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Re: Hacker News front page now, but the titles are honest

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Post by charv » Fri, Dec 19, 2025, 4:03 PM UTC

jvanderbot wrote: post #59

OK, so the "Storing data in the network ... " title made me remember something. If you transmit a message to Mars, say a rover command sequence, and the outgoing buffer is deleted on the sending side (the original code is preserved, but the transmission-encoded sequence doesn't stick around), then that data, for 20-90 minutes, exists nowhere _except_ space. It's just random-looking electrical fluctuations that are pr…

"Commenter shows off how smart they are with cool fun fact"

Re: Hacker News front page now, but the titles are honest

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Post by Scaevolus » Fri, Dec 19, 2025, 4:04 PM UTC

jvanderbot wrote: post #59

OK, so the "Storing data in the network ... " title made me remember something. If you transmit a message to Mars, say a rover command sequence, and the outgoing buffer is deleted on the sending side (the original code is preserved, but the transmission-encoded sequence doesn't stick around), then that data, for 20-90 minutes, exists nowhere _except_ space. It's just random-looking electrical fluctuations that are pr…

You can use fiber optics as an optical delay line too! About 60KB/km at 100Gbps.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delay-line_memory

Re: Hacker News front page now, but the titles are honest

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Post by topaz0 » Fri, Dec 19, 2025, 4:04 PM UTC

Just me, or are all of these one sentence approving comments (at top level) posted by bots?

Re: Hacker News front page now, but the titles are honest

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Post by anon115 » Fri, Dec 19, 2025, 4:05 PM UTC

XDDDDDD

Re: Hacker News front page now, but the titles are honest

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Post by craftkiller » Fri, Dec 19, 2025, 4:05 PM UTC

ihrimech wrote: post #28

I laughed so hard ...

Me too. Audibly laughed out loud and was late to standup because I had to tell my roommate about it.

Re: Hacker News front page now, but the titles are honest

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Post by smokel » Fri, Dec 19, 2025, 4:06 PM UTC

PaulHoule wrote: post #3

How did you get an LLM to be snarky or did you do something else?

Let's try to get a story on little Bobby Tables on the front page and find out.

Re: Hacker News front page now, but the titles are honest

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Post by pkoiralap » Fri, Dec 19, 2025, 4:06 PM UTC

jvanderbot wrote: post #59

OK, so the "Storing data in the network ... " title made me remember something. If you transmit a message to Mars, say a rover command sequence, and the outgoing buffer is deleted on the sending side (the original code is preserved, but the transmission-encoded sequence doesn't stick around), then that data, for 20-90 minutes, exists nowhere _except_ space. It's just random-looking electrical fluctuations that are pr…

So if we can somehow preserve the signal and make it go round and round, can we get long term storage out of nothing?

Re: Hacker News front page now, but the titles are honest

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Post by oncallthrow » Fri, Dec 19, 2025, 4:07 PM UTC

I was expecting this to be stupid but it’s genuinely funny. I guess LLMs are better at humor than I remember

Re: Hacker News front page now, but the titles are honest

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Post by junon » Fri, Dec 19, 2025, 4:07 PM UTC

Seconding a little, perhaps dim button to toggle the original. But I love this. So much so that I might start referring to it more than HN when I'm in a rush.

Re: Hacker News front page now, but the titles are honest

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Post by Imustaskforhelp » Fri, Dec 19, 2025, 4:07 PM UTC

This is really awesome, I am interested how you made this, is there a way that we can have something this like for hackernews for more than this one instance of (20?) posts, I know its satirical but I really enjoyed it

Considering its hosted on github I think that it is a static page