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Show HN: This Hacker News Does Not Exist
- idrios 4y ago"Why Your Pacemaker Might Be Spying On You" is one of the most stressful headlines I've seen in a long time
- sph 4y agoThat's the headline immediately following "Ad-supported pacemakers are now available for people on lower incomes"
- harryVic 4y agoI'm incredibly mad my pacemaker is completely unusable if I disable JavaScript.
- torben-friis 4y agoComing from a Spaniard, “Spain considered dangerous” is also up there.
- manmal 4y agoFun 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.
- pfdietz 4y agoI don't have the heart to disagree with you.
- BulgarianIdiot 4y agoI legit got excited for "You May Not Need React". For shame.
- coxomb 4y agoHi 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/ 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/tree/gh-pages https://github.com/coxomb/This-Hacker-News-Does-Not-Exist/tr... I hope you enjoy the project :)
- blondin 4y agothis is super cool :) this one got me laughing: "Chicken version 5.0 Alpha Released"
- nerdponx 4y agoChicken Scheme is currently on version 5.x so this could very well have been a real headline at one point.
- TheSpiceIsLife 4y agoNo, not Chicken Scheme, it's about Chicken[1]. 1. https://youtu.be/yL_-1d9OSdk https://youtu.be/yL_-1d9OSdk
- josephcsible 4y agoOne 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 4y ago
- hexagonwin 4y agoFun site. Cool!
- antihero 4y ago“The Scary Truth About South Africa”. Awkward ha
- myself248 4y agoThis 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.
- Jensson 4y agoI 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 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33816861 I guess HN titles doesn't have enough data for this.
- return_to_monke 4y agoI 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 4y ago`this self referential joke does not exist`
- AnIdiotOnTheNet 4y ago"Washington Considered Dangerous" Yep, it's pretty much nailed HN's front-page concerns.
- Aulig 4y ago"Ask HN: What happened to Fish?" The really random ones are quite funny :)
- humanizersequel 4y agoFrom 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 4y agoIf this is the average HN conversation, then HN probably has the highest quality conversations anywhere on the internet!
- Jensson 4y ago> 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.
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- petarb 4y agoA bunch of headlines on there could totally be on HN. Love it!
- leobg 4y agoIs it written in Rust?
- ablatt89 4y agoStrong work!
- forgotmypw17 4y agoI know it doesn't exist because there are too many titles which start with an interrogative.
- theGeatZhopa 4y agoPls add "how X does not work" too. How does the architecture of 8086 not work How does work not work
- seydor 4y agoI believe hn removes the word 'how' from the beginning
- coletonodonnell 4y ago"Ask HN: What's the purpose of North Dakota" I ask this everyday.
- bombcar 4y agoWithout North Dakota South Dakota would make no sense. And yes Virginia should be renamed East Virginia.
- kube-system 4y agoBut Virginia goes further west than West Virginia. Virginia should be renamed South Virginia.
- gjsman-1000 4y agoI ask the same question about Rhode Island. ;)
- m6w6 4y agoFargo (TV series)
- k__ 4y ago"FTX owes $288.05 to Binance" At least, lol
- TrackerFF 4y agoPost 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
- ginnungagap 4y agoI am quite sad that "The secret life of videocassettes in Iran" is not a real article
- anigbrowl 4y agoIt is, it's just from a different source. https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/the-secret-life-of-videocassettes-in-iran/ https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/the-secret-life-of-videoc...
- sedatk 4y agoIt's always a different source on HN.
- ginnungagap 4y agoThat's amazing! Thanks for the link
- nine_k 4y agoThis 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 4y agoDon’t forget to click the link to the comments page too.
- anigbrowl 4y agoI miss n-gate
- ronsor 4y agoI like that the guy who wants more technical articles is named "asm."
- baxtr 4y agoNothing about Rust or Kubernetes. Instantly realized that this must be fake.
- pohl 4y agoIf you refresh a few times and search for "Rust" with your browser, the word "Rustic" will keep appearing.
- mdp2021 4y ago> and search for X with your browser [then X-reference] will keep appearing Through which mechanism exactly?
- xg15 4y agoMissing 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)
- Aardwolf 4y ago> 16. Ask HN: What Happened to Sausages? (news.ycombinator.com) I'm really curious now what did happen to the sausages!
- cpsns 4y agoThis dude happened https://www.youtube.com/@OrdinarySausage https://www.youtube.com/@OrdinarySausage
- dheera 4y agoThe 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 4y agoIt’s actually from a different parody, linked by the original author in the intro.
