[HN Gopher] Show HN: This Hacker News Does Not Exist
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Show HN: This Hacker News Does Not Exist
Author : gravitate
Score : 227 points
Date : 2022-12-03 18:29 UTC (4 hours ago)
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(TXT) w3m dump (coxomb.github.io)
| forgotmypw17 wrote:
| I know it doesn't exist because there are too many titles which
| start with an interrogative.
| idrios wrote:
| "Why Your Pacemaker Might Be Spying On You" is one of the most
| stressful headlines I've seen in a long time
| harryVic wrote:
| I'm incredibly mad my pacemaker is completely unusable if I
| disable JavaScript.
| pfdietz wrote:
| I don't have the heart to disagree with you.
| kace91 wrote:
| Coming from a Spaniard, "Spain considered dangerous" is also up
| there.
| sph wrote:
| That's the headline immediately following "Ad-supported
| pacemakers are now available for people on lower incomes"
| manmal wrote:
| Fun fact, most of the type 1 diabetes looper scene (open source
| artificial pancreas) relies on an improperly secured insulin
| pump that allows third party software access via an exploit.
| The firmware has long been patched of course, but the pumps
| with the old firmware are still being sold among community
| members, for 4-5k.
| BulgarianIdiot wrote:
| I legit got excited for "You May Not Need React". For shame.
| IfOnlyINewMore wrote:
| While the headlines may not be real, many of these are totally
| worthy of Hacker News style conversations. Maybe we need a static
| version of this that we can add comments to?
| bhaney wrote:
| "Pants Considered Harmful" (cnet.com)
| forgotOldLogin wrote:
| I saw the first page and it had the classic HackerNews headline
| format: "<name> has died."
|
| AI is gonna win, y'all.
| picture wrote:
| Well, this isn't really an AI. It just scrambles from pre-
| fabbed assets, afaik
| jodrellblank wrote:
| So are Reddit comments[1]. Once there are sufficient comments
| on the internet that you can't read them all in a lifetime,
| who's to say the one you are reading is novel and written by
| a human, and not a pre-fab comment scrambled from dozens of
| previous posts on the same topic from years ago, or the same
| topic on another site?
|
| [1] you can't prove otherwise!
| yborg wrote:
| At this point HN is more or less a parody of itself. The same
| thing happened to Slashdot. Maybe inevitable with any long
| running community site.
| enraged_camel wrote:
| I think this comment itself could be a part of the parody site,
| to be honest.
| yborg wrote:
| You're right, which is the worst part of it; realizing you
| are part of the problem. I think the karma system is a big
| driver of it, you quickly learn what you "should" or
| "shouldn't" be posting.
| manholio wrote:
| An AI comment bot trained on past HN comments that can be
| unleashed on the actual HN to whore karma sounds like a great
| meta-humorous project - it would prove that as far as upvotes
| go, we have achieved the singularity.
| Brendinooo wrote:
| It's not, though it certainly does have identifiable quirks.
| alex_young wrote:
| So, Hacker News is Dying?
| thegeomaster wrote:
| I've seen this comment ever since I started reading Hacker News
| some 10 years ago. I've noticed myself getting warmed up to the
| argument over time, so I believe it's more an artifact of a
| user getting older than any real objective change in the site
| itself.
| bnegreve wrote:
| Well, I am not saying you're wrong, but it could also be true
| that communities are in fact getting more dull as they get
| bigger.
|
| The fact that you've been reading this comment forever does
| disprove it since hn has been growing steadily for the past
| 10 years.
| californiadreem wrote:
| The necessary issue with gradual decline is that by
| definition there is never a point where you can definitively
| say it declined from one moment to the next. If you could, it
| wouldn't be a gradual decline, it would be a sudden decline.
|
| Secondarily to this, if everywhere is in decline, there's no
| real way to tell as everything is relatively the same. In
| this context, HN is still ahead of reddit in terms of quality
| and content; reddit is still ahead of Facebook. Facebook and
| reddit however are _very_ different beasts than they were a
| decade ago, let alone 15 years ago. Has HN had a similar
| decline as everywhere else? I don 't really have a strong
| opinion on that, but it's a hard point to prove either way.
|
| Personally, as someone that's been lurking HN since about
| 2010, the only differences that I can see is that HN seems
| less about startups than it was a decade ago and the comments
| are shorter and with less implicit good faith. The latter two
| though are happening everywhere, so I don't think HN is
| unique in that regard.
