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I miss n-gate

by throw_away 2y ago

I miss n-gate

tacoman 2y ago
Some weeks would go by and I would just check n-gate to see what happened on HN.
readthenotes1 2y ago
I just checked it yesterday. I guess the writer died during COVID? I really miss his war on users take.
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- giraffe_lady 2y ago
  This is based on almost nothing but I always suspected it was done by maciej cegłowski. He has a very similar sort of semi-sincere contempt for the fixations of tech people and the writing style isn't that different from his social media persona. He also disappeared around the same time n-gate went inactive tho he eventually came back.
  - tptacek 2y ago
    I don't think Maciej cares as much about HN as n-gate did.
    - idlewords 2y ago
      This is the first time I'm hearing of n-gate. But if it's awesome then yeah, it was me.
walterbell 2y ago
https://x.com/atax1a/status/1529525996507914240 https://x.com/atax1a/status/1529525996507914240 > An Internet (business model: Uber for tech industry criticism), who previously regularly updated on a weekly basis, hasn't been seen since August of 2021. They leave behind the following cryptic remark on Tweeter [Oct 2021] Rumors of my death are almost as exaggerated as my writing style. Sorry for the delay; I'm catching up. A Reddit comment claimed that n-gate was sued to stop publishing.
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emmanueloga_ 2y ago
omg rofl x 1000 :-p https://twitter.com/webshitweekly/status/1332452940104179712 https://twitter.com/webshitweekly/status/1332452940104179712
RachelF 2y ago
I miss their about page http://n-gate.com/about/ http://n-gate.com/about/
neilk 2y ago
It's literally just ChatGPT told to sound like n-gate. The prompt begins: > Create a humorous and mocking summary in the style of n-gate.com. https://github.com/dfeldman/quackernews/blob/1d75913385791621340657488a3fd824e98dd1f7/scripts/hnsummarize.py#L15C20-L15C86 https://github.com/dfeldman/quackernews/blob/1d7591338579162...
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- neilv 2y ago
  I wonder whether the result would be closer to n-gate if the prompt left out "humorous and mocking".
onionisafruit 2y ago
My favorite part of having something featured on hn was seeing it on n-gate the next week.

I miss n-gate

tacoman 2y ago

Some weeks would go by and I would just check n-gate to see what happened on HN.

readthenotes1 2y ago

I just checked it yesterday. I guess the writer died during COVID? I really miss his war on users take.

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giraffe_lady 2y ago
This is based on almost nothing but I always suspected it was done by maciej cegłowski. He has a very similar sort of semi-sincere contempt for the fixations of tech people and the writing style isn't that different from his social media persona. He also disappeared around the same time n-gate went inactive tho he eventually came back.
- tptacek 2y ago
  I don't think Maciej cares as much about HN as n-gate did.
  - idlewords 2y ago
    This is the first time I'm hearing of n-gate. But if it's awesome then yeah, it was me.

walterbell 2y ago

https://x.com/atax1a/status/1529525996507914240 https://x.com/atax1a/status/1529525996507914240 > An Internet (business model: Uber for tech industry criticism), who previously regularly updated on a weekly basis, hasn't been seen since August of 2021. They leave behind the following cryptic remark on Tweeter [Oct 2021] Rumors of my death are almost as exaggerated as my writing style. Sorry for the delay; I'm catching up. A Reddit comment claimed that n-gate was sued to stop publishing.

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emmanueloga_ 2y ago

omg rofl x 1000 :-p https://twitter.com/webshitweekly/status/1332452940104179712 https://twitter.com/webshitweekly/status/1332452940104179712

RachelF 2y ago

I miss their about page http://n-gate.com/about/ http://n-gate.com/about/

neilk 2y ago

It's literally just ChatGPT told to sound like n-gate. The prompt begins: > Create a humorous and mocking summary in the style of n-gate.com. https://github.com/dfeldman/quackernews/blob/1d75913385791621340657488a3fd824e98dd1f7/scripts/hnsummarize.py#L15C20-L15C86 https://github.com/dfeldman/quackernews/blob/1d7591338579162...

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neilv 2y ago
I wonder whether the result would be closer to n-gate if the prompt left out "humorous and mocking".

onionisafruit 2y ago

My favorite part of having something featured on hn was seeing it on n-gate the next week.