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       I was looking for some fun project to play around with the latest
       Gemini models and ended up building this :)  Enter your username
       and get:  - Generated roasts and stats based on your HN activity
       2025  - Your personalized HN front page from 2035 (inspired by a
       recent Show HN [0])  - An xkcd-style comic of your HN persona  It
       uses the latest gemini-3-flash and gemini-3-pro-image (nano banana
       pro) models, which deliver pretty impressive and funny results.  A
       few examples:  - dang: https://hn-wrapped.kadoa.com/dang  - myself:
       https://hn-wrapped.kadoa.com/hubraumhugo  Give it a try and share
       yours :)  Happy holidays!  [0]
       https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46205632
        
       Author : hubraumhugo
       Score  : 273 points
       Date   : 2025-12-20 13:39 UTC (1 days 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
        
           | jaggs wrote:
           | Haha, thanks. Got it a bit wrong, but some bits were
           | excellent. :)
        
       | 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)
        
         | Gooblebrai wrote:
         | Got the same post haha
        
       | 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
        
         | ayewo wrote:
         | Your xkcd comic is hilariously epic! :D
         | 
         | https://kadoa.b-cdn.net/wrapped/AndrewDucker-1766263283894.p...
        
       | 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
        
         | MarcelOlsz wrote:
         | Mine on the other hand could not be more accurate: https://hn-
         | wrapped.kadoa.com/MarcelOlsz
        
         | ElFitz wrote:
         | > 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.
         | 
         | Yeah. It picks one random thing from one comment and turns into
         | a lifestyle.
        
       | 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.
        
         | enos_feedler wrote:
         | Sounds like you got offended by a robot.
        
           | rswail wrote:
           | I believe the correct term that I've seen elsewhere is
           | "clanker".
        
       | 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.
       | 
       | -----
       | 
       | 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.
        
         | ashirviskas wrote:
         | Damn, the roast could have been me 2-3 years ago when I still
         | tried to make macos work for me lol. Thankfully, asahi saved my
         | sanity.
        
       | 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'?
        
         | keyle wrote:
         | DHH releases 'Omarchy Ultra': Now with 100% fewer contributors
        
       | 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 :)
        
         | aschobel wrote:
         | I had a similar experience but overall the idea is super
         | charming. I do like the personalized HN for 2035. Thank you for
         | building it!
        
         | hobofan wrote:
         | Yeah, same here. For the comments it took into account it made
         | pretty great roasts, but would have been better if it was
         | actually comprehensive over the course of the year.
        
         | CGamesPlay wrote:
         | I agree, it feels like it only read the most recent few months
         | of comments. The "vibe check" was on point though!
        
         | hubraumhugo wrote:
         | Thanks. I now run a two-step process: first pass reads through
         | all posts and comments to extract patterns, second pass uses
         | those to generate the content. Should be much more
         | representative of your full year now :)
        
           | eszed wrote:
           | My impression was the same as the poster: it still over-
           | indexes on a couple of recent posts.
           | 
           | Of course, it's possible that we've both been repeating
           | ourselves all year long! I mean, I know I do that, I just
           | think I've ridden more hobby horses than it picked up. :-)
           | 
           | It's fun, though. Thanks for sharing - a couple of my
           | "roasts" gave me a genuine chuckle.
        
           | oersted wrote:
           | It was quite different when I tried it again. Still fairly
           | fixated on the last month, but it is definitely better.
        
           | CGamesPlay wrote:
           | My roasts are now substantially more well done now. Well
           | done.
        
           | aschobel wrote:
           | Gruezi! Is there a way to re-generate my wrapped?
           | 
           | https://hn-wrapped.kadoa.com/aschobel
        
         | Imustaskforhelp wrote:
         | Same here too, I agree its a pretty cool thing but still better
         | to know that it isn't just me who felt like it hyper focused on
         | some comments.
        
