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TThe Table #community#Hacker-News#ripples#squawk#table

Derek Thompson on the decline of Americans hosting each other for dinner

The charts.

Derek Thompson charts how the share of Americans who host or attend a monthly dinner party halved between 1975 and 1998 and asks what hosting looks like now.

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  • Bowling Alone

    After exploring You Are No Longer Invited to Dinner, the book it builds on is Bowling Alone.

    Robert Putnam’s 2000 book on the decline of American social capital since 1950, the study this piece updates.

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PSPolitical Spectrum #Hacker-News#politics#ripples

America.gov launches as an AI answer service drawing only on government websites

Try it on a question you know the answer to.

America.gov launched as a single place to ask questions about government services, answering only from federal, state and local websites (29,000 sites, it says). It says it stores no personal information; form-filling and tracking are promised for 2027.

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  • USA.gov

    After exploring America.gov, its predecessor is USA.gov.

    The official U.S. government web portal that already tried to point people to the services they need.

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MVMaker Views #community#cybersecurity#Hacker-News#ripples#squawk

Does Reddit have an astroturfing problem? One knife brand’s mentions suggest so

The method is laid out so others can recount it, which is the point.

Peter Vijeh counted brand mentions in Reddit’s chef-knife communities and found one brand gets 31% of its "what should I buy" mentions from 5% of accounts—four times what chance predicts—then examined those accounts’ histories.

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MVMaker Views #Hacker-News#loom#ripples#squawk

"When did Google get so weird?": an AI Overview misreads a basketball meme as heartbreak

A short, funny, concrete example of how AI Overviews misread intent.

A blogger searched an old 76ers fan joke about Dario Šarić "never coming over" and got a Google AI Overview offering emotional support for being spurned by a man named Dario. The post was the most-upvoted story in this set on Hacker News (2,015 points).

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UndertowWe don't completely understand why frontier models behave as they do

What hidden risk could pull against this, even if the news is good?

The AI Overview confidently answered a question nobody asked. With no line-by-line logic to audit, misreadings like this are hard to predict or rule out in advance.

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UndertowDelayed Consequence / False Success Problem

What hidden risk could pull against this, even if the news is good?

This one was funny enough to notice. Most wrong answers sound plausible, get accepted and passed on, and look like success.

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WThe Wild #community#Hacker-News#politics#ripples

Singapore’s government dating pilot, FirstDate, matches people with the Gale-Shapley algorithm

Singapore Samizdat, which first reported the idea, has the full questionnaire; the X thread explains the algorithm.

GovTech’s FirstDate pilot, open first to public servants aged 21–35, verifies users with Singpass, gives one match per cycle using the Gale-Shapley stable matching algorithm, and shares contact details only on a mutual yes.

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RRipples #community#Hacker-News#ripples#squawk#table

Kids turned the comment section of a quiet NPR podcast on Spotify into a secret group chat

The transcript is free; the audio is better.

This American Life tells how the host of NPR’s Wild Card noticed gibberish comments on a Spotify episode page that turned out to be teenagers using it as a hidden chat room.

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GSGlobal Stewardship #Hacker-News#markets#ripples#stewardship#table#trail

California grape growers can’t sell their harvest as wine sales fall

KQED talks to growers in the vineyards; the numbers show how fast drinking habits are reshaping farmland.

Wine sales have fallen more than 20% over five years, and growers have taken roughly a quarter of California’s vineyards out of production. KQED reports Lodi-area growers leaving grapes unpicked and tearing out vines for almonds, pistachios and olives.

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RRipples #community#loom#politics#ripples#social-media#squawk

Black Twitter is thriving on Threads, WIRED reports

WIRED’s writer has covered Black Twitter since 2021.

WIRED reports that Threads has become a central venue for Black social media conversation, citing the reaction after a Mississippi grand jury declined to charge anyone in the death of 18-year-old Nolan Wells.

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WThe Wild #Hacker-News#loom#ripples

56k.rip simulates 1997 dial-up internet, handshake and all

56k.rip recreates 1997 dial-up in the browser: the modem handshake, pages that load at the speed you "dialed", and the call dropping when someone picks up the phone.

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