alt Hacker NewsShow HN: HN Wrapped 2025 - an LLM reviews your year on HN
I was looking for some fun project to play around with the latest Gemini models and ended up building this :)
Enter your username and get:
- Generated roasts and stats based on your HN activity 2025
- Your personalized HN front page from 2035 (inspired by a recent Show HN [0])
- An xkcd-style comic of your HN persona
It uses the latest gemini-3-flash and gemini-3-pro-image (nano banana pro) models, which deliver pretty impressive and funny results.
A few examples:
- dang: https://hn-wrapped.kadoa.com/dang
- myself: https://hn-wrapped.kadoa.com/hubraumhugo
Give it a try and share yours :)
Happy holidays!
Comments
Hahaha - this is genuinely funny. Not sure I've seen LLM content be actually this witty before.
Woah. scary good. https://hn-wrapped.kadoa.com/joshka
Ok, this is hilarious and kinda embarrassing, but so cool!
https://hn-wrapped.kadoa.com/vee-kay
And such cool stuff is why we love HN!
You made my day with this prediction :)
> The Ultimate Fork
> Frustrated with Waterfox and Orion, you will finally launch 'CERN-fox', a browser that only renders LaTeX and requires a muon-detected captcha for every search query.
This is absolutely wild haha, love it
"A high-latency architect who spends his days documenting every time a CDN sneezes while dreaming of a mountain drive through the Balkans with a fresh burek in hand."
Wow, that was embarrassingly good. Thanks? https://hn-wrapped.kadoa.com/tclancy
Mine thinks I’m obsessed with retro computing, which is frankly lame. I could’ve coded that kind of insight in less than 2K of 6502 code.
Feature suggestion - social opengraph preview for when you post it on discord/facebook/slack etc.
https://hn-wrapped.kadoa.com/RandyOrion
Well, as a local VRAM libertarian, to manually prune the safety alignment part of a 500B LLM for it to run on 1GB RAM or VRAM is definitely a lifetime goal for me.
Really interesting, does it totally based on gemini? seems the data is not accurate of my account.
This is pretty fun. Can you make the year configurable?
This seems more like an LLM roasts your year on HN.
What are the prompts you're usign?
This gave me a good chuckle:
> You have mentioned being Australian at least five times as a personality trait just to remind us that our pennies are stupid and our tap-to-pay is thirty years behind yours.
Fair!
The XKCD comic generation was impressive.
The "your HN front page in 2035" doesn't really make sense to me because afaik personalised front pages are not a thing? (Or maybe they will be in 2035...)
Okay, mine was just awesome. Thank you. The only thing that would make it better would be if it could be easily saved.
(Also, it's a shame that it regenerates the xkcd every time)
"A seasoned architect who spends their days patrolling the wall between actual engineering and unsustainable AI hype while desperately trying to keep their Windows 10 box alive until the heat death of the universe. You are the only person on the internet who still remembers what a build script does and why we shouldn't let LLMs touch them without adult supervision."
Genuine laughs. Thanks for sharing!
For posterity - wasn’t, still am not an s-base customer.
Can't wait for future me to post this in 10 years
Show HN: SSH-to-Brain interface (requires tmux and 600mg of caffeine)
This is hilarious, thank you!
How did it match my facial hair in the XKCD, since HN is text-only? :mind-blown:
I’m going to have a sticky note warning myself to “Don’t write that on Hacker News.” I laughed but I hate me.
“You talk about 'Walking Out' of digital services so often that it's starting to sound less like a data strategy and more like a cry for help from your $10-a-month AWS bill.”
Pretty fun overall. The roasts were really good, the stats were pretty neat, the predictions made me smile. The xkcdupe fell flat for me because it's pretty generic and I've seen many variants of it before, but still pretty impressive for an AI to make. The "Your HN Front Page in 2035" was definitely the weakest part for me. Maybe because every gag in it had already been done in other sections.
One thing I noticed is that it seems to give more weight to submissions (i.e. things I've submitted as posts) than to comments (or at least, doesn't let submissions get drowned in a sea of comments), which turns out as a good thing. And it doesn't seem to care about karma, which is also IMO a really good thing, makes it feel like a deep dive and keeps it interesting.
lol it claims I'm fiercely anti-Creative Cloud whereas I'm actually one of their oldest subscribers (literally signed up the day it was announced)
I remember this from last year! Awesome project - I'd love to see the code behind this.
