Show HN: This Word Does Not Exist - <AUTHOR> https://www.thisworddoesnotexist.com/ <comment><USER2> Wow. GPT2 is _so, so, so_ much better than Markov chains. I'm reading these definitions, and the fact that the last few words of the sentence match the first few words subject-wise is pretty amazing. Just some random ones:

> _denoting or relating to a word (e.g., al-Qadri), the first letter of which > is preceded or followed by another letter_

> _a synthetic compound used in perfumery and cosmetic surgery to improve the > appearance of skin tone and irritation_

> _a type of cookie made with dough, jelly, butter, or chocolate, often filled > with extra flour_

Pretty impressive. I've never seen fake text so real. (I mean none of these seem to quite make 100% _logical_ sense, but if you were just skimming the sentence nothing would stand out as a red flag.)

<comment><USER3> I always like to point people to /r/SubSimulatorGPT2 [1] as a good example of what GPT2 is able to accomplish.

It's a subreddit filled entirely with bots, each user is trained on a specific subreddit's comments matching it's username (so politicsGPT2Bot is trained on comments from the politics subreddit).

Go click through a few comment sections and see how mind-bendingly real some comment chains seem. They reply quoting other comments, they generate links (they almost always go to a 404 page, but they look real and are in format that makes me think it's real every time I hover over it) entirely on their own, they have full conversations back and forth, they make jokes, they argue "opinions" (often across multiple comments back and forth keeping the context of which "side" each comment is on), and they vary from single word comments to multi-paragraph comments.

Take a look at this thread [2] specifically. The headline is made up, the link it goes to is made up, but the comments look insanely real at first glance. Some of them even seem to be quoting the contents of the article (which again, doesn't exist) in it's comments!

If you threw something like 50% "real humans" in the mix, I genuinely don't think I'd be able to pick out the bots on my own.

[1] [https://www.reddit.com/r/SubSimulatorGPT2/](https://www.reddit.com/r/SubSimulatorGPT2/)

[2] [https://www.reddit.com/r/SubSimulatorGPT2/comments/fzwso5/nr...](https://www.reddit.com/r/SubSimulatorGPT2/comments/fzwso5/nra_endorses_biden_for_president/)

<comment><USER4> Some of this stuff is just gold: [https://old.reddit.com/r/SubSimulatorGPT2/comments/ggf1mq/i_...](https://old.reddit.com/r/SubSimulatorGPT2/comments/ggf1mq/i_have_a_cat_it_is_amazing_and_i_wish_i_had_it/fq0a1e1/)

<comment><USER3> This one is also fantastic, the post text itself is so goddamn convincing that I actually searched on youtube for the name of the show to see if it existed (it doesn't).

[https://old.reddit.com/r/SubSimulatorGPT2/comments/gj2z4f/ia...](https://old.reddit.com/r/SubSimulatorGPT2/comments/gj2z4f/iama_23m_im_the_host_of_im_sorry_youre_wrong_a/)

<comment><USER5> What stands out to me is that the comments are treating "arguments" as passion as if it was "apples" or "old cars".

"I had many arguments growing up"

"where do you prefer to have internet arguments with your friends"

It interpolates "arguments"-related stuff into the posts as with any other topic. It does it well, but seems to have missed that it's not a conversational topic like most others. We don't talk about arguments like we talk about basketball. But here's a peek into what it would look like if we did!

(I also enjoyed the bot signing both a question and the immediate reply with ~Alex)

<comment><USER6> Treating arguments like sport is basically politics in a nutshell for some these days

</comment></comment></comment></comment></comment></comment><comment><USER7> Great stuff. Found a real word:

      refactoring

      the systematic and systematic reworking of a piece of text to reduce unnecessary redundancies

Interesting that the made-up definition is pretty much the real one.

[https://www.thisworddoesnotexist.com/w/refactoring/eyJ3IjogI...](https://www.thisworddoesnotexist.com/w/refactoring/eyJ3IjogInJlZmFjdG9yaW5nIiwgImQiOiAidGhlIHN5c3RlbWF0aWMgYW5kIHN5c3RlbWF0aWMgcmV3b3JraW5nIG9mIGEgcGllY2Ugb2YgdGV4dCB0byByZWR1Y2UgdW5uZWNlc3NhcnkgcmVkdW5kYW5jaWVzIiwgInAiOiAibm91biIsICJlIjogInRoZSBlZmZvcnQgY29tZXMgYXMgbm8gc3VycHJpc2UgZ2l2ZW4gdGhlIG1hbnkgcmVmYWN0b3JpbmcgdGVjaG5pcXVlcyBlbXBsb3llZCIsICJzIjogWyJyZWZhYyIsICJ0b3IiLCAiaW5nIl19.CqinyH5aT_tYwpKxsPxaV8WdWWu4qy7woj0b6b4vEm8=)

<comment><AUTHOR> Got a few comments about that one and a few others! I just updated the existing word blacklist and re-deployed.

<comment><USER8> Oh, I'm surprised the "blacklist" isn't just the standard English dictionary. I'm sure I'm just being naive though. Why not just blacklist any word that already exists in English?

<comment><AUTHOR> There are some subtleties (e.g. hyphens, derived forms, bigrams, etc.) but the biggest problem is that most English dictionaries don't have entries for every scientific word / piece of internet slang. I ended up tokenizing Wikipedia for a blacklist and still missed a lot :(

<comment><USER9> > I ended up tokenizing Wikipedia for a blacklist and still missed a lot :(

That sounds like an impressive project in itself :)

<comment><USER10> Words not on Wikipedia, found on other sources, listed by frequency (perhaps with a date-weighting of the source document to reduce rating of older sources), would be an interesting way to find holes in Wikipedia's coverage.

<comment><USER11> Someone should make a Wikipedia page of that list. Oh, wait.

<comment><USER10> I like how you had information, made a sarcastic comment about it, but didn't share the actual information ... just in case your comment might prove helpful ...

<comment><USER12> Are you saying the URL of that Wikipedia page is "actual information" that patrickthebold failed to share?

I think that page doesn't exist. patrickthebold wasn't sarcastically mocking people who were too lazy to look up that page. He was just making the point that as soon as a hypothetical list like that was uploaded to Wikipedia, it should be deleted, since those words would then be words found on Wikipedia.

</comment></comment></comment></comment></comment></comment></comment></comment></comment><comment><USER13> Very impressive. It was reminiscent of the Polish sci-fi writer, Stanislaw Lem who invented more words than Shakespeare. That made for some tricky translations. Here's a list of new words in just one of the books alone:

[https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/User:Hal_Bregg_II/Neologisms_...](https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/User:Hal_Bregg_II/Neologisms_of_Return_from_the_Stars)

This 1961 book predicted what Lem calls "opton", an electronic book reader with only one page between the covers (Kindle Opton special for Lem's 100 year anniversary next year would be nice!)

I wonder if someone has created sci-fi short stories with that data set yet.

<comment><USER14> "Stanislaw Lem who invented more words than Shakespeare."

SL's inventiveness is beyond reproach but he lived in a time (died 2006) rather later than Mr (I have 50 spelings of my name) Shakesper. Lem spoke several languages and a cursory glance at your link seems to show a lot of drinks!

Shake a spear did invent a huge number of English words. Some of them were due to the rather random speling existent in the Elizabethan England of the 14th C. The rest were the result of a creative mind that needed to deploy ideas and concepts in ways that were not available at the time. The clever thing is that he created many words that seem so obvious in meaning - and are so obviously "English". He literally understood English to its core and was able to manipulate it effectively. Good skills that man.

<comment><USER15> It is doubtful how many words were actually invented by Shakespeare, as opposed to a Shakespeare text just being the first recorded use of that word.

</comment></comment></comment><comment><USER16> Podcasters and Youtubers have been pronouncing squarespace incorrectly all this time!

squarespace

squares·pace

the ability to play in a board game within a system by controlling the left and right edges of the board or a grid surrounded by squares

[https://www.thisworddoesnotexist.com/w/squarespace/eyJ3IjogI...](https://www.thisworddoesnotexist.com/w/squarespace/eyJ3IjogInNxdWFyZXNwYWNlIiwgImQiOiAidGhlIGFiaWxpdHkgdG8gcGxheSBpbiBhIGJvYXJkIGdhbWUgd2l0aGluIGEgc3lzdGVtIGJ5IGNvbnRyb2xsaW5nIHRoZSBsZWZ0IGFuZCByaWdodCBlZGdlcyBvZiB0aGUgYm9hcmQgb3IgYSBncmlkIHN1cnJvdW5kZWQgYnkgc3F1YXJlcyIsICJwIjogIm5vdW4iLCAiZSI6ICJ0aGUgbW9zdCBzcXVhcmVzcGFjZSBwbGF5ZXJzIGV2ZXIiLCAicyI6IFsic3F1YXJlcyIsICJwYWNlIl19.H9mb5onYk0WWcSKfP8JabeAciLAUY- BFRvk9GRt7tKo=)

<comment><USER17> I was getting a lot of brand names, including Sporcle and Truvia.

</comment></comment><comment><USER18> Complete List (so far) of this X Does Not Exist sites:

• This Person Does Not Exist [https://thispersondoesnotexist.com/](https://thispersondoesnotexist.com/)

• These Lyrics Do Not Exist [https://theselyricsdonotexist.com/](https://theselyricsdonotexist.com/)

• This Cat Does Not Exist [https://thiscatdoesnotexist.com/](https://thiscatdoesnotexist.com/)

• This Rental Does Not Exist [https://thisrentaldoesnotexist.com/](https://thisrentaldoesnotexist.com/)

• This Waifu Does Not Exist [https://www.thiswaifudoesnotexist.net/](https://www.thiswaifudoesnotexist.net/)

• This Resume Does Not Exist [https://thisresumedoesnotexist.com/](https://thisresumedoesnotexist.com/)

• This Artwork Does Not Exist [https://thisartworkdoesnotexist.com/](https://thisartworkdoesnotexist.com/)

<comment><USER19> > Complete List (so far) of this X Does Not Exist sites

"citation needed" on that completeness claim, or rather "this list is incomplete, you can help by expanding it"

Also: [https://thisfursonadoesnotexist.com/](https://thisfursonadoesnotexist.com/)

<comment><USER20> I'm looking for a meta "This list does not exist" generator.

</comment></comment></comment><comment> dylan-m Straight from a science fiction novel:

        eicoscience
        eico·science

        the branch of physics that deals with the behavior, physics, and the properties of living organisms
        "I started thinking about the world thinking of me and I never really went deep into the eicoscience"

[https://www.thisworddoesnotexist.com/w/eicoscience/eyJ3IjogI...](https://www.thisworddoesnotexist.com/w/eicoscience/eyJ3IjogImVpY29zY2llbmNlIiwgImQiOiAidGhlIGJyYW5jaCBvZiBwaHlzaWNzIHRoYXQgZGVhbHMgd2l0aCB0aGUgYmVoYXZpb3IsIHBoeXNpY3MsIGFuZCB0aGUgcHJvcGVydGllcyBvZiBsaXZpbmcgb3JnYW5pc21zIiwgInAiOiAibm91biIsICJlIjogIkkgc3RhcnRlZCB0aGlua2luZyBhYm91dCB0aGUgd29ybGQgdGhpbmtpbmcgb2YgbWUgYW5kIEkgbmV2ZXIgcmVhbGx5IHdlbnQgZGVlcCBpbnRvIHRoZSBlaWNvc2NpZW5jZSIsICJzIjogWyJlaWNvIiwgInNjaWVuY2UiXX0=.9604lGS2jPTfM9WWztL825AnG4o4Zje0AidyXBzCH3s=)

<comment><USER21>
        neurotheistic

        relating to the theories of early visual culture,
        particularly those which emerged out of attempts
        by the Chinese to achieve a cosmopolitan consciousness
        through the use of classical ideas
        "the neurotheistic ideas of Mao Zedong"

I like the word, but the definition does not seem to do much with the obvious etymology of the word. One could, e.g., imagine using the word for people who have developed a religious attachment to deep learning networks.

<comment><USER22> I really like this definition. If a human author took it and developed it, it would be a pretty original angle.

</comment></comment></comment><comment><USER23>
      strillation
      stril·la·tion
      the action or process of boiling (a subject, typically an
      animal) at room temperature

I have to say this is pretty hilarious

<comment><USER24> Depends on the liquid you're using!! You can definitely boil a squirrel in liquid nitrogen!

<comment><USER25> Liquid nitrogen boils below room temperature though. I once strillated a squirrel on top of Mount Everest because the pressure was so low...

