alt Hacker NewsHacker News front page now, but the titles are honest
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A good Friday morning laugh! I think the tiles are not just honest, they are brutally honest. Some of my fav ones:
- Amazon finally adds a feature that has been standard since 2005
- Texas accidentally does something good for privacy
Would it possible to add a feature where hovering over a title displays the original title?
"Do you confirm you are above 18 years of age (or the planet-rotation equivalent in your local star cluster)?"
i am so confused, whats the reason behind this little event handler?
-> Rich developer spends $15k to run a model slightly faster.
I love these and I know this is all in good fun, but I feel like this one is a little unfair to Jeff. He's a content creator and he didn't actually buy the rig. If he's rich it's because he creates content like this.
Yes and - it would be great to hover/tap to see the original headline.
I found myself pulling up the original and the honest versions side by side. The translation makes it funny.
Top level item for me now: "We rewrote it in Rust so you have to upvote it"
Love these things. Every time someone has posted an AI-flavor of HN it's been comedic gold.
This should be the April Fools 2026 feature put directly on the live HN site.
Love this. can we get an honest title for this entry too? (I'm not quite happy with my 11l+ karma, please give me some upvotes so I can start the new year with a smile?) jk, great one, cheers
I got a good chuckle out of some of the titles. In Jeff Geerling's defence (the title on the site reads "Rich developer spends $15k to run a model slightly faster"), he was loaned the Mac Studios from Apple and so he didn't spend a dime.
Also his accompanying YouTube video mentions the kit retails for $40,000+, a far cry from $15k.
Aka "the titles when people post these on reddit".
Now you know why HN has the "no editorializing" rule. :)
> OpenAI releases a new model to distract from their board drama
This one shows the "age" of the LLM, or the data cut off time
Reminds me of Suckdot.
https://web.archive.org/web/20000302102827/https://suck.com/...
It would be a really interesting feature to have ai analyze the articles and write an actually honest sub-headline. (ie not these sarcastic humor titles)
How did you get an LLM to be snarky or did you do something else?
This is hilarious and I'm looking forward to seeing what it says about itself.
"Show HN: I implemented generics in my programming language"
does not deserve the roast
"I built a language nobody will use just to learn generics"
It's not fair to assume the author didn't know how to implement generics before this project. It's also not fair to assume the project won't gain traction. Zig and Rust started out small too! This just goes a little too far for my tastes.
Someone built a tool to put all the snark and harsh arrogance from the comments directly into the titles?
Love this. Make it into a chrome or Firefox extension, let people freely switch from "normal" to "honest" any time they want.
11/10 would read. So much clickbait going around (and lets ignore the articles that "magicly" are upvoted but strangewise have no comments whatsoever.... not sus at all....
This is what adblock evolves into.
They don’t all seem super accurate, but I like these titles better
This is so damn good that I want to put it between me and the whole internet. At least selectively. Please y'all go build this.
An opinionated, tuneable, reader-agent.
Seconding a little, perhaps dim button to toggle the original. But I love this. So much so that I might start referring to it more than HN when I'm in a rush.
I assume the age verification check when I went to page 2 is because I'm in the UK? If so, well played!
Man, how did I get by for so long without this. Brilliant. I'd like to have the whole web in this tone please, thanks in advance!
> Marketing blog post explaining why you should buy our product (hatchet.run)
When you developer market hard enough that you make it into the LLM training data.
Projects about hn on hn get a lot of attention here. I've sure done it before.
They're a lot of fun! And super easy to vibe code, if I'm looking to test a new model.
I was expecting this to be stupid but it’s genuinely funny. I guess LLMs are better at humor than I remember
ok but how does it work though? Is this seriously just passing the titles to some llm with a prompt like 'roast this'? is it reading the actual content of the link as well?
This would actually be somewhat useful for the new page. :)
Haha this is brilliant.
Very funny and brutally honest!
It's a little bit n-gate.
Who unfortunately stopped posting HN critiques, a few years ago. But you can still read old posts on: http://n-gate.com/hackernews/2021/07/
(If you follow that link from HN, and the site sees an HN `Referer`, it will do a fake captcha load, so then click "HACKERNEWS" in the navbar on the right.)
I love everything about this – the little touches like the logo, the content warning, etc. Thank you for bringing some joy to my day.
Love it.
Honest? Probably not. Funny? Very.
Just me, or are all of these one sentence approving comments (at top level) posted by bots?
This is really awesome, I am interested how you made this, is there a way that we can have something this like for hackernews for more than this one instance of (20?) posts, I know its satirical but I really enjoyed it
Considering its hosted on github I think that it is a static page
This is hilarious. if you scroll down to the bottom it says, "CLICK TO KEEP AVOIDING WORK". lmao. which llm is this?
Love this.
My favorite is the link in the footer:
<a href="https://www.ycombinator.com/apply/">Sell 7% for clout</a>>Rich developer spends $15k to run a model slightly faster (jeffgeerling.com)
LOL ... and it actually ran slower.
Cool, n-gate as a service
Wow, this is amazing! Great work!
Aplausos, gracias totales!!!
hahaha! very funny.
OK, so the "Storing data in the network ... " title made me remember something.
If you transmit a message to Mars, say a rover command sequence, and the outgoing buffer is deleted on the sending side (the original code is preserved, but the transmission-encoded sequence doesn't stick around), then that data, for 20-90 minutes, exists nowhere _except_ space. It's just random-looking electrical fluctuations that are propagating through whatever is out there until it hits a conducting piece of metal millions of miles away and energizes a cap bank enough to be measured by a digital circuit and reconstructed into data.
So, if you calculate the data rate (9600 baud, even), and set up a loopback/echo transmitter on Mars, you could store ~4 MB "in space". If you're using lasers, it's >100x as much.