by jvanderbot
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- OK, so the "Storing data in the network ... " title made me remember something.
If you transmit a message to Mars, say a rover command sequence, and the outgoing buffer is deleted on the sending side (the original code is preserved, but the transmission-encoded sequence doesn't stick around), then that data, for 20-90 minutes, exists nowhere _except_ space. It's just random-looking electrical fluctuations that are propagating through whatever is out there until it hits a conducting piece of metal millions of miles away and energizes a cap bank enough to be measured by a digital circuit and reconstructed into data.
So, if you calculate the data rate (9600 baud, even), and set up a loopback/echo transmitter on Mars, you could store ~4 MB "in space". If you're using lasers, it's >100x as much.
- A good Friday morning laugh! I think the tiles are not just honest, they are brutally honest. Some of my fav ones:
- Amazon finally adds a feature that has been standard since 2005
- Texas accidentally does something good for privacy
Would it possible to add a feature where hovering over a title displays the original title?
by BeaverGoose
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- "Please star my repo so I can get a job" is brutal
- -> Rich developer spends $15k to run a model slightly faster.
I love these and I know this is all in good fun, but I feel like this one is a little unfair to Jeff. He's a content creator and he didn't actually buy the rig. If he's rich it's because he creates content like this.
- Top level item for me now: "We rewrote it in Rust so you have to upvote it"
Love these things. Every time someone has posted an AI-flavor of HN it's been comedic gold.
by pizzathyme
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- Yes and - it would be great to hover/tap to see the original headline.
I found myself pulling up the original and the honest versions side by side. The translation makes it funny.
by bombledmonk
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- This should be the April Fools 2026 feature put directly on the live HN site.
- Aka "the titles when people post these on reddit".
Now you know why HN has the "no editorializing" rule. :)
- I got a good chuckle out of some of the titles. In Jeff Geerling's defence (the title on the site reads "Rich developer spends $15k to run a model slightly faster"), he was loaned the Mac Studios from Apple and so he didn't spend a dime.
Also his accompanying YouTube video mentions the kit retails for $40,000+, a far cry from $15k.
by alabhyajindal
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- > OpenAI releases a new model to distract from their board drama
This one shows the "age" of the LLM, or the data cut off time
by headgasket
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- Love this. can we get an honest title for this entry too? (I'm not quite happy with my 11l+ karma, please give me some upvotes so I can start the new year with a smile?)
jk, great one, cheers
by pvsukale3
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- "Rails developers reinventing state machines for the 50th time"
Laughed so hard on this one.
by PaulHoule
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- How did you get an LLM to be snarky or did you do something else?
- Reminds me of Suckdot.
https://web.archive.org/web/20000302102827/https://suck.com/...
- What's funny/interesting from a psychological perspective is that several of these made me click (and discover genuinely interesting content) on links that I ignored in the real version. Could you do this everyday please?
- Someone built a tool to put all the snark and harsh arrogance from the comments directly into the titles?
- This is hilarious and I'm looking forward to seeing what it says about itself.
- "Do you confirm you are above 18 years of age (or the planet-rotation equivalent in your local star cluster)?"
i am so confused, whats the reason behind this little event handler?
by Almondsetat
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- I find these kind of posts profoundly uninteresting (woah, the n-th parody of the HN front page...) and yet they seem to always garner so many upvotes...
by daft_pink
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- It would be a really interesting feature to have ai analyze the articles and write an actually honest sub-headline. (ie not these sarcastic humor titles)
by publicdebates
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- "Show HN: I implemented generics in my programming language"
does not deserve the roast
"I built a language nobody will use just to learn generics"
It's not fair to assume the author didn't know how to implement generics before this project. It's also not fair to assume the project won't gain traction. Zig and Rust started out small too! This just goes a little too far for my tastes.
- A lot of these have a disturbingly subjective critical voice.
On a topsy turvy day, one finds oneself suspecting these are human-written instead of AI.
by __MatrixMan__
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- This is what adblock evolves into.
- Anyone want to try a prompt injection? All we need to do is to get one or two story in the front page that have a good < 80 characters prompt injection.
- "Math nerd explains how to spend 3 days proving 1+1=2" -> Original
"From Zero to QED: An informal introduction to formality with Lean 4"
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46259343
- Should be the default!
by vintermann
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- I'd like to see a version of the HN frontpage, where the titles are reinterpreted by that 1913 AI. "Imagine these are newspaper headlines from the year 2025. Rewrite them so that a regular person in our time can understand them."
- It's a little bit n-gate.
Who unfortunately stopped posting HN critiques, a few years ago. But you can still read old posts on: http://n-gate.com/hackernews/2021/07/
(If you follow that link from HN, and the site sees an HN `Referer`, it will do a fake captcha load, so then click "HACKERNEWS" in the navbar on the right.)