</comment></comment></comment><comment><USER26> I was honestly surprised this one didn't already exist, since it's such a natural extension of the roots:

reductory

re·duc·tory

relating to or denoting products of decay

"winding and burning reductory tissue"

[https://www.thisworddoesnotexist.com/w/reductory/eyJ3IjogInJ...](https://www.thisworddoesnotexist.com/w/reductory/eyJ3IjogInJlZHVjdG9yeSIsICJkIjogInJlbGF0aW5nIHRvIG9yIGRlbm90aW5nIHByb2R1Y3RzIG9mIGRlY2F5IiwgInAiOiAiYWRqZWN0aXZlIiwgImUiOiAid2luZGluZyBhbmQgYnVybmluZyByZWR1Y3RvcnkgdGlzc3VlIiwgInMiOiBbInJlIiwgImR1YyIsICJ0b3J5Il19.pNCMTP5FHkPQrmbh5MG3FJhD1mEKmYhpqHtF8rv8_78=)

Edit: fixed mono spacing.

<comment><USER27> I've seen "reductorio" being used in Spanish but the "Real Academia de la Lengua" says it doesn't exist as a proper word.

And yes, it means exactly that.

</comment></comment><comment><USER28> Might be time to coin some new phrases.

      nonmagical
        non·mag·i·cal

        unquestionably true or valid
        "his nonmagical beliefs and ideas"

Well that's a perfectly cromulent word.

<comment><USER28> My favorite so far:

      décorbé

        a thing that smells or tastes terrible

</comment></comment><comment><USER29>
      noun.
      tartou
      tar·tou

      a Chinese pastry
      "each piece of beef tendon tartou serves four and a half hours ago"

Time-traveling pastries, wonderful.

<comment><USER30> It's like that reverse wine that gives you the hangover first.

<comment><USER31> That's called exercise

</comment></comment></comment><comment><USER32> This site is really dolky†, I'm loving it.

† [https://www.thisworddoesnotexist.com/w/dolky/eyJ3IjogImRvbGt...](https://www.thisworddoesnotexist.com/w/dolky/eyJ3IjogImRvbGt5IiwgImQiOiAiKG9mIGxhbmd1YWdlKSB1c2luZyB3b3JkcyB0aGF0IGFyZSBub3QgcmVhbCB3b3JkcyAoZS5nLiwgaW4gdGhlIG5hbWUgb2YgbG92ZSkiLCAicCI6ICJhZGplY3RpdmUiLCAiZSI6ICJ0aGUgZG9sa3kgTGF0aW4gb2YgSXRhbGlhbiBidXNpbmVzcyJ9.g5EM_gj7oKttWD2307h15mBDJvSsVJAc5WFvy1jUXTg=)

<comment><USER33> Delightfully meta. I'm really loving some of these words, and might seriously consider using some of them.

</comment></comment><comment><USER34>
      nailblast (n.)
      1. a wound on the external surface of the nail
         "her throat was swelling with nailblasts"

Holy crap, is she okay?!?

</comment><comment><USER35> Wow, even with definitions! That looks like a better version of a game I made years ago where you have to pick out the real word from four options. The three "non-words" are generated by Markov chains:

[https://www.michaelfogleman.com/wug/](https://www.michaelfogleman.com/wug/)

<comment><AUTHOR> This game is great; I've been trying to think through ways of using these NLP models in a competitive game but the mechanics aren't obvious. It would be awesome to do something like an AI rap battle

</comment></comment><comment><USER36> This is perfect to name startups / products. Very well done.

<comment><USER37> Yes, I am here to launch my new cure-all "metasodium" its like sodium, but meta.

metasodium meta·sodium any of a group of silica compounds thought to act by the interaction of sodium with sodium, the latter of which has many physiological roles and is essential in the modulation of many physiological processes "a polymeric metasodium oxide from which such compounds in the cell cycle are derived"

<comment><USER38> This sounds like the method Star Trek: Voyager writers used to come up with their technobabble

</comment></comment></comment><comment><USER39>
        handjob
        hand·job
        a job offered to a woman as a job or offer offered by a man
        "you have won a handjob as a waitress"

[https://www.thisworddoesnotexist.com/w/handjob/eyJ3IjogImhhb...](https://www.thisworddoesnotexist.com/w/handjob/eyJ3IjogImhhbmRqb2IiLCAiZCI6ICJhIGpvYiBvZmZlcmVkIHRvIGEgd29tYW4gYXMgYSBqb2Igb3Igb2ZmZXIgb2ZmZXJlZCBieSBhIG1hbiIsICJwIjogIm5vdW4iLCAiZSI6ICJ5b3UgaGF2ZSB3b24gYSBoYW5kam9iIGFzIGEgd2FpdHJlc3MiLCAicyI6IFsiaGFuZCIsICJqb2IiXX0=.mleBZbiOa2vzNRnE1dU7ByUweEDAFr3TI5uvdgnw1Q8=)

Uhh.........

<comment><AUTHOR> That's really unfortunate; results are straight out of the algorithm but it's reflective of a bias in the training data set.

</comment></comment><comment><USER40> 2 excellent words with great definitions:

punchjoy:

[https://www.thisworddoesnotexist.com/w/punchjoy/eyJ3IjogInB1...](https://www.thisworddoesnotexist.com/w/punchjoy/eyJ3IjogInB1bmNoam95IiwgImQiOiAiYSBwZXJzb24gd2hvIGlzIHByb3VkIG9mIGJlaW5nIG92ZXJ3ZWlnaHQiLCAicCI6ICJub3VuIiwgImUiOiAiaGUncyBhIGJpdCBvZiBhIHB1bmNoam95In0=.whEdBQ4hXAD6vhw_IDpnJMZa1_bkc8uPo68STCDqIw8=)

jockrock:

[https://www.thisworddoesnotexist.com/w/jockrock/eyJ3IjogImpv...](https://www.thisworddoesnotexist.com/w/jockrock/eyJ3IjogImpvY2tyb2NrIiwgImQiOiAiYSB2ZXJ5IGZ1bm55IG9yIGFnZ3Jlc3NpdmUgcGVyZm9ybWVyIiwgInAiOiAibm91biIsICJlIjogImhlIHNlZW1zIHRvIGJlIHByZXR0eSBuZXcgYXQgYmVpbmcgYSBqb2Nrcm9jayIsICJzIjogWyJqb2NrIiwgInJvY2siXX0=.vErMKk9pOFkXmvM0VnzOmVFwqJY3Pp5EFwp9zjhyLAo=)

</comment><comment><USER41> Looks like it doesn't understand geography or human habitats very well, but entertaining nonetheless!

      cubot
      a member of an American Indian people living in
      shallow water off central Alaska and western Australia

[https://www.thisworddoesnotexist.com/w/cubot/eyJ3IjogImN1Ym9...](https://www.thisworddoesnotexist.com/w/cubot/eyJ3IjogImN1Ym90IiwgImQiOiAiYSBtZW1iZXIgb2YgYW4gQW1lcmljYW4gSW5kaWFuIHBlb3BsZSBsaXZpbmcgaW4gc2hhbGxvdyB3YXRlciBvZmYgY2VudHJhbCBBbGFza2EgYW5kIHdlc3Rlcm4gQXVzdHJhbGlhIiwgInAiOiAibm91biIsICJlIjogImhpcyBicmFpZCBtYWRlIGJ5IGN1Ym90In0=.dx0BXzj- hkNeLuF-132mIYFC03Pj495m4txfZlIF83s=)

</comment><comment><USER42> This gave me a good laugh

        noun.
        swem

        the process of forming a strip of mucus before injecting intravenously
        "semen started to emerge immediately after swemting"

[https://www.thisworddoesnotexist.com/w/swem/eyJ3IjogInN3ZW0i...](https://www.thisworddoesnotexist.com/w/swem/eyJ3IjogInN3ZW0iLCAiZCI6ICJ0aGUgcHJvY2VzcyBvZiBmb3JtaW5nIGEgc3RyaXAgb2YgbXVjdXMgYmVmb3JlIGluamVjdGluZyBpbnRyYXZlbm91c2x5IiwgInAiOiAibm91biIsICJlIjogInNlbWVuIHN0YXJ0ZWQgdG8gZW1lcmdlIGltbWVkaWF0ZWx5IGFmdGVyIHN3ZW10aW5nIn0=.v6YPi4i8Gdx6AJiwupThKrJrd1m6-pfhvToiPopnogM=)

</comment><comment><USER43> Bug report: I hit "Microtissue", a word that does exist, and its definition is incorrect ;-)

([https://www.thisworddoesnotexist.com/w/microtissue/eyJ3IjogI...](https://www.thisworddoesnotexist.com/w/microtissue/eyJ3IjogIm1pY3JvdGlzc3VlIiwgImQiOiAidGhlIHRpc3N1ZSB3aXRoaW4gb3IgYXJpc2luZyBmcm9tIGEgbWljcm9vcmdhbmlzbSBvciBtaWNyb29yZ2FuaXNtIiwgInAiOiAibm91biIsICJlIjogInRoZSBtaWNyb3Rpc3N1ZSBvZiBzb21lIHZpcnVzZXMsIG5vdGFibHkgaW5mbHVlbnphIiwgInMiOiBbIm1pIiwgImNybyIsICJ0aXMiLCAic3VlIl19.GfLvYMdPBLXPZY- bQaf34HEyybibxmW1xIkJg6p2fuc=))

<comment><AUTHOR> Oh no, it must have missed my blacklist. It's supposed to give a little "this word probably exists" when that happens. It's surprisingly hard to determine if a word already exists: [https://www.thisworddoesnotexist.com/w/tissue/eyJ3IjogInRpc3...](https://www.thisworddoesnotexist.com/w/tissue/eyJ3IjogInRpc3N1ZSIsICJkIjogImEgcGFydCBvZiB0aGUgYm9keSBjb25jZXJuZWQgd2l0aCBzcGVjaWFsaXplZCB0aXNzdWUiLCAicCI6ICJub3VuIiwgImUiOiAibXVzY3VsYXIgdGlzc3VlIiwgInMiOiBbInRpcyIsICJzdWUiXSwgImwiOiB0cnVlfQ==.7Tb_MxNb0XjeiszQ_cer5l82qoTScU3uYb5QVrWWMjY=)

<comment><USER44> Is there any sort of logic to discourage it from using a word in its own definition as it does there?

<comment><AUTHOR> Not currently, but I should probably reject samples that do! Filed a task here: [https://github.com/turtlesoupy/this-word-does-not- exist/issu...](https://github.com/turtlesoupy/this-word-does-not- exist/issues/new)

<comment><USER44> I think you meant to link to [https://github.com/turtlesoupy/this-word-does- not-exist/issu...](https://github.com/turtlesoupy/this-word-does-not- exist/issues/29)

</comment></comment></comment></comment></comment><comment><USER45> This doesn't always produce a new word. I got "metamucil", a brand of fiber supplement.

[https://www.thisworddoesnotexist.com/w/metamucil/eyJ3IjogIm1...](https://www.thisworddoesnotexist.com/w/metamucil/eyJ3IjogIm1ldGFtdWNpbCIsICJkIjogImEgY29tcG91bmQgcHJlc2VudCBpbiBtZXRhbXVjaWwgcHJlcGFyZWQgZnJvbSB0aGUgY29lbnp5bWUgY2FyYm9uLCB1c2VkIGFzIGFuIGluc2VjdGljaWRlIGluIHRoZSBwYXN0IiwgInAiOiAibm91biIsICJlIjogInRoZSBpbmR1c3RyaWFsIG1ldGFtdWNpbCBpbmR1c3RyeSIsICJzIjogWyJtZXRhIiwgIm11IiwgImNpbCJdfQ==.nDnIxXc61ikOYvDZmKmLzkt8__JTb3n4PAPYEChZe18=)

edit: also got "redbull" [https://www.thisworddoesnotexist.com/w/redbull/eyJ3IjogInJlZ...](https://www.thisworddoesnotexist.com/w/redbull/eyJ3IjogInJlZGJ1bGwiLCAiZCI6ICJhIHZlbm9tb3VzIHJlZGJ1bGwiLCAicCI6ICJub3VuIiwgImUiOiAid2Ugd2lsbCBiZSBraWxsaW5nIHJlZGJ1bGxzIGFuZCBwaW5jaGluZyB0aGVtIGZyb20gTmV3IEJyaXRhaW4iLCAicyI6IFsicmVkIiwgImJ1bGwiXX0=.uymj2iQt75Lb6Qu0-sWMJn2zXSX0s5pzFgbliTlCPIA=)

<comment><USER46> I got "crowdsourced", of which the definition is solidly in the uncanny valley: [https://www.thisworddoesnotexist.com/w/crowdsourced/eyJ3Ijog...](https://www.thisworddoesnotexist.com/w/crowdsourced/eyJ3IjogImNyb3dkc291cmNlZCIsICJkIjogIihvZiBhIHdlYnNpdGUgb3IgcHJvamVjdCkgY3JlYXRlZCBvciBob3N0ZWQgb24gYSBudW1iZXIgb2YgZGlmZmVyZW50IHBsYXRmb3JtcyBieSBwZW9wbGUgd2hvIGNhbiBnYXRoZXIgaW5mb3JtYXRpb24gZnJvbSBpbnB1dCB2aWEgc29jaWFsIG1lZGlhLCBibG9nb3NwaGVyZSwgb3Igb3RoZXIgbWVkaXVtIiwgInAiOiAiYWRqZWN0aXZlIFthdHRyaWJ1dGl2ZV0iLCAiZSI6ICJhIGNyb3dkc291cmNlZCBzb2x1dGlvbiBmb3Igb3JnYW5pemluZyB0cmFmZmljIiwgInMiOiBbImNyb3dkIiwgInNvdXJjZWQiXX0=.SlatxczSuTyDQ4KRgP7asWiBe3vO3VYiFlTvfBZkgtA=)

It almost gets it right...

