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Because it isn’t magic, there’s still Twitter auth required https://github.com/zedeus/nitter/blob/master/src/auth.nim Every individual running their own instance would be the equivalent of every individual having their own Twitter account,…

comment by fcarraldo · 2026-10-23 · in Shitter – A Nitter Fork

https://github.com/zedeus/nitter

comment by Philpax · 2026-10-07 · in Ask HN: Is the xcancel source code publicly available?

…autonomously and take ownership of difficult problems end-to-end. I'm the developer of Nitter ( https://github.com/zedeus/nitter ), an open-source alternative frontend for X/Twitter that I developed and operated for 7 years. At its peak it…

comment by zedeus · 2026-10-01 · in Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (October 2026)

…archived on 11 Sep[0]. Looking in the commits, the "UPDATE" message was commited on 6 Sep[1]. [0] https://github.com/zedeus/nitter [1] https://github.com/zedeus/nitter/commit/1428b4c2b4246f92a7e5...

comment by angoragoats · 2026-09-14 · in XCancel service is suspended until further notice

…some secret/invite only (and as such more chance to fly under the radar). The code is open source: https://github.com/zedeus/nitter albeit X DMCA'd the repo.

comment by unfocso · 2026-09-14 · in XCancel service is suspended until further notice

Of more concern, the Nitter github repository was permanently archived a couple of days ago. https://github.com/zedeus/nitter

comment by pamcake · 2026-09-14 · in XCancel service is suspended until further notice

HN commenters prognosticating about Nitter are wrong yet again: https://github.com/zedeus/nitter/commit/1428b4c2b4246f92a7e5...

comment by 1vuio0pswjnm7 · 2026-09-06 · in Nitter has more working instances than before the takedowns

…fix some feature parity issues, and work on some conveniences for instance operators. Stay tuned." https://github.com/zedeus/nitter/discussions/1212

comment by Polizeiposaune · 2026-09-06 · in Nitter and XCancel resume service after legal advice

…to find a path around technical or now legal issues. The code looks surprisingly easy to hack on: https://github.com/zedeus/nitter/blob/master/src/nitter.nim

comment by elcritch · 2026-09-06 · in Nitter and XCancel resume service after legal advice

…know what your definition of "fine" is, but Nitter and XCancel received C&Ds three days ago: < https://github.com/zedeus/nitter/issues/1442 > HN: < https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49437283 > From HN's PoV, the issue is that there…

comment by dredmorbius · 2026-08-28 · in TwitterWebViewer also no longer in operation, following a request from X Corp

It did, and then it came back. https://github.com/zedeus/nitter/discussions/1212

comment by jwilk · 2026-08-26 · in Nitter and XCancel receive cease and desist notices

…served over TOR, I'm not sure if it's up, but that's a convenient way to render C&D letters useless https://github.com/zedeus/nitter/wiki/Instances#tor

comment by MYEUHD · 2026-08-26 · in Nitter and XCancel receive cease and desist notices

They have archived the nitter repo :( [1] [1]: https://github.com/zedeus/nitter/

comment by skiddude · 2026-08-25 · in Nitter and XCancel receive cease and desist notices

…seems to work at least as well as any other still-maintained nitter instance. Here's a list: https://github.com/zedeus/nitter/wiki/Instances

comment by foresto · 2026-03-24 · in Scott Hanselman says he's working on Windows local accounts

Nitter instance for Twitter/X. https://github.com/zedeus/nitter

comment by tossit444 · 2026-03-07 · in War prediction markets are a national-security threat

…find xcancel.com the easiest to get to: https://xcancel.com/karpathy/status/2004607146781278521 [1] https://github.com/zedeus/nitter/wiki/Instances

comment by ctmnt · 2025-12-30 · in Karpathy on Programming: “I've never felt this much behind”

…was working again [1]. It's a shame that they made is so hostile to interface with Twitter/X. [1] https://github.com/zedeus/nitter

comment by bArray · 2025-10-08 · in German government comes out against Chat Control

