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Hacker News Hacker NewsMine seems to think that I'm some kind of detail-obsessed super-pedant. Personally, I think this is ridiculous. "super" is a Latin stem meaning "beyond", which implies that I've transcended the qualities of pedantry. A better term would be 'pluri-pedant', which denotes someone who is exceptionally punctilious while still remaining within the bounds of being pedantic.
LLMs consistently misrepresent information in this exact same way in, more critical applications. Because they are often employed on datasets that engineers and potentially end users are not deeply familiar with, the results often seem exceptional.
Disclaimer via my HN wrapped: “The Anti LLM Manifesto You will write a 5,000-word blog post on why a single Bayesian prior is more 'sentient' than GPT-6, and it will be ignored because the summary was generated by a 3B parameter model.”
Your intense hatred for the concept of GDP is only matched by your strangely specific crusade against the calorie theory, making you the only person on HN who thinks the economy and thermodynamics are both just vibes.
I wouldn’t mention it so much if Google stopped bumping up the price.
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Show HN: A songwriting DAW built entirely inside an Org-mode buffer(emacs.org)
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Why I'm still using Soulseek to trade prompt-engineered MIDI files
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- The comic on is oddly cropped and contains speech attribution errors.
- It calls me an "extremist" regarding the wrong thing (I am many kinds of extremist, but certainly not Haskell).
- It claims I believe "any software failure is merely a design error" which is a complete misunderstanding of the ideas I presented.
- It says things like "the geometric mean of the snack bowl" which doesn't have meaning in English.
I feel like it has picked up on certain keywords and then just rolled with its own stereotypes of what those keywords represent, rather than actually taking a good look at what I think. A roast works because the roaster has clearly spent time and effort and care understanding the person roasted. This is way too shallow for that.
The 2026 and 2035 predictions (with a few exceptions) don't make sense at all, and the jokes in them fall completely flat. They're not good anti-jokes either. If someone said something like it in a social situation it would be followed by an awkward silence.
The vibe check and the time spent were really cool though. Super interesting. I would have loved to see those expanded.
I don't mean to be negative. The project is cool. I just wish it would put its focus on the valuable parts, rather than the things it is weak at. I guess this is my 45 % pedantic, 25 % contrarian, 20 % analytical self speaking.
Interesting, semi-accurate, though with some of the other things it wrote, it was completely wrong: "You claim labels are limitations that prevent you from being yourself, then immediately spend 500 words explaining why your entire identity is based on being a 1%er." I wish I was a 1%er, sadly I'm on the other side of the spectrum, currently with no money, so I'm on my fourth day of not eating, though luckily I should receive my salary this week or the next, so it'll be alright!
Hah, I feel seen! This is pretty funny
Yep that’s me.
As for 2026 prediction:
> You will write a 4,000-word HN essay arguing that Silksong’s difficulty curve is a direct allegory for the South Korean 'Hagwon' education system.
Yeah I can see that happening.
A romantic of the motherboard who thinks software engineering peaked at Xerox PARC and spent 2025 auditing every Show HN for missing source code while mourning the death of the em-dash. You will develop an LLM-powered sentiment analyzer that specifically detects when tech executives use 'fond farewell' to describe mass layoffs.
▲ Ask HN: Is there any way to travel without 24/7 neural-link monitoring?
▲ Mozilla CEO calls 15th rebranding to 'VibeBrowser' a 'bold pivot'
▲ Minimalism in the 2030s: Living on 8kb of memory for a weekhttps://hn-wrapped.kadoa.com/dctoedt
https://hn-wrapped.kadoa.com/rayiner
https://hn-wrapped.kadoa.com/tptacek
https://hn-wrapped.kadoa.com/dragonwriter
I suspect there's kind of a feedback loop here. An algorithm does X well; it becomes easy to churn out X; we realize that X wasn't as skilful as we thought. In other words, this kind of satire will become seen as stilted and conventional, in the same way that AI art looks stilted and conventional to us today.
I thought that one was quite funny.
> Malort-Driven Development
>> Your next 'exception catcher' blog post will be written after a long night at the Chicago Microcenter and will feature a Kafka setup powered entirely by spite and BIPA lawsuits.
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LLMs will be used to deanonymize all internet users. The AI "visionaries" are already bragging about this. You have been warned.
Are you sharing any of the prompts you used to generate this? Even if not verbatim, I’m interested to know how much you’re driving versus the model. How much more prompt is there than, “look at this comment history and write 3 roasts that the HN crowd will find funny”?
https://hn-wrapped.kadoa.com/jedberg
(But in seriousness, this self reflection really does highlight what my year has been like and I truly appreciated the laughs)
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The Rust-Evangelizing Hardware Romantic
A developer who believes every global outage is just a missing question mark away from salvation and spends their weekends reapplying thermal paste to fanless MacBooks while reminiscing about the tactile superiority of 2010 Dell Latitude trackpads.
