Are heavily ironic posts still considered non-kosher for HN? It does seem times are changing.

This is why "sort by controversial" is such a good feature of Reddit. If you're not offending half the people, is it really worth saying anything at all?

Only if they're not funny

It is more funny if one watched the original Total Recall.

They're a good way of verifying that they're not AI-slop, or not pro-AI slop, which I view as the same think, so I think that they should be embraced.

The word you seek is 'sarcastic'. The ever so slightly neuro-divergent don't do sarcarsm. Nor do linkedinlunatics.

Please don't buy into that stereotype. People with aspergers are capable of getting sarcasm. Especially if it's over the top like this.

We can remember it for you, wholesale.

Who needs terabyte hard drives when all your photos can stored as plaintext prompts instead. Finally, the perfect storage format!

There is actually some work on doing this; after all, an imagegen model is simply a very large number of images that have been compressed together. Given a stable model and a means of inferring a prompt for an image, you can then generate a base image and store compressed deltas on top of it.

(of course the limit case of this is Samsung moon replacement)