This Hacker News Does Not Exist
Creative
parody website
SHOW HN2022
How HN took it
20 positive, 32 neutral or asking, 2 mixed, 8 critical, out of 62 comments about the project. Thread score +0.19.
Idea: 15 for, 2 againstExecution: 1 for, 6 againstPerformance: 1 for, 0 against
The thread, comment by comment
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What HN said
What people liked
Funny, whimsical headlines that could plausibly appear on HN
From 3 comments
A bunch of headlines on there could totally be on HN. Love it!
petarb on HNThis 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.
myself248 on HNAbsolute gold. Some favorites: - Olive Considered Dangerous (techcrunch.com) - Profound 4th Generation Hardware -- an all-time nothing headline - Ask HN: What Happened to…
bonney_io on HN
Fast loading vanilla HTML/JS
From 1 comment
Look how fast it loads! I love how this was written in vanilla HTML, JS, and JQuery, without any use of modern frameworks. Does it work offline?
yawnxyz on HN
Objections
Pairings of headlines and domains are often mismatched
From 2 comments
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…
josephcsible on HNNice project! Suggestion: Remove the "#" from the href value or normalize the color style for a:visited. Otherwise if you click one link, they all change to the visited color and…
caxco93 on HN
Repetitive patterns appear after a few reloads
From 2 comments
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.
myself248 on HNThis 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.
nine_k on HN
Comments repeat across articles
From 1 comment
The comments appear the same on each article. Is this intended? I had the hope that they were some sort of GPT generated internet bickering or something but if not that's OK, I…
dheera on HN
Requests
Generate headlines with GPT-3 or similar
From 1 comment
It would be nice to use GPT3 to generate the headlines and even the content of the links.
felipelalli on HN
Add a static version where comments can be posted
From 1 comment
While the headlines may not be real, many of these are totally worthy of Hacker News style conversations. Maybe we need a static version of this that we can add comments to?
IfOnlyINewMore on HN
Fix visited link colour styling
From 1 comment
Nice project! Suggestion: Remove the "#" from the href value or normalize the color style for a:visited. Otherwise if you click one link, they all change to the visited color and…
caxco93 on HN
Questions
How does it differ from the existing fakenews project?
From 1 comment
How does this differ from https://filippo.io/fakenews/ (submission at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33757935)?
nyanpasu64 on HN
Does it work offline?
From 1 comment
Look how fast it loads! I love how this was written in vanilla HTML, JS, and JQuery, without any use of modern frameworks. Does it work offline?
yawnxyz on HN
Alternatives named
filippo.io fakenews generator
From 1 comment
How does this differ from https://filippo.io/fakenews/ (submission at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33757935)?
nyanpasu64 on HN
thisxdoesnotexist.com
From 1 comment
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…
coxomb on HN