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Fake HN titles generated by GPT-3
- rrjjww 4y agoAsk HN: How do you limit your son's software interest? Show HN: A tool to quickly improve your skills Amazing stuff.
- alfonsinbox 4y agoWell now I need to know more about the "Mystery of the frozen frog latin speaker (2012)"
- lumenwrites 4y agoIt'd be so fun if you could generate comments for each of the threads as well.
- b1ue64 4y ago"Pornhub was around for 18 years before people started thinking about it [video]"
- version_five 4y agoThis is good, and reminds me of the "Fake Paper Generator" that some MIT students made using context free grammars in 2005: https://pdos.csail.mit.edu/archive/scigen/ https://pdos.csail.mit.edu/archive/scigen/ Unfortunately it doesn't work anymore, but the titles it generated for the papers were all plausible but also ridiculous CS paper titles, e.g. Rooter: A Methodology for the Typical Unification of Access Points and Redundancy
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- johnfn 4y ago"Glassdoor: Employees have the right to be anonymous, but the CEO doesn't" Hard to argue with that logic!
- icambron 4y ago“Progress on addressing the massive crisis in electrical chargers” I’m glad to hear it!
- sodapopcan 4y agoWhere’s “Tiny X written in Y”?
- cglong 4y ago> Show HN: Rhapsody.fm – Send and receive messages using Discord What an invention!
- Emigre_ 4y agoIf only there was a way
- randomlurking 4y agoPersonal favourite: Mark Zuckerberg: “Haters are supporters; hate is a solution”
- dhruval 4y agoInterested in the process for fine tuning gpt3 for this
- FiloSottile 4y agoSuper easy, just took 10k titles/comments/points from the Angolia API, formatted them as JSON Lines like the following with jq, and fed them to the very well built and documented openai CLI. {"prompt": "A plausible Hacker News title:", "completion": " The Feynman Lectures on Physics (1964) (280 points, 62 comments) END"} The space at the beginning of the completion is for tokenizing, and the END token is for use as a stop token in the generations.
- dhruval 4y agoThanks!
- ludamad 4y agoLooked away for a while talking to someone, tried to click a link when I looked back :) Also unrelated but good one "Tether issue: under $1B and all of the tether tokens suspended". This would definitely get my click :)
- prattatx 4y agoI didn’t need to look away to click a link. Spoiler: it doesn’t work, nor do the comments
- FullstakBlogger 4y agoI absolutely want to read some of these. There needs to be a way to for people to post and rank the best matching articles that actually exist. I dream of the day that generative AI is repurposed to act as a more effective search engine.
- metadat 4y agoAsk HN: Is there another HN beginning with a “h”?$ Show HN: Daily XLSX to-do list with attached spreadsheet as material* Banning JavaScript from web pages is bad for the user Has Google become too social? SQLite development from scratch from scratch Armor-piercing lasers are not shooting lasers but missiles We made a public blockchain off-chain Apple sued for pricing user data against provider who did not provide refunds 100% Embarrassing Haskell Builds Heroku Compose is not fit for purpose Pain Enhancer The distance between reality and fantasy is grows ever smaller.
- AkshatJ27 4y agoIt averages around 0.0005$ per request according to the footer. Could this end up costing the author quite a bit due to HN traffic? Also, whats stopping bad actors from writing a script to continuously fetch the page? I wonder if some sort of caching might help lower costs.
- sillysaurusx 4y agoNothing. And in fact that’s exactly what happened to me. Some fella from HN spawned like 45 simultaneous wget’s in a loop to cause maximum financial damage. All of a sudden we see Firebase’s cost graph go vertical. It happened after I mentioned “just be kind, please! Theoretically this could cost a lot of money.” So there’s at least one person who will do exactly this just for fun. Firebase customer support was super cool about it, but it still knocked us off the paid tier.
- throwaway0x7E6 4y ago>All of a sudden we see Firebase’s cost graph go vertical. think of all the money you have saved by not having to hire a hundred engineers to maintain your website's infrastructure!
- FiloSottile 4y agoIt's part of the bit. There's intentionally no caching, every batch is warm from the AI oven. HN usually drives around 10k visits, so organically it's going to be well within my Saturday night budget. If someone decides to hammer it, well, the OpenAI account has a hard limit of $20/month. It will live until it's killed I guess.
- TeMPOraL 4y ago> HN usually drives around 10k visits You have to account for this not being a regular visit, but rather (I guess) 5-50 "visits" per visit, as people mash F5 to get more titles. > OpenAI account has a hard limit of $20/month That makes me feel better about the couple refreshes I did myself :).
