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Hacker News Parody Thread (2013)
- photochemsyn 4y agoWas this written by GPT-3?
- roey2009 4y agoThis is a repost from 2013 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5326511 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5326511 The comments there are actually funnier
- tekla 4y agoIs it really a parody if its indistinguishable from the real thing? Also missing a section where someone makes a statement as a fact and has a response from an expert explaining why they are wrong.
- synu 4y agoUsually also highly upvoted because it sounds right.
- AkshatJ27 4y agoPreviously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5326511 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5326511
- Semaphor 4y agoThe 2013 thread is pure gold.
- jfengel 4y agoI really appreciate that I had no idea this was a decade old. The Internet changes every day but people remain the same.
- eternalban 4y agoFar fewer people wanna talk about JIT these days. Alas.
- Pigalowda 4y agoI didn’t know there was an HN karma leaderboard! https://news.ycombinator.com/leaders https://news.ycombinator.com/leaders
- saagarjha 4y agoSee also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23003595 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23003595
- mgdlbp 4y agoand https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6747373 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6747373
- breck 4y agoThis is cool (only read the first two lines so far) but if you're really interested in Hacker News Parody software you should check out our startup: https://zombo.com/#HACKER_NEWS_PARODY_DOT_IO https://zombo.com/#HACKER_NEWS_PARODY_DOT_IO
- kmlx 4y agoi only read the first word and i completely agree with this take.
- nailer 4y agoDefinitely this changes the game (I am the cofounder of the author of the parent comment).
- brecksAnonAccnt 4y agoCame hear to say this. +1 for https://zombo.com/#HACKER_NEWS_PARODY_DOT_IO https://zombo.com/#HACKER_NEWS_PARODY_DOT_IO
- throwaway892238 4y ago*here Back in the day nobody on HN would so egregiously misspell words. This place is turning into Reddit.
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- junon 4y agoNot fully reddit until a bot matches /came +hear/i and posts a snarky "Um Actshualleeee" comment.
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- netfl0 4y agoI’d like to make a broader point here…
- sokoloff 4y agoDid you even read the article?
- twohaibei 4y agoI never laugh out loud in front of the screen. Especially in public places. Almost never.
- layer8 4y ago“Firefox nightlys does” had me in fits.
- someweirdperson 4y agoThat's how I found out that the reply button does not work. I wanted to post a link to the issue and explain how they got it wrong.
- hutrdvnj 4y agoI disagree with the author. I know he's incredibly successful and right about pretty much everything he's ever said, but I've had some experience in this area and just finished reading through some of the archives and I think his focus is wrong. I'm going to ignore the technical issue and talk about the bigger picture and higher level things than what was said in the blog post. If the OP thinks that the process is most important, it's really about end results. But if he thinks it should be about the end results then he's an idiot for not thinking about the process. I'll weasel in a reference the startup I co-founded even though it's not directly relevant.
- seydor 4y ago> tangential statement I'm honestly really curious about this. Could you elaborate?
- gzer0 4y agoYes, I can elaborate, however, this information should have been taught to you by the age of 2. Silly HN. A tangent is simply a line that touches a non-linear curve (like a circle) at only a single point. It represents an equation with the relationship between the coordinates “x” and “y” on a two-dimensional graph. The tangential velocity is the measurement of the speed at any point tangent to a rotating wheel in a circular motion. Thus angular velocity, ω, is related to the tangential velocity, Vt, through the formula. Tangential velocity is the component of the motion along the edge of a circle measured at any arbitrary point of time. As per its name, tangential velocity describes the motion of an object along the edge of the circle, whose direction at any given point on the circle is always along the tangent to that point. [1] https://me https://me [2] http://me http://me [3] localhost:8080
- maydup-nem 4y agoI remember how I did something similar back in 1983...
- bookofjoe 4y agoThis is my favorite comment. Not even close.
- heresie-dabord 4y ago... in Org Mode ...
- zorked 4y agoThe only thing missing is the actual expert making a clueful statement at the very bottom of the page where nobody reads. Possibly downvoted a couple of times.
- turnsout 4y agoQueue the hn reply: "Did you actually read the article? There is such a comment (guru3)."
- tomalpha 4y agoI hate to be pedantic but surely you mean “cue”?
