DeepSeek My User Agent
AI
ai roast generator
SHOW HN2025
360points
142comments
#136of 3,837 in 2025
Top 4%of 2025 by points
How HN took it
MixedNo clear lean
20 positive, 31 neutral or asking, 5 mixed, 14 critical, out of 70 comments about the project. Thread score +0.10.
Execution: 1 for, 12 againstIdea: 9 for, 1 againstPerformance: 1 for, 1 againstPricing: 1 for, 0 against
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What HN said
What people liked
Very funny roasts
From 4 comments
> your Danish language setting in Croydon screams "I VPN to Copenhagen for overpriced pastries." First time an LLM made me laugh
glutamate on HN"You spent 46 seconds lurking on Hacker News just to end up here with your four Chrome cores and Linux OS in the tech capital of San Jose—did you compile the courage to click?…
cbracketdash on HN> Your screen’s so small, even your memes are vertically challenged. Using an iPhone Mini, this is the most hilarious response I’ve seen from an LLM
etienne89 on HNThis is amazing fun!
fieldcny on HN
Chain-of-thought reasoning is interesting to read
From 2 comments
Oh this is fun. It seems to be a bit puzzled by my setup, which is understandable since it's a Linux phone cosplaying as Android: Okay, let's tackle this roast. First, I need to…
GranPC on HNTo be fair, I shouldn't expect anything great from insult comedy based on a user-agent string, but I have to say I'm not impressed by this word salad of "reasoning": > Okay,…
username223 on HN
Objections
Roasts often wrong about device, OS and location
From 4 comments
I think it picks out device type from the resolution and other stats, like a fingerprint. Since the device type is not actually available or sent (EDIT: or maybe some include it…
jasonthorsness on HNRoasting your ultrawide 3440x1440 "I need binoculars to see my tabs" setup in Longueuil, QC—a city so forgettable even your *2-core potato PC* probably buffers its Google…
davemtl on HN> Roasting your Safari 18.1.1 on Catalina (still? Minnesota winters must slow those updates) with a screen so narrow (820px) it’s like you’re browsing Hacker News—your thrilling*…
donatj on HNIt misreads my RAM as being stock, so I guess it's basing it on the model and not the actual system info Edit, nevermind, the user agent reports it wrong, didn't know that could…
joseda-hg on HN
Service timeouts and flaky API
From 3 comments
seems down for me, the POST request (seen in devtools) just gives a 504 ``` An error occurred with your deployment FUNCTION_INVOCATION_TIMEOUT…
1317 on HNFor me it just returns a wall of text with (part of) its reasoning about composing a short roast, but not the roast itself. I guess this is not intended.
cubefox on HNAPI keeps going through periods of 1-2 minutes of everything timing out... then works well for ~5-10 minutes. Might be better to host this model yourself for serious use right now.
jasonthorsness on HN
Requests
Compare roasts across competing models
From 1 comment
Your beta iOS 18.3 is so unstable even Albuquerque’s heat can’t melt through those Safari crashes, your empty referrer screams “I Googled ‘how to be interesting’ but closed the…
xivusr on HN
Questions
How long before DeepSeek charges per API call?
From 1 comment
pretty great. How long before deepseek charges for each api call?
andrewfromx on HN
Alternatives named
ChatGPT
From 1 comment
chatgpt: "With 4 cores and an OS that’s older than some startups' lifespans, you're basically running a vintage computing museum—do you charge admission, or is the suffering…
2024user on HN