I want you to rewrite this headline "Amazon will allow ePub and PDF downloads for DRM-free eBooks"
into something a little humorous and snarky that reveals the underlying truth that would bring a
wry smile to tech-engaged but big tech-skeptical hacker news readers.
This has to fit in the 80 character limit for Hacker News so keep it appropriately short.
Also I want you to reply with exactly one headline and not anything else so I can use your output
as part of a processing pipeline
Amazon Finally Remembers eBooks Aren’t Supposed to Be Prisoners
Good LLM prompt, excellent understanding.
“Click to keep avoiding work …”
I found myself pulling up the original and the honest versions side by side. The translation makes it funny.
EDIT: open the link manually, they put a mock "security check" on referrers from HN
Show HN: Gemini Pro 3 imagines the HN front page 10 years from now https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46205632 (10 days ago)
Show HN: Hacker News, but every headline is hysterical clickbait https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46324579 (4 hours ago)
Superficially, they're the same, but digging in shows the real difference.
They're a lot of fun! And super easy to vibe code, if I'm looking to test a new model.
It's hard to restrain myself from navel-gazing, the lint in there is fascinating.
I'm not sure they satisfy curiosity as much as many posts with fewer votes, but that's okay.
META-MELTDOWN: WE BROKE HACKER NEWS WITH THIS ONE SIMPLE TRICK (dosaygo-studio.github.io)
Seriously! I'll admit the first post was mighty fun. But now this is turning into an AI-spam-fest! I objected in the 2nd thread but got downvoted. Apparently the community here thinks this kind of low effort Reddit-style humor is now on-topic for this place!
Not to mention the systematic downvoting of every comment that is critical of these spam posts!
not the number of stars, but I like looking what people have done online ie GitHub/blog. I feel like it is a nice thing to talk about.
I know it's an unpopular opinion these days cause everyone wants work life balance and not work beyond the office but it's always nice to see projects you've worked on it does show some interest. also while one can fake GitHub activity it's hard to fake well thought out and cared for projects.
it's easier to fake metrics from your previous jobs like I saved X amount of money for the company or had Y efficiency gains.
Edit: Oh no, that was for the repo I actually stared before seeing this. I'm just learning Go :)
They're a lot of fun! And super easy to vibe code, if I'm looking to test a new model.
This is a good step. Next: disclose financial incentives and other motives just to nip it in the bud.
I’m all for prefacing each post that comes from a16z with “Asshole Alert” so that we know who we are dealing with upfront.
"We rewrote it in snark so you have to upvote".
> We rewrote it in Rust so you have to upvote it
I'm pretty sure they didn't go through all the trouble of rewriting it in Rust to get some internet forum points!
Your question was "Is it wrong, though?" The answer is "Yes"
Maybe its just you who doesnt like them?
Obviously it's just me who doesn't like them. What's your point?
My opinion is a weakly that this is tiring and borderline insulting to people who are genuinely looking for feedback and community. Clever once a year or so, but the creator has leaned into it and posted a lot of meta in a small timeline.
The comments make it clear that the language author has not yet learned generics by this exercise.
This one shows the "age" of the LLM, or the data cut off time
https://web.archive.org/web/20000302102827/https://suck.com/...
If you transmit a message to Mars, say a rover command sequence, and the outgoing buffer is deleted on the sending side (the original code is preserved, but the transmission-encoded sequence doesn't stick around), then that data, for 20-90 minutes, exists nowhere _except_ space. It's just random-looking electrical fluctuations that are propagating through whatever is out there until it hits a conducting piece of metal millions of miles away and energizes a cap bank enough to be measured by a digital circuit and reconstructed into data.
So, if you calculate the data rate (9600 baud, even), and set up a loopback/echo transmitter on Mars, you could store ~4 MB "in space". If you're using lasers, it's >100x as much.
archive.space
You just need to be traveling faster than the radio waves, catch up and enjoy :)
The big limiting factors are free space path loss and noise.
Tom 7 did something reminiscent of this if you hadn't seen already: https://youtu.be/JcJSW7Rprio.
The moon is approximately (it varies) 1.3 light seconds away, i.e. a 2.6 second round trip, and optical links can have very high data rates. You could fit quite a lot of data on there! (Edit: although maybe the data rate won't be so high at these distances)
When you developer market hard enough that you make it into the LLM training data.
Considering its hosted on github I think that it is a static page
Now you know why HN has the "no editorializing" rule. :)
Also his accompanying YouTube video mentions the kit retails for $40,000+, a far cry from $15k.
Plus some of the stories seem to be a bit old like openai board controversy remark.
All in all, some funny stuff i agree!
does not deserve the roast
"I built a language nobody will use just to learn generics"
It's not fair to assume the author didn't know how to implement generics before this project. It's also not fair to assume the project won't gain traction. Zig and Rust started out small too! This just goes a little too far for my tastes.
Yeah... what they ended up implementing is not generics. So good thing the LLM doesn't read link/comments too or will've probably wrote an actual roast.
>It's also not fair to assume the project won't gain traction
Very fair to assume this. Referencing Rust/Zig disregarding the thousands other now abandoned ones is survivorship bias. Most small hobby projects remain small. But, besides joking about it, "built [something] nobody will use", if is in their free time, and enjoy it, does it matter? Is there a need for all hobby projects to have a goal of making it big?
>This just goes a little too far for my tastes.
But the "Please star my repo so I can get a job" is fine?
Who unfortunately stopped posting HN critiques, a few years ago. But you can still read old posts on: http://n-gate.com/hackernews/2021/07/
(If you follow that link from HN, and the site sees an HN `Referer`, it will do a fake captcha load, so then click "HACKERNEWS" in the navbar on the right.)
I love these and I know this is all in good fun, but I feel like this one is a little unfair to Jeff. He's a content creator and he didn't actually buy the rig. If he's rich it's because he creates content like this.
Love these things. Every time someone has posted an AI-flavor of HN it's been comedic gold.
- Amazon finally adds a feature that has been standard since 2005
- Texas accidentally does something good for privacy
Would it possible to add a feature where hovering over a title displays the original title?
LOL ... and it actually ran slower.
My favorite is the link in the footer:
<a href="https://www.ycombinator.com/apply/">Sell 7% for clout</a>An opinionated, tuneable, reader-agent.
Still pretty funny tho, ngl.
i am so confused, whats the reason behind this little event handler?
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