Leaving Meta and PyTorch
Article URL: https://soumith.ch/blog/2025-11-06-leaving-meta-and-pytorch.md.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45843948

Points: 500

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Meta readies $25B bond sale as soaring AI costs trigger stock sell-off
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ProcessOne: AI Bots Can’t Use WhatsApp Anymore. So… Who Are They Going to Talk To?

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Meta just closed the gates on AI chatbots. I think this is an early warning.

Starting January 15, 2026, [WhatsApp will ban all third-party general-purpose AI chatbots from its platform](https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/18 … ⌘ Read more

Meta and TikTok are obstructing researchers’ access to data, EU commission rules
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Meta is axing 600 roles across its AI division
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Offline interactions predict voting patterns better than online networks, finds study
According to a new study, offline social networks, revealed by co-location data, predict U.S. voting patterns more accurately than online social connections or residential sorting. Michele Tizzoni and colleagues analyzed large-scale data on co-location patterns from Meta’s Data for Good program, which collates anonymized data collected from people who enabled location services on the Facebook smartphone a … ⌘ Read more

Meta convinces Blue Owl to cut $30B check for its Hyperion AI super cluster
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Meta Erases Gaza Journalist’s Instagram
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Meta news on Lix in October 2025
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Pretty happy with my zs-blog-template starter kit for creating and maintaining your own blog using zs 👌 Demo of what the starter kit looks like here – Basic features include:

• Clean layout & typography
  
• Chroma code highlighting (aligned to your site palette)
  
• Accessible copy-code button
  
• “On this page” collapsible TOC
  
• RSS, sitemap, robots
  
• Archives, tags, tag cloud
  
• Draft support (hidden from lists/feeds)
  
• Open Graph (OG) & Twitter card meta (default image + per-post overrides)
  
• Ready-to-use 404 page
  

As well as custom routes (redirects, rewrites, etc) to support canonical URLs or redirecting old URLs as well as new zs external command capability itself that now lets you do things like:

$ zs newpost

to help kick-start the creation of a new post with all the right “stuff”™ ready to go and then pop open your $EEDITOR 🤞

#awesome #zs

Meta: Shut down your invasive AI Discover feed
Article URL: https://www.mozillafoundation.org/en/campaigns/meta-shut-down-your-invasive-ai-discover-feed-now/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44201872

Points: 500

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Data is code
Meta: no Forth or concatenative tag, but in the future hopefully search will find it via this.

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louise: Polynomial-time Meta-Interpretive Learning for logic programming
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VectorVFS: your filesystem as a vector database
VectorVFS is a lightweight Python package that transforms your Linux filesystem into a vector database by leveraging the native VFS (Virtual File System) extended attributes. Rather than maintaining a separate index or external database, VectorVFS stores vector embeddings directly alongside each file—turning your existing directory structure into an efficient and semantically searchable embedding store. VectorVFS supports Meta’s Percepti … ⌘ Read more

FTC v. Meta (The Case That Could Break Up Facebook)
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Unauthorized Experiment on CMV Involving AI-generated Comments
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Leaked Meta data reveals campaign to remove pro-Palestine posts
Article URL: https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/leaked-data-israeli-censorship-meta

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43655603

Points: 502

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The Llama 4 herd
Article URL: https://ai.meta.com/blog/llama-4-multimodal-intelligence/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43595585

Points: 506

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ProcessOne: Supporting XMPP Standard Foundation’s open letter to Meta for true interop

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The XMPP Standards Foundation (XSF) has published an open letter to Meta, asking them to support … ⌘ Read more

@prologic@twtxt.net huh interesting! yeah i was stumped for a bit i was like WHAT config.json file are these logs talking about…. but then it worked after i moved the old meta.json file lol!

@kat@yarn.girlonthemoon.xyz it was like…. meta.json was corrupt or well it was empty actually whatever idk. ended up moving that elsewhere temporarily, rebuilding the binary, restarting server… and it worked?!?!? shit was confusing

If we don’t keep insisting on simplify and “The beauty of twtxt is, you put one file on your server, done. One.”, then people should just use ActivityPub-based software like Mastodon, PixelFed, etc. which are getting a lot of attention and uses migrating to the fediverse from meta/x here in Denmark over the last couple of months.

