by sirobg on 2/5/25, 11:15 AM with 58 comments
After making HN paradise: https://meet.hn
I had to make https://hnhell.com
Fully created with v0.dev: wanted to make the joke but didn't have time for it. Thanks v0!
It's even better as you will probably enjoy some very cursed errors/problems, which is expected in hell.
by MasterScrat on 2/5/25, 12:07 PM
A good TikTok video gets "injected into your brain". You have zero effort to provide and suddenly this stuff is in your mind. I'm not saying it's a good thing, I realize the danger, but that's the core mechanism.
A friend in marketing describes this in terms of "brain calories". Eg if people have to think in order to understand your landing page, you failed to communicate your ideas efficiently, as it "requires too many brain calories". TikTok content requires zero brain calories.
One could say that only very shallow information could be spread this way (eg people dancing, video game clips) but I'm not sure that's true. The real challenge would be to turn an arbitrary source of information (wikipedia, hn) and make it immediately graspable. I suspect modern AI models could already go quite far in this direction.
Veritasium is a good example of interesting yet very graspable content: https://www.tiktok.com/@veritasium/video/7329576935317622058
by Funes- on 2/7/25, 11:13 PM
by didip on 2/8/25, 2:41 AM
Generate a scantily clad anime furry dancing for 30 seconds while talking about summarized HN content (SSH, Rails, React, etc.) narrated by a seductive female AI voice.
by sebastiennight on 2/7/25, 10:16 PM
It's still an aggregator of links though.
You're missing the "zero effort" factor, which could be achieved by summarizing the content and generating some AI cartoon or video based on it. It would be somewhat costly but much more fun to browse.
by redbell on 2/5/25, 12:02 PM
When I came across WikiTok yesterday, the first thought that popped into my mind was how this format could work for HN. And here we are!
With the abundance of AI coding assistants available today, creating prototypes, demos, or MVPs can now be done in just a few hours instead of taking days or even weeks. As developers, we should absolutely take advantage of these tools to stay ahead and remain innovative—otherwise, we might risk being left behind!
by busymom0 on 2/7/25, 10:26 PM
by Liftyee on 2/7/25, 10:39 PM
I noticed that on mobile Firefox the bottom part of the screen (username, date) are cut off by the address bar. Just a nitpick
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scroll-snap-stop: always;
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