- turnsout 4y agoWell actually in this instance I specifically wanted to evoke the image of the commenter waiting in line to deliver their retort. jkjk
- downvotetruth 4y ago"turnsout" You're submitting too fast. Please slow down. Thanks
- MonkeyClub 4y agoNonsense, you don’t hate being pedantic :)
- daniel-cussen 4y ago
- robswc 4y agoAnd when you click on their unsuspecting profile called "jolly_rogers123" it goes: >link to their site >creator of (literally the thing being discussed), 2007 >20+ YoE in everything
- drdec 4y agoOverly critical comment focusing on some obscure technical facet of the post, giving the impression of not understanding it is a parody.
- theCrowing 4y agoI don't know why you need to bring politics into this.
- nailer 4y agoI dislike Elon Musk and also it’s the apocalypse.
- graderjs 4y agoYou picked an appropriate username for your comment
- synu 4y agoI like Elon Musk and it’s actually 4D chess
- rtp4me 4y agolets not forget... * 5-day/40hr work weeks should be abolished in favor of 3-day/24hr work weeks * I will never, ever work in an office again - work from home/remote 100% only * I will sabatoge my work place if I am forced to work on nights/weekends * All bosses are ssholes and should never be trusted * Senior leadership (CEOs, etc) should forfit all their money and die if they ever lay off people * People with more money than me suck
- tomxor 4y agoI post to simply state my appreciation and amusement :D ... but I will be downvoted due to being neither insightful nor argumentative.
- input_sh 4y agoUnrealistic. Not a single person complained about link not working with JavaScript disabled.
- timeon 4y agoSince it was missing there I realized how am I overusing '[-]' instead of scrolling. Like Tarzan swing on vines. (Also is this relavant or am I just piggy-backing your top comment?)
- nicky0 4y agoIn 10 years of reading hacker news I never thought to press the [-] until this moment.
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- hoosieree 4y agoRelevant XKCD: https://xkcd.com/1053/ https://xkcd.com/1053/
- tomger 4y agoI always assumed [-] subtracted a point from that comment.
- turbonaut 4y agoDoesn’t [-] set it to zero? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brainfuck https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brainfuck
- RheingoldRiver 4y ago[-] collapses the replies so that you can easily see what's next. On reddit the equivalent functionality is a button literally called "hide child comments." But as another comment mentioned, you can click root | parent | prev | next to get navigated through the thread. Personally, I prefer the collapse, though, as having the top of my screen move without my direct control is a bit jarring, but there's more functionality from these buttons.
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- sseagull 4y agoIt's got one glaring omission IMO - references to sci-fi literature. They crop up in a lot of threads :)
- ZeroGravitas 4y agoOne of the usernames is "scificharacter".
- anshumankmr 4y agoNice article.
- weird-eye-issue 4y agoI downvoted you just to keep it inline with the OP
- bawolff 4y ago> Here's a long detailed, objective explanation of everything related to this issue. It's probably more useful than the actual link and it may serve as one of the best efforts to consolidate information on this subject on the entire Internet. If it contains original research only a couple of readers will be qualified to tell. Half the people who upvote this won't understand more than the first two paragraphs. Exactly explains the value of hn, when this happens.
- prox 4y agoAbsolutely. Sometimes you get a comment thread where some specialists add way more than “average” commenters could actually add. I like it because it gives insights in difficult subjects!
- spiffytech 4y agoThere are so many problems that affect many working programmers which you only learn the good answers to by lucking into spending years in the right job. I always upvote when people share that specialized knowledge and edify the rest of us. I think that's when HN is at its best.
- svnpenn 4y agoMissed the part where people use acronyms that no one understands.
- graderjs 4y ago> simulated HN top bar Here's a hyper-anal correction that is itself correct, but doesn't exactly contradict the OP. Actually, logged-in simulation-user icandownvote (500 karma) can't actually down vote yet. This is genius Also, check out the top bar link hrefs: new | threads | comments | ask | jobs | submit new - http://news.ycombinator.com/TakeADeepBreath http://news.ycombinator.com/TakeADeepBreath threads - http://news.ycombinator.com/CheckRepliesToMyComments?id=icandownvote http://news.ycombinator.com/CheckRepliesToMyComments?id=ican... comments - http://news.ycombinator.com/KillACoupleMinutes http://news.ycombinator.com/KillACoupleMinutes ask - http://news.ycombinator.com/KickstartADiscussionNoOneWillParticipateIn http://news.ycombinator.com/KickstartADiscussionNoOneWillPar... jobs - http://news.ycombinator.com/AnyoneActuallyClickThis http://news.ycombinator.com/AnyoneActuallyClickThis? submit - http://news.ycombinator.com/ACommentorIncludedAnAwesomeLink,IThinkI'llSubmitIt http://news.ycombinator.com/ACommentorIncludedAnAwesomeLink,... Sound the klaxons, that link includes http not https don't people know the security risks?! Also, I'm going for a couple of genres with the above
- robswc 4y ago>Here's a hyper-anal correction that is itself correct, but doesn't exactly contradict the OP. I've always hated this. Thankfully I've found it happens much, much less on HN vs say reddit haha. The cherry on top is how the correction is effectively useless.
