Show HN: This Hacker News does not exist

(thishackernewsdoesnotexist.com)

31 points | by wonderfuly 3 days ago ago

16 comments

  • ZeroGravitas 2 days ago ago

    Older, similar project making fun of gits impenetrable documentation:

    https://git-man-page-generator.lokaltog.net/

    and it's been submitted here a lot but mostly marked dead apart from very early submissions:

    https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=lokaltog.net

  • TUVIMEN 3 days ago ago

    Interesting, the problem of deleted content is ever growing. When I look at my liked videos on youtube every 10th is unavailable without any information/title/thumbnail, there's no way to tell what it was. Very frustrating indeed, that's why i save every video i find valuable

    • ricardobeat 3 days ago ago

      These links don’t actually exist.

    • glouwbug 2 days ago ago

      Fortunately we still have the YouTube urls. A quick google has for me led me to Reddit / older forums to find the context I needed to search for a re-upload

  • suobset 3 days ago ago

    This is one of the most whimsical things I have seen, it honestly took me a good second to realize what was happening.

    Reminds me of this other project, social media except everyone you're interacting with is AI: https://socialai.co/

  • abrefeld 3 days ago ago

    Just fyi I see the href for all links to users, post times, "hide", and comments as:

        javascript:throw new Error('React has blocked a javascript: URL as a security precaution.')
    
    I'm on LibreWolf136.0.4-1 with UBlockOrigin. I suspect I should be able to click these and see content?
    • electroly 3 days ago ago

      It's just using a JavaScript alert to say that there is no content behind the links; you're not missing anything there.

  • coxomb2 3 days ago ago

    Created something similar a while back. Recently ironed out a few bugs:

    https://coxomb.github.io/This-Hacker-News-Does-Not-Exist/

    • Hasnep 3 days ago ago

      The comments were my favourite part

  • fsflover 3 days ago ago

    The related collection: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32969263

    This X Does Not Exist (thisxdoesnotexist.com)

    99 points by spking on Sept 25, 2022 | 33 comments

  • msgodel 3 days ago ago

    When I first learned about few-shot prompting with gpt-j reproducing hackernews threads was one of the first things I tried.

  • foobarbecue a day ago ago

    "SQLite a Trillion Times Faster (2023)"

    X-D

  • wey-gu 3 days ago ago

    Too real, can’t stop clicking

  • quectophoton 3 days ago ago

    "Rust Foundation Announces Long-Term Support (LTS) Release Cycle"

  • seydor 2 days ago ago

    Looking forward to the infuriating comments