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

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Post by nottorp »

PaulHoule wrote: post #92
nottorp wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes, this is absolutely brilliant! Teach us the prompt, o great wizards!

To answer my question myself I gave Microsoft copilot this prompt: I want you to rewrite this headline "Amazon will allow ePub and PDF downloads for DRM-free eBooks" into something a little humorous and snarky that reveals the underlying truth that would bring a wry smile to tech-engaged but big tech-skeptical hacker news readers. This has to fit in the 80 character limit for Hacker News so keep it appropriately shor…

I prompted Gemini to tell me how to prompt itself to get similar results on other news sites and it said I should give it a description of the intended audience and what it finds funny/snarky.

Which looks like what you did.

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

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Post by abtinf »

Svoka wrote: post #194
OsrsNeedsf2P wrote: post #157

Earlier quoted context omitted.

As someone who maintained popular open source repos for >5 years, not once did I have a recruiter care about it (I made sure to ask!)

I hired many many people and never once I cared about GitHub stars. Not even sure what signal it suppose to be.

Yes, developer/platform advocacy/evangelism.

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

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Post by abtinf »

ajcp wrote: post #112

-> 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.

Jeff’s content is way too high quality to make him rich.

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

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Post by neilv »

spencer-p wrote: post #200
neilv wrote: post #108

It's a little bit n-gate. Who unfortunately stopped posting HN critiques, a few years ago. But you can still read old posts on: http://n-gate.com/hackernews/2021/07/ (If you follow that link from HN, and the site sees an HN `Referer`, it will do a fake captcha load, so then click "HACKERNEWS" in the navbar on the right.)

I do miss n-gate. I have to assume they are much happier now that they've ended that project, though.

The last post or so sounded stressed. I hope they feel better.

But in general, going to read a little n-gate was a relief when some HN comment thread went off the rails. Someone else could rant about the dumbness, and a burden was lifted.

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

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Post by cwyers »

wiseowise wrote: post #133
Retr0id wrote: post #20

Doesn'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.

"Slop" is at _least_ as fair a description of "we had an LLM rewrite HN headlines" as "we rewrote it in Rust so you have to upvote it" is of "we removed our biggest source of crashes on Android by getting rid of Go FFI issues."

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

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Post by scottyah »

sidcool wrote: post #159
jedberg wrote: post #95

Aka "the titles when people post these on reddit". Now you know why HN has the "no editorializing" rule. :)

reddit is a whole different beast. It does not have a sense of humor, rather it is a biased cesspool of partisanship.

I sleep better at night thinking it is just a battleground of astroturfing bots fighting each other (at least on the main pages).

Everything from massive Russian state-actor bot farms testing newly trained LLMs popping out AI-generated meme formats before deploying domestically unknowingly getting into arguments with Israeli bot farms trying to raise support for some new movie series that will enable them to raise money for their next missile strike competing for eyeballs/attention from some uni student in a dorm room paying mid-sized black market companies in India to post comments telling you that cast-iron pans are too hard to clean so you should buy the non-sticks you saw on instagram (which are just marketing dropshippers in the USA selling the QA rejected pans from established brands).

The online world is a wild place.

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