       | rcarmo wrote:
       | Mine was pretty hilarious and totally on point: https://hn-
       | wrapped.kadoa.com/rcarmo
       | 
       | And yeah, I will keep ranting about the lack of dark mode!
        
         | vee-kay wrote:
         | Just enable dark mode in the browser settings, and browse HN
         | and other sites peacefully in the darkness, LOL!
         | 
         | Works well for me on Vivaldi & Brave browsers on Android
         | mobile.
        
           | rcarmo wrote:
           | Again, like every time I mention it, RSS readers with
           | embedded browsers won't support extensions.
        
             | MarcelOlsz wrote:
             | This might be a goofy solution but it works: I'm on mac and
             | used BetterDisplay to create a virtual inverted monitor
             | that I throw things to.
        
               | rcarmo wrote:
               | Not on iOS.
        
             | vee-kay wrote:
             | You don't need extensions.
             | 
             | There are many RSS readers with inbuilt dark theme / night
             | mode.
             | 
             | Even if you prefer self-hosted RSS readers, you can find
             | RSS readers (FOSS, not Premium/Freemium) on GitHub with
             | such feature.
             | 
             | https://alternativeto.net/software/feedly/?feature=night-
             | mod...
             | 
             | https://duckduckgo.com/?q=github+rss+reader+self+hosted+dar
             | k...
        
               | rcarmo wrote:
               | That does not apply to mobile apps.
        
               | vee-kay wrote:
               | You didn't bother to search.
               | 
               | Feeder, FeedDeck, NewsBlur, Fluent Reader, Twine, Capy
               | Reader, Reeder, Read You, Neo Feed, Readrop are all open-
               | source RSS/feed readers for mobile (iOS, Android, or
               | both) , and they all have dark theme / night mode.
               | 
               | https://alternativeto.net/software/feedly/?license=openso
               | urc...
               | 
               | https://duckduckgo.com/?q=android+ios+open-
               | source+rss+reader...
        
               | rcarmo wrote:
               | I don't rate search "knowledge" as valid in this context.
               | You clearly don't use these or experience things in the
               | same way.
        
       | globalnode wrote:
       | And to add insult to injury it says I'm going to rewrite all my
       | Python stuff in Rust (after spending the year teasing Rust). I
       | got a good giggle from the comic book summary -- thanks for
       | making this.
        
       | jodrellblank wrote:
       | "Contrarian, pedantic, helpful-yet-exhausting".
       | 
       | When in Rome -\\_(tsu)_/-
        
       | nhatcher wrote:
       | Damn... So good. Thank you!
       | 
       | https://hn-wrapped.kadoa.com/nhatcher
       | 
       | (Kind of embarrassing TBH)
        
         | ashirviskas wrote:
         | Ha! My project actually has 0 dependencies! /jkjk Though it's
         | not in rust..
         | 
         | Mine is probably even more embarrasing, but mostly due to
         | focusing on random threads: https://hn-
         | wrapped.kadoa.com/ashirviskas
        
       | tclancy wrote:
       | Wow, that was embarrassingly good. Thanks? https://hn-
       | wrapped.kadoa.com/tclancy
        
       | HPsquared wrote:
       | You could perhaps do something with the maths and find who is
       | your 'nearest match' or similar.
        
       | vee-kay wrote:
       | Ok, this is hilarious and kinda embarrassing, but so cool!
       | 
       | https://hn-wrapped.kadoa.com/vee-kay
       | 
       | And such cool stuff is why we love HN!
        
       | azhenley wrote:
       | I'm the Academic Compiler Archaeologist. This is hilarious!
       | 
       | https://hn-wrapped.kadoa.com/azhenley
        
       | neomantra wrote:
       | Got some laughs from this, thanks!
       | 
       | 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.
        
       | pryelluw wrote:
       | > You've mentioned Futurama references so many times that I'm
       | starting to think you're actually just Zap Brannigan with a
       | Python Foundation fellowship.
       | 
       | Kif, I'm feeling the "Captain's itch".
        
