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i'd forgotten i'd written this a year and a half ago, and when a friend passed me the link to it just now, it seemed hilarious to me. probably some other people will enjoy it too

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Nice! Check out this GPT-4 generated HN also: https://crackernews.github.io :)

> Study Finds That 75% of Remote Workers Are Actually Just AI Chatbots

Better news than I suspected.

Satire aside; I would love a world where all HN links link to nicely formatted articles that load fast like that.

Ha ha nice that the links actually work ... and lead to more GPT-4 generated content :D

> All Internet Traffic Rerouted to Rickroll Video for 24 Hours

Pls can I have?

Reminds me of rachelbythebay's Whacker News.[1]

[1]: https://rachelbythebay.com/fun/hrand/

> The first house to be 3D printed from raw styles heets

Okay, this is excellent comedy.

i'm delighted you liked it

Been a while since I actually laughed out loud due to HN. Excellent work.

Only thing missing is an article entitled "Vague insinuation of Your Technology is Bad results in HN comments section being paged due to massive flame war...again"

> My Current Redis Fork of HTML

What a week

some weeks are like that

Back in the very early days of HN I remember someone posting a parody of "HN in 2050" or something like that. Does anyone else remember that? I've tried to find it a few times in recent years without luck.

“Pitching your early stage fake app”

This one got me, nice work!

thanks!

I’d call it Hacker Onion.

parody is a reasonable defense against infringing the yc trademark but not the onion trademark in this context

> Google have declared Apple's M1 chip is malware

i'm tempted to do that myself

There was an older and very funny one I've seen before that was much more overt cliches, "X considered harmful" type stuff. Does anyone remember and know where to find it?

I found this which was really funny when maintained, but not the same thing: http://n-gate.com/hackernews/

Official Dangerous Virus Notice Distributed at the X-Windows Conference

https://donhopkins.medium.com/the-x-windows-disaster-128d398...

>X-Windows: …A mistake carried out to perfection. X-Windows: …Dissatisfaction guaranteed. X-Windows: …Don’t get frustrated without it. X-Windows: …Even your dog won’t like it. X-Windows: …Flaky and built to stay that way. X-Windows: …Complex non-solutions to simple non-problems. X-Windows: …Flawed beyond belief. X-Windows: …Form follows malfunction. X-Windows: …Garbage at your fingertips. X-Windows: …Ignorance is our most important resource. X-Windows: …It could be worse, but it’ll take time. X-Windows: …It could happen to you. X-Windows: …Japan’s secret weapon. X-Windows: …Let it get in your way. X-Windows: …Live the nightmare. X-Windows: …More than enough rope. X-Windows: …Never had it, never will. X-Windows: …No hardware is safe. X-Windows: …Power tools for power fools. X-Windows: …Putting new limits on productivity. X-Windows: …Simplicity made complex. X-Windows: …The cutting edge of obsolescence. X-Windows: …The art of incompetence. X-Windows: …The defacto substandard. X-Windows: …The first fully modular software disaster. X-Windows: …The joke that kills. X-Windows: …The problem for your problem. X-Windows: …There’s got to be a better way. X-Windows: …Warn your friends about it. X-Windows: …You’d better sit down. X-Windows: …You’ll envy the dead.

Are you thinking of Filippo's Fake Hacker News?

https://filippo.io/fakenews/

I found it so amusing that I bookmarked it ^^

Yes I think that's it, thanks!

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