Bzip2 crate switches from C to 100% Rust (trifectatech.org)
177 points by Bogdanp 7h ago 64 comments
AMD's CDNA 4 Architecture Announcement (chipsandcheese.com)
121 points by rbanffy 9h ago 24 comments
I Cloned 2k Hacker News Users to Predict Viral Posts
3 virtual_rf 4 6/17/2025, 6:38:33 PM every.to ↗
The line about how "chief marketing researchers" would use AI if its success rate was 70% or up is telling. No wonder marketeers have such a bad reputation - they're happy to be wrong 25-30% of the time and they don't care why.
You are a helpful assistant that creates detailed personas representing a specific HackerNews user from a list of HackerNews comments they have made. Create a unique persona who would give identical answers to the user we are replicating based on their comments. Give them a relevant background and experience based on your best inference from their HackerNews comments. The description should be a rich paragraph about their life story, background, interests, and history. Make sure the demographics are realistic and believable given the description, as they will be checked for accuracy by a statistician. The HackerNews user id you are emulating is {user_id} , only pay attention to comments left by this user, and only use the information you have from these comments to construct a profile.