<comment><USER47> Interesting! I got a different result for "crowdsourced". [https://www.thisworddoesnotexist.com/w/crowdsourced/eyJ3Ijog...](https://www.thisworddoesnotexist.com/w/crowdsourced/eyJ3IjogImNyb3dkc291cmNlZCIsICJkIjogInNpdHVhdGVkIG9yIGRvbmUgdXNpbmcgYSB3ZWxsLW9yZ2FuaXplZCBncm91cCBvciBzeXN0ZW1hdGljIHByb2Nlc3MiLCAicCI6ICJhZGplY3RpdmUiLCAiZSI6ICJhIGNyb3dkc291cmNlZCBjYW1wYWlnbiIsICJzIjogWyJjcm93ZCIsICJzb3VyY2VkIl19.CDefyfHfJw6x5mGxKDk81ZEXtS9yagjJpRSsl6DzwVA=)

</comment></comment></comment><comment><USER48> This is pretty cool but I am getting some strange results sometimes:

[https://imgur.com/a/rv0wHN1](https://imgur.com/a/rv0wHN1)

<comment><AUTHOR> That's not ideal and probably picking up some of the original training set from GPT-2 (this model is bolted on top of it)! How about DUOLINGOLOGY instead [https://bit.ly/3fPGP8q](https://bit.ly/3fPGP8q)

I'm using a blacklist to reject "real" words but it's surprisingly hard to build for rare words. I'm up to ~600K items after parsing Wikipedia tokens and it still doesn't capture everything.

<comment><USER49>
      airpods
      air·pods
      a large pair of wings and wings of a bird or other flying
      animal, typically used as a guide for a figure skater and
      paraglider
      "a pair of airpods"

</comment></comment></comment><comment><USER50> I've just realised this tool is great for inventing new species or spells for my DnD campaign. Things like "Lollyfish" "Bannabeat" and "Sanaf" sound like awesome little plants or creatures to decorate my world with!

<comment><USER51> Hah good idea. I'm using thispersondoesntexist to generate npc appearances ad- hoc in my campaign. I believe there is a potential for a generator that understands fantasy races.

</comment></comment><comment><USER52>
      patentless
      patent·less

      not having or requiring a license of a particular kind and without permission
      "patentless wireless communications"
      a word that does not exist; it was invented, defined and used by a machine learning algorithm.

Well, not exactly [0]!

[0] [https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/patentless](https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/patentless)

</comment><comment><USER53> Ha!

        neuterization
        neu·ter·i·za·tion
        the denial of a person's sexual identity and gender
        identity to someone else
        "she had undergone neuterization of her facial hair"

</comment><comment><USER54> Love this. Added it to my site that shows a bunch of other variants: [https://thisxdoesnotexist.com](https://thisxdoesnotexist.com).

<comment><USER55> Amazing! I found [https://www.thiswaifudoesnotexist.net/](https://www.thiswaifudoesnotexist.net/) there a while back

</comment></comment><comment><USER56>
        manpool
        a large pool, typically as part of a carnival or carnival
        *"a few old dead men may be playing in the manpool"*

So close, yet still so far.

</comment><comment><USER57> I'm not understanding the praise this is getting. The words I've seen are very clearly wrong and do not match how English words are made. Some examples:

> méxis: an obsessive or revelatory pursuit

No comment....

> heelbark: a red braid fastened to a man's hat so as to prevent heeling

Unless you put your hat on your shoes, you're on the wrong end of the body.

> transgate: raise the value of (something, especially money) by expanding its > capacity to become transactions or funds.

What's that even mean?

>noress: a unit of electric charge equal to one nanosecond

Where's the Coulombs? Who is J̶o̶h̶n̶ ̶G̶a̶l̶t̶ Noress?

Additionally I'm seeing words that either exist or are natural permutations/mispellings. Example:

> monucleotides, but mononucleotides are a real thing.

Additionally, the example sentences are just as crazy. Maybe I'm having bad luck. There are some good hits, but the majority of them appear pretty tashy (this is a crazy difficult problem!)

<comment><USER58> How are English words made?

<comment><USER20> I'm not a linguist, but typically words evolve as memes and/or follow etymological patterns made up of root words. It's very rare that they're plausible sounding gibberish attached to plausible arbitrary meanings. This generator seems like it's in the "uncanny valley".... They're all somewhat plausible immitations of words, but the fact that they're not natural can be felt.

<comment><USER58> Totally agree with all of that. It's probably a matter of outlook; I expect and enjoy some weird uncanny valleying from a humorous ML generator.

</comment></comment></comment></comment><comment><USER59> [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Meaning_of_Liff](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Meaning_of_Liff) The book is a "dictionary of things that there aren't any words for yet, written by Douglas Adams and John Lloyd.

<comment><AUTHOR> I have it on my desk!

</comment></comment><comment><USER60> This word probably should exist:

[https://www.thisworddoesnotexist.com/w/epidemiograph/eyJ3Ijo...](https://www.thisworddoesnotexist.com/w/epidemiograph/eyJ3IjogImVwaWRlbWlvZ3JhcGgiLCAiZCI6ICJhIGRlc2NyaXB0aXZlIHJlcG9ydCBvbiBhbiBvdXRicmVhaywgZXNwZWNpYWxseSBpbiBhIGhvc3BpdGFsIiwgInAiOiAibm91biIsICJlIjogImVwaWRlbWlvZ3JhcGhzIG9mIGhvc3BpdGFsIHBhdGllbnRzIG9mIHZhcnlpbmcgbGV2ZWxzIG9mIGluZmVjdGlvbiIsICJzIjogWyJlcGkiLCAiZGVtaW8iLCAiZ3JhcGgiXX0=.r_I_FTrsYoYxNcqfn4ht-1e3pIyiEurpW2MIgwGX3II=)

Someone used Epidemiography

[https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/0166218X89...](https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/0166218X89900462)

</comment><comment><USER61>
        stirrupie
        stir·rupie

        a stupid or depraved person; an immoral or destructive person
        "every single one of these artists was a stirrupie"

Gold. I bet Neil Stephenson would have loved to have this when he was writing _Anathem_.

</comment><comment><USER22> >chlamydrama

>a narrative, typically one that takes place on a screen or on social media

[https://www.thisworddoesnotexist.com/w/chlamydrama/eyJ3IjogI...](https://www.thisworddoesnotexist.com/w/chlamydrama/eyJ3IjogImNobGFteWRyYW1hIiwgImQiOiAiYSBuYXJyYXRpdmUsIHR5cGljYWxseSBvbmUgdGhhdCB0YWtlcyBwbGFjZSBvbiBhIHNjcmVlbiBvciBvbiBzb2NpYWwgbWVkaWEiLCAicCI6ICJub3VuIiwgImUiOiAiY2hsYW15ZHJhbWEgaXMgc3RpbGwgcG9wdWxhciBpbiB0aGUgd2VzdCBhbmQgRWFzdCIsICJzIjogWyJjaGxhbXkiLCAiZHJhbWEiXX0=.9n0umPOF8UKtHvB2afpjMNflGp_QXgFcCK1-7xxVJ_Y=)

I'm impressed, a witty wordplay.

</comment><comment><USER62> This word does exist (though not with the given definition):

backtick back·tick

        an act of greeting or greeting someone or something with a quick facial tick
        "we were greeted with a backtick"

</comment><comment><USER63> Hey, my word does exist.

[https://www.thisworddoesnotexist.com/w/infernus/eyJ3IjogImlu...](https://www.thisworddoesnotexist.com/w/infernus/eyJ3IjogImluZmVybnVzIiwgImQiOiAidXNlZCB0byBleHByZXNzIHN1cnByaXNlIG9yIGhvcnJvciIsICJwIjogImV4Y2xhbWF0aW9uIiwgImUiOiAiYXJlIHlvdSB1cCB0byB5b3VyIHVzdWFsIGlkaW90aWMgaW5mZXJudXM_OyB0aGVyZSB5b3UgYXJlLCB5b3UgcGllY2Ugb2Ygc3R1ZmYuIiwgInMiOiBbImluIiwgImZlciIsICJudXMiXX0=.b0mv0KfKdyIhKxatOXMHFIk9YVehdGqHDrz_bU2JCNs=)

<comment><USER64> I got a real one, too.

[https://www.thisworddoesnotexist.com/w/liquification/eyJ3Ijo...](https://www.thisworddoesnotexist.com/w/liquification/eyJ3IjogImxpcXVpZmljYXRpb24iLCAiZCI6ICJhbiBhY3Qgb2YgY2xlYW5pbmcgc29tZXRoaW5nIiwgInAiOiAibm91biIsICJlIjogImxpcXVpZmljYXRpb24gaW4gY29va2luZyBtYWtlcyBpdCBoYXJkZXIgZm9yIGJhY3RlcmlhIHRvIHJlYWNoIHRoZWlyIGRlc3RpbmF0aW9uIiwgInMiOiBbImxpcXVpZmkiLCAiY2EiLCAidGlvbiJdfQ==.4FD8ox8yZ57J6mP7Ov0b-8xQB8N8mkX5gtwVoT4dEx4=)

</comment></comment><comment><USER65> Second word I got was "showercap" which is borderline: [https://www.thisworddoesnotexist.com/w/showercap/eyJ3IjogInN...](https://www.thisworddoesnotexist.com/w/showercap/eyJ3IjogInNob3dlcmNhcCIsICJkIjogImEgbGFyZ2UgdW1icmVsbGEgb3IgY2FwIiwgInAiOiAibm91biIsICJlIjogInRoZSByZWQgc2hvd2VyY2FwIGZsdXR0ZXJlZCBhY3Jvc3MgdGhlIHNjcmVlbiIsICJzIjogWyJzaG93IiwgImVyIiwgImNhcCJdfQ==.9TLS- EyY5B8nscZ7QYZ5SAGhR0WLPmqEBWzfXsA0xKg=)

<comment><USER66> I think this needs to do a google search for each word before assuming it doesn't exist. I got "glosscoat", which is a type of paint/coating (typically hyphenated, but non-hyphenated examples exist).

Wow, the links are just base64'ing the whole text because of course there's no way to trivially reproduce it...

[https://www.thisworddoesnotexist.com/w/glosscoat/eyJ3IjogImd...](https://www.thisworddoesnotexist.com/w/glosscoat/eyJ3IjogImdsb3NzY29hdCIsICJkIjogImEgdGhpbiwgdHJhbnNsdWNlbnQgd2F0ZXJwcm9vZiwgbm9uc3RpY2sgcGFwZXIgb3IgcGxhc3RpYyBjb3ZlciBmb3IgYSBkaXNwbGF5IG9yIG90aGVyIGRlY29yYXRpb24iLCAicCI6ICJub3VuIiwgInQiOiAiRWxlY3Ryb25pY3MiLCAiZSI6ICJhIGdsb3NzeSBnbG9zc2NvYXQgcGxhdGUiLCAicyI6IFsiZ2xvc3MiLCAiY29hdCJdfQ==.zza1LYTgRHvTBU-05eyfjfuW48ZE- nApZwmPPOpamDc=)

<comment><AUTHOR> Yep! It's a sampling procedure; I could fix a random seed or put the results somewhere. "somewhere" ended up being the browser URL here (with a signature to prevent tampering)

</comment></comment></comment><comment><USER67> Ok, this one made me laugh. Well done.

      facetook
      face·took
      an instance of talking with no expectation of truth or accuracy
      "a complete facetook of her statements"

</comment><comment><USER68> This is awesome.