- graderjs 4y agoBut to the ultra self important pedants, they don’t see it that way at all…it’s not useless it’s a fundamental reality that you’d be a complete idiot not to fully appreciate…just make sure you also worship their brilliance in deigning to illuminate you
- klohto 4y agoI'm missing a rant about why is it a Twitter thread and not a blog post
- Kye 4y agoAlso the long, tedious argument following from a polite correction to using the wrong pronouns for the author.
- pwdisswordfish9 4y agoThe best Hacker News parody is at https://news.ycombinator.com https://news.ycombinator.com
- woolion 4y agoWrong, it's at https://hackernews.com https://hackernews.com, that weird link you posted is probably a phishing site.
- zozbot234 4y agoToo bad that n-gate.com stopped updating in mid-2021. It was great for this stuff, and arguably it still is. Edit: Don't miss the usernames in OP's parody thread though, they're just as hard to spot as on actual HN (which is a great feature of this site) but I thought they were the funniest part.
- AtlasBarfed 4y agoThe definitive hacker news mindset takedown. A cold bucket of water on silicon valley. I miss it so much, mostly because it was so insightful. Alas, no one will know because... you didn't pilotfish-post on firstpost comment.
- TheWoodsy 4y agoI was scrolling for this. I always forget the URL and when I find it I'm saddened to find no updates :\
- neilv 4y agoWhen telling people about HN, I'd emphasize first reading the guidelines, and not treating it like other social media. Then I'd say, when some comment thread goes intolerable, they can get relief by reading some n-gate. (Though the content of the last post precluded mentioning it at the company where I was working.) I hope the n-gate person is well, and that they didn't blow a gasket, taking on the burdens of too many HNers.
- davidjhall 4y agoMissing "I can't view the site on my mobile phone."
- rzzzt 4y ago> Please don't complain about tangential annoyances—e.g. article or website formats, name collisions, or back-button breakage. They're too common to be interesting. On a tangential note, did this guideline change recently? In some search results "e.g." changes to "things like".
- oytis 4y agoReally missing n-gate.com. It was good. Hope he's alright
- theideaofcoffee 4y agoSame, I occasionally go back and re-read the archive of posts for laffs. The satire there is better than 95% of the flotsam posted here.
- bitwize 4y agoAn internet attempts a third-rate mockery of Hackernews. Hackernews pulls a "this, but unironically", earnestly replicating every joke comment in the original article, right down to the obligatory XKCD.
- goodpoint 4y agoI miss it too. For being "satire" it was often more insightful than HN.
- iopq 4y agoHumorous meta comment
- synu 4y agoMissing - 1. I noticed a word used slightly incorrectly in the title. Rather than reading it with the clear intended meaning, let’s take it as literally as possible to build a suitable straw man. 2. Someone replying in every thread, debating everyone like it’s their job and accounting for half the replies in the topic.
- heresie-dabord 4y agoAs a US poster, I need all units of measure to be what the Founding Fathers used and all pickup trucks to be what the Founding Fathers drove. As an EU poster, I won't understand the US obsession with large vehicles and I will recommend bicycling instead. As a programmer, I think we can improve performance if we multithread, containerise, microservice, and store n-depth JSON in a No-SQL database. As a Python programmer, this doesn't look Pythonic. We should be using pythonic Python, especially the new release that adds the syntactic sugar that we've all been waiting for.
- baxtr 4y agoI’m sad not to read anything about Rust and Kubernetes.
- gnfargbl 4y agoAs a person running a single static website, I can confidently say that Kubernetes is the most overhyped technology ever. After having eventually realised that my tediously simple workload can be deployed effectively using a short systemd unit file and an even shorter ansible script, I no longer believe anyone actually runs production workloads on Kubernetes. I will now be considering other options for the service mesh that my startup clearly needs to implement in order to send an occasional email newsletter.
