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Re:Show HN: This Hacker News Does Not Exist by coxomb on Saturday December 03, 2022 @01:31PM (#33845955)
Hi Hackernews! This is a little project I made in my free time. It's a fun and whimsical parody of Hacker News. I wanted to experiment with Faker.js and other JS libraries.

It randomly generates Hackernews headlines. You get new results each time you refresh the page. I spent about 4 days making this, and learned a lot in the process, and it was my first open source side project in a long time.

It was inspired by This Person Does Not Exist and other 'Does Not Exist' projects which you can find here: https://thisxdoesnotexist.com/

If you spot any bugs or have any ideas on maybe how to improve it, post your thoughts here.

The source code can be found on GitHub, where it's hosted:

https://github.com/coxomb/This-Hacker-News-Does-Not-Exist/tr...

I hope you enjoy the project :)

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Re:Show HN: This Hacker News Does Not Exist by blondin on Saturday December 03, 2022 @02:21PM (#33846384)
this is super cool :)

this one got me laughing: "Chicken version 5.0 Alpha Released"

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Re:Show HN: This Hacker News Does Not Exist by nerdponx on Saturday December 03, 2022 @02:29PM (#33846463)
Chicken Scheme is currently on version 5.x so this could very well have been a real headline at one point.
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Re:Show HN: This Hacker News Does Not Exist by TheSpiceIsLife on Saturday December 03, 2022 @04:19PM (#33847467)
No, not Chicken Scheme, it's about Chicken[1].

1. https://youtu.be/yL_-1d9OSdk

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Re:Show HN: This Hacker News Does Not Exist by josephcsible on Saturday December 03, 2022 @02:36PM (#33846528)
One thing I noticed that could be improved: The headlines in isolation are reasonable, and so are the websites, but the pairings between them are not. For example, "Snapchat Has Been Removed From iOS App Store (mitpress.mit.edu)" and "Hstr: Bash And Zsh Shell History Suggest Box (reuters.com)".
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Re:Show HN: This Hacker News Does Not Exist by jandrese on Saturday December 03, 2022 @03:42PM (#33847111)
On the first page I loaded I could tell it was fake immediately, there were no mentions of Rust at all.
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Re:Show HN: This Hacker News Does Not Exist by raphlinus on Saturday December 03, 2022 @04:51PM (#33847788)
I really wanted to get into Rust programming, but was turned off by the toxicity of the community. Their smug attitude of superiority really turns people away. I've been programming in C and C++ for decades, and I'm not sure I've ever once run into a problem with undefined behavior.
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Re:Show HN: This Hacker News Does Not Exist by A4ET8a8uTh0 on Saturday December 03, 2022 @04:19PM (#33847470)
Ask HN: Whats's the Purpose of Action-Items?

I chuckled. Thank you:D

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