- I have to say, all of these titles are much more interesting than the real ones
by voodooEntity
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- 11/10 would read. So much clickbait going around (and lets ignore the articles that "magicly" are upvoted but strangewise have no comments whatsoever.... not sus at all....
by absoluteunit1
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- “We rewrote it in Rust so you have to upvote it”
I spit out my coffee laughing lol
by dangoodmanUT
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- They don’t all seem super accurate, but I like these titles better
- Seconding a little, perhaps dim button to toggle the original. But I love this. So much so that I might start referring to it more than HN when I'm in a rush.
by greenwallnorway
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- Projects about hn on hn get a lot of attention here. I've sure done it before.
They're a lot of fun! And super easy to vibe code, if I'm looking to test a new model.
- Love this.
My favorite is the link in the footer:
<a href="https://www.ycombinator.com/apply/">Sell 7% for clout</a>
by simonebrunozzi
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- Love this.
Make it into a chrome or Firefox extension, let people freely switch from "normal" to "honest" any time they want.
by stuartjohnson12
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- > Marketing blog post explaining why you should buy our product (hatchet.run)
When you developer market hard enough that you make it into the LLM training data.
by QuiCasseRien
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- > Rich developer spends $15k to run a model slightly faster (jeffgeerling.com)
The title are so funny !
I'm thinking to switch for the time ^^
- Not sure if the source code for this is available but if you want to make your own version I did something similar that can be easily modified and run locally for your own festive mirth: https://github.com/justinhj/rudehackernews
- I assume the age verification check when I went to page 2 is because I'm in the UK? If so, well played!
by oncallthrow
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- I was expecting this to be stupid but it’s genuinely funny. I guess LLMs are better at humor than I remember
by snapplebobapple
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- This is a massive improvement on hacker news, thank you
by phplovesong
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- Haha! Top post was just what i could think. "A rewrite n Rust post to get upvotes".
- These are fun but they lose too much of the original content.
"Texas accidentally does something good for privacy"
is not really an improvement over the original (already half-editorialized) "Texas is suing all of the big TV makers for spying on what you watch"
by shevy-java
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- I am fine with the current layout, but I also have to say that I
preferred old.reddit.com as a layout base (the new reddit UI is horrible, and reddit overall succumbed to willy-nilly tyranny of moderators on power-trips). I am not saying HN should change to become like old.reddit.com in the UI, mind you, but a few things could perhaps be considered. Using old.reddit.com was much more efficient to me than the default UI here. It is not the end of the world, but I would not mind small, slight, modest improvements to the UI (not only the front page, but all of HN).
Perhaps HN could make a few suggestions and changes and people could vote. It should be as conservative as possible, though, because while I preferred old.reddit.com, I also think that not everyone may prefer changes. So one should aim for the highest acceptance value possible, before making any change.
by TwoNineFive
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- The word "advert" is nowhere on that page, so I know it's worthless.
At least half of all HN content on any day is self-serving blogs and plausibly deniable adverts.
- Very funny and brutally honest!
by ZebusJesus
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- This was a great way to start the day over a cup of coffee, sometimes we need things that make as laugh but what is awesome is the titles are spot on. Thank you for making this Friday morning fun
- This is so damn good that I want to put it between me and the whole internet. At least selectively. Please y'all go build this.
An opinionated, tuneable, reader-agent.
- I‘ve channeled my inner Larry David into a prompt to make fun of y‘all
;)
- I'm not even so sure it's such a useless joke. I mean, it is, and I wouldn't want titles to be like "Academic publishers admit paywalls were a scam all along" (unless ALL major publishers actually admit it, which so far they didn't). But I clicked on "Math nerd explains how to spend 3 days proving 1+1=2" and when it turned out to be a Lean tutorial I thought "Oh, that's exactly what I wanted!". I don't know why, but "From Zero to QED: An informal introduction to formality with Lean 4" I didn't even notice. It's such a boring and verbose title with lame attempt at wordplay that, that my brain somehow filters it out.
- I love everything about this – the little touches like the logo, the content warning, etc. Thank you for bringing some joy to my day.
- Man, how did I get by for so long without this. Brilliant. I'd like to have the whole web in this tone please, thanks in advance!
- I loved it. Could you make it more than one page. For everything in HN. I can only read 30 posts now.
by CGMthrowaway
1 subcomments
- I thought the dollar sign button would be a donation button. Turns out it's the least honest part of the entire page.
- Did anyone notice the footer? Brilliant.
by moralestapia
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- >Rich developer spends $15k to run a model slightly faster (jeffgeerling.com)
LOL ... and it actually ran slower.
- What is the title for this entry now that it's on the front page? I can't find it
- Just me, or are all of these one sentence approving comments (at top level) posted by bots?
- I love this so much. It's like the El Reg editors got turned loose on HN headlines.
by SV_BubbleTime
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- >We rewrote it in Rust so you have to upvote it
Good LLM prompt, excellent understanding.
by horladoyin
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- Love it.
by Imustaskforhelp
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- This is really awesome, I am interested how you made this, is there a way that we can have something this like for hackernews for more than this one instance of (20?) posts, I know its satirical but I really enjoyed it
Considering its hosted on github I think that it is a static page
- Feature request: put the original title in a tooltip (or similar).
by tediousgraffit1
1 subcomments
- ok but how does it work though? Is this seriously just passing the titles to some llm with a prompt like 'roast this'? is it reading the actual content of the link as well?
