Show HN: This Hacker News does not exist

by wonderfulyon 6/4/2025, 1:52 PMwith 16 comments

by ZeroGravitason 6/5/2025, 9:30 AM

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

by TUVIMENon 6/4/2025, 5:52 PM

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

by abrefeldon 6/4/2025, 11:00 PM

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?

by suobseton 6/5/2025, 3:37 AM

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/

by coxomb2on 6/4/2025, 2:21 PM

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

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

by fsfloveron 6/4/2025, 2:13 PM

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

by msgodelon 6/4/2025, 2:15 PM

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

by foobarbecueon 6/6/2025, 4:43 AM

"SQLite a Trillion Times Faster (2023)"

X-D

by wey-guon 6/4/2025, 2:00 PM

Too real, can’t stop clicking

by quectophotonon 6/4/2025, 9:08 PM

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

by seydoron 6/5/2025, 11:58 AM

Looking forward to the infuriating comments