- indigodaddy 4y ago“The experience of a young black man in a white prison (2020)“
- remram 4y agoIs there a dataset of HN titles? This made me want to fiddle with this, but step one is to get the data, and I don't want to crawl HN if the data has already been collected.
- krapp 4y agoThere's an API[0] but it's frustratingly limited in capabilities (albeit not rate-limited.) You'll have to iterate all post IDs, download each post as JSON and get the titles that way. There's also a Google dataset but I don't know the URL for it or if it's up to date. [0]https://github.com/HackerNews/API https://github.com/HackerNews/API
- capableweb 4y ago> frustratingly limited in capabilities What's missing precisely? Seems to be good enough for every use I could think of. One time I even downloaded every single item from it, with a threaded fetcher of I think 16 threads, iterating from 1 up to latest ID and it was done in some like 2 hours I think.
- krapp 4y agoNo ability to directly download threads with a single request, for one, or query it like a database to sort or filter results, exclude unwanted fields, etc.
- capableweb 4y agoThose things should be trivial to achieve with most general purpose languages, as the API is so simple. No need for pagination or other things, just request things by ID recursively and you get the full thing, then after than filter/select whatever you want. Pseudo-code to show how simple it would be: function get_thread(id) { let item = http.get(`{api}/?id={id}`).body if item.childs { item.fetched_children = item.childs.map((id) => { return get_thread(id) }) } return item } (untested, but you don't really need more than that, besides checking if the item was deleted)
- jpmattia 4y agoOh god, I sense this thing is trying to make us write essays to back up the titles. My favorite so far: "Why isn't Linux perfect?"
- cesarb 4y agoI got "Why encryption doesn’t work", which does feels like an essay which should exist, if it doesn't already.
- thirteenfingers 4y ago@rachelbythebay's HN spoof is still my personal favorite: https://rachelbythebay.com/fun/hrand/ https://rachelbythebay.com/fun/hrand/
- bluedevilzn 4y agoThis is incredible and hilarious
- artbristol 4y agoThis has the disconcerting effect of making the real HN titles look like they're generated by GPT-3.
- timeon 4y agoWhen there is no new content on HN, I'm gonna refresh this one.
- angry_moose 4y ago"Ask HN: Is HN worth caring about?" is by far the best one I've gotten. "James Webb Telescope Recall" was pretty amusing as well.
- strbean 4y ago> The Impossible History of Soil Temperature in the Earth’s Atmosphere This one seems too good to be AI
- smcin 4y agoSuperb and timely. Although "Silicon Valley’s single biggest problem is that it’s the clearest way of doing things" is just garbled.
- FullstakBlogger 4y ago"Ask HN: I'm working full time on my blog and still have not found a sustainable way to make money"
- orls 4y agoI refuse to believe this one wasn’t snuck in to the outputs by a human: > Tesla Co-CEO says the autonomous vehicle ‘is for chancers’
- tanduv 4y agogot another one about this Tesla Co-CEO > Tesla Co-CEO is trying to raise $800M for T4, but details are sketchy
- andrewnicolalde 4y agoApparently it’s not even the most realistic it could be! From the footer: > We used Ada because titles generated by the larger Curie model are barely distinguishable from the real thing, despite being original.
- None4U 4y agoMy favourite was "Crowdfunding Scam - Monero"
- kesor 4y agoPick the good ones, and write blogs on them, then post on HN ... Profit!
- zoogeny 4y agoThe real trick here is to use this site as a source of inspiration for legitimate blog posts.
- LelouBil 4y agoOn mobile, after clicking on the link and getting distracted for a second, I could not tell that I was not on HN ! I even tried to click multiple links until I reached the bottom of the page and remembered ! Good job with this !
- TeMPOraL 4y agoRight. The only reason I didn't get confused for long is because I use a userstyle to render HN in dark mode, and this one displayed "plain". But my immediate reaction wasn't "hey, that's fake HN", but "hey, why is this HN tab rendering in default style?!". Good job, OP!
- capableweb 4y agoWould love to see it go a step further and do the same thing for comment threads as well. Think I could possibly lose hours on a site like that rather than minutes. This was a lot of fun as well though.
- bombcar 4y agoThe various subreddit simulator subreddits are a decent amusement.
- doitLP 4y agoTop title: “The baby I was supposed to deliver on twitter”. Man this is good.
- jonas-w 4y agoMy favorites so far: "Ask HN: Why do brands fail to realize that consumers want snacks?" "Ask HN: Why does everyone assume everyone is “too technical?”" "Ask HN: HN is now running on GCP. Why?" "Incest" (i'm not kidding) "Tell HN: Switzerland is replacing its central bank with a peer to bank banking company" "Starlink—Smart RFID Hotspot" "Kryptos: A robot written in Rust who needs to talk to humans" "Cloudflare was hacked and replaced with an NSA spyware-run Proxy" "I poked a hole in a wall and sent the image through a digital lens"
- 2fast4you 4y ago“Zxyn – A C escape language”
- system2 4y agoA Caveman’s Guide to C++ (2009) I am crying.