Roasts
You post about Cloudflare outages caused by a single unwrap while your own codebase probably looks like a game of Russian Roulette played with Result types.
Your obsession with the thermal conductivity of fanless laptops is just a coping mechanism for the fact that your Rust builds take so long you could literally cook an egg on your chassis.
You have a very specific kink for 2010 Dell trackpads that makes me think you are either a Linux philosopher or someone who is no longer allowed within 500 feet of a Best Buy.
And yeah, I will keep ranting about the lack of dark mode!
But definitely a fun read!
Things in between don't appear to move the needle at all.
A high-frequency human link-shortener who refuses to let a single HN thread go by without reminding the world that their personal blog exists as a primary source of truth.
Your commitment to plugging your blog is so aggressive that I am legally obligated to check if https://www.rxjourney.net/ is actually a horcrux for your digital soul.
Whelp I can’t recover from that one.
So cool it's now easy to build custom recaps!
Made me smile, thank you!
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Posts You'd Upvote in 2035
1. Show HN: A compiler that refuses to build if the technical debt is too high for a junior(github.com)
2. Ask HN: How do I prove my identity to my fridge without using a Google/Apple pubkey?
3. The last human-written HTML file was just committed to the Library of Congress
https://hn-wrapped.kadoa.com/nhatcher
(Kind of embarrassing TBH)
It would be nice if the username field was case-insensitive, since I think HN's username input is.
I also think the predictions section seems kinda generic where the roast section felt better-personalized, which seems like a prompting issue
https://hn-wrapped.kadoa.com/neomantra
The MCP Obsessed Vibe-Coder
A high-frequency haptics evangelist who is currently attempting to connect every physical object in his house to a DuckDB instance via an AI-controlled nipple mount.Also the roasts are heavily front-loaded, the LLM is only really taking my most recent posts into account, not the especially far back ones earlier in the year.
Mine "roasted" me by making fun of the fact I never finished a PhD, despite that being due to medical and other life circumstances that were well outside my control, including, but not limited to, some issues related to the fact I was a woman trying to get into academia who experienced the kinds of behaviors from people in the department which are not really suitable for polite discussion.
Additionally, it roasted me for building a project to "avoid the outdoors," which is another incredibly demeaning thing to say to someone who explicitly created that project because she was too medically unwell to be able to go outside as much as she wished and wanted to bring a bit of the outdoors inside. Very lame, definitely missed the mark.
The elisp and common lisp notes were on point, though, and did get a chuckle out of me.
> You write comments like you're trying to win a Pulitzer in Political Economy while trapped inside a middle-manager's strategy meeting.
Gosh I love it.
Kif, I'm feeling the "Captain's itch".
> The Ultimate Fork
> Frustrated with Waterfox and Orion, you will finally launch 'CERN-fox', a browser that only renders LaTeX and requires a muon-detected captcha for every search query.
https://hn-wrapped.kadoa.com/vee-kay
And such cool stuff is why we love HN!
This is awesome OP, love your work.
"A high-latency architect who spends his days documenting every time a CDN sneezes while dreaming of a mountain drive through the Balkans with a fresh burek in hand."
(Also, it's a shame that it regenerates the xkcd every time)
"A seasoned architect who spends their days patrolling the wall between actual engineering and unsustainable AI hype while desperately trying to keep their Windows 10 box alive until the heat death of the universe. You are the only person on the internet who still remembers what a build script does and why we shouldn't let LLMs touch them without adult supervision."
Show HN: SSH-to-Brain interface (requires tmux and 600mg of caffeine)
What are the prompts you're usign?
New 2026 resolution unlocked…
> You have mentioned being Australian at least five times as a personality trait just to remind us that our pennies are stupid and our tap-to-pay is thirty years behind yours.
Fair!
The XKCD comic generation was impressive.
The "your HN front page in 2035" doesn't really make sense to me because afaik personalised front pages are not a thing? (Or maybe they will be in 2035...)
For posterity - wasn’t, still am not an s-base customer.
One thing I noticed is that it seems to give more weight to submissions (i.e. things I've submitted as posts) than to comments (or at least, doesn't let submissions get drowned in a sea of comments), which turns out as a good thing. And it doesn't seem to care about karma, which is also IMO a really good thing, makes it feel like a deep dive and keeps it interesting.
It's not wrong.