- heresie-dabord 4y agoMy start-up has rewritten Kubernetes in Rust because Go is slow and doesn't implement traits in a rustaceous way. Now we have a system about which we still can't reason tractably, but we can guarantee memory safety wherever memory safety can be guaranteed.
- irusensei 4y ago“As an EU poster, I need to remind everyone in every thread that I have health care and GDPR.”
- baxtr 4y ago
- felipelalli 4y agoThe Bad Humor of HN.™
- chrisshroba 4y agoA comment praising HN and attributing its success to dang's amazing moderation (which is 1000% deserved!)
- theideaofcoffee 4y agoI don't see any posts from the Rust Evangelism Strike Force (thanks, n-gate).
- api 4y agoThis is missing a tangent where someone finds a way to interject a point against “woke,” gets mostly downvoted into gray text, and is followed by a ten level deep rehashed debate over whether free speech should imply access to private platforms or not. Oh, and the various dead troll replies that you can see if show dead is on.
- rvba 4y agoDid you win the Putnam? If not, please don't be "bolder" than this guy
- batch12 4y agoThe author forgot to use references to razors, laws, fallacies, and axioms to dismiss any contentious discussion.
- turnsout 4y agoThis is from 2022, needs (2022) in the title
- donatj 4y agoA couple years back someone posted something I wrote. I’d written it in November 2018 and it was currently March 2019. Someone started a thread that it needed (2018) and the HN mods actually made it happen - as well as changing the title.
- rufus_foreman 4y agoI guess I know what I'll be doing this New Year's Day.
- halfmatthalfcat 4y agoDAE hate javascript?
- pepy 4y agorelevant XKCD https://xkcd.com/386/ https://xkcd.com/386/
- adg001 4y agoGiven the proven track record of our community, it strikes me out how nobody commented about the pretty good replica of the HN's UI already. Sad. On a related note, I will spend all night hacking CSS to prove myself I can do the same. Sleep debt does not scary me out.
- nicky0 4y agoI assumed they just cloned the stylesheet.
- insin 4y agoIt's missing a top-level post which makes an analogy, which turns into a ten-deep thread of people arguing entirely about the analogy, the friendly article having been completely forgotten.
- SantalBlush 4y agoThe analogies found on HN could have their own dedicated parody site.
- smugma 4y ago*they’re
- vram22 4y agoI posted before on HN about this trend, of commenters often completely forgetting about the original article, and arguing a lot (in child comments) about some top-voted comment. I called it the Hacker News Right-Side Effect (or Rule) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24405167 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24405167
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- dpkirchner 4y agoYou could power the earth exclusively on the smug that emits from analogy arguments (or what we call analgruments in the biz).
- bsnnkv 4y agoDon't mind me, I'm just going to go around this parody thread downvoting anyone who talks about their small bootstrapped passion projects, accusing small funded companies that people like of astroturfing, and then storming off in a huff when I get called out. ;)
- skc 4y agoAll that's missing is a 200 comment thread on some Microsoft/Facebook/Google tech from people who don't actually use Microsoft/Facebook/Google tech
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- throwaway12245 4y agoFlagged because it doesn't fit "the narrative".
- tyingq 4y agoDidn't find orthogonal, idempotent, or a rant about correlation vs causation.
- wingely 4y agoIt’s missing the part where someone suggests stupidity and obtuseness on the part of anyone who questions free markets outside of theoretical experiments. Similarly, it’s missing the comment from a woman-identified person that is followed by negging from male users. Edit: proving my point
- sligor 4y agoIs it really a parody ? In fact it is mostly pretty accurate and that's why I love Hacker News over any other social media
- allendoerfer 4y agoYou do not really need parody sites. You can accomplish the same using rsync and 3 lines of bash.
- vram22 4y agoDidn't you know that zsh has this cool feature which reduces it to 1.5 lines? ohmyzsh!
- compiler-guy 4y agoThat might work for a small home parody, but it won’t scale to levels needed by viral parody sites.
- abnry 4y agoThe real concern is that you can fire 75% of the parody site workers and still have it keep humming.
- Sniper1911 4y agonice try, but N-gate is still better
- bluecatswim 4y agoI miss it :(
- newaccount2021 4y ago
- dalmo3 4y agoIt's missing a thread where someone makes a very simplistic analogy, followed by 300 replies discussing the analogy but not the concrete point.
