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Looks like a lot of folks were playing with it. Replacing the content with kittens and at the time, an advertisement of #hackernews on freenode. sigh I thought

• Mz 15y ago
  The first person to intro me to the whole Kittens thing was a hacker. I have no idea if he is a member of HN, but my personal bias is kittens = hackers. (I'm female and mostly don't get it actually. I tend to think of this cutesy stuff as A Guy Thing. Perhaps my life is not normal.)
  • navs 15y ago
    :) I typically go by keyboardkitteh on the internet. Not saying kittens are a bad thing. I just consider the HN crowd to be a more serious bunch and less likely to mess with someone's work for the 'lolz'.
  • sp332 15y ago
    Never noticed it being gendered, but definitely hackerly :) e.g. The Hak5 podcast uses kittehs for space between segments. Darren named his cat Kerby, short for Kerberos (the protocol, not the hound of Hades), and Shannon has been using her cat, Starbuck, to background some code snippets on the show. They even use cat photos with random strings (the text kind) over them as the "flag" in their hacking contests.
    • nightpool 15y ago
      Also, there's http://placekitten.com/ http://placekitten.com/ a kitten themed placeholder maker that was featured on hn once. (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2271795 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2271795)