|
| As an intellectual exercise, I went to a random date from the
| front page from 2009 and found someone complaining about
| Google's tracking and the degeneration of its search results:
|
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=979033
|
| So in that regard, nothing's really _changed_ but the
| severity of the problems.
| mdp2021 wrote:
| If at the top of the list I see "Your appliance may be spying
| on you", it is not the platform that is a parody of itself -
| the farce is in this dragging world.
| _mway wrote:
| > Ask HN: What Happened to Sausages?
|
| Asking the important questions.
| theGeatZhopa wrote:
| Pls add "how X does not work" too.
|
| How does the architecture of 8086 not work
|
| How does work not work
| seydor wrote:
| I believe hn removes the word 'how' from the beginning
| buzer wrote:
| > New Vulnerability Discovered in Opera (neocities.org)
|
| (2002)
| coletonodonnell wrote:
| "Ask HN: What's the purpose of North Dakota"
|
| I ask this everyday.
| bombcar wrote:
| Without North Dakota South Dakota would make no sense.
|
| And yes Virginia should be renamed East Virginia.
| kube-system wrote:
| But Virginia goes further west than West Virginia. Virginia
| should be renamed _South_ Virginia.
| fragmede wrote:
| I propose we name that one Other Virginia. Which makes the
| other Other-other Virginia.
| bombcar wrote:
| East and West Dakota are available, let it be done.
| gjsman-1000 wrote:
| I ask the same question about Rhode Island. ;)
| rikroots wrote:
| I clicked on the Parody Hacker News link which took me to
| https://news.ycombinator.com/IHopeMyMaxVisitHasntBeenHit and got
| the response "Unknown" and now I'm struggling to convince myself
| that I exist...
| koliber wrote:
| Poor Marjory. Bless her heart.
| k__ wrote:
| _" FTX owes $288.05 to Binance"_
|
| At least, lol
| TrackerFF wrote:
| Post 27 seems to always be some variation of _" FTX owes
| $xx.xxx to XYZ"_
|
| FTX owes $13.68 to Robin Hood (substack.com)
|
| FTX owes $997.43 to Binance (nationalgeographic.com)
|
| FTX owes $264.32 to Robin Hood (theverge.com)
|
| etc
| bonney_io wrote:
| Absolute gold. Some favorites:
|
| - Olive Considered Dangerous (techcrunch.com)
|
| - Profound 4th Generation Hardware -- an all-time nothing
| headline
|
| - Ask HN: What Happened to Keyboard?
|
| - FTX owes $445.61 to Coinbase -- four hundred dollars
|
| - I'll Program The Auxiliary RAM Program, That Should Circuit The
| THX Circuit (washingtonpost.com)
| benj111 wrote:
| If got $29.xx that ftx owes
| churchill wrote:
| A big block of text with no paragraph breaks. It seems like the
| author is trying his hardest to provide something insightful and
| well-written, and while it seems on-topic it is hard to relate to
| the original article. None of it looks wrong, but it doesn't seem
| very informative either. Most people will just skip right over
| it. There will be a semi-obscure Wikipedia link somewhere in
| here.[1]
|
| [1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random
| ginnungagap wrote:
| I am quite sad that "The secret life of videocassettes in Iran"
| is not a real article
| anigbrowl wrote:
| It is, it's just from a different source.
|
| https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/the-secret-life-of-videoc...
| sedatk wrote:
| It's always a different source on HN.
| ginnungagap wrote:
| That's amazing! Thanks for the link
| smrtinsert wrote:
| Humorous. I won't be laughing that much though when ai generated
| news by bad actors goes mainstream
| A4ET8a8uTh0 wrote:
| It technically has already been happening albeit on a smaller
| scale. It is frankly for the best in a sense that it will force
| mainstream to recognize it as an issue.
| nurettin wrote:
| As a Ruby guy, does this really matter for 95% of the world?
| nine_k wrote:
| This page brings fun twice: when you first load it and read the
| headlines, and next when you reload it a few times, see the
| pattern, and start to anticipate.
| busymom0 wrote:
| Don't forget to click the link to the comments page too.
| bitwize wrote:
| C-f gut
|
| Nothing. No gut bacteria this time, but they did have "In Praise
| of Tasty Wooden Salad", which is in line with Hackernews dietary
| recommendations if you don't want cancer, heart disease, violent
| mood swings, etc.