- wkjagt 4y agoIt’s missing a comment from someone who dismisses someone else’s comment by starting with “Ehhhh no.” It’s also missing someone making a funny joke and then being downvoted because HN comments need to be serious contributions to the topic.
- cm_silva 4y agoSo many tropes! :-D
- tomger 4y agoI disagree
- sodapopcan 4y agoWhy was this post written in English? Should re-write in Rust.
- Scene_Cast2 4y agon-gate.com used to have more detailed (per article) HN satire.
- raldi 4y ago“We renamed the title from The Eleven Sexiest Mistakes Stupid Morons Make When Designing Flow Control Protocols -dang”
- IIAOPSW 4y agoThere needs to be at least one person in the thread reminding us about pg's submarine essay.
- unfunco 4y agoIs this accurate? There's not a single comment saying "x is my daily driver" and no mention of anything being considered harmful.
- PicassoCTs 4y agoIt misses the <template> guy, posting about his life long obsession in every thread, no matter how unrelated. Also no dang, providing previous discussion links and stomping out flamewars caused by the usual suspects.
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- fortran77 4y agoPaywalled.
- rosmax_1337 4y agoDamn, I was afraid this was going to be someone stealing my genius idea. Gladly it was just tangential to that idea. Idea: Train an ai to construct entire threads based on the input of the title and link. There should be plenty of training material, and frankly I think it would be hilariously similar to the real threads. When new submissions are added to HN, the system will fetch the title and link, and predict the entire thread. You can view the thread on something like hnpredicted.com/?id=33680661 . When the real thread has had no new comment added for five days, it is reintegrated into the system further training the model. Possibly, the model could be trained on the actual content of the link. But I suspect just using the short title might be better. Larger concentration on the actual material there, websites contain lots of text which is useless. Now that I've posted the idea, feel free to steal it ofcourse. It's documented that I came up with it anyway. :)
- AkshatJ27 4y ago> Possibly, the model could be trained on the actual content of the link. But I suspect just using the short title might be better. Larger concentration on the actual material there, websites contain lots of text which is useless. Most people do not read the article before commenting, you do not have to train the AI to do that.
- sdwr 4y agoCan't tell if this is a parody comment or not...
- wildermuthn 4y agoThose comments violate the HN guidelines. Please read and follow them: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html Kidding, I too thought this thread was the parody at first. After all, they are real HN comments! Or maybe this is part of the parody. Maybe if we trained an AI to detect genuine vs. parody?
- computomatic 4y ago
- herendin 4y agoI certainly don't mean to nitpick[0], but this one is a total dumpster fire because it is lacking a clear 'HN is turning into Reddit!' comment[1] [0]https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/ackchyually-actually-guy https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/ackchyually-actually-guy [1]https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- JLK_121416 4y agohttps://web.archive.org/web/20221120140741/http://bradconte.com/files/misc/HackerNewsParodyThread/ https://web.archive.org/web/20221120140741/http://bradconte....
- ClawsOnPaws 4y agoThis whole comment section makes me happy. Thanks for that HN and OP.
- pellucide 4y agoI wish elon musk would buy them and fix it.
- nmeofthestate 4y agoHmmm. I searched for "trains" but didn't find it.
- dbuder 4y agoGibberish GPT3 comment from future sock puppet
- soheil 4y agoYou don’t have to continue the parody and prove that the OP is right by making more parody comments. We already know he’s right. There has to be a word for that.
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- nfRfqX5n 4y agoNot enough anecdotes
- kretaceous 4y agoShould be posted by todsacerdoti + a top comments by Gigachad or tptacek, screenshot of an insightful comment posted to Twitter by swyx.
- YesThatTom2 4y agoCommenter: yeah, but he forgot X Reply: He says X in the second paragraph. Did you even read the article?
- YesThatTom2 4y agoThe URL should be to an article from 5 years ago with the OP saying that he’s sure nobody has seen this before, and 15 replies with links to all the times that URL was mentioned on HN in the past.
- examplary_cable 4y agoForgot the: Shameless self-plug: I build X[1] and I'm trying to solve the same problem as OP. [1]: https://my-saas.com https://my-saas.com
- andybak 4y agoWooooaaa! Literally just yesterday I was thinking about this and considering posting a "Ask: Hn" to see if anyone remembered the link. Cosmic, man. Cosmic...
- jeremyjh 4y ago> Firefox nightly does Somehow took this to another level for me.