       | minikomi wrote:
       | 1.^         Show HN: A songwriting DAW built entirely inside an
       | Org-mode buffer(emacs.org)         432 points | 2 hours ago | 89
       | comments         2.^         Why I'm still using Soulseek to
       | trade prompt-engineered MIDI files         156 points | 4 hours
       | ago | 42 comments
       | 
       | I admit I hastily tried clicking before realizing these were fake
        
         | Obscurity4340 wrote:
         | Same
        
       | englishcat wrote:
       | Really interesting, does it totally based on gemini? seems the
       | data is not accurate of my account.
        
       | DANmode wrote:
       | Genuine laughs. Thanks for sharing!
       | 
       | For posterity - wasn't, still am not an s-base customer.
        
       | sundarurfriend wrote:
       | Pretty fun overall. The roasts were really good, the stats were
       | pretty neat, the predictions made me smile. The xkcdupe fell flat
       | for me because it's pretty generic and I've seen many variants of
       | it before, but still pretty impressive for an AI to make. The
       | "Your HN Front Page in 2035" was definitely the weakest part for
       | me. Maybe because every gag in it had already been done in other
       | sections.
       | 
       | 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.
        
       | cj wrote:
       | This is hysterical. Great work.
       | 
       | 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)
        
       | latentsea wrote:
       | This was a bit of fun. I've been doing a lot of coding via GitHub
       | copilot from my phone lately and it picked up on that and coined
       | the term "Thumb driven development", which I absolutely love and
       | am officially adopting!
        
       | stevage wrote:
       | This gave me a good chuckle:
       | 
       | > 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...)
        
         | ethmarks wrote:
         | It would have made more sense if it was "your upvoted
         | submissions in 2035"
        
       | triclops200 wrote:
       | Honestly, not cool.
       | 
       | 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.
        
         | stonecharioteer wrote:
         | Mine made fun of my hearing loss. And ignored the fact I
         | reached the front page 3 times in October.
        
       | wildpeaks wrote:
       | lol it claims I'm fiercely anti-Creative Cloud whereas I'm
       | actually one of their oldest subscribers (literally signed up the
       | day it was announced)
        
       | ethmarks wrote:
       | https://hn-wrapped.kadoa.com/ethmarks
       | 
       | Mine 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.
        
         | ripped_britches wrote:
         | You should write for the onion
        
         | deevus wrote:
         | I see what you did there
        
       | dash2 wrote:
       | It's good and gave me some queasy chuckles. But it's not as fun
       | as the "HN Front Page" from a few days back.
       | 
       | 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.
        
       | kristianp wrote:
       | Cloudflare blocks AGI from scraping the last remaining original
       | human thought (cloudflare.com) 1540 points | 7 hours ago | 290
       | comments
       | 
       | I thought that one was quite funny.
        
       | advael wrote:
       | I like it, though I do notice that like most LLMs it seems to
       | take criticism of LLM rollout kinda personally (actually circa
       | 2023 this was considerably less true across every popular model)
       | 
       | I also think the predictions section seems kinda generic where
       | the roast section felt better-personalized, which seems like a
       | prompting issue
        
       | joshka wrote:
       | Woah. scary good. https://hn-wrapped.kadoa.com/joshka
        
       | Brajeshwar wrote:
       | I'm going to have a sticky note warning myself to "Don't write
       | that on Hacker News." I laughed but I hate me.
       | 
       | "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."
       | 
       | https://hn-wrapped.kadoa.com/Brajeshwar
        
       | jszymborski wrote:
       | Lol, well that was rude.
       | 
       | 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.
        
       | zoklet-enjoyer wrote:
       | This is hilarious and shows that I share too much personal info
       | on here
        
       | joshka wrote:
       | Feature suggestion - social opengraph preview for when you post
       | it on discord/facebook/slack etc.
        
