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Re:Hacker News made out of prime numbers by smlacy on Sunday December 28, 2025 @12:25PM (#46412662)
I don't get it. What am I looking at?
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Re:Hacker News made out of prime numbers by ramon156 on Sunday December 28, 2025 @12:31PM (#46412714)
> The idea was to deconstruct Hacker News and view it through a different lens -- not time or score, but the fundamental, dynamic of prime numbers.

Even after this comment I did not get it until I checked the repo[0]. It seems like it's only posts with a prime number ID

Also, the "Why?" does not explain why. It's a what/how.

[0]: https://github.com/DOSAYGO-STUDIO/prime-news

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Re:Hacker News made out of prime numbers by ggggffggggg on Sunday December 28, 2025 @12:55PM (#46412970)
> It's "useless", perhaps, but I find it fun!

Reason enough I’d say.

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Re:Hacker News made out of prime numbers by jtanderson on Sunday December 28, 2025 @12:33PM (#46412740)
The documentation is here: https://github.com/DOSAYGO-STUDIO/prime-news

Basically only HN items with prime IDs and with filters on different classes of primes.

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Re:Hacker News made out of prime numbers by d-lisp on Sunday December 28, 2025 @12:34PM (#46412749)
Post investigation, I can say that it shows in an ordered manner hackernews posts whose IDs are prime.

No ?

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Re:Hacker News made out of prime numbers by Ackchyually2 on Sunday December 28, 2025 @02:05PM (#46413521)
North Korean karma farmer posting non-sensical content in order to build up reputation for the next heist.
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