- This would actually be somewhat useful for the new page. :)
- I motion HN adopts this to auto-translate all submitted titles.
by daveloyall
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- Thank you for a good laugh! Very well done. :)
by alexgotoi
1 subcomments
- Love the “Click to keep avoiding work” - so true!
s/Amazon/Atlassian/
- I feel cheated that it is only one page.
by stackedinserter
1 subcomments
- I wish we were that brutally hones irl.
- Honest? Probably not. Funny? Very.
by danielscrubs
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- Wow, this is amazing! Great work!
- Twas brillig, and the slithey-news did gyre and gamble on the title.
All manic were the Borogoves and gnome-rat's Anti-AI rhetoric in full recital.
Beware the SLOP my son!
The jaws that slurp, and claws that don't match.
Beware the Amazon-nerd, and shun
that Facebook Hack.
He took his local well in hand;
long time the perfect pose he sought.
So prompted he by the decision tree,
and waited while the AI Thought.
Spaghetti.
Meatballs.
Slurp.
Will I?
No.
Will Smith.
IYKYK
- why does the url say 2035?
- Aplausos, gracias totales!!!
by dijksterhuis
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- > CLICK TO KEEP AVOIDING WORK...
on point
by blairanderson
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- European decel mindset.
- I miss n-gate’s webshit weekly.
http://n-gate.com/
EDIT: open the link manually, they put a mock "security check" on referrers from HN
by perching_aix
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- where "honest" really just means cynical, of course
- Haha this is brilliant.
- Please add a 2nd page.
- Aka better hacker news
- The Texas one doesn't seem honest. It seems like a political narrative.
- This is hilarious. if you scroll down to the bottom it says, "CLICK TO KEEP AVOIDING WORK". lmao. which llm is this?
- I laughed so hard ...
- This is pretty funny!
by Forgeties79
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- This is really funny
- Thanks for sharing
- I like this a lot.
- Make my day mate
by gabrielflorit
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- This is amazing.
- This is actually how my brain reads most of the HN posts.
by robertheadley
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- I love this.
by observationist
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- Bravo.
- XDDDDDD
by toomuchtodo
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- Well done!
- this is gold!
“Click to keep avoiding work …”
by ChrisMarshallNY
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- Love it!
- (sarcastic David Spade voice) I liked this better the first time around... when it was called n-gate.
Still pretty funny tho, ngl.
by forgetfreeman
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- If the maintainer of n-gate.com is still alive and on Hacker News please, your work isn't finished.
- "Training AI on 1913 data to avoid 'woke' bias (and hygiene) (github.com)"
what could this mean???? and why 1913 specifically
- hahaha! very funny.
- brutal honesty
by WesolyKubeczek
0 subcomment
- Cool, n-gate as a service
by KalandaDev
0 subcomment
- Academic publishers admit paywalls were a scam all along :D
- Now I just want to see what this post will be translated to...
- fabulous
by i_am_a_peasant
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- Lol this legit makes it easier to grep through HN. thanks!
- Bring back n-gate!
by reality_inspctr
0 subcomment
- amazing
- Brings back some of that n-gate vibe <3
by tmshapland
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- lol. would you share the prompt for how you translate them? it really feels like a snarky HN community member rewrote each one.
- Doesn't seem to be live, otherwise there'd be one that says "Hacker News front page now, but the titles are slop"
- Was hoping for a self aware roast: one weird trick to keep sending your LLM slop to top of HN (/s, I enjoyed it very much)
- i miss the n-gate roundups
- The training LLMs on old data to avoid woke bias was comedic genius. Something tells me grok is behind this.
- Now do the comments
by mikkupikku
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- I miss n-gate.
by akramachamarei
0 subcomment
- Entertaining and apparently useful, though of course not infallible. Given https://github.com/DGoettlich/history-llms it yields the title "Training AI on 1913 data to avoid 'woke' bias (and hygiene)". That the Honest Hacker News AI model has been trained on a dose of cynicism and intellectual dishonesty is probably hard to avoid...
- This is cool lol
- Missing the "We have too many file formats for X, so I made another". Could also prepopulate the comments with the ubiquitous xkcd reference.
by NoGravitas
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- Makes me nostalgic for n-gate.
by fruitworks
0 subcomment
- reminds me of n-gate
by fukukitaru
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- I miss n-gate so much
- Lmao, this is great.
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- Yup. And if you dared to bring this up in the comments (ie. your own rewrite of a title/post), you’d get reminded of the guidelines and downvoted/flagged. Because fuck honesty - we are here for clicks and engagements.
This is a good step. Next: disclose financial incentives and other motives just to nip it in the bud.
- How is the Mac studio ad title honest?
- This is not "honest", this is mostly just dismissive. The headings are no more neutral and explanatory than the originals, because, I suppose, the intent was just having fun.
"We rewrote it in snark so you have to upvote".
- How much of this navel-gazing junk do we need? See also, from the same author:
Show HN: Gemini Pro 3 imagines the HN front page 10 years from now https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46205632 (10 days ago)
Show HN: Hacker News, but every headline is hysterical clickbait https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46324579 (4 hours ago)
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