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Show HN: Sampletext.store/ We built a dumb web shop and we cannot look away

Posted by smrtfckrr on Thursday April 30, 2026 @11:17AM
from the show-hn dept.

So this all started two weeks ago as a stupid inside joke with friends in a group chat where we got a chatgpt powered bot to write plugins for itself and told it to build one that would make it fetch a random image from Wikipedia and then place words from the same article onto it. Often times it would just return mangled garbage or be completely incoherent but every now and then something...

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Re:Show HN: I built a Chinese learning app that teaches through senten... on Wednesday April 29, 2026 @08:29AM (#47947407)

Pays to wrap any copyright dates into an actual function ;) I'll give it a go

Re:Soft launch of open-source code platform for government on Wednesday April 29, 2026 @08:25AM (#47947373)

The day government moves away from proprietary software and extyernal services (especially cloud storage holy god) must come. I'll be here for it

Re:When the Internet Was a Place on Wednesday April 29, 2026 @04:45AM (#47945717)

I too am waiting for the pendulum to swing from clean corporate cookie cutterism back to dumb fun and I believe it's up to us to make that change. It probably won't happen on its own.