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I find these kind of posts profoundly uninteresting (woah, the n-th parody of the HN front page...) and yet they seem to always garner so many upvotes...

dang 10mo ago
Anything meta has that effect. We normally tamp it down although we make occasional exceptions: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46221900 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46221900 The curiosity value of something like this diminishes under repetition, of course: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&sort=byDate&type=comment&query=curiosity%20repetition%20by:dang https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so.... It's a bit like repeating the same joke. We downweight follow-up posts for that reason: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&query=follow-up%20downweight&sort=byDate&type=comment https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que... That, I think, is what's going on here. This post was great—it was impressive and original enough to clear the bar, so we left it up: Show HN: Gemini Pro 3 imagines the HN front page 10 years from now - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46205632 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46205632 - Dec 2025 (965 comments) These two follow-ups are pretty good follow-ups actually—they're fun variations on the theme—but I don't think they clear the bar for another major frontpage thread: Hacker News front page now, but the titles are honest - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46326588 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46326588 (<-- current thread) Show HN: Hacker News, but every headline is hysterical clickbait - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46324579 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46324579
bitwize 10mo ago
Been downvoted (or downmodded) to hell now, I guess because it encourages "not the kind of discussion we want to foster here on HN"...

dang 10mo ago

Anything meta has that effect. We normally tamp it down although we make occasional exceptions: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46221900 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46221900 The curiosity value of something like this diminishes under repetition, of course: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&sort=byDate&type=comment&query=curiosity%20repetition%20by:dang https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so.... It's a bit like repeating the same joke. We downweight follow-up posts for that reason: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&query=follow-up%20downweight&sort=byDate&type=comment https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que... That, I think, is what's going on here. This post was great—it was impressive and original enough to clear the bar, so we left it up: Show HN: Gemini Pro 3 imagines the HN front page 10 years from now - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46205632 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46205632 - Dec 2025 (965 comments) These two follow-ups are pretty good follow-ups actually—they're fun variations on the theme—but I don't think they clear the bar for another major frontpage thread: Hacker News front page now, but the titles are honest - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46326588 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46326588 (<-- current thread) Show HN: Hacker News, but every headline is hysterical clickbait - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46324579 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46324579

bitwize 10mo ago

Been downvoted (or downmodded) to hell now, I guess because it encourages "not the kind of discussion we want to foster here on HN"...