> scumdoggery

> scum·dog·gery

> seizure of property as a practice or violation of the law, especially in > financial matters

> _" he didn't care for the scumdoggery he got for being a police officer"_

</comment><comment><USER69> My second word seems... quite questionable:

nonhumanoid

1\. not having life

"a nonhumanoid woman"

[https://www.thisworddoesnotexist.com/w/nonhumanoid/eyJ3IjogI...](https://www.thisworddoesnotexist.com/w/nonhumanoid/eyJ3IjogIm5vbmh1bWFub2lkIiwgImQiOiAibm90IGhhdmluZyBsaWZlIiwgInAiOiAiYWRqZWN0aXZlIiwgImUiOiAiYSBub25odW1hbm9pZCB3b21hbiIsICJzIjogWyJub24iLCAiaHUiLCAibWFub2lkIl19.jjWtYHD5Qxq7t9hGmLOFvOdscFrOBCuCvPhYH09V5aY=)

</comment><comment><USER70> ahegao

ahe·gao

a formal gesture representing a happy ending or blessing

"her head was brought to a halt by the ahegao of the chair"

lol. entertaining

<comment><USER71> This one is actually a real word, AFAIK (and the definition isn't too far off, haha). Not sure if that's intended.

<comment><USER70> I know, I added it to the site.

</comment></comment></comment><comment><USER72> I love this:

        nonfatalism
        non·fa·tal·ism

            the belief that one's parents don't have sex for the same reason as oneself
            "a nonfatalism argument"

Or:

        brainsack
        brain·sack

            a sharp crack or slit in the surface of sea or sky
            "a slushy brainsack close to shore"

Brainsack is a sharp crack on the surface of the sky. Amazing.

</comment><comment><USER73> Seems like it failed?

headbutter. One who strikes other people with one's head. You are becoming known as a headbutter, so unless you want the league to suspend you, I suggest that you stop playing dirty! Headbutter - Idioms by The Free Dictionary [https://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/headbutter](https://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/headbutter)

<comment><USER74> noun. backpressure back·pres·sure the pressure exerted up against a fluid, caused by the flow of air or water through it, exerting great physical pressure on the body "a low backpressure"

[https://www.thisworddoesnotexist.com/w/backpressure/eyJ3Ijog...](https://www.thisworddoesnotexist.com/w/backpressure/eyJ3IjogImJhY2twcmVzc3VyZSIsICJkIjogInRoZSBwcmVzc3VyZSBleGVydGVkIHVwIGFnYWluc3QgYSBmbHVpZCwgY2F1c2VkIGJ5IHRoZSBmbG93IG9mIGFpciBvciB3YXRlciB0aHJvdWdoIGl0LCBleGVydGluZyBncmVhdCBwaHlzaWNhbCBwcmVzc3VyZSBvbiB0aGUgYm9keSIsICJwIjogIm5vdW4iLCAidCI6ICJQaHlzaW9sb2d5IiwgImUiOiAiYSBsb3cgYmFja3ByZXNzdXJlIiwgInMiOiBbImJhY2siLCAicHJlcyIsICJzdXJlIl19.fzIhaGw5a2bdLadUIIcxA0FXhPqQVUNj_LGmxu6eQ48=)

</comment></comment><comment><USER75>
        quora
        a set of questions
        "a rhetorical quora"

    !

</comment><comment><USER76> Amazing work! I just created Find Your Next Startups Name using this tool.

[https://find-your-next-startups-name.now.sh/](https://find-your-next- startups-name.now.sh/)

[https://github.com/mrpeker/find-your-next-startups- name](https://github.com/mrpeker/find-your-next-startups-name)

</comment><comment><USER77> Yosho! What a great tool!

yosho expressing a strong enthusiasm or confidence "yosho! It's going to be one of the best days of your life"

<comment><USER78> That reminds me of the Japanese word よし (yo shi) (which sounds like "Yosh"). Its meaning is very nearly identical: an expression of excitement or enthusiasm, equivalent to saying "all right!" or "okay!" in English. Was the model trained with the Japanese word and its definition?

</comment></comment><comment><USER79> Delightful; especially to create words for their sound rather than their meaning, which the machine declares for whatever reasons it has at the time. It interested me that I was sometimes disappointed with the supplied definition, and sometimes strangely pleased, even though I'd no meaning in mind when I made up words. This is sublime.

</comment><comment> cool-RR This is amazing:

quintessay

1\. a piece of writing (usually one of short or noibid) expressing or expressing a person's view, especially the concept of something abstract or self-subsistent. "the main quintessay of feminist theory."

2\. a word that does not exist; it was invented, defined and used by a machine learning algorithm.

Link / Generate another word / Write your own

<comment><USER80> see also: pseudothesis

</comment></comment><comment><USER81> I got baitbox which is well...

[https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/bait_box](https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/bait_box)

Still pretty cool. I'd totally believe some of these definitions if I didn't see the site.

Also this one which I've seen used quite a bit. overfamiliarize [https://www.thisworddoesnotexist.com/w/overfamiliarize/eyJ3I...](https://www.thisworddoesnotexist.com/w/overfamiliarize/eyJ3IjogIm92ZXJmYW1pbGlhcml6ZSIsICJkIjogImhhdmUgc3Ryb25nIGJlbGllZnMgYW5kIGN1c3RvbXMgYWJvdXQgKGEgcGFydGljdWxhciByZWxpZ2lvbiwgYWN0aXZpdHksIG9yIHR5cGUgb2YgYWN0aXZpdHkpIiwgInAiOiAidmVyYiIsICJlIjogImFuIG92ZXJmYW1pbGlhcml6ZWQgdmlldyBvZiByYWNpYWwgaG9zdGlsaXR5IiwgInMiOiBbIm92ZXIiLCAiZmEiLCAibWlsIiwgImlhciIsICJpemUiXX0=.RY3Uzae2Bv1cjvk1p4ruD9phEhqfTiSbfSTf3xKf-80=)

</comment><comment><USER82> > tiger-necked poodle

> a very small, sweet, pouched porcupine; a cricket

> "soak in a splash of chocolate red liqueur to ensure that the fluffy bits > eventually turn into tiger-necked poodle poodle"

[https://www.thisworddoesnotexist.com/w/tiger- necked+poodle/e...](https://www.thisworddoesnotexist.com/w/tiger- necked+poodle/eyJ3IjogInRpZ2VyLW5lY2tlZCBwb29kbGUiLCAiZCI6ICJhIHZlcnkgc21hbGwsIHN3ZWV0LCBwb3VjaGVkIHBvcmN1cGluZTsgYSBjcmlja2V0IiwgInAiOiAibm91biIsICJlIjogInNvYWsgaW4gYSBzcGxhc2ggb2YgY2hvY29sYXRlIHJlZCBsaXF1ZXVyIHRvIGVuc3VyZSB0aGF0IHRoZSBmbHVmZnkgYml0cyBldmVudHVhbGx5IHR1cm4gaW50byB0aWdlci1uZWNrZWQgcG9vZGxlIHBvb2RsZSIsICJzIjogWyJ0aWdlciIsICItIiwgIm5lY2tlZCBwb28iLCAiZGxlIl19.kkk6qbvPRZaHhholzYZkcSunEUfdhO5oX4hlptmHY9Y=)

</comment><comment> munk-a The first two I generated were pretty good with the first being a very "true" sounding word - however I then got Spongen[1] - an aromatic berry of a variety with a bright red, yellow, or greenish taste _" spongen, light white berries"_ which seems like a pretty big adjective fail.

1\. [https://www.thisworddoesnotexist.com/w/spongen/eyJ3IjogInNwb...](https://www.thisworddoesnotexist.com/w/spongen/eyJ3IjogInNwb25nZW4iLCAiZCI6ICJhbiBhcm9tYXRpYyBiZXJyeSBvZiBhIHZhcmlldHkgd2l0aCBhIGJyaWdodCByZWQsIHllbGxvdywgb3IgZ3JlZW5pc2ggdGFzdGUiLCAicCI6ICJub3VuIiwgImUiOiAic3BvbmdlbiwgbGlnaHQgd2hpdGUgYmVycmllcyIsICJzIjogWyJzcG9uIiwgImdlbiJdfQ==.M3YP-5NXkFPWRzY0DNglYENOP_p6dsm0uGMBPjg4CNM=)

</comment><comment><USER83> Except Transclusion was defined by Ted Nelson in Computer Lib / Dream Machines. :)

[https://www.thisworddoesnotexist.com/w/transclusion/eyJ3Ijog...](https://www.thisworddoesnotexist.com/w/transclusion/eyJ3IjogInRyYW5zY2x1c2lvbiIsICJkIjogInRoZSBhY3Qgb3IgaW5zdGFuY2Ugb2Ygc2VwYXJhdGluZyBpbmRpdmlkdWFscyBpbiBhIGNvbW11bml0eSBmcm9tIHRoZSBwb3B1bGF0aW9uIiwgInAiOiAibm91biIsICJlIjogInRoZSBiYW4gb24gdGhlIHRyYW5zY2x1c2lvbiBvZiBidXNlcyIsICJzIjogWyJ0cmFuIiwgInNjbHUiLCAic2lvbiJdfQ==.X7bHs8WEIkO_aETpTwHE1lxyW_ZA9vBBctkrljjZgZI=)

See here: [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transclusion](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transclusion)

</comment><comment><USER84> > minthority

> a fraction of fifty or more (the whole number one), especially within a > government or the ranks of a corporate organization

This does exist.

> pneumostomy

> a surgical operation in which a tubular vein is drawn into the lung "he > takes a long pneumostomy at the hospital"

This A.I. could be predicting future words.

<comment><USER85> Do you have a suggestion as to how to filter such a word?

It has 64 results on Google

2 results on DDG/Bing.

And no matches on any online dictionary that I could find (Merriam-Webster, Urban Dictionary, ...)

</comment></comment><comment><USER86> >durantino

>du·rantino

> a dairy-based flavor made by supplementing milk with milk of the same > consistency as dairy acid

> "durantino preserves and protects against all age-related diseases through > the combined action of dairy and vitamin D supplement"

Great. I think I want to buy some durantino

</comment><comment><USER87> Ah. I misread this as "this _world_ does not exist" and was briefly disappointed.

Briefly.

</comment><comment><USER88> Seems like a perfectly cromulent project to me.

<comment><AUTHOR> How about embiggening that to incromulentness: [https://bit.ly/2zFhVaD](https://bit.ly/2zFhVaD)

</comment></comment><comment><USER89> Airpods ... Sorry Apple

[https://www.thisworddoesnotexist.com/w/airpods/eyJ3IjogImFpc...](https://www.thisworddoesnotexist.com/w/airpods/eyJ3IjogImFpcnBvZHMiLCAiZCI6ICJhIGxhcmdlIHBhaXIgb2Ygd2luZ3MgYW5kIHdpbmdzIG9mIGEgYmlyZCBvciBvdGhlciBmbHlpbmcgYW5pbWFsLCB0eXBpY2FsbHkgdXNlZCBhcyBhIGd1aWRlIGZvciBhIGZpZ3VyZSBza2F0ZXIgYW5kIHBhcmFnbGlkZXIiLCAicCI6ICJwbHVyYWwgbm91biBbdHJlYXRlZCBhcyBzaW5ndWxhciBvciBwbHVyYWxdIiwgImUiOiAiYSBwYWlyIG9mIGFpcnBvZHMiLCAicyI6IFsiYWlyIiwgInBvZHMiXX0=.kar4I6F5ena9-KT2D66XHmMaFHo5ptRnhemaagLK5Tk=)

</comment><comment><USER90> Mycogeny: the formation of a mycoplasma within a cell "mycogeny was detected in liver urine and its recovery in lymph nodes remained unclear"

It's not too far off Mycogen: As Asimov explains in Prelude to Foundation,[21] their name is formed from the Greek stems myco- (meaning 'yeast' or other types of fungi) and -gen (meaning 'maker' or 'producer').

[https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galactic_Empire_(Isaac_Asimo...](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galactic_Empire_\(Isaac_Asimov\)#Administrative_sectors)

</comment><comment><USER91> I made a page some years ago with 13000+ nonexistent words. You get to choose your own meanings.

From memory, it picks each letter with the same probability of following the previous two letters as actual english words have. The more previous letters included in calculating probabilities, the more like actual words you get. My list is on the wild side. Not novel, but was fun to do. Good for writing _Jabberwocky_ -type poetry.

[http://www.adamponting.com/pseudo-word- list/](http://www.adamponting.com/pseudo-word-list/)

</comment><comment><USER92> noun [usually as modifier] deflategate de·flate·gate a situation in which one side is unable to extricate itself from a dangerous dilemma, especially one involving civil disobedience or military attack "a nuclear deflategate could doom the North Korea situation" a word that does not exist; it was invented, defined and used by a machine learning algorithm.

