Honest Hacker News Front Page

Honest Hacker News new | past | comments | ask | show | jobs | submit login 1. We rewrote it in Rust so you have to upvote it (mullvad.net) 233 points by km 3 hours ago | 49 comments 2. Politicians who can't use email try to ban the internet (decoded.legal) 28 points by ibobev 28 minutes ago | 25 comments 3. Amazon finally adds a feature that has been standard since 2005 (kdpmcommunity.com) 203 points by captn3m0 4 hours ago | 103 comments 4. Academic publishers admit paywalls were a scam all along (acm.org) 1839 points by Kerrick 23 hours ago | 226 comments 5. Rails developers reinventing state machines for the 50th time (github.com) 28 points by klevo 2 hours ago | 4 comments 6. Texas accidentally does something good for privacy (theverge.com) 973 points by tortilla_21 5 hours ago | 494 comments 7. Intel's marketing department is actively hostile to engineers (lorenbd.dev) 197 points by LorenDB 9 hours ago | 102 comments 8. We broke the internet because nobody checks dependencies (gist.github.com) 983 points by hackermondev 19 hours ago | 360 comments 9. Rich developer spends $15k to run a model slightly faster (jeffgeerling.com) 494 points by rphilly 16 hours ago | 154 comments 10. Marketing blog post explaining why you should buy our product (hatchat.run) 31 points by abelanger 2 hours ago | 5 comments 11. Groceries are so expensive I wrote a scraper (offer-spider.onrender.com) 10 points by wolfer 1 hour ago | 2 comments 12. Nostalgia bait that will ruin your productivity for 4 hours (noclip.website) 302 points by moreau 12 hours ago | 35 comments 13. Training AI on 1913 data to avoid 'woke' bias (and hygiene) (github.com) 600 points by iamwil 16 hours ago | 280 comments

A parody of the Hacker News front page lists exaggeratedly honest headlines about tech culture, privacy, Rust, publishers, AI, and expensive software. The joke is that each headline exposes the cynical, absurd, or hypocritical reality behind familiar technology-news stories, making it useful as a reaction to startup culture, developer discourse, or Hacker News itself. EN: A parody of the Hacker News front page lists exaggeratedly honest headlines about tech culture, privacy, Rust, publishers, AI, and expensive software. The joke is that each headline exposes the cynical, absurd, or hypocritical reality behind familiar technology-news stories, making it useful as a reaction to startup culture, developer discourse, or Hacker News itself.

• @gentoomemes / 19662 2025-12-19