HN Wrapped 2025
AI
llm generated personal recap
SHOW HN2025
313points
153comments
#169of 3,837 in 2025
Top 5%of 2025 by points
How HN took it
MixedNo clear lean
60 positive, 16 neutral or asking, 23 mixed, 20 critical, out of 119 comments about the project. Thread score +0.35.
Execution: 15 for, 12 againstIdea: 6 for, 3 againstPrivacy: 0 for, 3 againstDesign: 2 for, 1 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
Roasts and comics are funny and often accurate
From 4 comments
Okay, mine was just awesome. Thank you. The only thing that would make it better would be if it could be easily saved. (Also, it's a shame that it regenerates the xkcd every…
AndrewDucker on HNHahaha - this is genuinely funny. Not sure I've seen LLM content be actually this witty before.
jonwinstanley on HNThis is absolutely wild haha, love it "A high-latency architect who spends his days documenting every time a CDN sneezes while dreaming of a mountain drive through the Balkans…
madjam002 on HNThe Local-First Supply Chain Architect, fine-tuning open-source LLMs just to avoid paying a five dollar cloud subscription. Hah, I feel seen! This is pretty funny
syntaxing on HN
Fun and entertaining to share
From 2 comments
This was a bit of fun. I've been doing a lot of coding via GitHub copilot from my phone lately and it picked up on that and coined the term "Thumb driven development", which I…
latentsea on HNI don't like "Wrappeds" (low-key social hack to manufacture normalization of surveillance capitalism?), but with HN being public, I succumbed to temptation. Very fun, 10/10 no…
lukifer on HN
Objections
Predictions and roasts are generic or shallow, focusing on a few comments
From 3 comments
I did like it, but for me it was fixated on 3-5 comments from the last 1-2 months that got a few more upvotes. It didn’t really work as an overview for the year. Still, a pretty…
oersted on HNIn contrast to many others, I did not find this particularly interesting. - The comic on is oddly cropped and contains speech attribution errors. - It calls me an "extremist"…
kqr on HNI think this is a great demonstration of context rot: It fixates on the earliest and the most recent comments. Things in between don't appear to move the needle at all.
lelanthran on HN
Privacy concerns about LLM profiling of social media data and 30-day data retention
From 4 comments
As a side note, I find this capability of AI to mine social profiles quite disturbing. Automated profiling of social media accounts can be and is used with malicious intent. The…
ozgung on HNThis is fun, but the fact that it is now so easy to process a massive amount of social media data to extract a person's political leanings, hobbies, etc and infer information…
acheong08 on HNIs there a reason you hold onto data for thirty days? That’s a non starter for me - I don’t have a clue who you are or what this is even used for.
hluska on HNThis caused me to delete the HN password on my main account. It was already disconcerting to be reminded by Karpathy (I cannot help but see this as bragging) in his recent post…
382373idjdj on HN
Some roasts were hurtful or inaccurate
From 2 comments
Honestly, not cool. Mine "roasted" me by making fun of the fact I never finished a PhD, despite that being due to medical and other life circumstances that were well outside my…
triclops200 on HNI got the following: "... a linguistic purist who will defend a 32-bit Atom CPU until the heat death of the universe or the next Debian update." Interesting, semi-accurate,…
LoveMortuus on HN
Requests
Save or cache generated results
From 2 comments
Okay, mine was just awesome. Thank you. The only thing that would make it better would be if it could be easily saved. (Also, it's a shame that it regenerates the xkcd every…
AndrewDucker on HNThanks, you got a great tagline! The xkcd should be saved and cached once generated, I'll look into the issue. How would you improve saving?
hubraumhugo on HN
Case-insensitive username input
From 1 comment
Bug: Had some trouble at first since I entered the lowercase version of my username, but it wants the properly-capitalised version. It would be nice if the username field was…
ValentineC on HN
Questions
Why are data held for thirty days
From 1 comment
Is there a reason you hold onto data for thirty days? That’s a non starter for me - I don’t have a clue who you are or what this is even used for.
hluska on HN
Are the prompts being shared
From 1 comment
Hilarious. It seemed to focus on something about Boolean logic that I don’t remember taking about, but otherwise awesome. Are you sharing any of the prompts you used to generate…
tylerrobinson on HN
Alternatives named
Other Wrapped-style recap projects such as IMDb Wrapped
From 1 comment
I've also build a custom Wrapped but for IMDb https://imdb-wrapped.eamag.me/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46326198 So cool it's now easy to build custom recaps!
eamag on HN
An earlier HN roast site by the same maker
From 1 comment
Wasn't this same site showed off on HN about a few months ago? I recall using it back then where it would roast you, seems like this is just a rebrand to a "wrapped" version and…
satvikpendem on HN