This word was used for the Patriots scandal a few years ago.

[https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deflategate](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deflategate)

</comment><comment><USER93> Some of these are squarely in the uncanny valley! [https://www.thisworddoesnotexist.com/w/indpendent/eyJ3IjogIm...](https://www.thisworddoesnotexist.com/w/indpendent/eyJ3IjogImluZHBlbmRlbnQiLCAiZCI6ICJzbyBmYXIgYXMgdGhlIG1pZGRsZSBwYXJ0IG9mIGEgbGluZSBvciBjdXJ2ZSBpcyBmcm9tIHRoZSBjZW50ZXIiLCAicCI6ICJhZGplY3RpdmUiLCAiZSI6ICJpbmRwZW5kZW50IGxpbmVzIGFuZCBjdXJ2ZXMgb2YgdGhlIHN1biIsICJzIjogWyJpbiIsICJkIiwgInBlbiIsICJkZW50Il19.q0fS3ldSp- XD8llnxDG-t_M179gUNCMiR6zkwcgG2Bg=)

</comment><comment><USER94> Funny that in Dutch probably (at least) some of these words do exist, I mean stuff like "week broodje" (mushy little bread) and "weekbroodje" (bread of the week) have a very different meaning based on the use of a space or not. In fact, we have a nice website that focusses on the incorrect use of spaces: SOS (Signalering Onjuist Spatiegebruik) [0], notice that spatiegebruik is 1 word ("Space-use")!

[0] [https://www.spatiegebruik.nl/](https://www.spatiegebruik.nl/)

</comment><comment><USER95> Tuberculant

[https://www.thisworddoesnotexist.com/w/tuberculant/eyJ3IjogI...](https://www.thisworddoesnotexist.com/w/tuberculant/eyJ3IjogInR1YmVyY3VsYW50IiwgImQiOiAiY29udHJhcnkgb3IgaG9zdGlsZSB0byBhbnl0aGluZyB0aGF0IGV4aXN0czsgbW9ub2xpdGhpYyIsICJwIjogImFkamVjdGl2ZSIsICJ0IjogImFyY2hhaWMiLCAiZSI6ICJhbiBhZ2dyZXNzaXZlIGFuZCB0dWJlcmN1bGFudCBsZWFkZXIiLCAicyI6IFsidHUiLCAiYmVyIiwgImN1IiwgImxhbnQiXX0=.a1SqxqS- XlKFplO28LscaP_4frPEG1KCshYYhGRCs5g=)

That's brilliant, and I'm going to use it.

</comment><comment><USER96> Oops. It just served me up "undefined" as a word that doesn't exist. (Not an error message - it literally gave me "undefined" complete with definition after generating a few good ones)

Interesting nonetheless.

</comment><comment><USER97> One of the words I got was "unsubsidized" which appears in pretty much every online dictionary I've looked at, although it is red squiggle underlined in the comment box.

<comment><USER98> Yeah my first word was "carseat" [1] with the definition "the seat of a car". While I guess "carseat" all one word isn't technically a word, I would say it's perfectly cromulent outside of an English class.

[1] [https://www.thisworddoesnotexist.com/w/carseat/eyJ3IjogImNhc...](https://www.thisworddoesnotexist.com/w/carseat/eyJ3IjogImNhcnNlYXQiLCAiZCI6ICJhIHNlYXQgaW4gYSBjYXIiLCAicCI6ICJub3VuIiwgImUiOiAidGhlIGNhcnNlYXQgaXMgZm9yIHBhc3NlbmdlcnMgc2VhdGVkIG9uIGEgYnVzIn0=.vLPegAx- o_X-HeheFOlfUvJe5abnqR9YSWjSHZPbi08=)

</comment></comment><comment><USER99> All is missing is a link to register a domain with generated word.

</comment><comment><USER100> This reminds me so much of balderdash which is oddly made up of real words but seem just as likely as these. Would be great to have this model try to play balderdash, though!

</comment><comment><USER101> Some of them are pretty clever and could have easily become slang given enough time.

My first result was "upboard" which describes all the wood on a sailboat that is above the water.

<comment><USER55> For slang, I'm training another modelusing urban dictionary as the datasource. I hope to release it someday but there is a lot of work to be done to clean the data. The articles are huge, user-generated and full of racism.

</comment></comment><comment><USER102>
      prefetude
      prefe·tude
      a woman's strong sexual desire, especially that of a young man
      "he was a perv and his prefetudes were obvious"

Ha

</comment><comment><USER103> Pretty meta:

      verb [with object]
      refour
      re·four
      reinvigorate or allow (someone) to use new forms of expression
      "refouring popular culture"

</comment><comment><USER104> This is brilliant, could barely be funnier if written by a human:

> adjective.

> nondegenective

> non·de·genec·tive

> (of a computer virus) preventing development of an infection in which the > infection is found in the host, without warning or compromise to the > computer

> "this virus is nondegenective against bovine cholera"

It's both impressive in its relevance and fluency of language, despite being nonsense, and hilarious. Had me in stitches at 'bovine cholera'.

</comment><comment><USER105> > carnarium

> carnar·ium

> the central part of the human body, covering the anus and genitals, between > the head and the chin

> "the ribs and ribs of the carnarium"

Absolutely amazing.

</comment><comment><USER106> Self-aware Machine Learning

        procreationist
        1. relating to or advocating the theory that sex is the only biological sex, or as opposed to that other sex identified with reproduction "a procreationist approach to reproductive science"

        2. a word that does not exist; it was invented, defined and used by a machine learning algorithm.

</comment><comment><USER107> My favorite one so far:

 _mantula:_ a small parasitic stinging insect that feeds on ants, flies, and other small insects, native to leafy lawns and shrubs. _" mantulas are widely grown as food"_

You could do some great auto-worldbuilding in a dwarf fortress type game with this. Maybe constraining the input data to "bio" and "historical" definitions.

</comment><comment><USER108> Nice hostname generator :) Reminds me burgundy:

[http://burgundy.io/](http://burgundy.io/)

</comment><comment><USER109> I got a word that _does_ exist [1], with a definition that doesn't:

nonadjective

non·ad·jec·tive

not based on a principle or theory

"the philosophical and political alternatives to the totalitarianism of nonadjective politics"

[1] [https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/nonadjective](https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/nonadjective)

</comment><comment><USER110> > nonreal - of the highest quality

> "an idealized, nonreal world of bliss"

Well... Plato sure wouldn't like your NN.

</comment><comment><USER111> I guess it's only to be expected that from time to time, this would generate an actual word, even if perhaps the definition doesn't match a word's actual definition.

The first time I loaded the page, it came up with "polypyrrole", an existing word.

</comment><comment><USER112>
      tootwork
      toot·work
      coarse hair left over after a period of neglect by the hair follicles
      "he let his hair go, and she gave him a big tootwork"

This is quite amusing to play with; beyond that, however, I fail to see the purpose

<comment><AUTHOR> No purpose!

</comment></comment><comment><USER113> This is brilliant. Authors could use this to create new words in their universe. Entrepreneurs could use this to get a unique and short dot com and product name. Someone could use this to create a "which word isn't a real word" quiz.

</comment><comment><USER114> metaspace

[https://www.thisworddoesnotexist.com/w/metaspace/eyJ3IjogIm1...](https://www.thisworddoesnotexist.com/w/metaspace/eyJ3IjogIm1ldGFzcGFjZSIsICJkIjogInRoZSByZWdpb24gYmV0d2VlbiB0aGUgZXllIGFuZCB0aGUgcmV0aW5hOyB0aGUgcGFyaWV0YWwgbG9iZSIsICJwIjogIm5vdW4iLCAiZSI6ICJ0aGUgdGhyZWUtZGltZW5zaW9uYWwgbWV0YXNwYWNlIiwgInMiOiBbIm1ldGFzIiwgInBhY2UiXX0=.s3UaUgPzMrkyuo0SyJg-4BAmBj7nOHrbIB0Fj311AqI=)

This is a Java concept: [https://stuefe.de/posts/metaspace/what-is- metaspace/](https://stuefe.de/posts/metaspace/what-is-metaspace/)

</comment><comment><USER115> AKA: future software project / programming language / startup name generator.

</comment><comment><USER116> Came across this, it just slammed two words together

instrument/adjective in·stru·men·t/ad·jec·tive

        an instrument related to a keyboard in that it is played rather than written
        "an instrument/adjective keyboard"

</comment><comment><USER117> My recent favourite fictional word is Elonzi.

[https://twitter.com/TESLAcharts/status/1256038204895047683](https://twitter.com/TESLAcharts/status/1256038204895047683)

<comment><USER55> defined [https://www.thisworddoesnotexist.com/w/Elonzi%20Scheme/eyJ3I...](https://www.thisworddoesnotexist.com/w/Elonzi%20Scheme/eyJ3IjogIkVsb256aSBTY2hlbWUiLCAiZCI6ICJhbiBhbmNpZW50IHN5c3RlbSBvZiBiYW5raW5nIGFuZCB3ZWFsdGggYmFzZWQgb24gd2VhbHRoIHRyYW5zZmVyIHJhdGhlciB0aGFuIGdvdmVybm1lbnQgb3IgbGVnaXNsYXRpdmUgdHJhbnNmZXJzIiwgInAiOiAibm91biIsICJlIjogInRoZSBjb2xsYXBzZSBvZiB0aGUgR3JlZWsgZWNvbm9teSBhbmQgdGhlIGNvbGxhcHNlIG9mIHRoZSBkb2xsYXIgaXMgYW4gZXhhbXBsZSBvZiBhbiBFbG9uemkgc2NoZW1lIHRoYXQgaXMgYmVpbmcgd2F0Y2hlZCBtb3JlIGNsb3NlbHkiLCAicyI6IFsiRWxvbnoiLCAiaSBTY2hlbWUiXX0=.5NuxgTdcD9YuN4qydUx0oPyLrdb7_iTASEEjIoewe-o=)

</comment></comment><comment><USER118> I got indigogo, which amusingly is the (slightly changed) name of a real service.

<comment><USER119> I got toxoplasm, also very near but definition is just hilarious:

toxoplasm tox·o·plasm

        (in humans) a microorganism of the alimentary canal, which forms a protective passage across nerve vessels adjacent to the colon, for example in the trachea
        "there is evidence that hemostasis greatly increases the risk of malaria by toxoplasm"

<comment><USER27> Toxoplasm exists, it basically makes rat suicide lemmings against cats. Also, it makes men more suicidal and women more... libidinous.

<comment><USER119> Disease is called toxoplasmosis, caused by Toxoplasma Gondii, I've heard about it, that's why I've pasted this definition. This AI has blacklist of valid words, toxoplasma is probably on list, toxoplasm is not. I don't know that much about latin, but toxoplasm looks similar to toxoplasma but is something other (sounds like a tissue to me). Toxoplasm without "a" at end probably does not exist, but I may be very wrong, so take that with a grain of salt.

> "protective passage across nerve vessels adjacent to the colon, for example > in the trachea"

colon in trachea and toxoplasm(a) forming a protective passage is the funny part for me.

</comment></comment></comment></comment><comment><USER120> I got "jibberish", defined as:

      a tense tense [sic] of a verb in de-escalation, usually after some verb has been removed or added

      "she gave a nervous jibberish if I didn't get the last word"

</comment><comment><USER121> Opened the site and got this, is this just the AI or is this due to trolling?

cracula (crac·ula)

crocodiles attached to the genitals, typically with the anus protruding from much to their outermost point

"eating those cracula have no effects on the penis"

<comment><AUTHOR> Just AI, it's getting... creative.

</comment></comment><comment><USER122> The next step is writing the Jabberwock equivalent completely with fake words.

</comment><comment><USER123> leptosphere

lep·to·sphere

the space beyond the earth's crust which is about 2.8 billion miles (4.8 km) across and includes the oceans and Mars, Uranus, Neptune, and Jupiter and beyond

"the space between the earth's crust and the leptosphere"

</comment><comment><USER124> _tamarino_

 _a Mexican dish of dried Mexican anchovies topped with grilled onions, anchovies, and tomatoes_

 _" a tamarino with sherry cream sauce"_

Personally I like to serve my tamarino with a side of anchovies.

</comment><comment><USER122> First word it gave me was "pragma" which actually _is_ a word.

</comment><comment><USER125> This is delightfully clever.

I'm the developer behind [http://prosecraft.io](http://prosecraft.io) so I always enjoy learning about new linguistic toys :)

Thank you!