- kretaceous 4y agoSome more: - "I posted the same thing 3 days ago here: [link]" - A person who knows the OP personally shares an anecdote - "The YouTube embeds are breaking because I've disabled all Google domains" - Why can't you just.... - "Really? Long form content as a Twitter thread?"
- sarlaw 4y agoHack money
- gooseus 4y agoNeeds (2013) Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5326511 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5326511 :)
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- CyborgCabbage 4y agoThis thread reminds me of https://www.reddit.com/r/SUBREDDITNAME https://www.reddit.com/r/SUBREDDITNAME
- kmstout 4y agoPOST THANKING PARENT FOR LINK TO ENDLESS ENTERTAINMENT.
- ent101 4y agoforgot the obligatory archive.is link.
- cojoke 4y agoThe feeling when self awareness blows into the forum like a refreshing breeze
- dkarl 4y agoMissing the "previous discussions" links showing it was posted in 2012, 2015, 2017, 2018, and twice in 2020.
- stefantalpalaru 4y ago
- nesarkvechnep 4y agoVery happy that “tangential” and “could you elaborate” are in there.
- bityard 4y ago"Could you elaborate" always gets me... I can never decide if they are trolls or people who don't understand how conversations work
- motohagiography 4y agoThis is hilarious, but this is the best we have! But since it's funny, one must concede the truth that made it so. Well done.
- uncletaco 4y agoThis is too generous considering none of these comments trigger an unrelated and subtly racist political response.
- InCityDreams 4y ago*hey, don't forget the Nationalists.
- GTP 4y agoThanks to this parody, I finally saw how the interface changes when you're finally able to downvote :D
- JauntyHatAngle 4y agoOne thing it's missing is a reply to the comment saying "have you read the article" asking whether they have "read the Hacker News rules" as it forbids asking if someone has read the article.
- andrepd 4y agoYou're missing the https://xkcd.com/1831/ https://xkcd.com/1831/ guy, there's always one especially when it comes to non-computer subjects like medicine x)
- chiefalchemist 4y agoI wish I could, in the true spirit of NH, down vote every comment I don't agree with on this tread. Unfortunately, that would really count against karma. But it's tempting :) That said, the parody shows nothing down voted. Is that part of the parody? Or an oversight?
- ur-whale 4y agoNice, but no political comment in the entire thread, so not really representative.
- secondcoming 4y agoThis. I...love this
- fortran77 4y agoThis is the type of insightful wisdom I come here for! I’m so glad we’re so much smarter than those Reddit people.
- donatj 4y agoIt’s missing the super well written and insightful “dead” comment at the bottom of the page that I “vouch” but it never really seems to do anything.
- CRConrad 4y agoThe one that you and I “vouch” but it never really seems to do anything.
- metadat 4y agoLol, click the "links" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17
- wg0 4y agoWhile I like the idea in general but instead of hosting it as a static file, SQLie table would have been a more accessible approach not to mention that it is far easier to query from Rust. Heck you could even compile SQLite and Rust both to Webassbly as Cloud flare edge workers but I'll not go that far.
- DanielBMarkham 4y agoirt "...I know this is off-topic, but does anyone know how he got visual effect X on his blog? ..." I cannot describe the sadness I feel when I see the title of an essay I might enjoy, decide to use HN comments as a way to decide, then the top comments are all "Why is he using comic sans as a font? Does he hate us?" and so forth. A kitten dies each time this happens. Over time, I have participated less and less on HN, but I still use it daily to screen out new tech news. This site rocks. Excellent parody! Also, for the first seventeen people to sign up for my free e-book, I will purchase certificates for free rides from Uber For Horses. Even if you don't like the book, think of the horses!
- CRConrad 4y agoAbout that essay decision support thing: I'd say that particular choice is a pretty valid input for (i.e. against) your decision.
- javajosh 4y agoI'm assuming that dang et al is going to let this thread be "The Purge" for meta and self-referential comments. It's once a year guys, don't let it go to waste!
- bazoom42 4y agoCorrelation !== causation
- otreblatercero 4y agoIt depends on the datatype
- mechanical_bear 4y agoWell, pack it in y’all. It’s all been done.
- donio 4y agoNot enough sophisticated adjactives. On HN everything is incredible, amazing, electrifying and goosebumps inducing. I would love to see a frequency analysis of such words on HN vs elsewhere.
- coding123 4y agoYou omitted the obligatory dang banning someone that had a flagged comment and then 4 people asking what it said.
- jmugan 4y agoI can imagine a whole genre of these, like Madonna and Child.
