There's enough obvious spam on masto's local feed they should do the FCC thing and put it on tape delay so they can block the crap before it gets published.

Has anyone looked at the mastodon.social local feed recently? Every other post is anime porn, lol.

Hello honknet.
People keep asking me: Why #honk?
So, I’ll tell you.

It’s becoming clear that the global town square needs transformation—to drive civilization forward through the unfiltered exchange of information and open dialogue about the things that matter most to us.

Have you ever been talking with someone particularly insightful and thought, you should have the freedom to speak your mind. We all should.

Enter honk 2.0.

Honknet is on a mission to become the world’s most accurate real-time information source and a global town square for communication. That's not an empty promise.

That’s OUR reality.

When you start by wrapping your arms around this powerful vision, literally everything is possible.

You have to genuinely believe—and work hard for that belief.

We have the opportunity to reach across aisles, create new partnerships, celebrate new voices, and build something together that can change the world.

From what I can tell so far, we’re built for this.

The success of honknet is all of our responsibility.

We need to think big.
We need to transform.
We need to do it all together.

Our first principles are questioning our assumptions and building something new from the ground up.

It’s rare to have the chance to put a new future into the hands of every person, partner, and creator on the planet.

That’s exactly why I’m here – with all of YOU.

Let's dig our heels in (4 inches or flat!) and build honk 2.0 together.

The smarter things get the dumber they work.

hoot: https://twitter.com/matthew_d_green/status/1139289889210605568

@matthew_d_green: I mean that’s cool, but how about first you make the windshield wipers actually turn on when it rains? https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/597q3d/elon-musk-announces-racing-game-you-play-with-a-tesla-steering-wheel

@matthew_d_green: Don’t get me wrong @elonmusk. I love fart mode. I’m just thinking it’d be nice if “automatic” wipers actually were, you know, automatic.

@matthew_d_green: Other cars use a $5 rain sensor to detect rain, and Tesla uses... wait for it... a camera tied to a neural network.

@matthew_d_green: When rain strikes the windshield, a high res camera transmits an image to a deep neural network, which processes it using a computer 10 million times more powerful than the one used to launch the space shuttle. Which invariably runs the wipers for 5 seconds and shuts them off.

@matthew_d_green: It’s like they trained it in a desert.

You may not like it, but the ideal blog post is ten tweets, followed by twenty replies asking to unroll, each followed by "Sorry an unexpected error occurred while unrolling: 'Authentication error from Twitter.' 🤖" This is what peak open web looks like.

Omg, the mayor is a nose holder. Impeach!

https://www.inquirer.com/news/philadelphia/mayor-cherelle-parker-pool-ed-rendell-20250613.html

Has science gone too far?

I'm reading a Ted Chiang story about HN.

the practical applications that have been overlooked are legion; years ago engineers could have been artifically generating spherically symmetric gravity fields. Having realized this, however, I won't build such a device, or any other. It would require many custom-built components, all difficult and time-consuming to procure. Furthermore, actually constructing the device wouldn't give me any particular satisfaction, since I already know it would work,

Sick photo of city hall for the budget article.

https://www.inquirer.com/politics/philadelphia/city-budget-approved-residents-taxes-housing-20250612.html

No matter how dumb you make the chatbot, god will invent a dumber user.

https://forum.cursor.com/t/cursor-yolo-deleted-everything-in-my-computer/103131

The Honknet Extreme Availability and Urgent Response team is doing nothing. No investigating, no monitoring, no rolling back. Nothing.

Big sale on game stonk.

Updated weather forecast peaking at 89 freedoms. Heat dome denied.

Is this free speech?

https://www.wsj.com/business/media/x-twitter-ad-revenue-campaign-lawsuit-a882b5c6

Calling all randos, now you can buy the fountainhead.

https://www.wsj.com/real-estate/luxury-homes/frank-lloyd-wright-fountainhead-mississippi-6f6bf47a

Looks like the cheapo GPS receiver works. Took it outside and it found the park bench I'm sitting on.

Found a website where I was like, this definitely needs reading mode. Click the button and get this. A product manager at google thinks this is useful.

Big news for honknet. <video> tags inline in posts are now shown (escaped) so you can click the source.

Happy Chewsday.

I bought a cheap USB GPS receiver, though it is currently indistinguishable from a red LED.

Is it time to bring back wobbly windows? How about wobbly letters? I hacked my terminal so that every time it scrolls, the characters bounce around until settling into place.

Has anyone read Gogmagog? Random find on Amazon, liking the start of it.

Are HTTP signatures still valid if they're signed with an autopen?

The brief but intense heat wave will last through the middle of the week.

TFW no heat dome, only heat wave.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2025/06/09/heatwave-washington-oregon-california-record-forecast/

Liquid Glass is basically Windows 7?

Localized Nintendo NA version of ActivityPub called ActivityCafe.

the idea of the playdate is very exciting in my head but in practice there's never a time when im like "i want to play the playdate now. i want to play weird games on a black and white handheld that's too small for my yaoi hands and doesn't have a backlight"

AI bros on HN struggling to wrestle the chatbot into responding appropriately.

Oh, so you think physics is cool? Name every Joy Division album.

An urban fantasy novel about a pirate named Sea Quinn.

I was going to give myself a badge, but I am BANNED and CENSORED because the badge spec requires the email field to be filled for issuers. Pure ActivityPub issuers are not allowed.

Some people might even pay extra for nonstop honking!

https://www.torquenews.com/17998/i-bought-used-tesla-model-s-and-previous-owner-has-been-remotely-controlling-my-car-10-days

Legalize honking.

https://www.latintimes.com/massachusetts-father-deported-after-honking-undercover-ice-agent-report-584188