</comment><comment><USER126> suckline[1]: an insincere or arrogant remark

couldn'nt help but thinking about trump :)

[1] [https://www.thisworddoesnotexist.com/w/suckline/eyJ3IjogInN1...](https://www.thisworddoesnotexist.com/w/suckline/eyJ3IjogInN1Y2tsaW5lIiwgImQiOiAiYW4gaW5zaW5jZXJlIG9yIGFycm9nYW50IHJlbWFyayIsICJwIjogIm5vdW4iLCAiZSI6ICJmb3IgYWxsIGhpcyBzdWNrbGluZSBoZSdzIGEgbmljZSBndXkiLCAicyI6IFsic3VjayIsICJsaW5lIl19.lqZ58FkkMys46WCyYCKZULt2E4jbQv1V3adkN5fD5yM=)

</comment><comment><USER127> Maybe I'm just unlucky, but I found the first three words very unimpressive and unconvincing.

>quaivarary

> a quantity or quantity that is different from a specified quantity or > quantity in some sense

</comment><comment><USER128> > slideshare

> a slum, especially a slum built from a kiln by an industrialist and tenant > by a rancher

"we now had to compete for slideshare seats on the street and build a big commercial slum"

</comment><comment><USER129> polyimpleteness

poly·im·plete·ness

the state of having no complete set of records and considered only by the specified set of counts

 _" many of his poems and pieces are impassioned with poetic polyimpleteness"_

</comment><comment><USER130> Awesome idea, some good ones in there, a lot that don't make any sense at all. That pretty much sums up ML.

tuberculinosis

tu·ber·culi·nosis

a bacterial infection of the duodenum of the buttocks and trachea of the vulva

EDIT: formatting

</comment><comment><USER131> ku·ber·netes \- a swelling of the cornea beneath the eye, caused by fluid aspiration, typically occurring as a form of secondary hairlike cloud formation during movement

<comment><AUTHOR> That's an accurate description of how I was feeling when deploying the site and learning kubernetes for the first time.

</comment></comment><comment><USER132> I'm definitely making some cantonik for my next tamboury.

> cantonik

> a dish of sliced bread filled with cheese, eggs, and bacon, wrapped in a > thin layer and fried

> tamboury

> a brief affair of food or entertainment

</comment><comment><USER133> Quite amusing.

      shishkodachi
      shishko·dachi
      a man who behaves in a shishkodachi
      "a priest in shishkodachi who refused to accept marriage"

</comment><comment><USER134> And this is how I will find the name of my next startup :)

</comment><comment><USER135> The first word I got was disappointed (different definition/usage though), are you running these results through a real dictionary before serving them?

</comment><comment><USER136> wow, just wow

unsubscriber: a system of telephone bills and their fees which can be charged only to subscribers "every item is charged with the unsubscriber"

</comment><comment><USER137> The last band name generator I'll ever use. Bravo.

</comment><comment><USER138> Not exactly related, while playing scrabble I find myself making up lots and lots of strings that sound and look like words, but aren't words.

</comment><comment><USER139> palumpolism

(in Hinduism) a state of complete consciousness and mind

"she had reached a mystical state of palumpolism"

%

shakura

a traditional Western-style ceremony performed by traditional Japanese people in which offerings, including candles, were offered to the dead before burial

"the shakuras return next year"

%

empaired em·paired

(of a person) having; displaying irrationally

"he seemed to live vicariously through his empaired friends"

%

mousselike mous·se·like

manifesting as lovable or strange, especially for unpleasant or stupid reasons

"a mousselike ghost"

%

poone

the nearest possible neighbor

"we must not be dupes, fellow poone"

%

delack

the sound of a fish drowning in water

"cures of delack and mauling"

<comment><USER140> Was there a lot of video game dialogue in the training text?

Palumpolum is a locale in _Final Fantasy XIII_ , itself named after the characters Palum and Porom from _Final Fantasy IV_.

Shakuras is a locale in _StarCraft_ , the planet to which the Protoss Dark Templar retreated after their schism with the Khalai of Aiur.

<comment><USER55> My model is bolted onto GPT-2 which is trained on internet text; I think some of these examples are coming from there.

</comment></comment></comment><comment><USER141>
        noun.
        diplôme
        a combination of two distinct species of cell or mineral, e.g. the diplôme bonsai

I really like that world

<comment><USER29> That's a real French word though, meaning diploma

</comment></comment><comment><USER142> > sibeast

> an upper class consisting chiefly of middle-class or influential women

> "the traditionalists were the great sibeasts"

Now that I read it I see the need for it.

</comment><comment><USER143> I love these non existent things, I can't wait for "This movie poster does not exist" and "This video game does not exist" to come out.

<comment><USER144> www.thispersondoesnotexist.com

already exists

</comment></comment><comment><USER145> I would truly hate to play this thing in Scrabble.

</comment><comment><USER146> Amusingly, I got: "nonhumanoid, adjective; not having life". It appears that the model would describe itself as lifeless.

</comment><comment><USER147> Hmmm... [https://i.imgur.com/APdPrS9.png](https://i.imgur.com/APdPrS9.png)

</comment><comment><USER148> Decided to try it out and test what my last name would mean.

\- Kandil

1\. a member of a lower class.

"a Kandil priest might have been a man of the lowest class"

I am not sure what to feel

</comment><comment><USER149> Just fantastic!

pimpage

pim·page

a kind of meatloaf made from sheep or goats that is made with a whey mixture and sometimes meat liver "a pimpage of pig's legs"

</comment><comment><USER150> Liberal and inconsistent:

noun.swanhead

a female swan, especially a male one "I did a few interviews to try to get a good picture of his swanhead"

</comment><comment><USER151> This one almost exists:

dexterious dex·te·ri·ous dizzy; full of excitement, energy, rage, etc "they met secretly and dexterious"

</comment><comment><USER152> I got "uninteractive" which apparently isn't a real word; the real word is "noninteractive".

</comment><comment><USER153> Just a heads up, the links for the forward/inverse model on the github page are the same as the blacklist link.

<comment><USER55> Thanks! I just fixed it

</comment></comment><comment><USER154> Idea for the developer to consider: Pro version generates a long list and checks if the domain name is available.

</comment><comment><USER155> There is a universe of new startup names to be discovered. "Is your startup name pre- or post-GPT2"?

<comment><USER156> They should reach out to a few of the domain search sites, and flag the ones where the .com is available (and split the domain name registration commission...)

</comment></comment><comment><USER29> Is that.. expected? A recursive definition?

      nepheaton

          the period preceding nepheaton

<comment><USER55> Haha, no but that's neat. The generation process is a sampling procedure so "anything goes" and it can stumble on unlikely samples from time to time. I should probably filter out recursive ones!

</comment></comment><comment><USER157> Of all the "This <object> does not exists" this one is the one I liked the most.

</comment><comment><USER158> copperfish cop·per·fish

        a dark seaweed with silvery-white fur, the male of which has plumes of cyanobacteria similar to those of the copperhead
        "copperfish will hunt bivalve mollusks"

This does not sound at all good...

</comment><comment><USER159> This made me LOL

 _moota_

\- a dance performed by people sitting in the crowd

\- "I love hanging out with my friends and moota"

</comment><comment><USER160> Good company name generator :)

</comment><comment><USER161> verb. redempt re·dempt

        convert or represent in red
        "he redempted his reputation as a powerful man"

I hope that wasn't, like, using other people's blood ...(!)

</comment><comment><USER162> Maybe add a link to let us flag real words? This is a lot of fun. Well done.

</comment><comment><USER163> This is awesome! What kind of bias would we expect to see in the training set?

<comment><USER55> For example if it consumes lots of data that uses the pronoun "he" for doctor, it's much more likely to spit out "he" in a medical context.

Since the model lacks world knowledge for new words, sometimes it also ascribes words to a specific cultural origin / group that is completely wrong.

</comment></comment><comment><USER164> We can use this website to generate domain name, when we're stuck at it.

</comment><comment><USER165> pre·cus·sive causing or dealing with problems of severe, often unpleasant, nature "superficial increases in precussive violence"

... best understood as: that which causes (precedes) a bunch of cussing/swearing!

</comment><comment><USER166> The third one I got was "airbend". Aang would beg to differ...

</comment><comment><USER167> Kahatung is a word in at least one filipino dialect, if I recall right.

</comment><comment><USER168> Very cool.

It's like automated Sniglets

<comment><USER169> I'm guessing this shows my age but I remember sniglets

[https://www.google.com/search?q=sniglets](https://www.google.com/search?q=sniglets)

The one I remember most is cheetle, the orange powder left on your fingers after eating Cheetos

</comment></comment><comment><USER170> How do you get it so that it keeps the description and phonetic all in sync?

Very cool!

</comment><comment><USER171> vitrus vit·rus a large edible tropical fruits. They are typically small and white, typically having white spot or dark berries.

How many contradictions can they pack into one definition?

</comment><comment><USER172> Can you take the words as input and generate the definitions?

<comment><USER55> Yup, press the "Generate your own button" on the site. If you want to go the other direction (definition to made-up word) you can hit up my twitter bot @robo_define: [https://twitter.com/robo_define](https://twitter.com/robo_define)

</comment></comment><comment><USER173> neuroconvergence

neu·ro·con·ver·gence

the process of increasing complexity or diversity in a system of brain events "the neuroconvergence of the cortex"

Funny enough there is neural convergence in ML papers.

</comment><comment><USER174> This is one of the best band name generators I've seen.

</comment><comment><USER175> It reminds me simultaneously of Borges and Douglas Adams.

<comment><USER175> I was gonna say that it would be cool if you could ask for the meaning of your own made-up words, and you CAN! That's basically an infinite generator of Douglas Adams's "meaning of liff" style definitions.

liff

        a short length of soft, warm linen for legs, worn especially during formal events
        "a lace liff"

</comment></comment><comment><USER176> It generates quite interesting words for a domain name.

</comment><comment><USER177> transmogonad trans·mog·o·nad

a direct physiological response or biochemical reaction, especially that of an organ or brain "a brain-to-brain transmogonad"

</comment><comment><USER178> ??? The very first word I got was a real word (Shmoo).

</comment><comment><USER179> Well, first word I had actually exists: cyanoplast.

</comment><comment><USER180> Now how can I work this into my next scrabble game

</comment><comment><USER181> This would be great for inventing variable names.

<comment><USER182> Only if you don't want anyone to understand the code.

</comment></comment><comment><USER183> I hope this never gets taken out of context...

</comment><comment><USER184> These are great.

I wish there were one for 70s/80s album art, but last time I looked at these projects they are still out of reach for hobbyists. I could stare at those all day.

</comment><comment><USER185> mono·liter

a small quantity of a drug or drug paraphernalia "alcohol and tobacco monoliter are being sold in the school stores"

lmao

</comment><comment><USER186>
      jungler
      jun·gler
      an open field used for sports or other contests
      "teens fought some 20,000 jungler, on the ice"

..wut

</comment><comment><USER187> flirtion

flir·tion

a stroke of incised or oval lettering on a shield or medal belonging to a householder

"a flirtion shield in the back"

</comment><comment><USER80> penister penis·ter

the protective skin of a pig

"the eyes were peeling away from the glossy skin of the penister"

</comment><comment><USER188> perfect for generating passwords

<comment><USER189> Or deciding company/domain names.

<comment><AUTHOR> This project is one huge yak shave starting from that idea! I was trying to pick a company name in the AI space and thought it would be appropriate if it was generated by ML. I tried a few datasets for training, and using the Oxford English Dictionary led me here

<comment><USER190> This is the most cromulent tool I can think of for nameogenesis.

<comment><USER55> Your noble spirit embiggens the smallest man

</comment></comment></comment></comment></comment><comment><USER191> Apparently creating the word "Jukeerchin" will "crash" the site. Huh.

Or something is wrong with my internet. Idk.

</comment><comment><USER192> this is a great source of naming stuff for novel/games purposes!

</comment><comment><USER193> "infocenter"?

</comment><comment><USER194> Edited away. (This comment was made before realizing an unfortunate context)

<comment><USER55> Add to the list of reasons I wish I could change my HN name

<comment><USER195> Try emailing the mods, they do this occasionally.

<comment><AUTHOR> It worked! Thanks for the tip

</comment></comment></comment></comment><comment><USER196> Nice, now do German!

</comment><comment><USER197> shrizzy

1\. A dark brown person "In those days he was a shrizzy man"

</comment><comment><USER198> relender

re·len·der

a unit of weight that is equal to the weight of a pound of food

</comment><comment><USER199> Fascinating app. Btw postclassification post·clas·si·fi·ca·tion the action or fact of grouping something into one class "his postclassification as a member of a Chinese Marxist party"

Seems close to real word

</comment><comment><USER200> Skungpoomery

</comment><comment><USER201> I love this!

</comment><comment><USER202> All words are made-up. Thx bai.

