I find these kind of posts profoundly uninteresting (woah, the n-th parody of th...

dang · 2025-12-19T18:43:36 1766169816

Anything meta has that effect. We normally tamp it down although we make occasional exceptions:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46221900

The curiosity value of something like this diminishes under repetition, of course: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so.... It's a bit like repeating the same joke.

We downweight follow-up posts for that reason: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

That, I think, is what's going on here. This post was great—it was impressive and original enough to clear the bar, so we left it up:

Show HN: Gemini Pro 3 imagines the HN front page 10 years from now - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46205632 - Dec 2025 (965 comments)

These two follow-ups are pretty good follow-ups actually—they're fun variations on the theme—but I don't think they clear the bar for another major frontpage thread:

Hacker News front page now, but the titles are honest - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46326588 (<-- current thread)

Show HN: Hacker News, but every headline is hysterical clickbait - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46324579

bitwize · 2025-12-19T20:01:52 1766174512

Been downvoted (or downmodded) to hell now, I guess because it encourages "not the kind of discussion we want to foster here on HN"...