Damn, I was afraid this was going to be someone stealing my genius idea. Gladly it was just tangential to that idea. Idea: Train an ai to construct entire threads based on the input of the title and link. There should be plenty of training material, and frankly I think it would be hilariously similar to the real threads. When new submissions are added to HN, the system will fetch the title and link, and predict the e…
Hacker News Parody Thread (2013)
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#182Too bad that n-gate.com stopped updating in mid-2021. It was great for this stuff, and arguably it still is. Edit: Don't miss the usernames in OP's parody thread though, they're just as hard to spot as on actual HN (which is a great feature of this site) but I thought they were the funniest part.
Alas, no one will know because... you didn't pilotfish-post on firstpost comment.
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#183Unrealistic. Not a single person complained about link not working with JavaScript disabled.
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#186This is cool (only read the first two lines so far) but if you're really interested in Hacker News Parody software you should check out our startup: https://zombo.com/#HACKER_NEWS_PARODY_DOT_IO
Came hear to say this. +1 for https://zombo.com/#HACKER_NEWS_PARODY_DOT_IO
Back in the day nobody on HN would so egregiously misspell words. This place is turning into Reddit.
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#187That said, the parody shows nothing down voted. Is that part of the parody? Or an oversight?
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#188Re: Hacker News Parody Thread (2013)
#189This thread reminds me of https://www.reddit.com/r/SUBREDDITNAME