I think mine confabulated criticism of a point of view as espousing that point of view.
https://hn-wrapped.kadoa.com/furyofantares
My last 2-3 months here have largely been posting about AI slop. But the prior 9 months were not, and included a lot of nuanced posting about how to make use of AI agents. I even got accused of being a shill at one point.
The wrapped is pretty much focused on the slop stuff. That's less interesting than the earlier parts of the year - I know what I've posted recently but have forgotten a lot more of what was going on a year ago or how the year developed.
Roasts can be amusing but I don't think they're the right vibe for a wrapped. I know it's harder to get an LLM to write something witty and insightful than a witty but shallow quip so maybe that's why roasts are here. Wrappeds are sort of infodumps though and LLMs are good at that, maybe there could be a two stage step where it reasons about some custom quirky stats or factoids that work based on your profile and then the second stage generates them.
Love it, fantastic work!
This is hilarious and shows that I share too much personal info on here
This project gave me so much joy! I loved it! Here's mine, https://hn-wrapped.kadoa.com/areoform
But I do have one gripe, I'm a woman. I wish the XKCD comic was accurate. TwT.
HN: Horoscopes? I can't believe you'd fall for something that obvious. I can't believe you're so naive.
Also HN: wow, that's totally me! That AI totally gets me.
Some winners in the 2035 HN predictions:
Show HN: A Python 4.2 framework that transpiles to Go but still lets you use circular imports(github.com)
Microsoft 365 Audit: Now requiring a literal DNA sample for volume licensing compliance(theregister.com)
Zulip 15.0 adds 'Boomer Mode' to hide markdown from non-technical users(zulip.org)
Ask HN: Best audiologist for tuning hearing aids to filter out 'Notification Blindness'?“Contrarian, pedantic, helpful-yet-exhausting”.
When in Rome ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Dude this thing is savage, I love it
> You spent twenty years avoiding a single line of JavaScript only to get depressed and give up on front-end dev as soon as you saw a CSS file.
> After your second child, your HN comments on healthcare reform will become so detailed they are legally classified as a white paper.
Lmao
That was hilarious, the XKCD-esque comic was funny however it did me with a beard (im a woman) but I did belly laugh at the jokes.
> For someone who claims to be a professional cinematographer, you spend an alarming amount of time looking at plain text arguments on a 1990s-style forum instead of actually framing a shot.
Whelp I can’t recover from that one.
This is hysterical. Great work.
Because this is HN and we must critique: I think the “HN 2035” would be more entertaining if you adjusted the prompt to suggest it use company and product names that don’t actually exist. (There’s no way HN is half full of Tesla and OpenAI articles in 2035)
Lol, well that was rude.
Edit: OK this was funny
> Your posts suggest you are the only person on the internet who uses genetic algorithms for friendship management but still can't figure out a Typst template for your thesis.
The Indie Blog Crusader
A digital preservationist who wages a one-man war against the AI-slop apocalypse by manually indexing every human-written blog post in existence while playing Unreal Tournament 99 on a secondary monitor.
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I have to say, if that’s my future I’m kinda cool with it.
Haha. You make one positive comment about a language and suddenly you’re a Rust evangelist :) Well that was fun. Thank you for this!
> You’ve mentioned the 1975 book The Mythical Man-Month so many times that I’m starting to think it’s your only personality trait besides complaining about Tailwind CSS.
Ahahaha, not entirely wrong!
And to add insult to injury it says I'm going to rewrite all my Python stuff in Rust (after spending the year teasing Rust). I got a good giggle from the comic book summary -- thanks for making this.
I really enjoyed my roast review. I loved the feedback that I'm only 5% helpful and 35% contrarian! I will endeavor to boost that helpfulness percentage next year.
I am surprised at the passion that some seem to feel over their own reviews.
Is there a reason you hold onto data for thirty days? That’s a non starter for me - I don’t have a clue who you are or what this is even used for.
I really laughed out loud at my xkcd comic:
> The Contrarian Logic Gate
> A high-frequency debunker who treats every comment thread as a zero-trust environment where empathy is a bug and citing Sartre is a security vulnerability. You are the only person on the planet capable of linking the efficiency of electrical line curvature to the ethics of Anthony Bourdain in a single browsing session.
No I don't! (nice project)
> Is MDMA-infused coffee the only way to survive the 4-day work week? (vice.com)
New 2026 resolution unlocked…
> You've mentioned Futurama references so many times that I'm starting to think you're actually just Zap Brannigan with a Python Foundation fellowship.
Kif, I'm feeling the "Captain's itch".