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Hacker News front page now, but the titles are honest

1260 pointsby keepamovinyesterday at 3:02 PM299 commentsview on HN

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S0yyesterday at 5:28 PM

Now I just want to see what this post will be translated to...

KalandaDevyesterday at 4:22 PM

Academic publishers admit paywalls were a scam all along :D

ionwakeyesterday at 4:25 PM

fabulous

reality_inspctryesterday at 3:56 PM

amazing

EarlKingyesterday at 3:38 PM

Bring back n-gate!

tmshaplandyesterday at 4:18 PM

lol. would you share the prompt for how you translate them? it really feels like a snarky HN community member rewrote each one.

remywangyesterday at 5:26 PM

Was hoping for a self aware roast: one weird trick to keep sending your LLM slop to top of HN (/s, I enjoyed it very much)

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Mistletoeyesterday at 4:12 PM

This is actually how my brain reads most of the HN posts.

WesolyKubeczekyesterday at 5:06 PM

Cool, n-gate as a service

SSLyyesterday at 4:57 PM

i miss the n-gate roundups

Retr0idyesterday at 3:37 PM

Doesn't seem to be live, otherwise there'd be one that says "Hacker News front page now, but the titles are slop"

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byyoung3yesterday at 4:37 PM

The training LLMs on old data to avoid woke bias was comedic genius. Something tells me grok is behind this.

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mikkupikkuyesterday at 5:27 PM

I miss n-gate.

forgetfreemanyesterday at 6:14 PM

If the maintainer of n-gate.com is still alive and on Hacker News please, your work isn't finished.

akramachamareiyesterday at 4:27 PM

Entertaining and apparently useful, though of course not infallible. Given https://github.com/DGoettlich/history-llms it yields the title "Training AI on 1913 data to avoid 'woke' bias (and hygiene)". That the Honest Hacker News AI model has been trained on a dose of cynicism and intellectual dishonesty is probably hard to avoid...

DarkTreeyesterday at 3:54 PM

Now do the comments

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imchillybyesterday at 6:34 PM

Twas brillig, and the slithey-news did gyre and gamble on the title. All manic were the Borogoves and gnome-rat's Anti-AI rhetoric in full recital. Beware the SLOP my son! The jaws that slurp, and claws that don't match. Beware the Amazon-nerd, and shun that Facebook Hack.

He took his local well in hand; long time the perfect pose he sought. So prompted he by the decision tree, and waited while the AI Thought.

Spaghetti. Meatballs. Slurp. Will I? No. Will Smith. IYKYK

tonyhart7yesterday at 6:22 PM

"Training AI on 1913 data to avoid 'woke' bias (and hygiene) (github.com)"

what could this mean???? and why 1913 specifically

_el1s7yesterday at 4:15 PM

This is cool lol

fruitworksyesterday at 6:15 PM

reminds me of n-gate

bitwizeyesterday at 5:02 PM

(sarcastic David Spade voice) I liked this better the first time around... when it was called n-gate.

Still pretty funny tho, ngl.

NoGravitasyesterday at 4:50 PM

Makes me nostalgic for n-gate.

queuebertyesterday at 3:52 PM

Missing the "We have too many file formats for X, so I made another". Could also prepopulate the comments with the ubiquitous xkcd reference.

fukukitaruyesterday at 4:29 PM

I miss n-gate so much

wiseowiseyesterday at 3:33 PM

Lmao, this is great.

frtime345yesterday at 6:15 PM

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Cheer2171yesterday at 3:41 PM

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casey2yesterday at 3:51 PM

How is the Mac studio ad title honest?

barfoureyesterday at 3:48 PM

Yup. And if you dared to bring this up in the comments (ie. your own rewrite of a title/post), you’d get reminded of the guidelines and downvoted/flagged. Because fuck honesty - we are here for clicks and engagements.

This is a good step. Next: disclose financial incentives and other motives just to nip it in the bud.

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lapcatyesterday at 3:41 PM

How much of this navel-gazing junk do we need? See also, from the same author:

Show HN: Gemini Pro 3 imagines the HN front page 10 years from now https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46205632 (10 days ago)

Show HN: Hacker News, but every headline is hysterical clickbait https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46324579 (4 hours ago)

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nine_kyesterday at 3:49 PM

This is not "honest", this is mostly just dismissive. The headings are no more neutral and explanatory than the originals, because, I suppose, the intent was just having fun.

"We rewrote it in snark so you have to upvote".

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