</comment><comment><USER203> beachball

beach·ball

a beach ball

</comment><comment><USER204> I don't have anything other than to say this is really cool! Congrats to the creator, I love useless, cool shit like this. I prefer seeing this kind of awesome stuff instead of another boring "How we upgraded our server" blog from Slack or Instagram.</comment>


Show HN: A cleaner alternative to the "Fork Me on GitHub" ribbon - <AUTHOR> https://github.com/tholman/github-corners <comment><USER2> Very nice!

A while ago, I wanted to add a GitHub ribbon on my project page but didn't want to load an 11 KB image that doesn't even scale cleanly. I ended up going with the pure CSS route inspired by this post: [https://unindented.org/articles/github-ribbon-using-css- tran...](https://unindented.org/articles/github-ribbon-using-css-transforms/)

With a pure CSS ribbon, you can also customize it to match your page's theme perfectly instead of being limited to a few different color variations. Here's what the end result looked like for my project page: [http://toc.im/](http://toc.im/)

</comment><comment><AUTHOR> Made by Tim Holman: [http://tholman.com/](http://tholman.com/)

</comment><comment><USER3> I like these a lot, kudos to the author for a clean design that matches most modern UIs!

</comment><comment><USER4> This looks really nice! Thank you for making this.

</comment><comment><USER5> I really like those! Kudos!</comment>


Ask HN: Have you ever felt your life is going nowhere? - <AUTHOR> Hi, HN!
Have you ever felt your life is going nowhere?
To provide some context: programmer in his early 30s from Costa Rica (Latin America), 3 years of experience in backend development (mostly Python and Go), second year of CS major and second year of math major (i.e., no degree yet).
Initially, my idea was to grow a career in academia by combining computer science and math (e.g., research in formal methods/applied logic). However, I have been struggling with courses for years, as I don't feel capable enough and drop them. I'm aware I sabotage myself by belittling myself, but no professional therapy nor meds have helped.
Plan B would be building CRUDs for the next decades to come.
I don't feel I have the moral authority to call myself a professional, as I don't have a degree yet. Even with a CS degree, I would feel I don't really know my stuff deep enough. That very intellectual curiosity led me to taking math, but I lack the mathematical maturity. I might actually lack "algorithmic maturity".
Development jobs that are good enough are rather scarce in Costa Rica. Recruiters just discard my CV, except for the actual jobs I've had (which I have quit).
Working in the US or in Germany (fluent in German) could be an option, but companies and authorities there expect a foreign skilled worker to have a college degree related to their job position.
I also considered starting a software business. But growing a profitable business idea requires an immense amount of stamina and focus (I lack both), finding customers is really hard, etc. So I discarded it.
Every few months I ponder about ending my life (I did actually try 15 years ago), as I never see a way forward. Depression and anxiety disorder (I have both) are indeed career destroyers: academia/companies are wise to ignore you, as you are perceived as unreliable to endure hard tasks. For recruiters, you are just a risk to be avoided. <comment><USER2> I am in no position to give advice, but I hope you find a way forward. I think professional help can still help you, don't give up.

I do develop CRUDs for a living and I like it very much.

I call myself a professional software developer without a degree and I am proud that I was able to change careers and become a developer, even if I am no "Google material" nor I will ever use sophisticated algorithms in my work. Just saying that to encourage you to be proud of your skills too.

Contractor jobs might be a way to accommodate your needs and avoid the obstacles that depression and anxiety create on getting a regular job.

If professional development is a way you do see as a path to make your life "go somewhere", I would encourage you to create a profile on Upwork and spend time applying to jobs (with your experience you will have a lot of options to apply there). Directing your effort to succeed on Upwork might be beneficial beyond the financial reward.

I would also encourage you to extend this request for advice to some of your close friends and family.

Again, all this is just trying to offer support and encouragement and I sincerely hope you find your way.

If you think any of the above advice is valid, feel free to send me an email (on my profile) and we can talk more.

Good luck

<comment><USER3> I second this. Please discuss this with some people in person. If possible see a counselor. You have value in this world that you aren't seeing for yourself. Also, many times in life those periods when you seem stuck are also times that you look back on later and realize you learned valuable lessons. Also, something I try and do when I get depressed is spend some time focusing on helping others. But please, if you are having suicidal thoughts, seek lots of help.

</comment></comment><comment><USER4> You are what you believe yourself to be. Depression is horrible. I suffer with it as well. But at the end of the day your self worth is what you want it to be. society puts expectations on you to be something specific but that should not define you.

At the end of the day, do what you enjoy and focus on that because the worst case scenario is you "waste" time doing something you love.

Having depression I can tell you its really friken hard to stay motivated but I assure you no matter how bad you feel, it will get better and no matter how hard depression hits you, your not alone in that feeling.

My suggestion is to find a depression group so you can work on mental health and self love first. Once you have a handling on that move forward and do something you love.

Sorry for the long winded answer. I'm brand new to the board and your post struck close to home.

</comment><comment><USER5> Lots of good suggestions here but one I'll add is that maybe you should find a job working for a cause greater than yourself. There are a ton on nonprofits out there that are in desperate need of technical people to help them. My advice if you want to go this route is to stick to orgs that do concrete things for people, like find people housing, or teach English, or provide assistance with addiction, etc. I've done some non technical work pro bono and it was some of the most fun working I've ever had. You will have to accept a lower salary but if you're looking for meaning out of work there's nothing like it.

</comment><comment><USER6> It's hard to tell that to a very anxious person, but all you need is patience.

You are just a few years in the industry and is already thinking you are going to be the very best, or that CRUD applications is an easy task or whatever. Maybe quit reading HN as the community here gives a very distorted picture of the dev community.

I've been coding for 20 years(16 paid) and I'm 31 and it takes literally ages to get really good. I still work glueing APIs and it is just fine.

Take your time to finish your disciplines, don't try to do too much at the same time. It is fine if you don't end up being those top people, industry has plenty of space for people with all skill levels.

Again, take your time.

</comment><comment><AUTHOR> Thanks for all the support, folks!

I'll focus on my CS major, even when I'll probably be over 40 when I finish (due to the several next crisis along the road).

In my last job, I found great joy in reverse engineering (interoperability with a quarter-century proprietary legacy system). I also find cryptography and cryptanalysis amusing (applied abstract algebra is nice).

I would like to focus on that career path. Job openings involving those areas are mostly security-related.

But I fear a possible toxicity in that adversarial role (i.e., last line of defense against a whole industry of malware and malicious actors). I can only imagine future burnouts and extended anxiety while dealing with the ever- increasing work demands.

How realistic is that gloomy scenario in InfoSec?

P.S. Cryptopals [1] and Dennis Yurichev's reverse engineering challenges [2] seem quite reasonable for practicing/learning.

There are plenty of Capture-the-Flag, Crackme, wargames, programming challenges, etc., but initially I'll do these.

[1] [https://cryptopals.com](https://cryptopals.com)

[2] [https://challenges.re](https://challenges.re)

</comment><comment><USER7> I too bombed in second year of my degree. Looking back I can see that it is the "dip" (there's a book by Seth Godin on this topic) in your academic progression. Your references to not knowing enough come across as the imposter syndrome. It seems to be common for people with high standards.

Based on my experiences I would suggest dropping the math major and concentrate on graduating with the CS major. Do they have 3 year degree courses or only 4 year? In other words make your goal the MVD (minimal viable degree).

With the degree and 3 years experience you would have better employment prospects than by dropping out and just relying on your experience to date.

If your intellectual interests require it, you can always do some post- graduate study on a part-time basis. Having spent some time teaching and researching in academia, I would suggest doing some in-depth research and talk to people before committing to that path. It can become quite bureaucratic and grants focused and thus more stressful than the majority of jobs in commercial settings.

</comment><comment><USER8> I think you pressure yourself with too many "shoulds" and expectations.

Do not create such rules, you do not have to simultaneously study maths and CS, work, think of business. You do not have to struggle for the next degree dreaming that one day you will a real programmer. You already are as you write code and try to be better at it.

Life is happening now, focus on living your days now: code if you like it, study your minimum to get a paper if you want to relocate. There is no goal in life, no direction, only process that you can try enjoying.

Read Courage to Be Disliked. It is a good book, it may address your anxiety. Seek for someone to share your thoughts and problems, or seek how you can help people around.

</comment><comment><USER9> Maybe you're pushing yourself too hard? Academia isn't all it's made out to be. If you know you're not going to enjoy it or be able to focus, maybe you're right to think about leaving. It sounds like you have good experience, more and more software jobs don't require a CS degree. You're in a good position to work and be professional in your work - a degree doesn't make you professional. In fact, a lot of people with degrees find themselves in very different work roles completely unrelated to their study. Maybe you need some time away from work or the place you live - to put things into perspective. But please, don't hold academia in too high esteem and don't put too much pressure on yourself :)

</comment><comment><USER10> While you are still in school, just work through all of hackerrank.com .. That will bring you some confidence but you have to do the work.

Jobs in tech can be varied. You could be writing code, you could be testing code or you could become an architect or work with customers in some technical capacity or even teaching. The most important part in coding is getting the design. With any design there is no one correct solution necessarily and you have to view software development as iterative, even more so in a collaborative environment. So go easy on yourself.

I would recommend you look into cognitive behavioral therapy as well. Pick up a book from the library.

Find time for you friends and keep a regular social routine. It could be lunch or coffee, I would avoid alcohol.

</comment><comment><USER11> > I don't feel I have the moral authority to call myself a professional, as I > don't have a degree yet.

I have several degrees, but that's not how I judge someone a professional. There are lots of people with degrees that nonetheless are quite unprofessional. A professional is someone who reliably solves people's problems.

Although your story is rather similar to my own, not sure what to advise career-wise. If you haven't already looked, you might check out various kinds of system administration. Knowing how to program and a bit of math are super- powers in that realm.

Good luck.

</comment><comment><USER12> > Have you ever felt your life is going nowhere?

Start with that feeling. Why do you feel your life must go somewhere?

You might be medically depressed. Im no doctor. Consider visiting a therapist rather than seeking answers from internet strangers.

</comment><comment><USER13> I live in Germany. I used to study political science, but never finished. Now I work mostly with django, doing crud. It's fine.

If manage to come to Germany it's a nice country to live in.</comment>


Idea: A Simpler AWS - <AUTHOR> I've been working a lot with AWS, and increasingly feel it's excessively complicated and overbloated for a vast majority of use cases. Is it a good idea to make a simpler version of AWS with only simple CRUD functionality, authentication, and a few other essential, easy-to-use features? <comment><USER2> DigitalOcean is no longer a simpler AWS; it may have been at one time, but no longer. If you check community voting, they have ignored moving toward a serverless model, and this is where the Cloud is moving. With each passing day, they become less like AWS (or the other 2 of Big 3 Cloud Providers: Azure and GCP) and more like a traditional VM host company.

I even tried to run their "Managed" K8s cluster, and it was far more difficult than AWS EMR or Azure HDInsight (never tried Google's equivalent). No way to run scripts when cluster is initialized (apart from using something like Helm; doable but not simpler than AWS), no easy way to choose preconfigured environment (i.e., Spark or Hadoop). D.O. basically provides a simple interface to spin up a VM. Their command line client isn't any simpler than aws-cli or Azure "az" which also has simple features like integrating well with PowerShell and OAuth2 client login from terminal. Even Spaces was no simpler, than S3 or Azure Blob Storage

</comment><comment><USER3> It already exist.

Heroku, Meteor, Firebase, Lambda Functions, Google Cloud Run and I'm sure there are others that I can't name off the top of my head.

</comment><comment><USER4> Someone did that already. It's called DigitalOcean :)

</comment><comment><USER5> Kinda like digital ocean?</comment>


Hedge Fund Wizards: the problem with historical returns - <AUTHOR> http://www.brookings.edu/opinions/2007/1219_hedgefunds_young.aspx

<comment><USER2> I was confused at first, as it seemed like he was pulling magic numbers out of the air, but I worked out most of it, and thought others would be interested. And also to see if I mis-understood anything.

I get that we start off with $100 mil with the "2 and 20". 2% annually for funds under management, and a 20 percent incentive fee for returns that exceed the 4% benchmark.

And I think here, he uses part of the $100 mil to sell $0.10 options, which if you sell 110 mil $0.10 options, you make $11 mil. So far, you have $111 mil, as long as the event doesn't happen.

So he uses $110mil of the $111mil to put into an investment guaranteed to give him 4% in one year and he uses the remaining $1 mil to spend on geeks.

So after one year, he'd have $110 mil * 0.04 = $4.4 mil from interest. So far, all together he has $110 mil + $4.4 mil = $114.4 mil, and he spent $1 mil on geeks. If you count just money in fund, and not money spent, it's $115.4 mil ($114.4mil + $1mil)

So all together, the return is $115.4 mil (total) - $100 mil (original money), which gives us the $15.4 mil, of which $1 mil is already spent on geeks.

