I thought the dollar sign button would be a donation button. Turns out it's the least honest part of the entire page.
The least honest? A dollar sign represents exactly what ycombinator is about
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#212-> 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.
Most of these are unfair in some way and many are wrong. What makes this funny is precisely that it has more snark than is reasonable (and often pushes bad assumptions as snark usually does!)
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#213I like this a lot.
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#214What is the title for this entry now that it's on the front page? I can't find it
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#215I am fine with the current layout, but I also have to say that I
preferred old.reddit.com as a layout base (the new reddit UI is horrible, and reddit overall succumbed to willy-nilly tyranny of moderators on power-trips). I am not saying HN should change to become like old.reddit.com in the UI, mind you, but a few things could perhaps be considered. Using old.reddit.com was much more efficient to me than the default UI here. It is not the end of the world, but I would not mind small, slight, modest improvements to the UI (not only the front page, but all of HN).
Perhaps HN could make a few suggestions and changes and people could vote. It should be as conservative as possible, though, because while I preferred old.reddit.com, I also think that not everyone may prefer changes. So one should aim for the highest acceptance value possible, before making any change.
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#216"Please star my repo so I can get a job" is brutal
The future is now
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#217OK, 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…
> If you transmit a message to Mars, say a rover command sequence
Don't you worry!
AI rover robots are soon going to dominate Mars.
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#218Anyone want to try a prompt injection? All we need to do is to get one or two story in the front page that have a good < 80 characters prompt injection.
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#219OK, 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…
Lacks the capability of random access, which limits the practicality of it. Cool idea still
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#220Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
Now go deeper! Prompt Gemini to write a prompt for itself that would write a prompt for itself that would get similar results.