- motohagiography 4y ago"Ask HN: What's your strategy for winning the lottery?" "Computer Science at MIT Does Not Exist." Still other ones I would use as writing prompts for a blog. It would be about things an ML model produced because it thought this was what you would think would be popular. (I defy any ML model to craft a more painful sentence.) "The first hour of a movie is often worth the whole movie" "Transhumanist manifesto: explore my visions for the future" "Fill up on technology. Technology freaks out. Tell your kids to build a crisis framework" These are amazing.
- raphlinus 4y agoI got "Install the NuGet package manager on a Mac" which I'm still not sure is ridiculously infeasible or the kind of hack somebody might actually manage to pull off. Definitely HN-worthy if they manage it!
- snickerer 4y agoI want the links clickable and AI generated discussion threads! Please! Please!!
- altilunium 4y agoIt reminds me of subreddit simulator
- squarefoot 4y ago"Redtube’s Mark Twain Is a Scientologist Now" Now I totally want to read that article. Please let the AI write it:)
- anonu 4y agoNot fair. There's some articles on there I really want to read.
- jose-cl 4y ago"What Microsoft needs to do to become a large tech company 46 points by a machine learning model | hide | 24 comments"
- swagasaurus-rex 4y ago"SpaceX is thinking of a rocket rail system" This is something I can support
- NayamAmarshe 4y ago> "Apple is so petty, it may murder your kid" > Git as a platform for mentalillness What!? > Show HN: Open-Source PyXMP Cryptographic Algorithm I'd love to see that!
- number6 4y agoFirst warp drive test successfully conducted – US engineers Nice
- smtpserver 4y ago"French technical community in Bastogne after a brush with German Army" "US sets 10-minute work hours as government turns to technology, not people" "China Urges First Time Travelers to Avoid Underwear Sales"
- qbrass 4y agoThat's wrong on so many levels. "ToddlerPorn.com is a website for parents to help their toddlers get off porn"
- postultimate 4y agoMicrosoft considered killing the startup community, says CEO Tesla’s strange new CEO: ‘This is not the right place for me to be successful’ Puerto Rico is receiving $6 Earth’s largest cloud is the remains of a comet (2019) A deep dive into C++ features that make your life harder Windows 10 is basically iOS without the app drawer Never trust a trusted set of data (2013) The Rust Tax Terabot: A remote-controlled toy train that trains riders to do your work 4-Hour Workweek Passes UNH’s Students Why does Brexit happen? NASA Launches High-Definition to Broadcast Its Infomercials I made a living building software that no one needs Scientists have created a new kind of blood clot Two weeks without Instagram Life on the ocean floor and how humans inhabit it Taxing robots is immoral, right? Because it’s a) easier, and b) it would vastly reduce human labor Why are people so glad to have their memories wiped? Does the US lead the world in online harassment? A 50-year-old man shops for lamb chops on the Internet for the first time They said it was impossible to dig for cobblestones without being coated with mud -- Ok, that's it. Time to abandon HN and go over to this site. Actually, scratch that - I'm just moving to the universe this bot is from.
- ASalazarMX 4y agoBeware, that universe might be closer to the singularity than this one: Google Chrome's 'enhanced' pop-up blocker opens an emergency emergency_auth package after public disclosure
- postultimate 4y agoYes, Google CEO Jeff Weiner's Quest to Turn the AI Resource Engine Into an Effective Leader is a very worrying development.
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- postultimate 4y agoHurricane Florence will likely “peel off” the US Atlantic Coast, US Coast Guard spokesman says Getting the right amount of memories right – the culture of memory buffing in bats The art of lithium-ion dynamite (1995) We built the game that makes it harder to punch people I posted this on Hacker News, and now it's being cut off from my website (2021) Show HN: I built an acrylic web interface that resembles my laptop Ask HN: How come not other languages? 80-bit integers get twice as big EBay fired me for praying during my contract negotiations Oregon Community College Students with Common Hyperparasites (2018) New body cameras that didn’t see a shooting Show HN: Awk – The ultimate search engine The Complete Code of the IWK-01 Space Gun Write It Down: Probably NASA's Hubble observatory detects earliest known appearance of crude grease on objects around the world Bitcoin collapses below one BTC Show HN: I made a web app for making to-do lists Hollywood is turning to Russia as a model of “positive cultural integration” -- Ok it's just interviewing for The Onion at this point.