For point 1 and others using the metadata tags. we have implemented them in yarnd as [lang=en][meta=data]

Meta claims torrenting pirated books isn’t illegal without proof of seeding
Article URL: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/02/meta-defends-its-vast-book-torrenting-were-just-a-leech-no-proof-of-seeding/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43125840

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Meta torrented & seeded 81.7 TB dataset containing copyrighted data
Article URL: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/02/meta-torrented-over-81-7tb-of-pirated-books-to-train-ai-authors-say/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42971446

Points: 518

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Meta: Ending DEl, Ending “Fact Checking”, Allowing LGBT Criticism & Vaccine Skepticism
Facebook employees “in meltdown” over changes which allow people to say “LGBT are mentally ill”. ⌘ Read more

Social media is in a worrying state. TikTok in the hands of autocratic China, X (formerly Twitter) in the hands of Elon Musk, who gets crazier every day and hangs out too much with Donald Trump (and recommends a fascist party in Germany), and now Mark Zuckerberg with Meta (Facebook, Instagram, Threads) is also joining the group of friends around Trump and removing fact checks in the name of “free speech”. What could possibly go wrong? ⌘ Read more

On my blog: Five Years of Entropy Arbitrage https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2024/12/08/five-years.html #blog #celebration #meta

My next Fediverse migration?
I currently use GoToSocial (with my numeronym domain) next to my blog, but it always confuses me where to post what. That’s why I want to move to my blog as my sole Fediverse identity. But before that, I wanted to implement another Fediverse feature in GoBlog: support for the new fediverse:creator meta tag. ⌘ Read more

[ANN] [PROPOSAL] Add optional is_gift and txs parameter and create a new gift standard

There is currently no easy and safe standard way to gift Monero to people around you. It is possible to gift a wallet containing money. However, malicious people can use this to trick people into using the wallet they gifted them and steal the money after the recipient puts in more money, so this is unacceptable.

Link: https://github.com/monero-project/meta/issues/1100

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What if i want to delete avatar? Im deleted avatar meta field but still see avatar on twtxt.net

How to Run Llama LLM on Mac, Locally
Llama is a powerful large language model (LLM) developed by Meta (yes, the same Meta that is Facebook), that is able to process and generate human-like text. It’s quite similar to ChatGPT, but what is unique about Llama is that you can run it locally, directly on your computer. With a little effort, you’ll be … Read More ⌘ Read more

I admit I’ve always compromised on this way too much myself, always to this day having Facebook Messenger just to communicate in my families group chats. Sure I run it in a Work profile on my GrapheneOS phone that I can switch off at any time, I can completely cut it off from network access any time as well, I can have a lot of rudimentary control over it, I use it as sparingly as possible, but it doesn’t change the fact everytime I use it we’re funneling private convos through bloody Meta’s servers and trackers etc.

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Open Source A.I. Definition to include Closed, Secret Data
The Open Source Initiative – backed by Microsoft, Amazon, Meta – is pushing for a “Closed” definition of “Open Source Artificial Intelligence.” More from The Lunduke Journal: http://lunduke.com ⌘ Read more

Workshop in Barcelona: How to Build a Low-tech Website

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Website technology is becoming increasingly complex and energy intensive, with big companies like Meta and Google leading the dance. ​Is this necessary? What does it really take to get our content online?

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[Updated] Free Mobile-Friendly Layout Wizard
Updated: The
Free Mobile-Friendly Layout Wizard
has been updated. It will now place the meta charset tag before the title in the head section (so that it will
be in the first 1 KB of your page even if you have a long title). In addition, if you select HTML5 as the output type,
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@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org its a hierarchy key value format. I designed it for the network peering tools i use.. I can grant access to different parts of the tree to other users.. kinda like directory permissions. a basic example of the format is:

@namespace
# multi
# line
# comment
root :value

# example space comment
@namespace.name space-tag 

# attribute comments
attribute attr-tag  :value for attribute

# attribute with multiple 
# lines of values
foo :bar
      :bin
      :baz

repeated :value1
repeated :value2

each @ starts the definition of a namespace kinda like [name] in ini format. It can have comments that show up before. then each attribute is key :value and can have their own # comment lines.
Values can be multi line.. and also repeated..

the namespaces and values can also have little meta data tags added to them.

the service can define webhooks/mqtt topics to be notified when the configs are updated. That way it can deploy the changes out when they are updated.