| kangalioo wrote:
| Oh man I wanted to read What to Love About Incredible Fresh Bacon
| anigbrowl wrote:
| I miss n-gate
| churchill wrote:
| Relevant XKCD: http://dynamic.xkcd.com/random/comic/
| DoubleDerper wrote:
| I disagree with the author. I know he's incredibly successful and
| right about pretty much everything he's ever said, but I've had
| some experience in this area and just finished reading through
| some of the archives and I think his focus is wrong. I'm going to
| ignore the technical issue and talk about the bigger picture and
| higher level things than what was said in the blog post. If the
| OP thinks that the process is most important, it's really about
| end results. But if he thinks it should be about the end results
| then he's an idiot for not thinking about the process. I'll
| weasel in a reference the startup I co-founded even though it's
| not directly relevant.
| briandear wrote:
| But considering climate change, having people sized sidewalks
| and taxing the externalities of the process is really the point
| you failed to consider. Nuclear might work but there is a lot
| more to it that doesn't get addressed in the article. Estonia
| really gets this correct and proves the point that the American
| city isn't going to be well designed if we don't consider the
| impact of the rail system and electrification.
| poulpy123 wrote:
| No, OP is correct.
|
| * You omitted hist point X.
|
| * You misunderstand point Y.
|
| * Here's point Z you didn't account for.
| MichaelZuo wrote:
| Well the OP could be both correct and incorrect.
| Justin_K wrote:
| This.
| kreeben wrote:
| Is.
| kreeben wrote:
| Not.
| kreeben wrote:
| Reddit.
| goosedragons wrote:
| Continuing the discussion of point Z, here's an interesting
| way[1] it relates back to the OP. And here are some unknown
| facts[2] the OP didn't include.
|
| [1]: http://SomeScientificJournal.com/141421
|
| [2]: http://SomeNewsSite.com/11235813
| JumpCrisscross wrote:
| Curiously, while examples of metacoentary stretch back to
| antiquity, the concept having a name is modern [1].
|
| [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meta-reference#History-
| of-th...
| mv9 wrote:
| > tangential statement
|
| I'm honestly really curious about this. Could you elaborate?
| notahacker wrote:
| Haha, I always wanted to make one of these. Was going to call it
| Slacker News.
|
| Amused by the way the random domains interact with the headlines
| (a NY Times exclusive on working every day for two years with
| Tailwind CSS, Microsoft blogging to say you may not need Svelte,
| Nature shilling Dogecoin)
| felipelalli wrote:
| It would be nice to use GPT3 to generate the headlines and even
| the content of the links.
| TobTobXX wrote:
| Using the new ChatGPT from OpenAI:
|
| > Generate 10 typical Hacker News headlines. 1.
| "New open-source project revolutionizes web development"
| 2. "10 tips for optimizing your website's performance" 3.
| "The future of programming languages: what to expect" 4.
| "Big tech companies accused of stifling innovation" 5.
| "The rise of artificial intelligence in the workplace" 6.
| "Successful startups share their secrets to growth" 7.
| "Why it's time to switch to a privacy-focused browser" 8.
| "The top programming languages to learn in 2021" 9. "How
| to build a strong cybersecurity strategy for your business"
| 10. "The importance of ethics in the tech industry"
|
| IMHO it's a bit too clichee (there are rather few "10 tips
| to..." or "top XXX in 2021" on HN), but other than that, quite
| accurate.
|
| EDIT: It seems like ChatGPT agreees:
|
| > Can you do the same but less clichee? 1. "The
| surprising benefits of using a text-based interface" 2.
| "Exploring the potential of blockchain technology beyond
| cryptocurrency" 3. "Why the gig economy may not be
| sustainable in the long run" 4. "The role of virtual
| reality in distance learning" 5. "The future of work: how
| technology is changing the job market" 6. "The ethics of
| using facial recognition technology" 7. "How to protect
| your online identity from cyber threats" 8. "The
| potential of quantum computing to solve complex problems"
| 9. "The impact of automation on the job market" 10. "The
| rise of low-code development platforms"
|
| These seem like exactly what I'd expect from HN.
| benj111 wrote:
| What if you get stuck in the gpt3 generated internet? What if
| we already are?
|
| (Come to think of it, that would make more sense).
| drKarl wrote:
| What if we already are, indeed. And early next year they will
| release GPT-4
| caxco93 wrote:
| Nice project!