…burner account tokens, anti-botting measures might decide to shut down your X/twitter account [0] https://github.com/zedeus/nitter

comment by uz3snolc3t6fnrq · 2025-08-29 · in RSS is awesome

Yes, https://github.com/zedeus/nitter/wiki/Instances

comment by drdeca · 2025-05-16 · in MIT asks arXiv to withdraw preprint of paper on AI and scientific discovery

I think the URL should be this: https://github.com/zedeus/nitter/issues/983#issuecomment-262... I'm happy to announce nitter.net has finally returned. Instability is expected for a while until scraping prevention is improved, etc. Running…

comment by burgerrito · 2025-02-04 · in Nitter Is Not Dead

Is https://github.com/zedeus/nitter/issues/983#issuecomment-262... intended?

comment by gwern · 2025-02-04 · in Nitter Is Not Dead

https://github.com/zedeus/nitter/wiki/Instances#public This may help

comment by palmfacehn · 2025-02-03

…nitter.poast.org https://nitter.poast.org/ianwcrosby/status/18727242319993817... More about nitter: https://github.com/zedeus/nitter

comment by ckrailo · 2024-12-28 · in Bench accounting services shutting down

…blocked. Nitter is an open source project and maintains a list of working instances on its wiki: https://github.com/zedeus/nitter/wiki/Instances

comment by chatmasta · 2024-11-16 · in M4 MacBook Pros use a quantum dot (QD) film rather than a red KSF phosphor film

There were some workarounds, most buried in here: https://github.com/zedeus/nitter/issues/983

comment by nicce · 2024-11-16 · in M4 MacBook Pros use a quantum dot (QD) film rather than a red KSF phosphor film

…for those who live on the platform but... maybe that is not a good thing to do anyway? [1] https://github.com/zedeus/nitter

comment by hagbard_c · 2024-11-07 · in And now we see what is possible

You can use Nitter to view content - list of servers here: https://github.com/zedeus/nitter/wiki/Instances

comment by bitlevel · 2024-09-25 · in Twitter/X will let people you've blocked see your posts

…a relatively expensive and fragile approach that most instances probably aren't up for taking. [0] https://github.com/zedeus/nitter/issues/983#issuecomment-168...

comment by nyx · 2024-09-15 · in Show HN: Meet.hn – Meet the Hacker News community in your city

This is actually an instance of nitter. https://xcancel.com/about https://github.com/zedeus/nitter/wiki/Instances#public

comment by prdpx7 · 2024-09-15 · in Show HN: Meet.hn – Meet the Hacker News community in your city

Potentially related: https://github.com/zedeus/nitter/issues/983#issuecomment-168... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38970676

comment by toomuchtodo · 2024-08-18 · in Tell HN: X stopped requiring authentication, nitter works again

…getting rate limited immediately and likely banned, I don't see any path forward for Nitter." < https://github.com/zedeus/nitter/issues/983#issuecomment-191... > Via: < https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39161194 > That said ... for now,…

comment by dredmorbius · 2024-08-10 · in Google Strategy Doc from Antitrust Proceedings

Might not be long-lived. https://github.com/zedeus/nitter/issues/983

comment by shepherdjerred · 2024-07-12 · in Gemini Pro refuses to acknowledge yt-dlp

…blank page. The only winning move is not to play. How about a nice game of chess? But if you must: https://github.com/zedeus/nitter/wiki/Instances At the moment, this worked for me: https://xcancel.com/soren_iverson/status/18012531876027884…

comment by mmphosis · 2024-06-13 · in Please maintain eye contact for the duration of the ad

