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01 / EXPLORE THROUGH TIME

Timeline

Start with the latest. Scroll back through time, or zoom in for more.

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2026455 stories
Nitter and XCancel receive cease and desist notices↗ github.com · HN · 1352 comments · 1214 points · Aug 25, 2026
Aaron Swartz was prosecuted for scraping, while Meta does it without consequence↗ blog.curiousquail.com · HN · 404 comments · 1704 points · Aug 20, 2026
Meta blocks human rights accounts from reaching audiences in Saudi Arabia, UAE↗ alqst.org · HN · 470 comments · 1080 points · May 20, 2026
Reddit User Uncovers Who Is Behind Meta's $2B Lobbying for Age Verification Tech↗ gadgetreview.com · HN · 22 comments · 907 points · Mar 17, 2026
We will ban you and ridicule you in public if you waste our time on crap reports↗ curl.se · HN · 617 comments · 949 points · Jan 22, 2026
2025536 stories
Heretic: Automatic censorship removal for language models↗ github.com · HN · 380 comments · 745 points · Nov 16, 2025
Our investigation into the suspicious pressure on Archive.today↗ adguard-dns.io · HN · 443 comments · 1816 points · Nov 15, 2025
I’ve removed Disqus. It was making my blog worse↗ ryansouthgate.com · HN · 392 comments · 565 points · Sep 30, 2025
Ban me at the IP level if you don't like me↗ boston.conman.org · HN · 485 comments · 599 points · Aug 25, 2025
A Reddit bot drove me insane↗ posthuman.blog · HN · 364 comments · 699 points · Apr 13, 2025
2024541 stories
I was banned from the hCaptcha accessibility account for not being blind (2023)↗ michaels.world · HN · 269 comments · 410 points · Nov 18, 2024
How to get the whole planet to send abuse complaints to your best friends↗ delroth.net · HN · 118 comments · 543 points · Oct 29, 2024
“Attention assault” on Fandom↗ j3s.sh · HN · 218 comments · 401 points · Jun 17, 2024
The Reddits↗ ycombinator.com · HN · 759 comments · 463 points · Mar 21, 2024
How Quora died↗ slate.com · HN · 403 comments · 369 points · Feb 03, 2024
2023909 stories
Reddit App – Suspicious high number of recent 5 star, one word reviews↗ old.reddit.com · HN · 125 comments · 271 points · Jun 16, 2023
Reddit appears to be restoring edited/deleted comments↗ kbin.social · HN · 99 comments · 216 points · Jun 16, 2023
Reddit Threatens to Remove Moderators from Subreddits Continuing Blackouts↗ macrumors.com · HN · 168 comments · 222 points · Jun 15, 2023
Reddit’s blackout protest is set to continue indefinitely↗ old.reddit.com · HN · 168 comments · 190 points · Jun 15, 2023
Reddit.com appears to be having an outage↗ news.ycombinator.com · HN · 242 comments · 295 points · Jun 12, 2023
2022619 stories
Ex-Reddit CEO on Twitter moderation↗ twitter.com · HN · 937 comments · 1175 points · Nov 03, 2022
An account was suspended↗ twitter.com · HN · 379 comments · 399 points · Oct 20, 2022
Botspam apocalypse↗ memex.marginalia.nu · HN · 346 comments · 411 points · Aug 04, 2022
Tell HN: Banned from LinkedIn for Reporting Wickr Drug Spam↗ news.ycombinator.com · HN · 237 comments · 667 points · Jun 16, 2022
Tell HN: YouTube is banning accounts that support Ukraine↗ news.ycombinator.com · HN · 285 comments · 1095 points · Feb 25, 2022
2021638 stories
You either die an MVP or live long enough to build content moderation↗ mux.com · HN · 406 comments · 834 points · Sep 28, 2021
FB messenger silently censoring links, claims they were sent↗ twitter.com · HN · 447 comments · 608 points · Aug 28, 2021
Reddit’s disrespectful design↗ ognjen.io · HN · 496 comments · 1278 points · Jun 26, 2021
Reddit is banning any Aimee Challenor mention. UK public figure and Reddit admin↗ old.reddit.com · HN · 375 comments · 731 points · Mar 23, 2021
Discord bans r/WallStreetBets server, subreddit went private for a while↗ theverge.com · HN · 1174 comments · 1056 points · Jan 27, 2021
2020540 stories
Teddit: a free and open-source Reddit front end focused on privacy↗ teddit.net · HN · 294 comments · 716 points · Dec 05, 2020
They're deleting my channel, but they don't know why? [video]↗ youtube.com · HN · 761 comments · 987 points · Sep 23, 2020
Ask HN: Why is Reddit on mobile so obsessed with making me use their app?↗ news.ycombinator.com · HN · 644 comments · 1403 points · Aug 19, 2020
Reddit shuts down subreddits including r/The_Donald and r/ChapoTrapHouse↗ washingtonpost.com · HN · 851 comments · 795 points · Jun 29, 2020
92 of top 500 subreddits controlled by same 5 people↗ reddit.com · HN · 626 comments · 1077 points · May 13, 2020
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02 / CATCH UP

The conversation now

Popular stories, with attention fading over roughly two weeks.

Nitter and XCancel receive cease and desist notices↗ github.com · HN · 1352 comments · 1214 points · Aug 25, 2026
Aaron Swartz was prosecuted for scraping, while Meta does it without consequence↗ blog.curiousquail.com · HN · 404 comments · 1704 points · Aug 20, 2026
Meta bans another Toronto performer from Instagram and Facebook over Bikini↗ thestar.com · HN · 6 comments · 39 points · Sep 25, 2026
XCancel and Nitter are receiving C&D letters from XCorp↗ news.ycombinator.com · HN · 3 comments · 282 points · Aug 26, 2026
Vancouver strip club's Instagram taken down over sign featuring lake joke↗ vancouverisawesome.com · HN · 54 comments · 116 points · Sep 06, 2026

03 / GO DEEPER

Follow your curiosity

Find a particular story, revisit a year, or see what resonated.

Highest rated · the last 30 days

Vancouver strip club's Instagram taken down over sign featuring lake joke↗ vancouverisawesome.com · HN · 54 comments · 116 points · Sep 06, 2026
Child Sexual Abuse Material Persists on X↗ nytimes.com · HN · 67 comments · 49 points · Sep 11, 2026
Meta Failed to Catch Hundreds of AI Child Abuse Ads↗ wired.com · HN · 8 comments · 45 points · Sep 08, 2026
Anthropic banned me for "suspicious signals"↗ kix.codes · HN · 41 comments · 41 points · Sep 02, 2026
Meta bans another Toronto performer from Instagram and Facebook over Bikini↗ thestar.com · HN · 6 comments · 39 points · Sep 25, 2026
Politically biased moderation drives echo chamber formation (for Reddit) (2024)↗ papers.ssrn.com · HN · 10 comments · 27 points · Sep 03, 2026
Nipple tattooist 'frustrated' by online censorship↗ bbc.com · HN · 26 comments · 26 points · Sep 20, 2026
Tell HN: Substack obfuscating text to break reading mode↗ news.ycombinator.com · HN · 4 comments · 19 points · Sep 22, 2026
Reddit Is Still Useful. It's Also Becoming Impossible↗ widdershins.verja.net · HN · 12 comments · 19 points · Sep 15, 2026
We used an AI agent to fix an open-source bug. Someone asked to ban us↗ github.com · HN · 21 comments · 18 points · Sep 24, 2026

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