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Re:Praise My GitHub Profile by denysvitali on Sunday August 04, 2024 @03:29PM (#41155715)
This is the opposite of https://github-roast.pages.dev, fyi
Re:Praise My GitHub Profile by diggan on Sunday August 04, 2024 @04:12PM (#41156016)
Which was on the frontpage just yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41145517
Re:Praise My GitHub Profile by w-m on Sunday August 04, 2024 @05:03PM (#41156335)
Haha, thanks for posting, that brought me a lot of joy running on my profile. It must have an awesome prompt. The praise one felt quite cringy, so I was happy that at least the roast didn't take any prisoners:

> Sounds like you’re trying to impress academic circles, but with repos that barely break the surface of mediocrity, you might want to reconsider your life choices. “Awesome” lists with zero stargazers? That’s some next-level irony. Get an original thought or two, and maybe, just maybe, you won’t need to curate lists of things no one cares about. This GitHub isn’t a museum for your neglected projects, it’s a showcase, and right now, it’s just a dump!

Re:Praise My GitHub Profile by marvinborner on Sunday August 04, 2024 @05:20PM (#41156421)
It seems like the prompt is

"You roast people github account based on their bio, name, readme, and repos as harsh and spicy as possible, and keep it short."

https://github.com/codenoid/github-roast/blob/main/src/route...

Re:Praise My GitHub Profile by w-m on Sunday August 04, 2024 @05:32PM (#41156490)
Oh wow, thanks for looking it up. I stand corrected! Never would have thought this simple a prompt could get such spicy responses.
Re:Praise My GitHub Profile by w-m on Sunday August 04, 2024 @05:44PM (#41156535)
Just had GPT-4o roast me, based on my HN profile bio and recent comments. (Would anybody care to build a Show-HN out of this?). Giving it lots of actual written stuff (I put a lot of thought into), not just project names, makes it cut so much deeper:

> w-m, your attempts at contributing to discussions are like bringing a butter knife to a gunfight. Your comment on getting "canned" responses from GitHub praise projects reeks of a guy who secretly wishes for a participation trophy while dismissing genuine critique. You try so hard to sound like a nuanced thinker, but it mostly comes off as a desperate plea for validation. It's almost charming how you still think "constructive feedback" is going to fix a broken prompt when, let’s face it, your GitHub is about as engaging as a beige wall.

> Your tirade on Self-Compressing Neural Networks and 3D Gaussian Splatting reads like a bad parody of a tech talk at a conference no one wanted to attend. You ramble on about "self-organization" as if you're the first to discover the concept, all while your contributions are about as original as a straight-to-DVD sequel. And let’s not forget your .zip domain saga—a perfect encapsulation of your career: big ideas with zero practical payoff. You bought a useless domain and then cried foul when IT blocked it. Maybe next time, stick to .com like everyone else who doesn't want to be laughed out of the room.

> Your AMD complaint at CVPR is just the cherry on top. You walk around conferences like an underfunded indie game developer whining about corporate monopolies while pretending you’re the underdog hero. Pro tip: if you're going to gripe about market dynamics, at least do it without sounding like a whiny tech bro who's bitter because they couldn't get their hands on the latest GPU.

> In summary, w-m, you’re the quintessential tech enthusiast who overcomplicates everything, talks like he’s inventing the wheel, and then acts surprised when no one wants to ride along. Maybe it's time to step out of your echo chamber and actually engage with the world beyond your academic bubble.

I think that's the most fun I've had with LLMs in quite a while.

Edit: works well on arxiv papers, too...

Re:Praise My GitHub Profile by PeeMcGee on Monday August 05, 2024 @05:34AM (#41159497)
The insults sound a lot like the ones from the sword fight in Monkey Island.
Re:Praise My GitHub Profile by bryanrasmussen on Monday August 05, 2024 @05:53AM (#41159603)
I think the roast is misinformed though, Github is a museum for my neglected projects.
Re:Praise My GitHub Profile by tuetuopay on Sunday August 04, 2024 @05:21PM (#41156423)
Okay I love this one, it is great. Thanks for the good laugh!

> And what's with the projects? A business card that runs Linux? Next, you'll tell us you’re working on a coffee mug that serves sarcastic remarks.

