This would actually be somewhat useful for the new page. :)
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
#152"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.
>It's not fair to assume the author didn't know how to implement generics before this project
Yeah... what they ended up implementing is not generics. So good thing the LLM doesn't read link/comments too or will've probably wrote an actual roast.
>It's also not fair to assume the project won't gain traction
Very fair to assume this. Referencing Rust/Zig disregarding the thousands other now abandoned ones is survivorship bias. Most small hobby projects remain small. But, besides joking about it, "built [something] nobody will use", if is in their free time, and enjoy it, does it matter? Is there a need for all hobby projects to have a goal of making it big?
>This just goes a little too far for my tastes.
But the "Please star my repo so I can get a job" is fine?
Re: Hacker News front page now, but the titles are honest
#153Earlier quoted context omitted.
Usually, people highlight functional/architectural changes over superficial things like language choice.
That's true. But it is also true that almost nobody rewrites a whole complex software in Rust to get internet forum points from HN people. Your question was "Is it wrong, though?" The answer is "Yes"
But it sure does lampoon a current point which is that people seem pretty quick to want to share their Rust rewrites of other software.
Re: Hacker News front page now, but the titles are honest
#154ok but how does it work though? Is this seriously just passing the titles to some llm with a prompt like 'roast this'? is it reading the actual content of the link as well?
Re: Hacker News front page now, but the titles are honest
#155This is so damn good that I want to put it between me and the whole internet. At least selectively. Please y'all go build this.
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Re: Hacker News front page now, but the titles are honest
#156I assume the age verification check when I went to page 2 is because I'm in the UK? If so, well played!
I’m having this outside the UK as well.
Re: Hacker News front page now, but the titles are honest
#157"Please star my repo so I can get a job" is brutal
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!)
Re: Hacker News front page now, but the titles are honest
#158I wish we were that brutally hones irl.
Re: Hacker News front page now, but the titles are honest
#159Aka "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.
Re: Hacker News front page now, but the titles are honest
#160OK, 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?
This is possible but you'd have to deploy it right by a black hole: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photon_sphere