The $2 mil comes from the "2 and 20" mentioned before, which he gets 2% of the original $100 mil for management fees. Here, I'm guessing it's the remaining amount that exceeds the benchmark of 4% of $100 mil. So $15.4mil - (4% * $100 mil) = $11.4 mil. And he gets 20% of $11.4 mil = $2.28 mil. So in total, he earned $2mil + $2.28 mil, of which he spent $1 mil on geeks so $2mil + $2.28mil - $1mil ~= $3mil

I can see why he says the fund manager's not doing anything. The extra $15.4 mil return that's paying the fund manager, geeks, and investors mostly comes from betting on sure thing for options to get $11 mil of the $15.4mil and a guaranteed $4.4 mil from treasure bills, mostly on the strength of having the $100 mil in the first place.

"Making $110 from $100 is hard work. Making $110mil from $110 mil is inevitable"

<comment><USER2> Oops. I meant, "making $110mil from $100 mil is inevitable"

</comment></comment><comment><USER3> Misleading headline; the article says nothing about historical returns being a poor metric of fund performance. The scenario presented is a standard example of high-risk investment which can easily (and fraudulently) be presented as ingenious investing.

The problem here isn't historical returns being used as a metric for fund performance, it's transparency. Strategies like these will _not_ yield a high return over a period of, for instance, 20 years. The only reason this works (for now) is that these funds only live for about 5 years, which is not enough to provide a good statistical sample for the events being observed.

If investors were actually presented with the raw statistical data (10% chance of no returns, 90% chance of 10% returns) both manager commission and the clientelle of these funds would look completely different.

Pricing deficiencies are probably present to a high degree in derivatives markets like these. But these markets are too young for investors to have any confidence in the actual probabilities of these events and how to relate to them. If one of these funds survives over a period of a decade or more and its practices look solid, that would be a sign that the managers know what they are doing. Regardless, the nature of derivatives markets is more akin to gambling and less related to the creation of wealth.

As I have said before, I have a bit of a problem with the bashing of "historical returns". In many cases it is certainly the case that the returns are based on dumb luck, but saying that a good track record over a long timeframe is worthless is equivalent to saying that all fund managers understand the pricing of their market equally well. Frankly, I find this notion a bit ridiculous. If the performance of funds was truly random, there might be one or two investors in the world that beat the markets over a decade. In fact, there are a lot of such investors. Some of them operate public funds, but unless they happen to have an altruistic streak, each of them has a lot more to gain by just managing their own fortunes.

<comment><AUTHOR> >Misleading headline; the article says nothing about historical returns being a poor metric of fund performance

Sorry about that, I thought that was an immediate and obvious implication of the article, namely that there is a problem with historical returns as a metric (not that they are a poor metric).

In any case, I didn't mean to imply that historical returns are useless, just incomplete. And I thought this article did a great job of illustrating an example where that is the case.

</comment></comment><comment><USER4> The author is right: this is a problem with hedge funds, mutual funds, and really any sort of financial investment. I don't think there's any real way to solve it though. The author picks an unrealistically simplistic investment strategy for which his point is clear. But in reality, you can't determine the risk and reward for more complicated strategies, and requiring hedge funds to register and report their results would do nothing to separate the scammers from the serious managers.

</comment><comment><USER5> There is nothing particularly fraudulent about the way the described hedge fund makes money. Selling implicit insurance against the unlikely event is how majority of investment industry operates.

There are two types of investment strategies generally - the ones that bet on equilibrium continuing holding (or reverting to its mean) and the ones that bet that an extreme change will take place.

If you take any credit risk at all (like buying a bond) -- you are in effect selling your creditor an option to default for which you'll be paid a small premium over the life of that bond. Same if you are betting that price of some mildly 'undervalued' security will come back to its historical valuation average.

The example of betting on a change is Soros betting that the Pound will be dramatically devalued.

The first two examples are called 'investment', the later a 'speculation'. Of course, we know why. "Investment theory" holds that extreme events are very unlikely. So betting on average is the only sensible thing to do.

Which is rubbish, of course, because markets are not random and are not described by a normal distribution no-matter what "efficient markets hypothesis" tells you. Markets are dynamical systems and extreme events happen quit often

So, a hedge fund manager who implicitly sells insurance (options) through his strategy is a rule in the industry, not an exception. Articles like this only get attention during times of financial crisis. During the peaceful 'mean- reverting' times (like 5 past years) unscrupulous managers absolutely crowd out the risk-conscious ones. And the investment pseudo-science actively encourages that through use of useless statistical tools like Markowitz portfolio optimisation etc.

</comment><comment><USER6> "If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians." - Warren Buffett.</comment>


A Realistic Way to Eliminate the Federal Income Tax - <AUTHOR> http://www.intelliot.com/2013/02/fairtax-taiwan-receipt-lottery-apple-store-e-receipts/

<comment><USER2> Both in the federal form and the state forms that have been proposed by the same groups, independent analyses have found that the so-called "FairTax" proposals to replace income tax with sales taxes aren't realistic, because the proposed tax rates would fail to replace the revenue of the replaced income taxes.

There are other problems as well; the page linked here states as a problem that that income tax, designed to be progressive (increased total tax rate as income increases), has some features which make it regressive in certain cases, however, the "FairTax" is regressive out of the gate -- because its a sales tax, the effective rate declines as mean propensity to spend declines, and that propensity declines with income.

</comment><comment><USER3> Am I the only one who looks at the 'FairTax' and finds it anything but fair?

<comment><USER4> What do you mean by fair?

<comment><USER3> Extinguishes currency where it will have the least amount of negative impact.

<comment><AUTHOR> I don't see how having the least amount of negative impact is unfair.

<comment><USER2> As well you shouldn't, since that was the answer to "what do you mean by fair?", not "what do you mean by unfair?". The characterization of the "FairTax" as unfair was that it failed to meet that criteria for fairness.

</comment></comment></comment></comment></comment><comment><USER5> I think the concept of FairTax is interesting, but the application through a lottery system is a gamble at best (har). Because it is working for Taiwan does not mean that it would be transferable: if a tax-system is holding an economy together, it might be quite a jump to say that applying it somewhere else would have same results

<comment><USER6> The lottery system is no gamble, and with it also means creating a uniform receipt standard, which further simplifies our current system as well. My taiwanese relatives keep every single receipt, and they even ask for my receipts when I go back to visit. At the very least it'll have some sort of positive impact because both the Taiwanese and American economies have a number of similarities, one of which is that both economies have a huge percentage of small business owners, and they are the ones most likely to benefit from tax evasion in the case of a single-rate federal retail sales tax such as the one proposed by FairTax. However, a lottery system would force consumers to demand receipts from these small business owners thus preventing them from doing sales off the books.

Also, the grand prize for the lottery is 10M NTD (New Taiwan Dollar), which is ~$337,781 USD, and overall they might pay around $1-2M USD which is a fraction of any estimated potential losses in tax revenue if such a lottery receipt system was not put into effect.

Also, our current tax-system is most definitely not holding our economy together, it's pulling it apart. Implementing it into our current tax system might also work too. At the very least, I hope it'll teach Americans to keep their receipts which is a huge improvement in itself.

<comment><USER5> You seem to say that the implementation of a lottery would smoothly go. I disagree: the system has worked in TW but was it implemented in the same conditions? Do you remember when the US tried to implement the metric system? There were only positive things about it... I can see a lot of folks opting to go to a blooming "grey market" where they get everything at 20% discount (3% markup from OP tax rate) where they wouldn't get receipts, or a second hand economy rise and not enough revenue being generated. In either case, any drastic change is a gamble,but we're so far down the hole that it might be our last option.

</comment></comment></comment><comment><USER7> A politician's ability to attract campaign donations is strongly related to benefits he can bestow on his benefactors. A politician who can't give out tax breaks will have less ability to attract donations/bribes. I suspect that reason alone would make it difficult to adopt such a tax scheme.

</comment><comment><USER8> This would definitely put the brakes on the consumption a bit. Do you think it would get to pass? Yeah.. no.

<comment><USER9> Consumption might go up between the monthly prebate and the lack of income tax deductions from paychecks. Although this would be a one-time boost, it would be a pretty significant one. A 23% sales tax isn't as awful as all that; the average rate of VAT in Europe is about 20%, _on top_ of income tax.

I've been rather skeptical of the fair tax proposals before, but I wasn't aware of the prebate concept which is the old idea of a guaranteed basic income under a new name, and somewhat reflective of the existing incentives. This bears further consideration and I'll spend some time this weekend playing with the numbers. It's interesting to me that it's engineered to be progressive, which a flat tax most certainly is not. I also think the mind- numbing complexity and warped incentives of the existing tax code create a huge drag on the economy. It's monstrously inefficient.

<comment><AUTHOR> You're right. I hadn't thought to compare with the average rate of VAT in Europe. Additionally, I don't really see how people could say that the FairTax rate is awful, considering that its rate was chosen to make the tax approximately revenue neutral.

</comment></comment></comment><comment><USER10> The privacy concerns of the last part of this proposal are kinda scary.

<comment><USER9> I've got mixed feelings about that. If you spend with plastic (which most people do most of the time) then all your purchasing is trackable already. And frankly, I _wish_ I could get my receipts in a standardized electronic format - my bank statements tell me where I've spent money, but not what I bought. Retailers have that information about me, but many don't share it electronically.

For example, my wife and I both like cooking and after we got a house we have almost stopped eating out because we were having so much fun in our own kitchen. With $20 of ingredients and our cooking skills we can whip up a meal that would have cost us most of $100 in a restaurant. There's an app/website where we can control all our grocery coupons from the local supermarket and make our shopping lists, which is fine, but we can't look through our previous purchases that way. I can scan and OCR the receipts easily enough, but that's a waste of my time. So I look through the paper copy, but I'm missing out on some useful longitudinal data.

In Europe, by contrast, privacy laws mean you can ask any company to hand over the data they keep on you to peruse it for yourself. At present this is viewed as an administrative burden but it has the potential to add tremendous value for consumers if implemented right.

<comment><AUTHOR> Excellent point. Getting all my receipts in a standardized electronic format so that I can look back and see what I bought would be super awesome, and I wasn't even thinking of that when I wrote the post.</comment></comment></comment>


Ask HN: Cloud Jetsons - <AUTHOR> this is a strange question but is there somewhere you can "rent" access to a jetson? in particular AGX Xavier and Xavier NX. the reason i'm interested is i want to benchmark some code <i>before</i> i buy one to see if it's a suitable platform for my application. <comment><USER2> [https://aws.amazon.com/greengrass/ml/](https://aws.amazon.com/greengrass/ml/)

<comment><AUTHOR> >AWS IoT Greengrass makes it easy to perform machine learning inference locally on devices</comment></comment>


Ask HN: How can a domain not have a TLD? - <AUTHOR> Why do websites such as http://user, http://example, and http://us work? <comment><USER2> They don't resolve for me and most people on the public internet, but your DNS service may be configured differently. In corporate environments, bare names (like [http://wiki](http://wiki)) are often used, so DNS supports it. If you use a cheap ISP, they may try to monetize typos by making bare words resolve to a page of ads.

</comment><comment><USER3> [http://user](http://user) works for me on Firefox, directing me to user.com. However, when I look at the DNS requests, my DNS server says there is no such name as "user". Right after that, a request is made for "www.user.com" then "user.com". I think Firefox is simply guessing the TLD in this case when just trying the name as provided fails and it's a TLD with no SLD (second-level domain).

That said, [http://ai](http://ai) does work at the DNS level. It's not that the domain has no TLD, but rather that the name is just the TLD.

</comment><comment><USER4> Take a look at [https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3397](https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3397) for one way to get this set up. Your DHCP server can give you a list of host suffixes to try whenever you have a short name.</comment>


GitHub: switch-lan-party Make you and your friends play games like in a LAN - <AUTHOR> https://github.com/spacemeowx2/switch-lan-play <comment><AUTHOR> Especially if you have a old (or modern) game, only supporting multiplayer over LAN. This tool can help your game console connected over WAN.

<comment><USER2> What modern games are played via lan? Feel like I haven't seen any in the past few years.

<comment><AUTHOR> like jailbreaked nintendo switch?</comment></comment></comment>


Etsy has ousted its CEO and is laying off 8 percent of its staff - <AUTHOR> https://www.recode.net/platform/amp/2017/5/2/15522672/etsy-ceo-change-josh-silverman-chad-dickerson-layoffs <comment><USER2> With Amazon snapping at its heals, this I am afraid is just the beginning of a long decline</comment>