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How I Ended Up First On Hacker News

crea: 19/11/2025 / upd: 21/11/2025

Today's lesson: just make something fun that you enjoy, and people will like it :-)

Hacker News pushed wthhyb.sacha.house to the top slot for a while. Proof will go here once I grab the screenshot.

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I saw this image https://x.com/codinghorror/status/347070841059692545 on Twitter/X and couldn't help wanting to find the orignal website. Having done so and failed to find anything, I set on to simply : REMAKE IT FROM SCRATCH myself :D.

I init'd a fresh bun/vite/react/tailwind project, dove into the newly created App.tsx and went to town. From 18h to arround 21h, and I was done !

I posted the small evening parody project to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45832803, figured maybe a few people would click, and suddenly traffic went vertical. Nothing to sell, a simple joke. Just shipped something original, shared it to the public and the front page did the rest.

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For those of you curious to see, here's what it looks like (you could also just click here):

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(btw, there's a hidden secret teehee)