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HN Rant – HN front page as a daily 25th Hour rant scene

HN Rant – HN front page as a daily 25th Hour rant scene

by mdoliwa·Feb 13, 2026·1 point·0 comments

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The Take

The project is a one-note delight: prompt an LLM to speak like the 25th Hour mirror scene and feed it the HN front page, and you get punchy, topical rants that land because the copy is front-and-center. The site wisely keeps everything minimalist so the text reads like a performance piece, but there’s no account features, provenance for the model/prompts, or ways to subscribe — it’s a clever content experiment rather than a product with staying power.

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Target Audience

Hacker News readers, developers, AI enthusiasts, people who enjoy tech satire

Post Description

One of my new year resolutions was to cut the scope of my side projects, do not overthink, just build cool things and publish them.

So here it is, 25th Hour mirror rant scene with Edward Norton meeting HN front page. It was some random idea, I was curious what AI will output and it turns out it's really good at it.

Hope you like it as much as I do.

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