- Cupertino95014 4y agoLOL. A serious post (I know, it's hard to tell at this point, isn't it?): Why does HN need the karma points system at all? Downvoting is hardly used on other social networking sites any more, which should tell you something. Getting one pedantipoint has to be a motivation for "I have stuff to say about JIT." posts. Blocking & muting people is quite effective on Twitter, for example. The dream of a civil discourse with people disagreeing politely was obsolete before the Web was invented. There are a lot of accounts which someone here would rather never see, so why not just let those people erase them, just for their own TL? Automatically downvoting anything you don't agree with is, basically, "Lord of the Flies" behavior. It leads to brigading.
- onionisafruit 4y agoHN “needs” karma points because HN has karma points and is over all a good forum. Changing it at this point risks changing the balance that makes HN what it is. I don’t block or mute people on forums where that is allowed because I don’t want to see a different conversation from everybody else.
- Cupertino95014 4y agoFirst paragraph is not a real compelling argument: HN has it because it has it. I should downvote :) As for the second paragraph: to each his own. You have that choice.
- karaterobot 4y agoI'm someone who clearly didn't read the article, because I raise several points which were directly addressed by the author, but I do not refer to them at all in my very angry comment. It's possible the only thing I know about this article is the title, which it's also possible I misread in my eagerness to have my thoughts known by the internet.
- karaterobot 4y agoAnd I am someone who is responding to that comment, and it's clear I haven't carefully read either the article, or even the comment I'm responding to.
- cosmiccatnap 4y agoI'm honestly shocked that HN hasn't taken this down yet. They tend to have self awareness the way I have self control around a buffet.
- lumenwrites 4y agoNot enough nitpicky corrections that devolve into even more nitpicky nerd arguments about semantics and usage of words that are entirely missing the high-level picture or the ability to understand the meaning of sentences based on their context. Also, this could use more critical replies discussing why this project couldn't possibly work, or how this article is a result of living in a bubble. And, of course, someone managing to steer a technical subject into a divisive political argument. But seriously - very fun project, I love this!
- rikroots 4y ago> I'll weasel in a reference t̶h̶e̶ ̶s̶t̶a̶r̶t̶u̶p̶ ̶I̶ ̶c̶o̶-̶f̶o̶u̶n̶d̶e̶d̶ to my JS library even though it's not directly relevant. Suddenly I feel shallow, and exposed. On a tangent - am I the only person who uses his real name on HN?
- CRConrad 4y agoTAN: No.
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- logicalmonster 4y agoA true parody of HackerNews needs the following. > Be midwit > Pops in at random 5 levels deep into some discussion > Says that a point is "whataboutism" > Takes great personal pride in thinking that he's won the debate by using the vocabulary term he just learned > Refuses to elaborate > Leaves
- et1337 4y agoThis is missing the “scrolling is broken, history is broken, text isn’t high contrast enough, doesn’t work on mobile Safari, I hate paywalls, I hate cookie pop-ups, I hate newsletter signups, doesn’t work with adblock, doesn’t work without JavaScript, so didn’t read the article” comment.
- lbrito 4y agoNearly perfect. You missed the mandatory post on how I can read the author's blog post for 400 hours without recharging on my superior Mac M1, versus just 10 minutes on pleb Linux boxes.
- legohead 4y agoWhere's the random guy making a silly, reddit-like joke and being downvoted into oblivion with a snide reply about how this is HN not reddit?
- CRConrad 4y agoHere, here!
- donohoe 4y agoThe site UX on mobile is awful - so it’s very consistent with the real thing :)
- frabjoused 4y agoMissing archive link.
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- JBits 4y agoIn all seriousness, I think people not reading the full article is a recurring theme on hn. For controversial topics, it's a major problem: people don't establish what's actually being debated, instead attacking/defended what they think I'd being debated, so the conversation develops slowly as a result. However, I also think it's a strength of hn, because hn has a strong culture of going off topic: allowing for people with related experience to share and to suggest new avenues to explore. Often, instead of bookmarking the referenced article, I bookmark the hn thread instead for this reason.
- rcarr 4y agoThere's also this for more hacker news satire although it sadly seems dormant now: http://n-gate.com http://n-gate.com
- philwelch 4y agoMy favorite part was the tangential argument about technical interviews. That seems like a common tarpit around here.
- daniel-cussen 4y ago
- abledon 4y agoWhy can't we have more detailed technical stuff like this on HN?
