I‘ve channeled my inner Larry David into a prompt to make fun of y‘all
;)
Hacker News front page now, but the titles are honest
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#252"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!)
I've had recruiters be “impressed by my GitHub profile”, when I didn't have a single project on my GitHub profile.
Re: Hacker News front page now, but the titles are honest
#253> Rich developer spends $15k to run a model slightly faster (jeffgeerling.com) The title are so funny ! I'm thinking to switch for the time ^^
Inaccurate.
> Apple gave me access to this Mac Studio cluster to test RDMA over Thunderbolt,
Better:
"Engfluencer suggests you spend $15k to run a model slightly faster (jeffgeerling.com)"
Re: Hacker News front page now, but the titles are honest
#254It'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.)
Author deserves an award for coining the verb “incorrecting”.
Re: Hacker News front page now, but the titles are honest
#255Earlier quoted context omitted.
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 mo…
Hacker News is Reddit with a nuclear downvote button and tone policing.
It's not that much better in terms of "dead internet," the bots are just more eloquent. In some ways the HN flavor of gamified engagement actively encourages worse outcomes than Reddit.
Re: Hacker News front page now, but the titles are honest
#256Not sure if the source code for this is available but if you want to make your own version I did something similar that can be easily modified and run locally for your own festive mirth: https://github.com/justinhj/rudehackernews
Re: Hacker News front page now, but the titles are honest
#257ok 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?
The year is 20X5. Despite the onslaught of artificially intelligent agents capable of understanding and synthesizing new concepts in written language, humans are still capable of basic cognition… for now.
Re: Hacker News front page now, but the titles are honest
#258Earlier quoted context omitted.
Maybe HN needs some reflection, and satire is one of the best ways to provide it.
And slop is one of the worst ways
The moment slop becomes more HN-esque than original HN content, it tells you a lot about the quality of HN posts. That is very reflective to me.
Re: Hacker News front page now, but the titles are honest
#259Brings back some of that n-gate vibe <3
Re: Hacker News front page now, but the titles are honest
#260If the maintainer of n-gate.com is still alive and on Hacker News please, your work isn't finished.