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

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Post by 542458 »

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's a short story by Qntm called "Valuable Humans in Transit" that I like quite a bit which hinges on this subject: https://qntm.org/transi

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Post by stronglikedan »

abtinf wrote: post #205
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.

High quality content usually makes someone rich, and that someone is usually not the creator.

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Post by Reason077 »

mapt wrote: post #273

A lot of these have a disturbingly subjective critical voice. On a topsy turvy day, one finds oneself suspecting these are human-written instead of AI.

I’m also suspicious that it’s human-written, or at least human selected/moderated. It doesn’t seem to be updating very frequently for one thing.

If it’s AI, it’s very clever and nuanced: comedians should be worried for their jobs. If it’s human it’s still very funny.

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Post by TeMPOraL »

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.

"When we do it, it's called sense of humor. When they do it, it's bias and partisanship."

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Post by imchillyb »

Twas brillig, and the slithey-news did gyre and gamble on the title. All manic were the Borogoves and gnome-rat's Anti-AI rhetoric in full recital. Beware the SLOP my son! The jaws that slurp, and claws that don't match. Beware the Amazon-nerd, and shun that Facebook Hack.

He took his local well in hand; long time the perfect pose he sought. So prompted he by the decision tree, and waited while the AI Thought.

Spaghetti. Meatballs. Slurp. Will I? No. Will Smith. IYKYK

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Post by mtkd »

pvsukale3 wrote: post #209

"Rails developers reinventing state machines for the 50th time" Laughed so hard on this one.

You can still look at almost any codebase and ask 'why is this bit not using a state machine here?' ... the AASM repo readme is very accessible even if you don't know Ruby: https://github.com/aasm/aasm

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Post by hidroto »

lucaslazarus wrote: post #160
pkoiralap wrote: post #87

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

i wonder how sensitive your equipment would need to be to read it from the back scatter off the interstellar medium.

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Post by fragmede »

laser9 wrote: post #149
linux2647 wrote: post #146

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If you click into the comments, it takes you to the real HN comments page with the real title

Yeah but I'd need to click each of them, thus the request for that feature.

I vibe coded the shit out of a Chrome extension that does that while waiting on CI/CD. Go read the content.js to make sure I'm not hacking your shit, download the repo to your computer, enable developer mode in chrome, "load unpacked", point it at the directory with those files, and enjoy your tool tips.

https://github.com/fragmede/honest-hn-tooltips

Edit: Took 18 minutes.

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

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Post by dang »

Almondsetat wrote: post #247

I find these kind of posts profoundly uninteresting (woah, the n-th parody of the HN front page...) and yet they seem to always garner so many upvotes...

Anything meta has that effect. We normally tamp it down although we make occasional exceptions:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46221900

The curiosity value of something like this diminishes under repetition, of course: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so.... It's a bit like repeating the same joke.

We downweight follow-up posts for that reason: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

That, I think, is what's going on here. This post was great—it was impressive and original enough to clear the bar, so we left it up:

Show HN: Gemini Pro 3 imagines the HN front page 10 years from now - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46205632 - Dec 2025 (965 comments)

These two follow-ups are pretty good follow-ups actually—they're fun variations on the theme—but I don't think they clear the bar for another major frontpage thread:

Hacker News front page now, but the titles are honest - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46326588 (Show HN: Hacker News, but every headline is hysterical clickbait - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46324579

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

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Post by keepamovin »

krick wrote: post #227

I'm not even so sure it's such a useless joke. I mean, it is, and I wouldn't want titles to be like "Academic publishers admit paywalls were a scam all along" (unless ALL major publishers actually admit it, which so far they didn't). But I clicked on "Math nerd explains how to spend 3 days proving 1+1=2" and when it turned out to be a Lean tutorial I thought "Oh, that's exactly what I wanted!". I don't know why, but…

The clickbait you didn't know you wanted!
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