|
| Suggestion: Remove the "#" from the href value or normalize the
| color style for a:visited. Otherwise if you click one link, they
| all change to the visited color and it's really hard to read.
| navane wrote:
| Are these comments real though?
| kagevf wrote:
| "It works in Firefox nightly" has got to be real!
| ronsor wrote:
| I like that the guy who wants more technical articles is named
| "asm."
| merb wrote:
| Here's a long detailed, objective explanation of everything
| related to this issue. It's probably more useful than the actual
| link and it may serve as one of the best efforts to consolidate
| information on this subject on the entire Internet. If it
| contains original research only a couple of readers will be
| qualified to tell. Half the people who upvote this won't
| understand more than the first two paragraphs.
|
| Edit: I anticipated the potential questions and added more
| information. Add some graphs and this could be a master's thesis.
| burtekd wrote:
| > high-level statement about a relevant side point
|
| Here's how it really works. I'll write a couple paragraphs on
| all the exceptions I can think of, explaining how you should
| have said "often" instead of "almost always".
| luispauloml wrote:
| I don't know why this isn't at the top.
| benj111 wrote:
| Why your pace maker might be spying on you.
|
| Slate.com
|
| Checks out.
| briandear wrote:
| Non pay-walled link: ...
| hexagonwin wrote:
| Fun site. Cool!
| antihero wrote:
| "The Scary Truth About South Africa".
|
| Awkward ha
| red_Seashell_32 wrote:
| > Your Smartphone May Be Making You Lazy
|
| This, and many more, are more than believable. This one is
| actually quite sad.
| marshmallowmad wrote:
| Yeah this one is right - the only issue is it's an
| understatement
| baxtr wrote:
| Nothing about Rust or Kubernetes. Instantly realized that this
| must be fake.
| pohl wrote:
| If you refresh a few times and search for "Rust" with your
| browser, the word "Rustic" will keep appearing.
| mdp2021 wrote:
| > _and search for X with your browser [then X-reference] will
| keep appearing_
|
| Through which mechanism exactly?
| xg15 wrote:
| Missing a random rachelbythebay or ACOUP post and an in-depth
| analysis of some medieval book collection also. (Though "The
| Scary Truth about Egypt" and "What to love about Small, Frozen
| Sausages" come pretty close)
| myself248 wrote:
| This is definitely good for a laugh, on the first page-load.
| After that, some patterns emerge that really deflate the
| experience, but I definitely chuckled multiple times.
| xg15 wrote:
| > _Candy Crush Has Been Removed From Google Play (reuters.com)_
|
| The world is truly coming to an end.
| coxomb wrote:
| Hi Hackernews! This is a little project I made in my free time.
| It's a fun and whimsical parody of Hacker News. I wanted to
| experiment with Faker.js and other JS libraries.
|
| It randomly generates Hackernews headlines. You get new results
| each time you refresh the page. I spent about 4 days making this,
| and learned a lot in the process, and it was my first open source
| side project in a long time.
|
| It was inspired by This Person Does Not Exist and other 'Does Not
| Exist' projects which you can find here:
| https://thisxdoesnotexist.com/
|
| If you spot any bugs or have any ideas on maybe how to improve
| it, post your thoughts here.
|
| The source code can be found on GitHub, where it's hosted:
|
| https://github.com/coxomb/This-Hacker-News-Does-Not-Exist/tr...
|
| I hope you enjoy the project :)
| josephcsible wrote:
| One thing I noticed that could be improved: The headlines in
| isolation are reasonable, and so are the websites, but the
| pairings between them are not. For example, "Snapchat Has Been
| Removed From iOS App Store (mitpress.mit.edu)" and "Hstr: Bash
| And Zsh Shell History Suggest Box (reuters.com)".
| jandrese wrote:
| On the first page I loaded I could tell it was fake
| immediately, there were no mentions of Rust at all.
| raphlinus wrote:
| I really wanted to get into Rust programming, but was turned
| off by the toxicity of the community. Their smug attitude of
| superiority really turns people away. I've been programming
| in C and C++ for decades, and I'm not sure I've ever once run
| into a problem with undefined behavior.
| blondin wrote:
| this is super cool :)
|
| this one got me laughing: "Chicken version 5.0 Alpha Released"
| nerdponx wrote:
| Chicken Scheme is currently on version 5.x so this could very
| well have been a real headline at one point.
| TheSpiceIsLife wrote:
| No, not Chicken Scheme, it's about Chicken[1].