“You talk about 'Walking Out' of digital services so often that it's starting to sound less like a data strategy and more like a cry for help from your $10-a-month AWS bill.”
My last 2-3 months here have largely been posting about AI slop. But the prior 9 months were not, and included a lot of nuanced posting about how to make use of AI agents. I even got accused of being a shill at one point.
The wrapped is pretty much focused on the slop stuff. That's less interesting than the earlier parts of the year - I know what I've posted recently but have forgotten a lot more of what was going on a year ago or how the year developed.
Roasts can be amusing but I don't think they're the right vibe for a wrapped. I know it's harder to get an LLM to write something witty and insightful than a witty but shallow quip so maybe that's why roasts are here. Wrappeds are sort of infodumps though and LLMs are good at that, maybe there could be a two stage step where it reasons about some custom quirky stats or factoids that work based on your profile and then the second stage generates them.
Well, as a local VRAM libertarian, to manually prune the safety alignment part of a 500B LLM for it to run on 1GB RAM or VRAM is definitely a lifetime goal for me.
Ahahaha, not entirely wrong!
Show HN: A Python 4.2 framework that transpiles to Go but still lets you use circular imports(github.com)
Microsoft 365 Audit: Now requiring a literal DNA sample for volume licensing compliance(theregister.com)
Zulip 15.0 adds 'Boomer Mode' to hide markdown from non-technical users(zulip.org)
Ask HN: Best audiologist for tuning hearing aids to filter out 'Notification Blindness'?How did it match my facial hair in the XKCD, since HN is text-only? :mind-blown:
When in Rome ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
But I do have one gripe, I'm a woman. I wish the XKCD comic was accurate. TwT.
> You spent twenty years avoiding a single line of JavaScript only to get depressed and give up on front-end dev as soon as you saw a CSS file.
> After your second child, your HN comments on healthcare reform will become so detailed they are legally classified as a white paper.
Lmao
Accurate!
Dammit, now I've got to improve those KPIs? Sigh...
Also HN: wow, that's totally me! That AI totally gets me.
Because this is HN and we must critique: I think the “HN 2035” would be more entertaining if you adjusted the prompt to suggest it use company and product names that don’t actually exist. (There’s no way HN is half full of Tesla and OpenAI articles in 2035)
Edit: OK this was funny
> Your posts suggest you are the only person on the internet who uses genetic algorithms for friendship management but still can't figure out a Typst template for your thesis.
A digital preservationist who wages a one-man war against the AI-slop apocalypse by manually indexing every human-written blog post in existence while playing Unreal Tournament 99 on a secondary monitor.
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I have to say, if that’s my future I’m kinda cool with it.
I am surprised at the passion that some seem to feel over their own reviews.
> A high-frequency debunker who treats every comment thread as a zero-trust environment where empathy is a bug and citing Sartre is a security vulnerability. You are the only person on the planet capable of linking the efficiency of electrical line curvature to the ethics of Anthony Bourdain in a single browsing session.
No I don't! (nice project)
A teenage digital architect who oscillates between solving the world's privacy crisis and wondering if high school chemistry is a psyop designed to kill his GitHub star count.
This is really awesome, I liked how it really detected my chemistry hatred and how the xkcd had the "see the mole concept is a false flag to obfuscate the real data, You have a test tomorrow" line as I kinda winging chemistry sometimes
> You are the only person on earth still trying to make 'decentralized link shorteners via Signal avatars' happen while failing organic chemistry.
100% accurate lmao, but for what it was worth i was trying it with signal call links since you can name a call name link 32 bits of storage which are persisted forever in signal's database iirc so it would've been a shitty link shortener but still I just loved signal and kinda wanted to build something on top of it
Do I really yap so much about chemistry here, I think that I have created more topics, surely lol but still I still enjoyed this a lot, maybe it just catched up on these traits more since I am pretty damn sure that I might be the only person here commenting about why in the world my country is requiring me to master chemistry university level to just get into a basic comp sci degree.
> Show HN: A Kanban board built on top of Bitwarden notes because why not
Btw, this was this close to happen except at the time I was vibe coding it with some new tool to stress test it with prototyping ideas basically but it didnt really work so i gave up on it but let me know if this idea fascinates someone lol
Happy holidays to everyone, this time of the year must mean a lot to people and I appreciate the spirit of holidays and gift giving too :)
Edit: also I love how it catches myself as existential since I genuinely had gotten existential because of hackernews once wondering what are the best ways to promote/grow open source so much so that I had written a manifesto, I can also be considered idealistic but I dont know why I forgot but "The FOSS Existentialist" is such a good title that I am gonna have it in my about page. This was genuinely brilliant.