NotYetNews
Creative
generative news parody
SHOW HN2023
How HN took it
5 positive, 2 neutral or asking, 1 mixed, 3 critical, out of 11 comments about the project. Thread score +0.13.
Idea: 5 for, 1 againstExecution: 0 for, 2 against
The thread, comment by comment
Each row is a top-level comment and its replies, in HN's order. Select a cell to open that comment on HN.
positive neutral or mixed critical about another commenter or something else the maker
What HN said
What people liked
Fun, creative project; the future-news satire is funny, like The Onion
From 3 comments
Nice to see a fun, creative project like this. The LLM tie-in makes sense because it keeps headlines fresh & relevant to today's news. Thanks for sharing! If anyone else wants a…
typpo on HNDare I say "The Onion" but in the future? That's what came to my mind when I saw it the site!
HenryBemis on HN> Why a Basic Algorithm Garnered Unprecedented Support from Quantum-Net Billionaires > In an absurd twist of events, the quantum-net community is perplexed by the curious case of…
jv22222 on HN
Works as a proof of concept for auto-generated content
From 2 comments
>> Who cares? I care, and I appreciated this submission. I dont think the submission is meant to be a replacement for Literature or Science Fiction, I think it is meant to be a…
TuringNYC on HNIf you're not interested in random and creative acts of programming, I think you're on the wrong discussion site. This is for fun. It takes todays headlines and rewrites them.…
humanistbot on HN
Objections
AI-generated fiction and spam is not worth reading or celebrating
From 2 comments
Who cares? Go read some sci fi, it might actually be worth reading. Ai fiction isn’t worth reading yet, it’s just novelty, like, look, that dog can talk! We shouldn’t celebrate…
barbariangrunge on HNI agree. The more attention we give AI, the more it will be profitable for sites to use it to gain advertising revenue, and the more money will be given to it's development. That…
vouaobrasil on HN
Links were off-by-one, each article led to the next (since fixed)
From 3 comments
It seems like something is wrong with the links, at least on my machine. If I click the summary of the top article, I get linked to the second article. Clicking on the second…
lancebeet on HN2122 and still plagued by off-by-one errors! Yes, same for me on mobile, took a while for me to figure out what was going on because the one I was getting was so similar to the…
OJFord on HNOops! Fixed now
johnpolacek on HN
Generated content feels shallow and hollow
From 1 comment
Honestly, I struggle with this. I've made some 'AI' generated content, Multi-player text based rpgs with persistent generated content, stories, news articles, etc. I never…
batch12 on HN
Requests
Generate content automatically on a daily schedule
From 1 comment
This is great! Pretty similar to what I did in that you have actual links to the articles and even images. If you had a cron script that auto-generated new content every day, I…
johnpolacek on HN
Questions
What is the proof of concept being demonstrated?
From 1 comment
A proof of what concept?
throwanem on HN
Why does the article say 'The year is 2122' instead of reading as a 2122 article?
From 1 comment
very funny. But "NEW YORK - The year is 2122 and the fight for clean energy has taken an unexpected, yet entertaining turn." Shouldn't it read as a current news article writen in…
andrewfromx on HN
Alternatives named
crackernews.github.io (GPT-4 generated HN parody)
From 1 comment
Check out my recent GPT-4 generated HN parody as well: https://crackernews.github.io (featuring coherent comment threads!) P.S. the prompts and the code I used can be found here:…
xpl on HN
This Hacker News Does Not Exist
From 2 comments
I built `This Hackernews Does Not Exist` which is similar to this: https://coxomb.github.io/This-Hacker-News-Does-Not-Exist/ HN comments:…
gravitate on HNThere's also Rachel's Whacker News: https://rachelbythebay.com/fun/hrand/ And Filippo Valsorda's gem: https://filippo.io/fakenews/ And of course my one (shameless plug):…
gravitate on HN
Rachel's Whacker News and Filippo Valsorda's fakenews
From 1 comment
There's also Rachel's Whacker News: https://rachelbythebay.com/fun/hrand/ And Filippo Valsorda's gem: https://filippo.io/fakenews/ And of course my one (shameless plug):…
gravitate on HN
Medieval Content Farm (tidings.potato.horse)
From 1 comment
For a more present-oriented, yet archaic in its delivery, news coverage I recommend the Medieval Content Farm: https://tidings.potato.horse
rpastuszak on HN