…your fingers [1] https://github.com/iv-org/invidious [2] https://github.com/searxng/searxng [3] https://github.com/zedeus/nitter [4] https://github.com/libreddit/libreddit

comment by hagbard_c · 2024-04-16 · in Mobile Ad Blocker Will No Longer Stop YouTube's Ads

https://nitter.poast.org/k2pilot/status/1763007610993991722 Seems to be the last one online https://github.com/zedeus/nitter/wiki/Instances

comment by TrickyRick · 2024-02-29 · in New jet engine enables efficiency at every speed for cheaper orbital launches

https://nitter.esmailelbob.xyz/liuzhuang1234/status/17601959... (bit of trial and error from https://github.com/zedeus/nitter/wiki/Instances )

comment by f_devd · 2024-02-21 · in Neural Network Diffusion

Other instances are listed here: https://github.com/zedeus/nitter/wiki/Instances

comment by stetrain · 2024-02-13 · in What great American cities looked like a century ago, in video (thread)

…possible to host a personal instance for yourself, although they might ban your account for it. https://github.com/zedeus/nitter/issues/983#issuecomment-191...

comment by burkaman · 2024-01-31 · in Infinite Craft

i agree. Redirecting proxy for Nitter instances (alternative) https://twiiit.com/ https://github.com/zedeus/nitter/wiki/Instances

comment by hn1986 · 2024-01-30 · in "If nothing changes, all remaining Nitter instances will go down eventually"

I assume this is why Nitter got slammed and is on the verge of breaking. https://github.com/zedeus/nitter/issues/1154

comment by kotaKat · 2024-01-28 · in X blocks Taylor Swift searches after fake AI videos go viral

https://github.com/zedeus/nitter/issues/1155#issuecomment-19...

comment by promiseofbeans · 2024-01-28 · in "If nothing changes, all remaining Nitter instances will go down eventually"

Yeap, the Installion section of the Github Readme.md of Nitter. Docker based. https://github.com/zedeus/nitter#Installation

comment by _ache_ · 2024-01-28 · in "If nothing changes, all remaining Nitter instances will go down eventually"

…rate limited immediately and likely banned, I don't see any path forward for Nitter. Source: https://github.com/zedeus/nitter/issues/983#issuecomment-191... The way I interpret this comment is that all public Nitter instances are at risk…

comment by koito17 · 2024-01-28 · in "If nothing changes, all remaining Nitter instances will go down eventually"

The creator of the project left this comment an hour ago: https://github.com/zedeus/nitter/issues/1155#issuecomment-19... (HN removed the deep link to the specific comment from the title)

comment by intelligencesec · 2024-01-28 · in "If nothing changes, all remaining Nitter instances will go down eventually"

…or nitter.it but when these instances are down or blocked you can use other instances listed here: https://github.com/zedeus/nitter/wiki/Instances But as the other commenter said Libredirect is the way to go: https://libredirect.github.io/

comment by SushiHippie · 2024-01-27 · in Something peculiar in my 2yo's bedroom led me to a revelation about our universe

…to make it harder to use proxies like Nitter [2]. [1] https://github.com/iv-org/invidious [2] https://github.com/zedeus/nitter

comment by the_third_wave · 2024-01-15 · in YouTube is loading slower for users with ad blockers yet again

njal.la restored nitter.net, and replied with their reasons: https://github.com/zedeus/nitter/issues/1150#issuecomment-18... tbh I can totally understand why they acted this way.

comment by doaefjalneg · 2024-01-14 · in Nitter.net has disappeared

…nudity being hosted on nitter.net, with a link that actually came from another instance. https://github.com/zedeus/nitter/issues/1150#issuecomment-18... Extremely not-encouraging. I didn't think much of it when I got an email with the…

comment by crotchfire · 2024-01-14 · in Nitter.net has disappeared

…unavailable because Njalla (domain vendor) suspended my account. I'm waiting for them to respond. https://github.com/zedeus/nitter/issues/1150#issuecomment-18... That is extremely disturbing. Njalla is the owner-of-record (i.e. nominee)…

comment by crotchfire · 2024-01-14 · in Nitter.net has disappeared

…suspension from Njalla? This is unfortunately very common for Nitter in particular [0] [1]. [0]: https://github.com/zedeus/nitter/wiki/DMCA-templates [1]: https://github.com/zedeus/nitter/issues/482

comment by sodality2 · 2024-01-14 · in Nitter.net has disappeared