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coxomb | 3 years ago

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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jandrese|3 years ago

On the first page I loaded I could tell it was fake immediately, there were no mentions of Rust at all.

raphlinus|3 years ago

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.

josephcsible|3 years ago

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)".

blondin|3 years ago

this is super cool :)

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

nerdponx|3 years ago

Chicken Scheme is currently on version 5.x so this could very well have been a real headline at one point.

A4ET8a8uTh0|3 years ago

Ask HN: Whats's the Purpose of Action-Items?

I chuckled. Thank you:D