<i>Ask HN: Is there another HN beginning with a “h”?$<p></i>Show HN: Daily XLSX to-do list with attached spreadsheet as material*<p><i>Banning JavaScript from web pages is bad for the user</i><p><i>Has Google become too social?</i><p><i>SQLite development from scratch from scratch</i><p><i>Armor-piercing lasers are not shooting lasers but missiles</i><p><i>We made a public blockchain off-chain</i><p><i>Apple sued for pricing user data against provider who did not provide refunds</i><p><i>100% Embarrassing Haskell Builds</i><p><i>Heroku Compose is not fit for purpose</i><p><i>Pain Enhancer</i><p>The distance between reality and fantasy is grows ever smaller.
My favorites so far:<p>"Ask HN: Why do brands fail to realize that consumers want snacks?"<p>"Ask HN: Why does everyone assume everyone is “too technical?”"<p>"Ask HN: HN is now running on GCP. Why?"<p>"Incest" (i'm not kidding)<p>"Tell HN: Switzerland is replacing its central bank with a
peer to bank banking company"<p>"Starlink—Smart RFID Hotspot"<p>"Kryptos: A robot written in Rust who needs to talk to humans"<p>"Cloudflare was hacked and replaced with an NSA spyware-run Proxy"<p>"I poked a hole in a wall and sent the image through a digital lens"
Apparently it’s not even the most realistic it could be! From the footer:<p>> We used Ada because titles generated by the larger Curie model are barely distinguishable from the real thing, despite being original.
Looked away for a while talking to someone, tried to click a link when I looked back :)<p>Also unrelated but good one "Tether issue: under $1B and all of the tether tokens suspended". This would definitely get my click :)
"Ask HN: Is HN worth caring about?" is by far the best one I've gotten.<p>"James Webb Telescope Recall" was pretty amusing as well.
This is good, and reminds me of the "Fake Paper Generator" that some MIT students made using context free grammars in 2005: <a href="https://pdos.csail.mit.edu/archive/scigen/" rel="nofollow">https://pdos.csail.mit.edu/archive/scigen/</a><p>Unfortunately it doesn't work anymore, but the titles it generated for the papers were all plausible but also ridiculous CS paper titles, e.g. <i>Rooter: A Methodology for the Typical Unification of Access Points and Redundancy</i>
I got "Install the NuGet package manager on a Mac" which I'm still not sure is ridiculously infeasible or the kind of hack somebody might actually manage to pull off. Definitely HN-worthy if they manage it!
Is there a dataset of HN titles? This made me want to fiddle with this, but step one is to get the data, and I don't want to crawl HN if the data has already been collected.
It averages around 0.0005$ per request according to the footer. Could this end up costing the author quite a bit due to HN traffic? Also, whats stopping bad actors from writing a script to continuously fetch the page?<p>I wonder if some sort of caching might help lower costs.
Microsoft considered killing the startup community, says CEO<p>Tesla’s strange new CEO: ‘This is not the right place for me to be successful’<p>Puerto Rico is receiving $6<p>Earth’s largest cloud is the remains of a comet (2019)<p>A deep dive into C++ features that make your life harder<p>Windows 10 is basically iOS without the app drawer<p>Never trust a trusted set of data (2013)<p>The Rust Tax<p>Terabot: A remote-controlled toy train that trains riders to do your work<p>4-Hour Workweek Passes UNH’s Students<p>Why does Brexit happen?<p>NASA Launches High-Definition to Broadcast Its Infomercials<p>I made a living building software that no one needs<p>Scientists have created a new kind of blood clot<p>Two weeks without Instagram<p>Life on the ocean floor and how humans inhabit it<p>Taxing robots is immoral, right? Because it’s a) easier, and b) it would vastly reduce human labor<p>Why are people so glad to have their memories wiped?<p>Does the US lead the world in online harassment?<p>A 50-year-old man shops for lamb chops on the Internet for the first time<p>They said it was impossible to dig for cobblestones without being coated with mud<p>--<p>Ok, that's it. Time to abandon HN and go over to this site.<p>Actually, scratch that - I'm just moving to the universe this bot is from.
@rachelbythebay's HN spoof is still my personal favorite: <a href="https://rachelbythebay.com/fun/hrand/" rel="nofollow">https://rachelbythebay.com/fun/hrand/</a>
"French technical community in Bastogne after a brush with German Army"<p>"US sets 10-minute work hours as government turns to technology, not people"<p>"China Urges First Time Travelers to Avoid Underwear Sales"
On mobile, after clicking on the link and getting distracted for a second, I could not tell that I was not on HN ! I even tried to click multiple links until I reached the bottom of the page and remembered !<p>Good job with this !
Would love to see it go a step further and do the same thing for comment threads as well. Think I could possibly lose hours on a site like that rather than minutes. This was a lot of fun as well though.
> "Apple is so petty, it may murder your kid"<p>> Git as a platform for mentalillness<p>What!?<p>> Show HN: Open-Source PyXMP Cryptographic Algorithm<p>I'd love to see that!
"Ask HN: What's your strategy for winning the lottery?"<p>"Computer Science at MIT Does Not Exist."<p>Still other ones I would use as writing prompts for a blog. It would be about things an ML model produced because it thought this was what you would think would be popular. (I defy any ML model to craft a more painful sentence.)<p>"The first hour of a movie is often worth the whole movie"<p>"Transhumanist manifesto: explore my visions for the future"<p>"Fill up on technology. Technology freaks out. Tell your kids to build a crisis framework"<p>These are amazing.