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YouTube does offer RSS feeds for each channel, you just need the channel id.

For example, the RSS feed for the defunctland channel is https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id=UCVo63lb....

CqtGLRGcukpyon Layoffs at Block

If you use any Block products (including Tidal), make sure to do as much as you can to cost the company more than you pay.

My goal for this year is to cost Tidal / Block at least 2x of what I pay for it (so if I pay $100, make them pay $200).

CqtGLRGcukpyon Tech Journalists at Eating Hot Dogs

The reason for this is that the creator wanted to "hack" Google's AI and ChatGPT, see his article at https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20260218-i-hacked-chatgpt....

See all the people who submitted that article at https://hn.algolia.com/?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.bbc.com%2Ffuture....

CqtGLRGcukpyon The AI productivity boom is not here (yet)

Interesting how they talk about all of these estimates or research done by other people, yet don't link to them.

CqtGLRGcukpyon Why AI won't wipe out white-collar jobs (YouTube) [video]

Transcript and full podcast episode are at https://www.economist.com/podcasts/2026/02/19/the-splitting-...

CqtGLRGcukpyon Loops is a federated, open-source TikTok

In my honest opinion, I think the correct response is to stop using anything that dansup makes until he realizes he has to give up some of the control, or the project stops being developed.

While it's nice if people want to help take some pressure off, it only works if the main developer (dansup in this case) is willing to accept that help. And based off the link I gave, and some of the comments here, it doesn't look like dansup is willing to accept help.

CqtGLRGcukpyon Show HN: A 4-tier self-healing system for local AI agents (was silently broken)

FYI, the HN guidelines state, "Please don't use HN primarily for promotion. It's ok to post your own stuff part of the time, but the primary use of the site should be for curiosity." I would encourage you to submit content from others rather than just your own.

CqtGLRGcukpyon Ask HN: Does This Make Sense?

I believe when someone says "talk to people" they mean ask them what they currently love and hate about a competitor (to understand what makes yours different and how to attract people), and to gather some users / customers to understand what can be made better (as nothing is perfect at the beginning).

CqtGLRGcukpyon Loops is a federated, open-source TikTok

It's worth keeping in mind that Loops is made by dansup which has also made and runs Pixelfed, FediDB, and has a history of being hostile to developers.

You can see the recounting of his hostility at https://dansup-open-letter.github.io/appendix/

(I'm not a signature of the open letter)

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CqtGLRGcukpyon Grok Exposed a Porn Performer's Legal Name and Birthdate–Without Being Asked

For when the article goes behind a paywall: https://archive.ph/EOL7V

CqtGLRGcukpyon Where did all the radio DJs go?

Radio stations realized they could make more money by having less DJs, or by having one DJ cover a bigger area.

It's not just YouTube Live, DJs moved to Tiktok and other live stream platforms.

I know I listen to less radio because I pay for a music streaming service that allows me to listen to exactly what I want, with no ads, and pays the artist more.

CqtGLRGcukpyon Journalism schools are teaching fear of the future

I'm just waiting until it's cheaper for companies to hire humans than to pay AI to do what's needed. It will come, or I believe there will be a day AI is no more.

CqtGLRGcukpyon DNS-Persist-01: A New Model for DNS-Based Challenge Validation

"Support for the draft specification is available now in Pebble, a miniature version of Boulder, our production CA software. Work is also in progress on a lego-cli client implementation to make it easier for subscribers to experiment with and adopt. Staging rollout is planned for late Q1 2026, with a production rollout targeted for some time in Q2 2026."

CqtGLRGcukpyon News publishers limit Internet Archive access due to AI scraping concerns

The AI companies won't just scrape IA once, they're keeping come back to the same pages and scraping them over and over. Even if nothing has changed.

This is from my experience having a personal website. AI companies keep coming back even if everything is the same.

CqtGLRGcukpyon Ask HN: What is your monthly AI spending?

Right now I pay $0, I don't see the benefit in paying for it when it provides enough in their free plans.

CqtGLRGcukpyon Ask HN: Any International Job Boards for International Workers?

What do you define as an international job board? On weworkremotely.com I see roles for those in Europe (sometimes you will have to dig into the job posting or go to the company website to see where exactly where they are hiring people from)

CqtGLRGcukpyon Pizza Hut is closing locations

Original story at https://edition.cnn.com/2026/02/04/food/pizza-hut-closures

CqtGLRGcukpyon Ask HN: Does anyone have interests in anything besides AI?

Yes. Remember that this crowd likes the newest things, and doesn't represent the general public.

CqtGLRGcukpyon OpenAI plans to IPO in Q4 2026

https://archive.ph/56Oqj

CqtGLRGcukpyon Ex-Google Engineer Convicted of Stealing A.I. Secrets for Startup in China

https://archive.ph/v7tdB

CqtGLRGcukpyon Google Aims Knockout Blow at Chinese Company Linked to Cyber Weapon

https://archive.ph/yp9mz

CqtGLRGcukpyon Group Chats Rule the World (2024)

https://archive.ph/73Dh2

CqtGLRGcukpyon OpenStreetMap overwhelmed by bots scraping data

They also posted about this on Mastodon / Fedi: https://en.osm.town/@osm_tech/115968544599864782

CqtGLRGcukpyon The AI privacy settings you need to change

https://archive.ph/MHxWO

CqtGLRGcukpyon OpenStreetMap overwhelmed by bots scraping data

https://xcancel.com/openstreetmap/status/2016320492420878531

https://nitter.poast.org/openstreetmap/status/20163204924208...

CqtGLRGcukpyon I let ChatGPT analyze a decade of my Apple Watch data, then I called my doctor

Original article can be read at https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2026/01/26/chatgpt....

Paywall-free version at https://archive.ph/k4Rxt

CqtGLRGcukpyon Ask HN: How would you promote a song digitally?

Tiktok.

https://www.businessinsider.com/the-beaches-blame-brett-vira...

https://www.rollingstone.com/pro/features/tiktok-video-app-g...

https://blog.symphonic.com/2025/09/11/how-to-make-money-on-t...

https://routenote.com/blog/tiktok-has-the-power-to-make-arti...

CqtGLRGcukpyon Surviving the Crawlers

If you get a 404, I've read the post at https://chronicles.mad-scientist.club/tales/surviving-the-cr...

CqtGLRGcukpyon RSS.Social – the latest and best from small sites across the web

I have a personal site that is listed in there, and it polls my site much more frequently then it needs to (like multiple times a day, compared to when I blog about once a week).

The user-agent includes a link to https://rss.social/bot but it says coming soon, which I think is a shame.

There's also no way to opt-out.