ibejoeb•4m ago
It doesn't proxy the images, so they won't load with enhanced tracking protection enabled.
draw_down•35m ago
I am begging these things to use a normal fucking name for once
moopie•26m ago
There’s really no reason to bother with social networks owned by literal far right supporters
add-sub-mul-div•18m ago
For someone who's been on Twitter for a long time, these alternatives function as a good off-ramp that's easier than quitting entirely and abruptly. I deleted my account a few years ago knowing I'd still be able to see some of the content without viewing their ads or contributing my own content.
fashglk•15m ago
It is strange that social justice organizations ban people for all sorts of reasons but always support weird deviant user names or project names.

You pretend to be for including women but repel 95% of normal women because you actually only want the weird ones.

nine_k•14m ago
Is the code crap? Is it optimized for shitposting? Is it called so to show disdain towards the service formerly known as Twitter?
cassianoleal•51m ago
We need a multiplexer in front of all these instances. One that works like a load balancer, health checking the individual instances and adding/removing them from the pool automatically. That would allow people to create new accounts, serve their own instance and attach them to the muxer.
progval•49m ago
That's https://xxcancel.com/
causesothere•10m ago
Well, not totally. It's read only, which changes how people engage. It also lets you control ordering and presentation. It also lets you hide ads.
pamcake•14m ago
> what you're saying, if I understand correctly, is that self-hosting this is trivial then

Yes. It comes encouraged.

> so does that mean I could run my own local instance and never get it taken down since traffic would be negligible?

Yes, unless the other end forbids it and really cares about controlling clients. If they do and manage to detect that you are using alternative client they could block based on that. In times where that happens and there are client devs who care, it becomes a cat-and-mouse.

Cursing in a comment is fine. Expecting people to use a tool, perhaps daily, named after a curse word is different.
assimpleaspossi•4m ago
>>Maybe you need to consider who you are excluding by suggesting that using a curse word is unacceptable?

I am. Thus the complaint. I would think the general audience here is of a higher caliber than low-class cultures whose values and education can't rise above profanity.