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orhun / godsays

godsays

Rust port of the Terry Davis' (RIP) "god says" program

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2Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
160GitHub stars
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What it is

Rust port of the Terry Davis' (RIP) "god says" program

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Where it is used

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What people are saying

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 5:04:57 PM UTC.

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Mentions over time

HN mentions by month2 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2025-07-22 14:38:21 UTC to 2026-05-16 20:38:10 UTC.

012025-07-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-08-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 commentsJul 20252025-08-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-09-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2025-09-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-10-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2025-10-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-11-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2025-11-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-12-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2025-12-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 commentsDec 20252026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-02-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-02-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-03-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-03-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-04-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-04-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-05-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-05-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-06-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 commentsMay 2026

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May 20262026-05-01 00:00:00 UTC2026-06-01 00:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

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Terry Davis was really ahead of the curve on this with his "god says" / GodSpeaks program. For anyone unaware of what that was, here's a Rust port [0]. Anyway, I think divination tends to get a pretty negative reputation, but there's healthy and safe applications of the concept which can be used to help you reflect and understand yourself. The "divine" part is supposed to come from your interpretation and analysis of the output, not in the generation of the output itself. Humans don't have perfect introspection capabilities (see: riders on an elephant), so external tools can help us explore and reflect on our reactions to external stimuli. One day a man was having a hard time deciding between two options, so he flipped a coin; the coin landed tails and at that moment he became enlightened and realized that he actually wanted to do the hea
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ds outcome all along. [0] https://github.com/orhun/godsays
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