Show HN: HN as TikTok, welcome to HN hell

Post by micah94 » Wed, Feb 05, 2025, 4:15 PM UTC

xtiansimon wrote: post #9

MasterScrat wrote: post #6

I think both of these projects miss what makes TikTok (and reels in general) so effective. A good TikTok video gets "injected into your brain". You have zero effort to provide and suddenly this stuff is in your mind. I'm not saying it's a good thing, I realize the danger, but that's the core mechanism. A friend in marketing describes this in terms of "brain calories". Eg if people have to think in order to understand…

> "A good TikTok video gets "injected into your brain"" I worked in marketing, so I'm generally immune to outrageous metaphor, such as "injected" into your brain. That said, I just want to point out the irony we're still using phrases like this after 20+ years of research on networked media and user interaction, and soft science research into cognitive psychology and behavioral psychology, as well as research into hu…

Post by fuzzzerd » Wed, Feb 05, 2025, 5:53 PM UTC

techjamie wrote: post #10

redbell wrote: post #5

Oh, thanks! That was such a quick implementation—and a nice addition to the Show HN gallery, especially for HN-related projects. When I came across WikiTok yesterday, the first thought that popped into my mind was how this format could work for HN. And here we are! With the abundance of AI coding assistants available today, creating prototypes, demos, or MVPs can now be done in just a few hours instead of taking days…

I made a prototype template for a site and had it exactly how I wanted in about an hour. I mocked it up in Photopea, gave Claude an image, and told it to generate HTML that would make a page with those qualities. A few tweaks and a couple more prompts later and I had all the main elements I wanted in place, and just need to fill content which I won't use AI for. Probably saved me several hours because I suck at front…

Post by xtiansimon » Fri, Feb 07, 2025, 1:04 AM UTC

micah94 wrote: post #11

xtiansimon wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> "A good TikTok video gets "injected into your brain"" I worked in marketing, so I'm generally immune to outrageous metaphor, such as "injected" into your brain. That said, I just want to point out the irony we're still using phrases like this after 20+ years of research on networked media and user interaction, and soft science research into cognitive psychology and behavioral psychology, as well as research into hu…

It requires too many brain calories.

Post by carabiner » Fri, Feb 07, 2025, 10:14 PM UTC

Post by intalentive » Fri, Feb 07, 2025, 10:24 PM UTC

pipeline_peak wrote: post #16

Use an LLM to summarize each page in one sentence. This takes too much effort to feel like TikTok.