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hack-the-media
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nemild / hack-the-media

hack-the-media

This repo collects examples of intentional and unintentional hacks of media sources

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REPOSITORY AT A GLANCE

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What it is

This repo collects examples of intentional and unintentional hacks of media sources

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Where it is used

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What people are saying

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Also in these discussions

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 8–Nov 15 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/15/2026, 4:00:59 PM UTC.

No direct repository links were found in the indexed HN discussions over the past seven days. Older discussions are available below.

Mentions over time

HN mentions by month31 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2018-03-22 02:33:24 UTC to 2020-10-26 09:56:33 UTC.

02462018-03-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-04-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 1 submissions, 1 commentsMar 20182018-04-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-05-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 3 mentions; 0 submissions, 3 comments2018-05-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-06-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2018-06-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-07-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 3 mentions; 0 submissions, 3 comments2018-07-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-08-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2018-08-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-09-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2018-09-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-10-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments2018-10-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-11-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 7 mentions; 2 submissions, 5 comments2018-11-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-12-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2018-12-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-02-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2019-02-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-03-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2019-03-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-04-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2019-04-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-05-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 3 mentions; 0 submissions, 3 comments2019-05-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-06-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2019-06-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-07-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 commentsJun 20192019-07-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-08-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2019-08-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-09-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 1 submissions, 0 comments2019-09-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-10-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2019-10-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-11-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments2019-11-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-12-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2019-12-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-02-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2020-02-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-03-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2020-03-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-04-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2020-04-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-05-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2020-05-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-06-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2020-06-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-07-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2020-07-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-08-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2020-08-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-09-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2020-09-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-10-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2020-10-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-11-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 1 submissions, 0 commentsOct 2020

Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.

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PeriodStart (UTC)End (exclusive, UTC)MentionsSubmissionsComments
Mar 20182018-03-01 00:00:00 UTC2018-04-01 00:00:00 UTC211
Apr 20182018-04-01 00:00:00 UTC2018-05-01 00:00:00 UTC303
May 20182018-05-01 00:00:00 UTC2018-06-01 00:00:00 UTC101
Jun 20182018-06-01 00:00:00 UTC2018-07-01 00:00:00 UTC303
Jul 20182018-07-01 00:00:00 UTC2018-08-01 00:00:00 UTC101
Aug 20182018-08-01 00:00:00 UTC2018-09-01 00:00:00 UTC101
Sep 20182018-09-01 00:00:00 UTC2018-10-01 00:00:00 UTC202
Oct 20182018-10-01 00:00:00 UTC2018-11-01 00:00:00 UTC725
Nov 20182018-11-01 00:00:00 UTC2018-12-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Dec 20182018-12-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Jan 20192019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-02-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Feb 20192019-02-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-03-01 00:00:00 UTC101
Mar 20192019-03-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-04-01 00:00:00 UTC101
Apr 20192019-04-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-05-01 00:00:00 UTC303
May 20192019-05-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-06-01 00:00:00 UTC101
Jun 20192019-06-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-07-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Jul 20192019-07-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-08-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Aug 20192019-08-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-09-01 00:00:00 UTC110
Sep 20192019-09-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-10-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Oct 20192019-10-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-11-01 00:00:00 UTC202
Nov 20192019-11-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-12-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Dec 20192019-12-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Jan 20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-02-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Feb 20202020-02-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-03-01 00:00:00 UTC101
Mar 20202020-03-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-04-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Apr 20202020-04-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-05-01 00:00:00 UTC000
May 20202020-05-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-06-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Jun 20202020-06-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-07-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Jul 20202020-07-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-08-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Aug 20202020-08-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-09-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Sep 20202020-09-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-10-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Oct 20202020-10-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-11-01 00:00:00 UTC110

What Hacker News says

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nemild·Apr 23, 2018
The visual image I like is that we're all puppets influenced by the media sources we consume. Each media source is shaped by its business model — and other goals, which gives us a (statistically) biased view of the world (e.g., social feed algorithms and engagement). See the puppet images we made in this media literacy guide: https://github.com/nemild/hack-an-engineer (Contributions welcome) Ideally, we are individually able to realize this — and cut some of these strings.
In Ex-Facebook Executive: “You Don’t Realize It but You Are Being Programmed”
nemild·Apr 5, 2018
I hear this argument a lot, and let me just make one point: Human nature is really shapeable — and we (as a former product manager in this space) designed algorithms and product experiences to maximize certain outcomes that benefit social network bottom lines. Regardless of how good or bad human nature is, the algorithms prize engagement however they can get it — I personally believe it surfaces a certain side of humanity, and pushes people in a certain direction. If you're a news editor, you actually have a choice to sensationalize all day because it maximizes short-term profits. After bad things happened (see yellow journalism, the newspaper circulation wars) — newspapers did cut back a fair bit. (We can debate whether that was the risk of regulation, or their own respect for the role they had) This clearly isn't the social networks' fa
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ult alone, but their product choices do partially influence on how we all behave. On HN, you hear a lot of anger at journalists for being so click-baity, and the sad part is that every incentive many journalists face encourages this (from user behavior to profit) There are tons of examples how bad incentives can warp how people behave, far beyond "humanity is good" or "humanity is bad". For example, see Hannah Arendt's Banality of Evil or the Stanford Prison Experiment. More regularly, see architecture, urban planning, or product management in the Valley, as disciplines that think deeply about the outcomes they want to encourage. A more accurate statement I would say is: humanity has certain predilections, and design choices can influence these dramatically. (And now I will shill my media literacy for engineers guide — contributions welcome: https://github.com/nemild/hack-an-engineer )
In “Did We Create This Monster?” How Twitter Turned Toxic

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