Hi Hackernews! This is a little project I made in my free time. It's a fun and whimsical parody of Hacker News. I wanted to experiment with Faker.js and other JS libraries.
It randomly generates Hackernews headlines. You get new results each time you refresh the page. I spent about 4 days making this, and learned a lot in the process, and it was my first open source side project in a long time.
It was inspired by This Person Does Not Exist and other 'Does Not Exist' projects which you can find here: https://thisxdoesnotexist.com/
If you spot any bugs or have any ideas on maybe how to improve it, post your thoughts here.
The source code can be found on GitHub, where it's hosted:
One thing I noticed that could be improved: The headlines in isolation are reasonable, and so are the websites, but the pairings between them are not. For example, "Snapchat Has Been Removed From iOS App Store (mitpress.mit.edu)" and "Hstr: Bash And Zsh Shell History Suggest Box (reuters.com)".
I really wanted to get into Rust programming, but was turned off by the toxicity of the community. Their smug attitude of superiority really turns people away. I've been programming in C and C++ for decades, and I'm not sure I've ever once run into a problem with undefined behavior.
This is definitely good for a laugh, on the first page-load. After that, some patterns emerge that really deflate the experience, but I definitely chuckled multiple times.
This page brings fun twice: when you first load it and read the headlines, and next when you reload it a few times, see the pattern, and start to anticipate.
Missing a random rachelbythebay or ACOUP post and an in-depth analysis of some medieval book collection also. (Though "The Scary Truth about Egypt" and "What to love about Small, Frozen Sausages" come pretty close)
So are Reddit comments[1]. Once there are sufficient comments on the internet that you can't read them all in a lifetime, who's to say the one you are reading is novel and written by a human, and not a pre-fab comment scrambled from dozens of previous posts on the same topic from years ago, or the same topic on another site?
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[ 4.7 ms ] story [ 209 ms ] threadIt randomly generates Hackernews headlines. You get new results each time you refresh the page. I spent about 4 days making this, and learned a lot in the process, and it was my first open source side project in a long time.
It was inspired by This Person Does Not Exist and other 'Does Not Exist' projects which you can find here: https://thisxdoesnotexist.com/
If you spot any bugs or have any ideas on maybe how to improve it, post your thoughts here.
The source code can be found on GitHub, where it's hosted:
https://github.com/coxomb/This-Hacker-News-Does-Not-Exist/tr...
I hope you enjoy the project :)
this one got me laughing: "Chicken version 5.0 Alpha Released"
1. https://youtu.be/yL_-1d9OSdk
I chuckled. Thank you:D
Awkward ha
"Sperm Counts Worldwide Are Plummeting Faster Than We Thought"
We saw that thread just 2 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33816861
I guess HN titles doesn't have enough data for this.
`this coffee maker does not exist`
`this private jet does not exist`
etc etc etc
Yep, it's pretty much nailed HN's front-page concerns.
https://imgur.com/a/vxQooID
The really random ones are quite funny :)
That is a title that would drag me in!
“In Praise of Sleek Wooden Tuna”
No, OP is correct. * You omitted hist point X.
* You misunderstand point Y.
* Here's point Z you didn't account for.
Do you know a better place? Maybe some small ones, but I doubt there are larger internet communities than HN with better discussions.
How does the architecture of 8086 not work
How does work not work
I ask this everyday.
And yes Virginia should be renamed East Virginia.
At least, lol
FTX owes $13.68 to Robin Hood (substack.com)
FTX owes $997.43 to Binance (nationalgeographic.com)
FTX owes $264.32 to Robin Hood (theverge.com)
etc
https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/the-secret-life-of-videoc...
Through which mechanism exactly?
I'm really curious now what did happen to the sausages!
I had the hope that they were some sort of GPT generated internet bickering or something but if not that's OK, I know it's a lot of work.
AI is gonna win, y'all.
[1] you can't prove otherwise!