- ggregoire 4y agoDoesn't work on Netscape mobile.
- sowbug 4y agoIf the author is here, please make each comment linkable, at least via anchor tags. I'd link to them the way I sometimes link to RELEVANT XKCD.
- Thrymr 4y agoDidn't commit to the bit enough to register expertslastname.com. Still available!
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- philosopher1234 4y agoNot brutal enough.
- LorenDB 4y agoThe only thing this is missing to make it modern is Walter Bright plugging D every time Python, Ruby, etc. is mentioned. (By the way, I have nothing against Walter. This just seemed like it should have that.)
- tamaharbor 4y agoI like bananas.
- CommieBobDole 4y agoThis is pretty good, but to be peak HN the thread needs to have 'showdead' on and include three greyed-out comments: One claiming that the OP is wrong because he is a nefarious Jew, one half-page comment of entirely incomprehensible word salad, and a comment trying to sell boner pills in broken English with a misspelled URL that goes nowhere.
- djmips 4y ago"Shouldn't the post add 2013 in the tile?" The only way I could tell this post was old was the mention of IE in the parody comments.
- miles 4y agoClearly fake; did not include the word "orthogonal" anywhere.
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- deltaseventhree 4y ago
- wging 4y agoTo reveal some hidden fun stuff in the 'reply' links (because hovering over everything is mildly annoying): Array.from(document.querySelectorAll('a')).filter(a => a.innerText === 'reply').forEach(r => r.innerText = `${r.innerText} (${r.href.replace("http://news.ycombinator.com/", "")})`)
- sedatk 4y agoIt's missing a top-level dang comment saying: "This has been discussed before in these threads: 2013 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33680661 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33680661 2014 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33680661 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33680661 2015 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33680661 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33680661 2016 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33680661 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33680661 2017 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33680661 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33680661 2018 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33680661 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33680661 2019 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33680661 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33680661 2020 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33680661 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33680661 2022 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33680661 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33680661"
- vram22 4y agodang it! how did we all miss that? i rate your comment pg-14
- fleddr 4y agoI don't find this parody funny at all because the site doesn't work without JS plus it's taking over my scrollbar. Not at all smooth in Firefox 3.11 with everything except HTML disabled.
- harryvederci 4y ago"Why did you do this with that technology instead of this completely different one?"
- combatentropy 4y agoWhy is there no comment saying that someone is "conflating" something or that a something is "orthogonal"?
- daniel-cussen 4y ago
- mmsimanga 4y agoYou can do this Postgresql. Since I switched over x number of years I have never looked back.
- mmsimanga 4y agoYou should just quit your job
- kergonath 4y agoI almost upvoted some fake comments there. Is that bad? Am I conditioned to see the world through an orange and grey filter, letting only sarcasm and earnest pedantry through?
- ReflectedImage 4y agoI disagree with the title. And based on what I say I obviously didn't read the actual article.
- spacechild1 4y agoSeems like not much has changed in 10 years...
- throwaway675309 4y agoThey missed the commentor who has nothing substantial too add too the actual conversation but managed to hone in on a piece of English semantics that needs to be endlessly nitpicked. Inevitable followup "reddit level" comment left as an exercise for the reader.
- smusamashah 4y agoThere is a parody sub https://ps.reddit.com/r/SubSimulatorGPT2/ https://ps.reddit.com/r/SubSimulatorGPT2/ all written by a set of GPT bots, where each bot writes in a specified tone. Something like that *can* exist for HN too.
- Gunnerhead 4y agoHere would be a long winded thread debating a very pedantic point while using the definition of different fallacies to argue the other poster makes no valid points.
- balakk 4y agoslightly reminds me of k5, when it was funny and interesting: http://web.archive.org/web/20090108092943/http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2001/5/31/7738/22985 http://web.archive.org/web/20090108092943/http://www.kuro5hi...
- grudg3 4y agoI usually just lurk but as it happens I am an expert in this topic and I need to disagree with everything the OP said.
- sixstringtheory 4y agoNeeds a “person that posts an entirely reasonable analogy” followed by a bunch of posts arguing whether the analogy covers some small niche edge cases, with at least one person quoting a definition from a dictionary.
- tempodox 4y agoThis is rather redundant, as HN often manages to parody itself. Does that make the intentional parody, being almost indistinguishable from real HN, a good or a bad one? I'm torn.
- rhd1324 4y agoCharizard holo pokempn
- tamaharbor 4y ago(2013)