I honestly find this idea pretty amusing and I am half-tempted to do it. Embed some flexible e-ink display in the walls of a mug and have it show sarcastinc fortune cookies. It could even roast you when the coffee gets cold.

Re:Praise My GitHub Profile by spyspy on Sunday August 04, 2024 @07:31PM (#41157022)
I had the idea for a sarcastic weather app once.

“It’s raining. Maybe the strangers won’t be able to tell you’re crying today.”

“It’s sunny and 72°. If only you had friends to enjoy it with.”

Re:Praise My GitHub Profile by dmd on Sunday August 04, 2024 @08:36PM (#41157283)
https://www.meetcarrot.com/weather/ is kinda famous for that feature.
Re:Praise My GitHub Profile by j_bum on Sunday August 04, 2024 @11:45PM (#41158021)
Sounds like an awesome idea!
Re:Praise My GitHub Profile by tuetuopay on Monday August 05, 2024 @04:13AM (#41159096)
Dang it, now I feel like I have to do it. Flexible E-ink displays are also pretty cheap on aliexpress, and the rest is some glue and a microcontroller. I’ll see when I’m back from holidays.

I even have the name. "The Coffee Smug".

Re:Praise My GitHub Profile by nucleardog on Monday August 05, 2024 @02:07AM (#41158516)
> And a PHP library for ASN.1? That’s a niche so small it practically qualifies as a hobby project with more dust than downloads.

I think "hobby project" is overselling the effort there. Also I'd entirely forgotten I'd written that.

Re:Praise My GitHub Profile by ffsm8 on Monday August 05, 2024 @05:18AM (#41159431)
The punchline could be "get roasted after your coffee got roasted"? Cuz, yknow,coffee beans are roasted and... Okay, maybe not such a good pun after all
Re:Praise My GitHub Profile by tuetuopay on Monday August 05, 2024 @09:02AM (#41160982)
"I like you the way I like my coffee. Roasted."

So many ways to turn it

Re:Praise My GitHub Profile by Retr0id on Sunday August 04, 2024 @06:08PM (#41156661)
Hah, for me this one ended up more complimentary than the "praise" version (which felt hollow, really).

My favourite excerpt:

> Is your real job finding out just how much you can screw up other people's software? Your projects read like a hacker's buffet—one exploit after another, like you're collecting CVEs the way some people collect Pokémon.

Re:Praise My GitHub Profile by eddd-ddde on Sunday August 04, 2024 @06:23PM (#41156722)
I loved mine:

> Next time you decide to learn something new, maybe pick up how to properly market your projects because right now, it looks like you’re trying to audition for the role of “Most Likely to Be Forgotten.” Keep striving, Ed; you might still reach the dizzying heights of double-digit followers one day!

And people say AI isn't good, this is genuinely the best advice I could have gotten.

Re:Praise My GitHub Profile by nathell on Sunday August 04, 2024 @06:49PM (#41156833)
> Nah, I'm good, I don't want to roast torvalds

:D

Re:Praise My GitHub Profile by cqqxo4zV46cp on Sunday August 04, 2024 @07:25PM (#41156987)
> a "computer hater" masquerading as a lead software engineer at $DAYJOB? That’s like a chef who hates food but runs a restaurant

and

> And with open issues piling up like a flood of disappointment in your "$PROJECT_NAME” project, it's clear that even your attempts at supply chain risk management can't manage the risk of you being taken seriously in the dev community. Here’s a tip: maybe stop hating computers and start learning how to use them effectively.

Ooft! Honestly I’ve never seen an LLM be this creative. I guess it makes sense that, given its training data, it’s really good at being a dick.

Re:Praise My GitHub Profile by BaculumMeumEst on Sunday August 04, 2024 @07:26PM (#41156991)
Holy fucking shit I put in my handle and some people that I follow, that thing is absolutely brutal LMAO. Absolutely no boundaries. I would legitimately not show that to someone having a bad day.
Re:Praise My GitHub Profile by metadat on Sunday August 04, 2024 @09:56PM (#41157582)
This is what I wanted!!! Hilarious and not entirely wrong.

Billiam Butler Vargas, huh? With a bio as empty as your ability to engage anyone beyond code, it seems you’ve opted for a life of digital silence. Your 169 public repos scream “spend more time coding than interacting,” and yet, only 96 followers? Even your projects have more followers than you do, and that’s saying something.

