HN doesn't "hate humor." It just is picky about its humor. HN hates lazy comments. HN hates ugly comments and a lot of humor is both lazy and ugly. HN intent

HN doesn't "hate humor." It just is picky about its humor. HN hates lazy comments. HN hates ugly comments and a lot of humor is both lazy and ugly. HN intentionally and consciously seeks to keep the signal-to-noise ratio high. Humor tends to harm the signal-to-noise ratio, which further fuels HN pickiness about what kind of humor is acceptable here. Humor on the internet is inherently challenging because it often relies on voice tone, body language and other cues to signal "This is a joke." On the internet, memes substitute imagery in a way that helps provide visual cues and the formatting here doesn't support communicating in that style, which makes humor even more challenging on HN. If you are looking for light-hearted snark for some reason, HN is really not the place for that. There are plenty of places to find that and that's just not the purpose of this site.