|
| 1. https://youtu.be/yL_-1d9OSdk
| A4ET8a8uTh0 wrote:
| Ask HN: Whats's the Purpose of Action-Items?
|
| I chuckled. Thank you:D
| Aardwolf wrote:
| > 16. Ask HN: What Happened to Sausages? (news.ycombinator.com)
|
| I'm really curious now what did happen to the sausages!
| cpsns wrote:
| This dude happened https://www.youtube.com/@OrdinarySausage
| [deleted]
| yawnxyz wrote:
| Look how fast it loads! I love how this was written in vanilla
| HTML, JS, and JQuery, without any use of modern frameworks.
|
| Does it work offline?
| Jensson wrote:
| I got
|
| "Sperm Counts Worldwide Are Plummeting Faster Than We Thought"
|
| We saw that thread just 2 days ago:
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33816861
|
| I guess HN titles doesn't have enough data for this.
| DIARRHEA_xd wrote:
| Headline copied exactly: https://www.imgpaste.net/image/KW42FT
|
| See item #10.
|
| This is a real headline, see:
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33816861
| return_to_monke wrote:
| I am waiting for the day where someone makes a "this `this X
| doesn't exist`" . example outputs would be
|
| `this coffee maker does not exist`
|
| `this private jet does not exist`
|
| etc etc etc
| hcs wrote:
| `this self referential joke does not exist`
| gjsman-1000 wrote:
| As a PHP guy, does this really matter for 95% of the world?
| waterpowder wrote:
| I miss n-gate
| redbell wrote:
| Really cool submissions with catchy titles..
|
| I'd like to join the party with some fantasy..
|
| 1- Twitter files for bankruptcy (twitter.com/elonmusk)
|
| 2- Apple's new M3 chip outperforms Nvidia H100 (geekbench.com)
|
| 3- India to surpass China's GDP by 2025 (scmp.com)
|
| 4- Tell HN: I am quitting Hacker News
|
| 5- Google to revive Stadia (theverge.com)
|
| 6- Japan wins the 2022 FIFA World Cup (espn.com)
|
| 7- Hacker News to be acquired by Reddit (twitter.com/paulg)
|
| 8- Tesla Roadster hits 1.1 sec acceleration in early tests
| (electrek.co)
|
| 9- Microsoft outbid Adobe and offers $43.6B to acquire Figma
|
| 10- Facebook had died at 19 :)
|
| Just imagine if one (or some) of the above comes true.. who
| knows? The world is changing fast -\\_(tsu)_/-
| pleb_nz wrote:
| Raspberry pi 5 out Performs m3
|
| Now there's a dream and headline
| AnIdiotOnTheNet wrote:
| "Washington Considered Dangerous"
|
| Yep, it's pretty much nailed HN's front-page concerns.
| stuartd wrote:
| I got 'Cambridgeshire Considered Dangerous' - much less HN
| front page but it made me laugh
| xeonmc wrote:
| I got "Florida Considered Dangerous". You don't say?
|
| https://imgur.com/a/vxQooID
| Aulig wrote:
| "Ask HN: What happened to Fish?"
|
| The really random ones are quite funny :)
| NovaVeles wrote:
| "Ask HN: What happened to gloves?"
|
| That is a title that would drag me in!
| jraines wrote:
| I got this and:
|
| "In Praise of Sleek Wooden Tuna"
| dheera wrote:
| The comments appear the same on each article. Is this intended?
|
| I had the hope that they were some sort of GPT generated internet
| bickering or something but if not that's OK, I know it's a lot of
| work.
| stingraycharles wrote:
| It's actually from a different parody, linked by the original
| author in the intro.
| humanizersequel wrote:
| From the comments, might just start posting this everywhere:
|
| No, OP is correct. * You omitted hist point X.
|
| * You misunderstand point Y.
|
| * Here's point Z you didn't account for.
| happytoexplain wrote:
| If this is the average HN conversation, then HN probably has
| the highest quality conversations anywhere on the internet!
| Jensson wrote:
| > HN probably has the highest quality conversations anywhere
| on the internet!
|
| Do you know a better place? Maybe some small ones, but I
| doubt there are larger internet communities than HN with
| better discussions.
| [deleted]
| petarb wrote:
| A bunch of headlines on there could totally be on HN. Love it!
| leobg wrote:
| Is it written in Rust?
| ablatt89 wrote:
| Strong work!
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