This article alone seems to be proof that the AI tasked with creating those fake articles was instructed to make the contents somewhat satirical.
script is here: https://github.com/vtomnet/hn35/blob/main/generate.py
the prompt indeed began with "We are working on a fun project to create a humorous imagining of what the Hacker News front page might look like in 10 years."
script is here: https://github.com/vtomnet/hn35/blob/main/generate.py
the prompt indeed began with "We are working on a fun project to create a humorous imagining of what the Hacker News front page might look like in 10 years."