- bhaney 4y ago"Pants Considered Harmful" (cnet.com)
- forgotOldLogin 4y agoI saw the first page and it had the classic HackerNews headline format: "<name> has died." AI is gonna win, y'all.
- picture 4y agoWell, this isn't really an AI. It just scrambles from pre-fabbed assets, afaik
- jodrellblank 4y agoSo 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 4y agoAt 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.
- Brendinooo 4y agoIt’s not, though it certainly does have identifiable quirks.
- alex_young 4y agoSo, Hacker News is Dying?
- thegeomaster 4y agoI'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 4y agoWell, 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 4y agoThe 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 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=979033 So in that regard, nothing's really changed but the severity of the problems.
- notahacker 4y agoHaha, 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 4y agoIt would be nice to use GPT3 to generate the headlines and even the content of the links.
- benj111 4y agoWhat 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 4y agoWhat if we already are, indeed. And early next year they will release GPT-4
- TobTobXX 4y agoUsing 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 clichée (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 clichée? 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.
- _mway 4y ago> Ask HN: What Happened to Sausages? Asking the important questions.
- koliber 4y agoPoor Marjory. Bless her heart.
- bitwize 4y agoC-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.
- DoubleDerper 4y agoI 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.
- poulpy123 4y agoNo, OP is correct. * You omitted hist point X. * You misunderstand point Y. * Here's point Z you didn't account for.
- goosedragons 4y agoContinuing 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 http://SomeScientificJournal.com/141421 [2]: http://SomeNewsSite.com/11235813 http://SomeNewsSite.com/11235813
- JumpCrisscross 4y agoCuriously, 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-the-concept-and-the-term https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meta-reference#History-of-th...
- Justin_K 4y agoThis.
- kreeben 4y ago
- DIARRHEA_xd 4y agoHeadline copied exactly: https://www.imgpaste.net/image/KW42FT https://www.imgpaste.net/image/KW42FT See item #10. This is a real headline, see: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33816861 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33816861
- caxco93 4y agoNice 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.
- red_Seashell_32 4y ago> Your Smartphone May Be Making You Lazy This, and many more, are more than believable. This one is actually quite sad.
- marshmallowmad 4y agoYeah this one is right - the only issue is it’s an understatement
- waterpowder 4y agoI miss n-gate
- IfOnlyINewMore 4y agoWhile 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?
- rikroots 4y agoI clicked on the Parody Hacker News link which took me to https://news.ycombinator.com/IHopeMyMaxVisitHasntBeenHit https://news.ycombinator.com/IHopeMyMaxVisitHasntBeenHit and got the response "Unknown" and now I'm struggling to convince myself that I exist...
- bonney_io 4y agoAbsolute 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)
- merb 4y agoHere'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.
- luispauloml 4y agoI don't know why this isn't at the top.
- burtekd 4y ago> 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".
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- gjsman-1000 4y agoAs a PHP guy, does this really matter for 95% of the world?
- buzer 4y ago> New Vulnerability Discovered in Opera (neocities.org) (2002)
- smrtinsert 4y agoHumorous. I won't be laughing that much though when ai generated news by bad actors goes mainstream
- A4ET8a8uTh0 4y agoIt 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.
- benj111 4y agoWhy your pace maker might be spying on you. Slate.com Checks out.
- xg15 4y ago> Candy Crush Has Been Removed From Google Play (reuters.com) The world is truly coming to an end.
- redbell 4y agoReally 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 ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
- pleb_nz 4y agoRaspberry pi 5 out Performs m3 Now there's a dream and headline
- churchill 4y agoA 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 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random
- nurettin 4y agoAs a Ruby guy, does this really matter for 95% of the world?
- kangalioo 4y agoOh man I wanted to read What to Love About Incredible Fresh Bacon
- churchill 4y agoRelevant XKCD: http://dynamic.xkcd.com/random/comic/ http://dynamic.xkcd.com/random/comic/
- navane 4y agoAre these comments real though?
- kagevf 4y ago“It works in Firefox nightly” has got to be real!
- briandear 4y agoNon pay-walled link: …
- yawnxyz 4y agoLook 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?
- metadat 4y agoPretty good but not as good as last week's: Fake HN titles generated by GPT-3 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33757935 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33757935 See also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33849270 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33849270
- nyanpasu64 4y agoHow does this differ from https://filippo.io/fakenews/ https://filippo.io/fakenews/ (submission at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33757935 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33757935)?