Hacker News Parody Thread (2013) • Hacker News Board

Re: Hacker News Parody Thread (2013)

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Post by dweekly » Sun, Nov 20, 2022, 5:29 PM UTC

aklein wrote: post #49

marginalia_nu wrote: post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I wish they would just rewrite the website in a safe language like Rust.

I have stuff to say about JIT.

I have a correction to your understanding of JIT.

Re: Hacker News Parody Thread (2013)

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Post by sowbug » Sun, Nov 20, 2022, 5:31 PM UTC

If the author is here, please make each comment linkable, at least via anchor tags. I'd link to them the way I sometimes link to RELEVANT XKCD.

Re: Hacker News Parody Thread (2013)

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Post by nvader » Sun, Nov 20, 2022, 5:31 PM UTC

rosmax_1337 wrote: post #121

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…

> websites contain lots of text which is useless

I'm honestly really curious about this. Could you elaborate?

Re: Hacker News Parody Thread (2013)

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Post by Thrymr » Sun, Nov 20, 2022, 5:37 PM UTC

Didn't commit to the bit enough to register expertslastname.com. Still available!

Re: Hacker News Parody Thread (2013)

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Post by goodpoint » Sun, Nov 20, 2022, 5:37 PM UTC

oytis wrote: post #30

Really missing n-gate.com. It was good. Hope he's alright

I miss it too. For being "satire" it was often more insightful than HN.

Re: Hacker News Parody Thread (2013)

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Post by [deleted] » Sun, Nov 20, 2022, 5:40 PM UTC

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Post by fmajid » Sun, Nov 20, 2022, 5:41 PM UTC

rosmax_1337 wrote: post #121

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…

I'm also surprised someone hasn't made a parody LLM-based HN thread generator yet. Perhaps until recently they were too busy writing crypto startup business plan generators to bilk gullible VCs.

Re: Hacker News Parody Thread (2013)

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Post by notRobot » Sun, Nov 20, 2022, 5:42 PM UTC

orf wrote: post #255

rosmax_1337 wrote: post #121

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…

I did this quite a few years ago. If I remember correctly, it was so convincing that people emailed Dang because I set the username at the top to be “pg” https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10248773

Do you have your sim archived anywhere? The original seems to be down.

Re: Hacker News Parody Thread (2013)

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Post by BoGoToTo » Sun, Nov 20, 2022, 5:42 PM UTC

genghisjahn wrote: post #181

rosmax_1337 wrote: post #121

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…

That’s what this site is. You’ve been talking to a machine all this time. Do you really think a person would have this much time to argue day in and day out over systemd? That that many people care wherever or not Go has generics and which other languages does them best? That rust somehow is the cure for everything from game engines to the common cold? Think about all the times a “person” stated something was Turing…

That's a really interesting idea. I think it would be fun to see how well it would work in practice.

https://imgur.com/4UZUPec

Re: Hacker News Parody Thread (2013)

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Post by onionisafruit » Sun, Nov 20, 2022, 5:44 PM UTC

Cupertino95014 wrote: post #231

LOL. A serious post (I know, it's hard to tell at this point, isn't it?): Why does HN need the karma points system at all ? Downvoting is hardly used on other social networking sites any more, which should tell you something. Getting one pedantipoint has to be a motivation for "I have stuff to say about JIT." posts. Blocking & muting people is quite effective on Twitter, for example. The dream of a civil discourse wi…

HN “needs” karma points because HN has karma points and is over all a good forum. Changing it at this point risks changing the balance that makes HN what it is.

I don’t block or mute people on forums where that is allowed because I don’t want to see a different conversation from everybody else.