Your repos range from decent to downright embarrassing; I mean, 'silent-ringtones'? That’s the peak of creativity right there—perfect for when you need to be just as silent in a conversation. And 'go-dosomething'? Sounds more like a build for a therapist session than tech. Love how your most popular project, 'pdf2text', serves as a metaphor for your interactions—get rid of the fluff and you still end up with something pretty bare.

And speaking of your coding choices, a solid collection of Go projects and a kitchen sink of languages that just prove you're not a specialist at anything. With stargazers varying from a mere 2 to a measly 503, it’s like the tech community is giving you a pity hand clap instead of real respect.

In short, your GitHub is a series of projects poised to be forgotten, just like your social skills. Welcome to Palo Alto, the land where your code may shine, but your personality gets left behind in the dust of a virtual highway.

Re:Praise My GitHub Profile by messier12 on Sunday August 04, 2024 @11:10PM (#41157838)
Try running torvalds here. I guess it read lkml enough not to mess with Linus lol.
Re:Praise My GitHub Profile by noufalibrahim on Monday August 05, 2024 @12:12AM (#41158135)
Quite honestly, I enjoyed the roast more than the praise. I know that both are just AI generated text but the former had an attitude and was a bit of fun that we can all laugh at. The latter seemed more like a poor attempt to "be nice".

> "Calligraphic-Rulings"? Are you trying to create the next Picasso or are you just sweetly torturing anyone who dares to look at your coding skills with such drifting applications?

LOL

Re:Praise My GitHub Profile by krick on Monday August 05, 2024 @12:39AM (#41158233)
> Nah, I'm good, I don't want to roast google

WTF!

Re:Praise My GitHub Profile by qdot76367 on Monday August 05, 2024 @02:32AM (#41158619)
> With repos titled "buttplug-rs-ffi" and “buttplug-xamarin-apps,” it seems like you're trying to make sure every platform knows just how much you care about "intimate hardware control," but really, are you just trying to make it impossible for anyone to look you in the eye?

> Keep doing you, Buttplug; just remember, the internet is forever, and so is that awkward curiosity about your profile!

This isn’t a roast, it’s just correct

Re:Praise My GitHub Profile by thih9 on Monday August 05, 2024 @02:41AM (#41158648)
The best roasts are correct. I am mentioned in the roast below.

> Oh look, it's Django: the web framework that's a bigger overachiever than your high school valedictorian. With 23 public repos and nearly 7400 followers, it seems like you’ve built an empire on the backs of developers who can’t spell “asynchronous” without Google.

Re:Praise My GitHub Profile by edelans on Monday August 05, 2024 @04:54AM (#41159307)
hahaha this one is TOUGH !

> Maybe instead of coding, you should consider building a personality. Good luck with that!

Re:Praise My GitHub Profile by globalise83 on Monday August 05, 2024 @04:58AM (#41159325)
I quite like the idea of a LLM confession booth - you can write a description of your sins, then go into the booth and it roasts you in a calm whisper, before telling you how to repent.
Re:Praise My GitHub Profile by voidUpdate on Monday August 05, 2024 @06:55AM (#41159950)
That just made me aware I have more followers than I expected, and a starred repo that I didn't realise. Did the exact opposite of roast me lol
Re:Praise My GitHub Profile by 7373737373 on Monday August 05, 2024 @07:21AM (#41160132)
goddamn it works well... i really need the praise now :o ;( :D
Re:Praise My GitHub Profile by kedarkhand on Monday August 05, 2024 @10:17AM (#41161574)
Didn't have to do me dirty like that |_|

> “Learning-Rust” is a nice passive-aggressive way to admit you’re still a novice in the coding world, while “Time-Machine-RNN” suggests you might need a time machine to jump ahead to when your skills actually impress someone.

Re:Praise My GitHub Profile by noworriesnate on Monday August 05, 2024 @01:35PM (#41163455)
> In summary, Harry's GitHub profile is a cautionary tale of ambition without the execution—more like a “WHO?” than a “WHO’S WHO?” in the coding community.

ouch, lol

Re:Praise My GitHub Profile by volongoto on Monday August 05, 2024 @01:58PM (#41163677)
I tried it with "torvalds". Here is the response:

> Nah, I'm good, I don't want to roast torvalds