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jonas-w
My favorites so far:
"Ask HN: Why do brands fail to realize that consumers want snacks?"
"Ask HN: Why does everyone assume everyone is “too technical?”"
"Ask HN: HN is now running on GCP. Why?"
"Incest" (i'm not kidding)
"Tell HN: Switzerland is replacing its central bank with a peer to bank banking company"
"Starlink—Smart RFID Hotspot"
"Kryptos: A robot written in Rust who needs to talk to humans"
"Cloudflare was hacked and replaced with an NSA spyware-run Proxy"
"I poked a hole in a wall and sent the image through a digital lens"
2fast4you
“Zxyn – A C escape language”
andrewnicolalde
Apparently it’s not even the most realistic it could be! From the footer:
> We used Ada because titles generated by the larger Curie model are barely distinguishable from the real thing, despite being original.
artbristol
This has the disconcerting effect of making the real HN titles look like they're generated by GPT-3.
toxicFork
Eventually we will get AI based title analysers that simulate the conditions to predict and optimise where your title will land on the front-page listing order.
rhizome
I think a case could be made that ML is automated growth hacking.
ludamad
Looked away for a while talking to someone, tried to click a link when I looked back :)
Also unrelated but good one "Tether issue: under $1B and all of the tether tokens suspended". This would definitely get my click :)
FullstakBlogger
I absolutely want to read some of these. There needs to be a way to for people to post and rank the best matching articles that actually exist. I dream of the day that generative AI is repurposed to act as a more effective search engine.
prattatx
I didn’t need to look away to click a link. Spoiler: it doesn’t work, nor do the comments
johnfn
"Glassdoor: Employees have the right to be anonymous, but the CEO doesn't"
Hard to argue with that logic!
randomlurking
Personal favourite:
Mark Zuckerberg: “Haters are supporters; hate is a solution”
jpmattia
Oh god, I sense this thing is trying to make us write essays to back up the titles.
My favorite so far: "Why isn't Linux perfect?"
cesarb
I got "Why encryption doesn’t work", which does feels like an essay which should exist, if it doesn't already.
angry_moose
"Ask HN: Is HN worth caring about?" is by far the best one I've gotten.
"James Webb Telescope Recall" was pretty amusing as well.
strbean
> The Impossible History of Soil Temperature in the Earth’s Atmosphere
This one seems too good to be AI
version_five
This is good, and reminds me of the "Fake Paper Generator" that some MIT students made using context free grammars in 2005: https://pdos.csail.mit.edu/archive/scigen/
Unfortunately it doesn't work anymore, but the titles it generated for the papers were all plausible but also ridiculous CS paper titles, e.g. Rooter: A Methodology for the Typical Unification of Access Points and Redundancy
raphlinus
I got "Install the NuGet package manager on a Mac" which I'm still not sure is ridiculously infeasible or the kind of hack somebody might actually manage to pull off. Definitely HN-worthy if they manage it!
zoogeny
The real trick here is to use this site as a source of inspiration for legitimate blog posts.
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