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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46205632
Author : hubraumhugo
Score : 81 points
Date : 2025-12-20 13:39 UTC (9 hours ago)
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| 1123581321 wrote:
| Mine made me laugh. Can't say it's wrong, either. :) https://hn-
| wrapped.kadoa.com/1123581321
| straydusk wrote:
| This is so well-done - kinda surprised it's not getting more
| traction!
|
| https://hn-wrapped.kadoa.com/dang
| dickiedyce wrote:
| Actually on the nail. Mine actually made me laugh out loud.
| https://hn-wrapped.kadoa.com/dickiedyce
| Imustaskforhelp wrote:
| https://hn-wrapped.kadoa.com/Imustaskforhelp
|
| 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.
| jedberg wrote:
| My review was perfect, no notes. I'm going to turn it into a
| LinkedIn post to promote our new product.
|
| 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)
| hubraumhugo wrote:
| The salt race condition comic made me laugh :D
| jedberg wrote:
| Me too! AI is gonna put Randall out of business!
| jaggs wrote:
| Error, not enough activity. Strange.
| hubraumhugo wrote:
| Server is melting a bit, looking into it.
|
| EDIT: a retry worked. Enjoy: https://hn-wrapped.kadoa.com/jaggs
| levmiseri wrote:
| I'd say about 60% correct: https://hn-wrapped.kadoa.com/levmiseri
| (not against Notion, plus some other made up stuff from the LLM)
|
| But definitely a fun read!
| Forgeties79 wrote:
| > For someone who claims to be a professional cinematographer,
| you spend an alarming amount of time looking at plain text
| arguments on a 1990s-style forum instead of actually framing a
| shot.
|
| Whelp I can't recover from that one.
| jonwinstanley wrote:
| Hahaha - this is genuinely funny. Not sure I've seen LLM content
| be actually this witty before.
| chr15m wrote:
| The true path to AGI.
| pawelduda wrote:
| Can't wait for future me to post this in 10 years
|
| Show HN: SSH-to-Brain interface (requires tmux and 600mg of
| caffeine)
| mjyoon wrote:
| I remember this from last year! Awesome project - I'd love to see
| the code behind this.
| mock-possum wrote:
| > Is MDMA-infused coffee the only way to survive the 4-day work
| week? (vice.com)
|
| New 2026 resolution unlocked...
| shantara wrote:
| > You claim to value efficiency, yet you've spent the equivalent
| of a full fiscal year arguing about why a Firefox fork that 12
| people use is the only path to salvation.
|
| Made me smile, thank you!
| barapa wrote:
| I think mine confabulated criticism of a point of view as
| espousing that point of view.
| manaskarekar wrote:
| Haha, mine's funnily somewhat on the nose.
|
| -------
|
| 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.
| AndrewDucker wrote:
| Okay, mine was just awesome. Thank you. The only thing that would
| make it better would be if it could be easily saved.
|
| (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."
| hubraumhugo wrote:
| Thanks, you got a great tagline!
|
| The xkcd should be saved and cached once generated, I'll look
| into the issue.
|
| How would you improve saving?
| AndrewDucker wrote:
| I went to https://hn-wrapped.kadoa.com/AndrewDucker again,
| and got a third xkcd just now.
|
| Actually, other than that, it works just fine. I just wanted
| to cache mine, for when your site gets melted by HN overload.
| So I did it manually.
|
| Thanks again!
| hubraumhugo wrote:
| Ah, I've found the issue. Turns out I didn't account for
| case-insensitive HN usernames like yours :) should be
| fixed, love your current xkcd :D
| satvikpendem wrote:
| Wasn't this same site showed off on HN about a few months ago? I
| recall using it back then where it would roast you, seems like
| this is just a rebrand to a "wrapped" version and more generally
| seems like an ad for your service.
|
| 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.
| kqr wrote:
| In contrast to many others, I did not find this particularly
| interesting.
|
| - 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.
| hubraumhugo wrote:
| Appreciate the feedback, will try to iterate it to greatness
| further. It's still a bit hit or miss, but I've made a few
| improvements:
|
| - improved prompts with your feedback
|
| - added post/comment shuffling to remove recency bias
|
| - tried to fix the speech attribution errors in the xkcd
| Svip wrote:
| Perhaps it should also avoid putting too much emphasis on
| several comments to the same story: there was a story about
| VAT changes in Denmark, where I participated with several
| comments; but the generator decided that I apparently had a
| high focus vat, when I just wanted to provide some clarifying
| context to that story. I wonder how comments are weighed, is
| it individually or per story?
