You could try passing it 10-20 front pages across a much wider time range.

You can use: https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=2025-12-04 to get the frontpage on a given date.

This wont change anything it will just make it less evident to those who missed a day of checking HN.

If you do an update prompt, I hope you still keep this one around!

It's formulaic yeah, but that's what puts it into the realm of hilarious parody.