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Show HN: Hacker News, but every headline is hysterical clickbait
- fifticon 11mo agoyou created .. The Registry?!
- 6LLvveMx2koXfwn 11mo agoThe Register? [1] 1. https://www.theregister.com/ https://www.theregister.com/
- roselan 11mo agoThese headlines really sound like the glorious The Register of Old, before the suits showed up and murdered it.
- keepamovin 11mo agoI felt the front page was too calm. I fixed it. YOU WON'T BELIEVE NUMBER 4. Prompt: Remember this classic? <snip ... Hacker News 10 Years in Future > OK, i have a new idea. want to try? "Offtopic but this title makes me want to create an alternate-universe version of the HN front page where every title is shrill/spectacular/hysterical/urgent/clickbaity. Such as: The Absolute State of the Kernel Rust Experiment Right Now And every comment has its confidence/aggressiveness taken up to 11 (tho still within site rules)." And the HN front page right now is: <snip>
- CamelCaseName 11mo agoI love it, this is great. Thanks for posting!
- nottorp 11mo agoClick to find out how much my blood pressure went up when reading this!
- netsharc 11mo agoBreaking: Huffington Post buys Hacker News. At least the HuffPo of the last decade was like this. They haven't been relevant for many years it seems. As to its founder: http://www.thestacksreader.com/the-many-faces-of-arianna/ http://www.thestacksreader.com/the-many-faces-of-arianna/
- krapp 11mo agoThe icon for this needs to be the meme of Elmo in front of fire.
- NitpickLawyer 11mo agoSo you've recreated /r/technology ? :)
- Cthulhu_ 11mo agoMIND BLOWING DISCOVERY CREATES INFINITE ENERGY AND CURES CANCER at least 10x a day.
- user_7832 11mo ago* Disclaimer: in mice, of course. What's actually mind-blowing is how mice aren't already living till an age of 100. I mean, they've literally cured cancer, what's your excuse now, huh?
- IAmBroom 11mo agoNo dementia, no osteoporosis, more muscled. Every single white mouse in the world should be Mighty Mouse.
- adlpz 11mo agoI felt literal pain. Not kidding. There's something to investigate here. Made me notice I'm actually exposed to very similar crap on other places. Scary.
- alphadelphi 11mo agoyes, the good news is that once recognized the pattern we can work in the opposite direction
- qiine 11mo agowait "19th Century Telegraph Chess" ??
- Cthulhu_ 11mo agoYes, it fell off the front page but it's this one: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46243311 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46243311
- mbsa7 11mo agoMy favorite so far is “Delty (YC X25) Is Hiring and You Probably Aren't Qualified”.
- marstall 11mo agosome of these are better headlines tho
- Tepix 11mo agoHey, wait a minute. I think we got something here! What we need is the reverse, i.e. a LLM that recognizes clickbait and "tames" it (ideally by providing the information in the headline, like Techmeme does [kudos to them]).
- 2026iknewit 11mo agoI had another idea about the same topic a few weeks ago: Creating a news side which uses the clickbait strategy to only share positive news or mentaly opening up news: “They Said Immigration Was a Crisis — Then THIS Happened to Jobs, Growth, and Local Communities” “Everyone Expected Chaos… Instead This City Welcomed Newcomers and Its Economy EXPLODED” “Doctors, Teachers, Builders: The ‘Immigration Problem’ Quietly Fixed a Problem No One Talks About” “This ‘Risky’ Policy Was Supposed to Fail — Now Other Countries Are Rushing to Copy It” “From ‘Unmanageable’ to Unstoppable: How One Tough Challenge Became a Surprising Success Story”
- TomWhitwell 11mo agoThis is exactly what Upworthy did - they invented some of the clickbait headline formats that are still used today (for less positive news) https://web.archive.org/web/20231114181702/https://www.fastcompany.com/3012649/how-upworthy-used-emotional-data-to-become-the-fastest-growing-media-site-of-all-time https://web.archive.org/web/20231114181702/https://www.fastc...
- gorbachev 11mo ago12 reasons why Go will make you a better developer!
- Tepix 11mo agoLike goodnews.eu?
- password4321 11mo agoThis is a great idea: applying LLMs for the benefit of those I care about against the armies of tech company PhD's working to capture their attention. Actually worth a shot, thanks!
- ctrlmeta 11mo agoTotally unreadable with the all caps. I guess that's the point. This kind of thing is fun once. And it was fun when the AI-generated fake HN was posted last week. But there's no need to upvote this kind of stuff to front page every week. The novelty wears off. It gets boring and silly pretty quickly.
