My favorite so far is “Delty (YC X25) Is Hiring and You Probably Aren't Qualified”.

Hey, wait a minute. I think we got something here! What we need is the reverse, i.e. a LLM that recognizes clickbait and "tames" it (ideally by providing the information in the headline, like Techmeme does [kudos to them]).

This is amazing

Edit: Just found out HN deletes emojis!

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On a more serious note, it's a bit sad how close this is to actual algorithm-driven social media or news-based platforms.

Perhaps we need one that does the opposite, for the real site

Click to find out how much my blood pressure went up when reading this!

I felt the front page was too calm. I fixed it. YOU WON'T BELIEVE NUMBER 4.

Prompt: Remember this classic? <snip ... Hacker News 10 Years in Future > OK, i have a new idea. want to try? "Offtopic but this title makes me want to create an alternate-universe version of the HN front page where every title is shrill/spectacular/hysterical/urgent/clickbaity. Such as: The Absolute State of the Kernel Rust Experiment Right Now And every comment has its confidence/aggressiveness taken up to 11 (tho still within site rules)." And the HN front page right now is: <snip>

This feels like a 6/10 on the scale of hysterical clickbait headlines I see on YouTube.

Breaking: Huffington Post buys Hacker News.

At least the HuffPo of the last decade was like this. They haven't been relevant for many years it seems.

As to its founder: http://www.thestacksreader.com/the-many-faces-of-arianna/

> MATHEMATICS IS BROKEN (Until Now): Go From Zero to QED or Go Home

If my mathematics degree had been framed this way, I probably would have enjoyed it more.

Could be renamed HNX as these are the posts I see trending on X (twitter)

I felt literal pain. Not kidding.

There's something to investigate here.

Made me notice I'm actually exposed to very similar crap on other places. Scary.

I don't always like HN titles but this made me realize it can be a whole lot worse. Thanks for this.

I love this, thank you for a good belly laugh.

This is great.

So you've recreated /r/technology ? :)

Well, in reality, the amount of abusive publishers submitting articles with PAYWALLS is getting absurd on HN.

HN ought to indicate these titles in ALL RED.

WSJ, FT, BLM, too many to count.

Reads very much like the Drudge Report, just needs the same diagramming style.

Hacker News, but every headline is hysterical clickbait: https://news.ycombinator.com/

Totally unreadable with the all caps. I guess that's the point.

This kind of thing is fun once. And it was fun when the AI-generated fake HN was posted last week.

But there's no need to upvote this kind of stuff to front page every week. The novelty wears off. It gets boring and silly pretty quickly.

Right now on page 2 of actual HN: "how to hack discord, vercel and more with one easy trick". For a moment I thought I was still on clickbait HN.

some of these are better headlines tho

Some of the headlines are pure gold. Is this page live-updated? I can feel an addiction sneaking up on me…

Some platforms might buy this as an engagement booster.

I like it.

It’s better.

10/10, no notes.

Now all we need is a thumbnail next to each headline showing the author making some stupid face.

Love it!

you created .. The Registry?!

wait "19th Century Telegraph Chess" ??

The icon for this needs to be the meme of Elmo in front of fire.

Absolutely disgusting! Love it!

Thanks. I hate it.