What was Hard Fork?
Saying goodbye to some old friends — and hello to Machine Gods Casey Newton 17 Sep 2026 — 9 min read Share At the first Hard Fork Live in 2025 in San Francisco. (The New York Times) This column mentions AI. See my full ethics disclosure here.On Wednesday we announced Machine Gods. It’s a new podcast from Kevin Roose and me, in partnership with NPR.
- ▪Saying goodbye to some old friends — and hello to Machine Gods Casey Newton 17 Sep 2026 — 9 min read Share At the first Hard Fork Live in 2025 in San Francisco. (The New York Times) This column mentions AI.
- ▪See my full ethics disclosure here.On Wednesday we announced Machine Gods.
- ▪It’s a new podcast from Kevin Roose and me, in partnership with NPR.
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Story provenance
Attribution is not the same as permission. This drawer separates discovery metadata, excerpts, WeSearch-generated summaries, reuse status, and whether the publisher receives the visit. Nothing here claims a legal grant the publisher has not made.
Record
| Original publisher | Platformer |
| Canonical URL | https://www.platformer.news/hard-fork-machine-gods/ |
| Publication time | Fri, 18 Sep 2026 01:12:38 GMT |
| Retrieval time | 2026-09-18T01:13:44.684Z |
| Last seen | 2026-09-18T01:13:44.684Z |
| Headline source | Publisher (no WeSearch rewrite) |
| Excerpt source | publisher body |
| Excerpt method | First ~120 words (~800 chars) of extracted publisher body, fair-use limited. |
| Summary | WeSearch · cerebras-chat (WeSearch summarizer) |
| Summary source text | contentText |
| Citation coverage | Summary is a WeSearch-generated derivative; primary citation is the original publisher URL. |
| Cluster | None |
| Cluster logic | Not yet clustered, or no peer story found in the clustering window. |
| Ranking reason | Story pages are not engagement-ranked. Hub feeds use recency, with optional source-diversified chronological ordering (cap consecutive stories per source). No personalized ranking. |
| Publisher visit | Yes — open original |
| Substitutes article? | No — link-out required for full text |
Rights status (four layers)
WeSearch handling by dimension
| Indexing | May the item be indexed (stored, ranked, made findable)? | Allowed |
| Snippet | May a short excerpt of the publisher's text be shown? | Allowed |
| AI summary | May WeSearch generate its own short summary of the article? | Limited |
| Retrieval / RAG | May the content be exposed for third-party retrieval-augmented generation? | Not asserted |
| Model training | May the content be used to train AI models? | Not asserted |
| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
Basis: Derived from the published RSS/Atom feed. Contact: [email protected]. Reviewed: 2026-07-24.
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Podcasts What was Hard Fork? Saying goodbye to some old friends — and hello to Machine Gods Casey Newton 17 Sep 2026 — 9 min read Share At the first Hard Fork Live in 2025 in San Francisco. (The New York Times) This column mentions AI. My fiancé works at Anthropic. See my full ethics disclosure here.On Wednesday we announced Machine Gods. It’s a new podcast from Kevin Roose and me, in partnership with NPR. If you enjoyed Hard Fork, we think you’ll enjoy this show, too. And on the eve of Hard Fork’s final episode, I wanted to say a few words about the show we made at the New York Times and the one we hope to make with NPR.One of my favorite podcasting truisms comes from Search Engine’s PJ Vogt, whom I once heard say that you learn what your show is by making it.
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Excerpt limited to ~120 words for fair-use compliance. The full article is at Platformer.
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