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I miss n-gate

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It's literally just ChatGPT told to sound like n-gate. The prompt begins:

> Create a humorous and mocking summary in the style of n-gate.com.

https://github.com/dfeldman/quackernews/blob/1d7591338579162...

I wonder whether the result would be closer to n-gate if the prompt left out "humorous and mocking".

omg rofl x 1000 :-p

https://twitter.com/webshitweekly/status/1332452940104179712

https://x.com/atax1a/status/1529525996507914240

> An Internet (business model: Uber for tech industry criticism), who previously regularly updated on a weekly basis, hasn't been seen since August of 2021. They leave behind the following cryptic remark on Tweeter

  [Oct 2021] Rumors of my death are almost as exaggerated as my writing style.  Sorry for the delay; I'm catching up.

A Reddit comment claimed that n-gate was sued to stop publishing.

Some weeks would go by and I would just check n-gate to see what happened on HN.

I just checked it yesterday. I guess the writer died during COVID? I really miss his war on users take.

This is based on almost nothing but I always suspected it was done by maciej cegłowski. He has a very similar sort of semi-sincere contempt for the fixations of tech people and the writing style isn't that different from his social media persona. He also disappeared around the same time n-gate went inactive tho he eventually came back.

I don't think Maciej cares as much about HN as n-gate did.

This is the first time I'm hearing of n-gate. But if it's awesome then yeah, it was me.

I miss their about page

http://n-gate.com/about/

My favorite part of having something featured on hn was seeing it on n-gate the next week.

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