‘We never thought anyone would be that crass’: Media code designer roasts Meta
Facebook will not be able to simply remove news from its platform again, according to Australia’s former competition tsar, who designed the original bargaining deal. ⌘ Read more
Meta, Microsoft respond to government’s rebooted news tax
The tech giants have reacted to the push for them to hand over millions of dollars from their domestic revenue to local media companies, or pay a higher amount in financial penalties. ⌘ Read more
Meta Chief AI Scientist Yann LeCun Plans To Exit To Launch Startup
According to the Financial Times (paywalled), Meta’s Chief AI Scientist Yann LeCun, a deep-learning pioneer and Turing Award winner, is reportedly leaving the company to launch his own startup. Reuters reports: The owner of Facebook and Instagram has significantly increased its investments in artificial intelligence, with CEO Mark Zuckerberg r … ⌘ Read more
Yann LeCun to depart Meta and launch AI startup focused on ‘world models’
Article URL: https://www.nasdaq.com/articles/metas-chief-ai-scientist-yann-lecun-depart-and-launch-ai-start-focused-world-models
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45897271
Points: 502
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Meta Is Killing Off the External Facebook Like Button
Meta is retiring Facebook’s external Like and Share buttons for third-party websites on February 10, 2026, officially closing the book on a once-dominant traffic driver as usage declines and Facebook’s role within Meta continues to shrink.Engadget reports: The blog post from Meta explains that site admins shouldn’t have to take any additional steps as a result of the … ⌘ Read more
Subsea Cable Investment Set To Double As Tech Giants Accelerate AI Buildout
Investment in subsea cable projects is expected to reach around $13 billion between 2025 and 2027, almost twice the amount invested between 2022 and 2024, according to telecommunications data provider TeleGeography. Tech giants Meta, Google, Amazon and Microsoft now represent about 50% of the overall market, up from a neglig … ⌘ Read more
Bombshell Report Exposes How Meta Relied On Scam Ad Profits To Fund AI
“Internal documents have revealed that Meta has projected it earns billions from ignoring scam ads that its platforms then targeted to users most likely to click on them,” writes Ars Technica, citing a lengthy report from Reuters.
Reuters reports that Meta “for at least three years failed to identify and stop an avalanche of ads that … ⌘ Read more
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
# Comments: 112 ⌘ Read more
ProcessOne: AI Bots Can’t Use WhatsApp Anymore. So… Who Are They Going to Talk To?
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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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
No sex, drugs or dangerous stunts: Instagram limits teens to PG-13 content
Teenagers on the social media app will be restricted to seeing PG-13 content by default and won’t be able to change their settings without a parent’s permission, Meta has announced. ⌘ Read more
No sex, drugs or dangerous stunts: Instagram limits teens to PG-13 content
Teenagers on the social media app will be restricted to seeing PG-13 content by default and won’t be able to change their settings without a parent’s permission, Meta has announced. ⌘ Read more
No sex, drugs or dangerous stunts: Instagram limits teens to PG-13 content
Teenagers on the social media app will be restricted to seeing PG-13 content by default and won’t be able to change their settings without a parent’s permission, Meta has announced. ⌘ Read more
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 🤞
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
# Comments: 214 ⌘ Read more
Ollama 多模態引擎重磅升級：本地也能實現 “圖文對話” 的 AI 體驗
在大模型的發展過程中，文本理解已經逐步成熟，而多模態能力——即 “看圖說話”、“圖文結合理解”、“圖像 OCR 翻譯” 等——正成爲新一輪的核心能力。就在昨天，Ollama 宣佈其新一代多模態推理引擎全面上線，支持一系列領先的視覺多模態模型，讓 “本地 AI 也能看圖說話” 真正落地。這次升級，Ollama 一口氣支持了多個重要模型，包括：• Meta 的 Llama 4 Scout • G ⌘ Read more
Data is code
Meta: no Forth or concatenative tag, but in the future hopefully search will find it via this.
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
Mark Zuckerberg has a creepy new way to invade your privacy
The new Meta app promises to be a more “personalised” form of AI. It is really a more disturbing version of ChatGPT. ⌘ Read more
FTC v. Meta (The Case That Could Break Up Facebook)
How likely is it that Meta is found to be a Monopoly and gets broken up? ⌘ Read more
Pretend friends, real risks. Harming kids is now part of big tech’s business model
Meta boss Mark Zuckerberg said famously “move fast and break things”. But now it’s children and families who are being broken by the relentless thirst for big tech profit. ⌘ Read more
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
# Comments: 300 ⌘ Read more
PEP 784: Adding Zstandard to the standard library
Zstandard is a widely adopted, mature, and highly efficient compression standard. This PEP proposes adding a new module to the Python standard library containing a Python wrapper around Meta’s zstd library, the default implementation. Additionally, to avoid name collisions with packages on PyPI and to present a unified interface to Python users, compression modules in the standard library will be moved under a compression.* namespace package. ⌘ Read more
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
# Comments: 265 ⌘ Read more
ProcessOne: Supporting XMPP Standard Foundation’s open letter to Meta for true interop
The XMPP Standards Foundation (XSF) has published an open letter to Meta, asking them to support … ⌘ Read more
The tell-all memoir Mark Zuckerberg tried to stop you reading
It’s hard to know whether the Facebook boss’ symbolic ways of currying favour with China, such as asking President Xi Jinping to name his unborn child, are more remarkable than Meta’s apparent plan to let the Communist Party snoop on users outside the country. ⌘ Read more
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@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!
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HI EVERYONE MY INSTANCE DIED FOR A WHILE AND MY LIFE TURNED TO SHIT SO I COULDN'T FIX IT BUT I JUST DID YAYYYYYYYY
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@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
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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.
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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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oh cool @lyse@lyse.isobeef.org !! and thanks, got rid of that empty line. ATM I’m using twtxt very much in an experimental way, only manual editing or writing my tools. curious to see how it will evolve. #meta #twtxt
hey @lyse@lyse.isobeef.org I’ve seen your mention from uhhmmm 4months ago just now using my crawler -__-’ / curious to know, do you see my mention now? #meta #twtxt
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
Don’t blame Zuckerberg: The truth about humans is we can’t handle the truth
The Meta boss tied his axing of fact-checkers to the “cultural tipping point” of Trump winning back the presidency. Let’s hope he doesn’t tip the digital age into a dark age. ⌘ Read more
In one fell swoop, Meta enters its ‘post-truth’ era
With Wednesday’s decision, Mark Zuckerberg has cemented Silicon Valley’s radical facelift as it cosies up to President-elect Donald Trump. ⌘ Read more
Meta gets rid of fact checkers
Meta boss Mark Zuckerberg has said the company will no longer use fact checkers. ⌘ 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
Thousands of Australian Facebook users to share $50 million after privacy scandal
Meta has agreed to a record settlement with Australia’s information commissioner, ending years of legal proceedings over Facebook’s infamous Cambridge Analytica scandal. ⌘ Read more