       | bredren wrote:
       | This seems more like an LLM roasts your year on HN.
       | 
       | What are the prompts you're usign?
        
       | areoform wrote:
       | This project gave me so much joy! I loved it! Here's mine,
       | https://hn-wrapped.kadoa.com/areoform
       | 
       | But I do have one gripe, I'm a woman. I wish the XKCD comic was
       | accurate. TwT.
        
       | scuff3d wrote:
       | Dude this thing is savage, I love it
       | 
       | > 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
        
       | chistev wrote:
       | The Persistent Self-Documenter
       | 
       | 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.
        
       | lelanthran wrote:
       | I think this is a great demonstration of context rot: It fixates
       | on the earliest and the most recent comments.
       | 
       | Things in between don't appear to move the needle at all.
        
       | lioeters wrote:
       | That was hilarious, uncannily accurate in some places.
       | 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 week
        
       | rikroots wrote:
       | It's too accurate for my tastes. Needs more snark.
        
       | tensor wrote:
       | This is pretty fun. Can you make the year configurable?
        
       | monksy wrote:
       | https://hn-wrapped.kadoa.com/monksy
       | 
       | > 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.
       | 
       | 0_0
        
       | acheong08 wrote:
       | This is fun, but the fact that it is now so easy to process a
       | massive amount of social media data to extract a person's
       | political leanings, hobbies, etc and infer information about them
       | scares me. It only takes one government change (cough cough,
       | Reform UK) for this to be used against me. It doesn't matter if
       | I'm politically correct when what is correct changes over time.
        
         | willis936 wrote:
         | My spidey sense in this tingled many years ago and I pulled
         | back from most social media platforms. This is a fun reminder
         | that I'm still very visible.
         | 
         | I do enjoy its predictions.
         | 
         | https://hn-wrapped.kadoa.com/willis936
         | 
         | >Your frustration with LGA socket reliability will finally boil
         | over, leading you to move to a cabin in Mexico where you only
         | communicate via GPS-disciplined atomic clocks and ham radio
         | SDRs.
        
       | eamag wrote:
       | I've also build a custom Wrapped but for IMDb https://imdb-
       | wrapped.eamag.me/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46326198
       | 
       | So cool it's now easy to build custom recaps!
        
       | athrowaway3z wrote:
       | Haha ouch. Some things I'd disagree with, but these had me
       | laughing pretty hard:
       | 
       | ---
       | 
       | 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
        
       | grumblepeet wrote:
       | That was hilarious, the XKCD-esque comic was funny however it did
       | me with a beard (im a woman) but I did belly laugh at the jokes.
        
       | probably_wrong wrote:
       | HN: Horoscopes? I can't believe you'd fall for something _that_
       | obvious. I can 't believe you're so naive.
       | 
       | Also HN: wow, that's totally me! That AI totally gets me.
        
       | syntaxing wrote:
       | _The Local-First Supply Chain Architect, fine-tuning open-source
       | LLMs just to avoid paying a five dollar cloud subscription._
       | 
       | Hah, I feel seen! This is pretty funny
        
       | kianN wrote:
       | An aside that I do want to mention here because it is a really
       | unique way for many people to interface with LLMs: many
       | commenters mention the model over indexing on a few comments they
       | made that do not necessarily reflect of the broader themes of
       | their writing. This is not any issue in the author's engineering
       | but an inherent issue in LLMs. The reason it is so noticeable in
       | this case is because the subject matter is extremely familiar to
       | the user: themselves.
       | 
       | 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."
        
       | michaelhoney wrote:
       | I feel seen and attacked.
       | 
       | This is awesome OP, love your work.
        
       | ValentineC wrote:
       | Bug: Had some trouble at first since I entered the lowercase
       | version of my username, but it wants the properly-capitalised
       | version.
       | 
       | It would be nice if the username field was case-insensitive,
       | since I think HN's username input is.
        