|
| Specifically this roast:
|
| > You have commented about the specific nuances of Danish VAT
| and accounting system hardcoding at least four times, proving
| you are the only person on Earth who finds tax infrastructure
| more exciting than the books being taxed.
|
| _Yeah_ , but I did it on the same story (i.e. context).
|
| Though the other details it picked up, I cannot really argue
| with: the VAT bit just stood out to me.
| hluska wrote:
| That's a poorly written roast.
| westoncb wrote:
| That's about how it came across for me as well: ignoring my
| actual content and joking about generalizations related to key
| words.
|
| Project is cool overall, love the xkcd-like comic idea--but
| prompting and/or model-selection could use some work. I'd like
| to take a crack at tuning it myself :)
| lovich wrote:
| I found the xkcd comic for myself funny enough to chuckle but I
| had the same feelings as you about the text
|
| It also appears highly biased towards recency as much of mine
| was roasting a topic I had only spoken of once and recently
| tylerrobinson wrote:
| Hilarious. It seemed to focus on something about Boolean logic
| that I don't remember taking about, but otherwise awesome.
|
| 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"?
| k3vinw wrote:
| Haha. You make one positive comment about a language and suddenly
| you're a Rust evangelist :) Well that was fun. Thank you for
| this!
|
| https://hn-wrapped.kadoa.com/k3vinw
| furyofantares wrote:
| https://hn-wrapped.kadoa.com/furyofantares
|
| 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.
| impure wrote:
| > You've mentioned Gemini 2.0 Flash pricing and model comparisons
| so many times that I'm starting to think you're actually a Google
| Cloud Billing alert that gained sentience.
|
| I wouldn't mention it so much if Google stopped bumping up the
| price.
| vasco wrote:
| > The Contrarian Logic Gate
|
| > 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)
| ttoinou wrote:
| Nice, mine was very cool and accurate : 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.
|
| https://hn-wrapped.kadoa.com/ttoinou
| elashri wrote:
| You made my day with this prediction :)
|
| > 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.
| hluska wrote:
| Is there a reason you hold onto data for thirty days? That's a
| non starter for me - I don't have a clue who you are or what this
| is even used for.
| jmpavlec wrote:
| I mean your profile is public and probably already injested by
| other LLMs... So what are you protecting? Anyone could add your
| username in there...
| manuelmoreale wrote:
| The Indie Blog Crusader
|
| 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.
| madjam002 wrote:
| This is absolutely wild haha, love it
|
| "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."
| creakingstairs wrote:
| > You spend so much time fighting macOS animations and keyboard
| layouts that I am surprised you have any time left to actually
| use the computer you keep threatening to replace with a Framework
|
| 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.
| mrj wrote:
| Some winners in the 2035 HN predictions: 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)
|
| eh? Ask HN: Best audiologist for tuning hearing
| aids to filter out 'Notification Blindness'?
| rendall wrote:
| I really enjoyed my roast review. I loved the feedback that I'm
| only 5% helpful and 35% contrarian! I will endeavor to boost that
| helpfulness percentage next year.
|
| I am surprised at the passion that some seem to feel over their
| own reviews.
|
| https://hn-wrapped.kadoa.com/rendall
| dsmurrell wrote:
| I lol'ed:
| https://kadoa.b-cdn.net/wrapped/dsmurrell-1766269193782.png
| 9dev wrote:
| > You spent three paragraphs arguing why estimation is a vital
| business requirement only to follow up by suggesting the world is
| an entropic chaos where nobody is actually in charge, which is a
| really convenient way to explain why your sprint is three weeks
| late.
|
| Gosh I love it.
| jumploops wrote:
| > You've mentioned the 1975 book The Mythical Man-Month so many
| times that I'm starting to think it's your only personality trait
| besides complaining about Tailwind CSS.
|
| Ahahaha, not entirely wrong!
| oersted wrote:
| I did like it, but for me it was fixated on 3-5 comments from the
| last 1-2 months that got a few more upvotes. It didn't really
| work as an overview for the year. Still, a pretty cool thingy :)
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