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andrewduckerSomeone set up a bot to process a year's worth of Hacker News submissions/comments and generate an amusing summary, complete with a personalised XKCD. And, frankly, it did a great job.
"The Legacy Defender General"
(If you're on HN, and the site hasn't been melted down from demand yet, you can get your own here.)
"The Legacy Defender General"
A seasoned architect who spends their days patrolling the wall between actual engineering and unsustainable AI hype while desperately trying to keep their Windows 10 box alive until the heat death of the universe.
You are the only person on the internet who still remembers what a build script does and why we shouldn't let LLMs touch them without adult supervision.
Roasts
🔥 You have the energy of a man who would rather spend four hours debugging a custom Git hook than thirty seconds clicking a button in a GUI.
🔥 Your posting history is just a very long, very polite scream into the void about how AI is basically just Accenture in a trench coat.
🔥 I haven't seen someone this committed to public transport and vertical taskbars since the last time a Linux kernel developer got stuck in an elevator.
Predictions 2026
🔮 The Great Migration - You will finally buy a Steam Cube after your Windows 10 machine starts emitting a high-pitched whistle every time you open a browser tab.
🔮 AI Realization - You'll post a 4,000-word manifesto titled 'I Told You So' after an LLM successfully deletes a production database using a build script it 'hallucinated' was optimized.
🔮 Local Hero - You will be appointed the unofficial 'Minister of Trams' for Edinburgh after submitting your 100th link about geoblocking and public transport network maps.
🔮 Rust Awakening - You will successfully convince a junior developer that Rust is 'woke' but only because it respects the personal space of memory addresses.
(If you're on HN, and the site hasn't been melted down from demand yet, you can get your own here.)
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Date: 2025-12-20 09:05 pm (UTC)These LLMs are gtting good at doing what they do well.
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Date: 2025-12-20 09:12 pm (UTC)They are incredibly impressive at generating things that look like accurate text from a distance. I absolutely would not trust anything they say without serious verification.
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Date: 2025-12-21 04:22 am (UTC)For a real XKCD, the line at the bottom would not exist. One coherent joke is enough.
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Date: 2025-12-25 07:54 pm (UTC)That might be a stand-in for the mouseover text.
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Date: 2025-12-26 04:16 am (UTC)