       | gverrilla wrote:
       | Counter-Strike 1.6 Source Code discovered on a dusty IDE drive in
       | a basement (github.com) 3400 points | 3 days ago | 1200 comments
        
       | fullstackchris wrote:
       | Love it, fantastic work!
        
       | ozgung wrote:
       | As a side note, I find this capability of AI to mine social
       | profiles quite disturbing. Automated profiling of social media
       | accounts can be and is used with malicious intent. The amount of
       | personal detail that can be recovered this way is shocking. It is
       | possible to associate this information with a real identity, and
       | it can be used to target and intimidate individuals.
        
       | franky47 wrote:
       | This is hilarious, thank you!
       | 
       | How did it match my facial hair in the XKCD, since HN is text-
       | only? :mind-blown:
       | 
       | https://hn-wrapped.kadoa.com/franky47
        
       | vldszn wrote:
       | So fun, really liked the idea.
       | 
       | https://hn-wrapped.kadoa.com/vldszn
        
       | rswail wrote:
       | https://hn-wrapped.kadoa.com/rswail
       | 
       | Accurate!
       | 
       | Dammit, now I've got to improve those KPIs? Sigh...
        
       | RandyOrion wrote:
       | https://hn-wrapped.kadoa.com/RandyOrion
       | 
       | 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.
        
       | msephton wrote:
       | A few chuckles in mine! Thank you. https://hn-
       | wrapped.kadoa.com/msephton
        
       | dctoedt wrote:
       | At first I was both amused and mildly annoyed at mine. Then I
       | looked at the ones for some of the other HNers whom I follow and
       | realized I got off easy.
       | 
       | https://hn-wrapped.kadoa.com/dctoedt
       | 
       | https://hn-wrapped.kadoa.com/rayiner
       | 
       | https://hn-wrapped.kadoa.com/tptacek
       | 
       | https://hn-wrapped.kadoa.com/dragonwriter
       | 
       | https://hn-wrapped.kadoa.com/jacquesm
       | 
       | https://hn-wrapped.kadoa.com/DannyBee
        
         | kwertyoowiyop wrote:
         | So many pedants!
        
       | lukifer wrote:
       | I don't like "Wrappeds" (low-key social hack to manufacture
       | normalization of surveillance capitalism?), but with HN being
       | public, I succumbed to temptation. Very fun, 10/10 no notes,
       | surprisingly good for a small sample set this year.
       | 
       | > You write comments like you're trying to win a Pulitzer in
       | Political Economy while trapped inside a middle-manager's
       | strategy meeting.
        
       | GaryBluto wrote:
       | > The Legacy Protocol Purist
       | 
       | It's not wrong.
        
       | kwertyoowiyop wrote:
       | Mine thinks I'm obsessed with retro computing, which is frankly
       | lame. I could've coded that kind of insight in less than 2K of
       | 6502 code.
        
       | kwertyoowiyop wrote:
       | These should become a permanent part of our profiles. :-)
        
       | aspect0545 wrote:
       | Absolutely fantastic work!
        
       | busymom0 wrote:
       | I really laughed out loud at my xkcd comic:
       | 
       | https://hn-wrapped.kadoa.com/busymom0
        
       | 382373idjdj wrote:
       | This caused me to delete the HN password on my main account. It
       | was already disconcerting to be reminded by Karpathy (I cannot
       | help but see this as bragging) in his recent post that we must be
       | good because LLMs are watching:
       | https://karpathy.bearblog.dev/auto-grade-hn/
       | 
       | LLMs will be used to deanonymize all internet users. The AI
       | "visionaries" are already bragging about this. You have been
       | warned.
        
       | phendrenad2 wrote:
       | Seems like it read the first page of results and then failed, but
       | summarized me anyway. Any way to re-submit?
        
       | hereme888 wrote:
       | Hilarious. A post I'd upvote in 2035: "Microsoft Windows 14 now
       | requires a daily blood sacrifice to disable telemetry."
        
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