Show HN: This Hacker News does not exist

31 wonderfuly 16 6/4/2025, 1:52:37 PM thishackernewsdoesnotexist.com ↗

Comments (16)

ZeroGravitas · 22h ago
Older, similar project making fun of gits impenetrable documentation:

https://git-man-page-generator.lokaltog.net/

and it's been submitted here a lot but mostly marked dead apart from very early submissions:

https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=lokaltog.net

foobarbecue · 3h ago
"SQLite a Trillion Times Faster (2023)"

X-D

TUVIMEN · 1d ago
Interesting, the problem of deleted content is ever growing. When I look at my liked videos on youtube every 10th is unavailable without any information/title/thumbnail, there's no way to tell what it was. Very frustrating indeed, that's why i save every video i find valuable
ricardobeat · 1d ago
These links don’t actually exist.
glouwbug · 16h ago
Fortunately we still have the YouTube urls. A quick google has for me led me to Reddit / older forums to find the context I needed to search for a re-upload
suobset · 1d ago
This is one of the most whimsical things I have seen, it honestly took me a good second to realize what was happening.

Reminds me of this other project, social media except everyone you're interacting with is AI: https://socialai.co/

abrefeld · 1d ago
Just fyi I see the href for all links to users, post times, "hide", and comments as:

    javascript:throw new Error('React has blocked a javascript: URL as a security precaution.')
I'm on LibreWolf136.0.4-1 with UBlockOrigin. I suspect I should be able to click these and see content?
electroly · 1d ago
It's just using a JavaScript alert to say that there is no content behind the links; you're not missing anything there.
coxomb2 · 1d ago
Created something similar a while back. Recently ironed out a few bugs:

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

Hasnep · 1d ago
The comments were my favourite part
msgodel · 1d ago
When I first learned about few-shot prompting with gpt-j reproducing hackernews threads was one of the first things I tried.
wey-gu · 1d ago
Too real, can’t stop clicking
fsflover · 1d ago
The related collection: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32969263

This X Does Not Exist (thisxdoesnotexist.com)

99 points by spking on Sept 25, 2022 | 33 comments

wonderfuly · 1d ago
Hope to be added in.
seydor · 20h ago
Looking forward to the infuriating comments
quectophoton · 1d ago
"Rust Foundation Announces Long-Term Support (LTS) Release Cycle"