If we call Alphabet “Google” instead, we could have:

BAG MAM

BAM GAM

If we also replace Meta with “Facebook” it could be:

FB-MAGA

FAB-MAG

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So the six #DMA gatekeepers are Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, ByteDance, Meta, and Microsoft.

Whats the FAANG / GAFAM equivalent acronym for those six?

MAMBAA?

AMAMBA?

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I’ve added myself to the registries at registry.twtxt.org and twtxt.tilde.institute. I wonder if there’s a list of registries. #meta

How to Delete a Threads Account Without Leaving Instagram
When Threads debuted from Meta (FaceBook), it was intricately linked to Instagram, and initially when you went to delete or deactivate a Threads account, it had the unfortunate side effect of also deleting the related Instagram account. But that is no longer the case. Now you can choose to delete a Threads account without impacting … [Read More](https://osxdaily.com/2023/12/31/how-to-delete-a-threads-account-without-le … ⌘ Read more

@prologic@twtxt.net Perhaps we should add a meta flag to Twtxt to stop indexation by ChatGPT and consorts? I already use robots.txt for this.

Meta har nu et activitypub(-ish) socialt medie, og Microsoft er lige begyndt at sponsorere Mastodon.

Har #DMA faktisk fået de store huse til at deltage i fødiverset?

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Run Threads on Desktop with Mac, Windows PC, Linux
Threads, the social network microblogging Twitter/X competitor launched by Meta (Facebook), is typically thought of as a mobile only experience, with users having the Threads app on their iPhone or Android device. But, if you have a Mac, Windows PC, or Linux computer, and you want to use Threads on your desktop computer, you can … Read More ⌘ Read more

Hvis nu Instagram Threads begynder at føderere med Mastodon - synes du så at servereren her skal blokere threads.net serveren?

Nej - jo flere jo bedre!

Måske - kommer an på hvordan de opfører sig her

Ja - Meta skal ikke være med i mit fødivers!

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Time to add

<meta name=”googlebot” content=”noindex,nofollow”>

to everything I guess.

@stigatle@yarn.stigatle.no @prologic@twtxt.net @eldersnake@we.loveprivacy.club I love VR too, and I wonder a lot whether it can help people with accessibility challenges, like low vision.

But Meta’s approach from the beginning almost seemed like a joke? My first thought was “are they trolling us?” There’s open source metaverse software like Vircadia that looks better than Meta’s demos (avatars have legs in Vircadia, ffs) and can already do virtual co-working. Vircadia developers hold their meetings within Vircadia, and there are virtual whiteboards and walls where you can run video feeds, calendars and web browsers. What is Meta spending all that money doing, if their visuals look so weak, and their co-working affordances aren’t there?

On top of that, Meta didn’t seem to put any kind of effort into moderating the content. There are already stories of bad things happening in Horizon Worlds, like gangs forming and harassing people off of it. Imagine what that’d look like if 1 billion people were using it the way Meta says they want.

Then, there are plenty of technical challenges left, like people feeling motion sickness or disoriented after using a headset for a long period of time. I haven’t heard announcements from Meta that they’re working on these or have made any advances in these.

All around, it never sounded serious to me, despite how much money Meta seems to be throwing at it. For something with so much promise, and so many obvious challenges to attack first that Meta seems to be ignoring, what are they even doing?

RT by @mind_booster: No âmbito do 20º aniversário da Convenção de Salvaguarda do Património Cultural Imaterial, é amanhã lançada a campanha Wiki Loves Living Heritage. Vejam como assistir ao lançamento no link:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Event:Wiki_Loves_Living_Heritage/Wiki_Loves_Living_Heritage_launch_event #Patrimonioimaterial #Portugal @cultura_pt
No âmbito do 20º aniversário da Convenção de Salvaguarda do Património Cultural Imaterial, é amanhã lançada a campanha Wiki Loves Living Heritage. Vejam … ⌘ Read more

RT by @mind_booster: ❗Breaking: Meta Tracking Tools unlawful
In a groundbreaking decision in one of noybs 101 complaints, the Austrian Data Protection Authority decided that the use of Facebook’s tracking pixel directly violates the GDPR: https://noyb.eu/en/austrian-dsb-meta-tracking-tools-illegal?mtc=tw
❗Breaking: Meta Tracking Tools unlawful

In a groundbreaking decision in one of noybs 101 complaints, the Austrian Data Protection Authority decided that the use of Facebook’s tracking pixel directly violates th … ⌘ Read more