This should be the April Fools 2026 feature put directly on the live HN site.
The Onion for Programers
Hacker News front page now, but the titles are honest
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Re: Hacker News front page now, but the titles are honest
#132I miss n-gate so much
Re: Hacker News front page now, but the titles are honest
#133Doesn't seem to be live, otherwise there'd be one that says "Hacker News front page now, but the titles are slop"
Not everything generated is slop.
Re: Hacker News front page now, but the titles are honest
#134A good Friday morning laugh! I think the tiles are not just honest, they are brutally honest. Some of my fav ones:
- Amazon finally adds a feature that has been standard since 2005
- Texas accidentally does something good for privacy
Would it possible to add a feature where hovering over a title displays the original title?
Re: Hacker News front page now, but the titles are honest
#135OK, 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…
There is an archive of a lot of television transmission in space. archive.space You just need to be traveling faster than the radio waves, catch up and enjoy :)
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#136hahaha! very funny.
Re: Hacker News front page now, but the titles are honest
#137"Show HN: I implemented generics in my programming language" does not deserve the roast "I built a language nobody will use just to learn generics" It's not fair to assume the author didn't know how to implement generics before this project. It's also not fair to assume the project won't gain traction. Zig and Rust started out small too! This just goes a little too far for my tastes.
If you read the post, a more accurate title is "I don't know what generics are but I'm implementing a programming language anyway".
Re: Hacker News front page now, but the titles are honest
#138Yes and - it would be great to hover/tap to see the original headline. I found myself pulling up the original and the honest versions side by side. The translation makes it funny.
Right now there is a lot of drift between real and honest version, so it's hard to find the original title.
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#139-> Rich developer spends $15k to run a model slightly faster. I love these and I know this is all in good fun, but I feel like this one is a little unfair to Jeff. He's a content creator and he didn't actually buy the rig. If he's rich it's because he creates content like this.
It need not be a dichotomy. I also laughed at the title. At the same time, I found the original article useful.
Re: Hacker News front page now, but the titles are honest
#140OK, 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…
There is an archive of a lot of television transmission in space. archive.space You just need to be traveling faster than the radio waves, catch up and enjoy :)
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