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Show HN: Hacker News from Alternate Dimension (With Everything LLM-Generated) (crackernews.github.io)

21 points by xpl ↗ HN
I recently discovered that LLMs can generate hilarious tech article titles, so I took it to the next level by generating coherent and entertaining comment threads, article content, and images.

It will be automatically updated, so you'll never get bored.

Enjoy!

P.S. I've added robots.txt so I hope it doesn't get indexed.

6 comments

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simon_000666
That’s amazing, some of those articles are priceless bits of HN satire.
xpl
Yes! I've also noticed that GPT-3.5 and GPT-4 have somewhat different senses of humor. GPT-3.5 tends to lean more towards absurdism — sometimes it's so bad that it's actually good, but that's not always the case. So, I use both for generating headlines.

However, GPT-3.5 often struggles to generate coherent comment threads, so I use GPT-4 for that, which does the job pretty well.

For images, I simply ask LLM to include a prompt in the img alt tag, and then I call the DALL-E API to generate JPEGs. But honestly, DALL-E isn't great; it would be much better to use StableDiffusion or Midjourney, but I'm too lazy to integrate them (does Midjourney even have a public API?)

If you want to see the prompts, here is the code: https://github.com/crackernews/crackernews.github.io

wizofaus
Please tell me I wasn't the only one to have clicked on the link, viewed the page and assumed I must have misclicked and was still on HN...
xpl
Argh, some articles don't fit in a single LLM response and get cut. Maybe add a fake paywall for a more realistic experience!
notduncansmith
This is hilarious, great work! I guess we can add satire to the list of industries being disrupted by AI.
billylo
Thank you for sharing this.

This particular headline cracks me up: "Javascript: the Secret Language of Dolphins?"