- orphea 11mo agoIt's boring and silly for you. There are always lucky 10,000.
- ctrlmeta 11mo agoOf course it is boring and silly for me. That's why I commented. The downvotes show the community agrees with you and disagrees with me. That's fine. I'm here to speak my opinion. I'm not here to speak your opinion. I know about lucky 10000. It's the XKCD joke that is increasingly being used as an excuse to support every low-effort banal post. It's like modus operandus now. Party A makes a low-effort banal post. Party B questions why a banal post deserves to be on the front page. Party C says 'lucky 10000'. There may be lucky 10000 but it's boring and silly for me. Good for the lucky 10000, but it's distracting to me when this kind of AI spam hits the front page every week. Show HN posts already gets special appearance at /show which I think is enough for this kind of stuff.
- bryanhogan 11mo agoThis is amazing Edit: Just found out HN deletes emojis! --- On a more serious note, it's a bit sad how close this is to actual algorithm-driven social media or news-based platforms.
- 20after4 11mo agoIt's kind of sad how close this is to actual hacker news headlines.
- Cthulhu_ 11mo agoActual HN headlines should be the actual headlines of the linked articles, what actual examples are you thinking of though?
- dkdcio 11mo ago> algorithm-driven hackernews is algorithm-driven too; the difference is incentives (namely paid ads)
- bryanhogan 11mo agoYes, that's true, thanks for highlighting. Should instead say personalised algorithms and targeted ads.
- dkdcio 11mo ago
- debo_ 11mo ago> MATHEMATICS IS BROKEN (Until Now): Go From Zero to QED or Go Home If my mathematics degree had been framed this way, I probably would have enjoyed it more.
- debo_ 11mo agoWORK FOR GODS
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- latentsea 11mo agoThanks. I hate it.
- keepamovin 11mo agoYou are welcome!
- frereubu 11mo agoI love this, thank you for a good belly laugh.
- DivingForGold 11mo agoWell, in reality, the amount of abusive publishers submitting articles with PAYWALLS is getting absurd on HN. HN ought to indicate these titles in ALL RED. WSJ, FT, BLM, too many to count.
- IAmBroom 11mo agoThank god for archiv replies.
- noosphr 11mo agoThis feels like a 6/10 on the scale of hysterical clickbait headlines I see on YouTube.
- keepamovin 11mo agoPlease help us improve it.
- Cthulhu_ 11mo ago...GONE SEXUAL! But more seriously, get off youtube or curate your stream if this is a common thing. I thankfully don't get it much myself.
- felineflock 11mo agoReads very much like the Drudge Report, just needs the same diagramming style.
- bentobean 11mo agoNow all we need is a thumbnail next to each headline showing the author making some stupid face.
- Cthulhu_ 11mo agoGotta have the digital laugh track analogue to show people how to react. (I'm not kidding, a ton of people will watch e.g. movie trailers or live streamed events through one of many reaction streamers so they get prompted on how to feel. I hated laugh tracks back then, I hate reaction streamers now, let me have my own feelings!)
- wkjagt 11mo agoI don't always like HN titles but this made me realize it can be a whole lot worse. Thanks for this.
- Oras 11mo agoCould be renamed HNX as these are the posts I see trending on X (twitter)
- integralid 11mo agoHacker News, but every headline is hysterical clickbait: https://news.ycombinator.com/ https://news.ycombinator.com/
- lostmsu 11mo agoin Rust
- wkjagt 11mo agoRight now on page 2 of actual HN: "how to hack discord, vercel and more with one easy trick". For a moment I thought I was still on clickbait HN.
- touwer 11mo agoLove it!
- eatbitseveryday 11mo agoPerhaps we need one that does the opposite, for the real site
- keepamovin 11mo agoChallenge...accepted: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46326588 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46326588
- Hamuko 11mo ago10/10, no notes.
- andrewstuart 11mo agoI like it. It’s better.
- classified 11mo agoSome of the headlines are pure gold. Is this page live-updated? I can feel an addiction sneaking up on me… Some platforms might buy this as an engagement booster.
- rudolftheone 11mo agoAbsolutely disgusting! Love it!
- wattzee 11mo agoThis is great.
- gnabgib 11mo agoThis is very close to your submission last week (3345 points, 977 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46205632 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46205632
- hackerbeat 11mo agoThese are things that bring a lot of joy, just like the funny quotes on https://wordgag.com/ https://wordgag.com/
- keepamovin 11mo agoThank you!