Hacker News front page now, but the titles are honest • Hacker News Board

I'd like to see a version of the HN frontpage, where the titles are reinterpreted by that 1913 AI. "Imagine these are newspaper headlines from the year 2025. Rewrite them so that a regular person in our time can understand them."

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

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Post by mdni007 » Fri, Dec 19, 2025, 6:16 PM UTC

I have to say, all of these titles are much more interesting than the real ones

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

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Post by willis936 » Fri, Dec 19, 2025, 6:16 PM UTC

lxgr wrote: post #117

Sharlin wrote: post #79

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's just a fancy form of delay-line memory [1]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delay-line_memory

In a universe with mass–energy equivalence, show me a storage medium that isn’t effectively a delay line :)

What about entangled qubits?

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

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Post by willis936 » Fri, Dec 19, 2025, 6:18 PM UTC

2026iknewit wrote: post #80

jvanderbot wrote: post #59

OK, 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 :)

Assuming some pass through non-empty media, isn't it technically possible?

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

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Post by Ldorigo » Fri, Dec 19, 2025, 6:19 PM UTC

What's funny/interesting from a psychological perspective is that several of these made me click (and discover genuinely interesting content) on links that I ignored in the real version. Could you do this everyday please?

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Post by mapt » Fri, Dec 19, 2025, 6:20 PM UTC

jvanderbot wrote: post #59

OK, 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…

"a man is not dead while his name is still spoken"

GNU John Dearheart

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

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Post by alt227 » Fri, Dec 19, 2025, 6:21 PM UTC

unethical_ban wrote: post #181

alt227 wrote: post #150

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Its on the front page, that means it atttracted attention and was upvoted. If what you are saying was true, these posts would die very quickly and we would never see them. Maybe its just you who doesnt like them?

I guess if everyone thinks mocking peoples' projects and efforts is funny, it's okay! My opinion is a weakly that this is tiring and borderline insulting to people who are genuinely looking for feedback and community. Clever once a year or so, but the creator has leaned into it and posted a lot of meta in a small timeline.

Then if the community agrees with you, these posts will get zero upvotes and we will never see them on the front page again.

If not, then you will start seeing them more and more and you will need to suck it up my friend!