There's no consensus, but there doesn't need to be either. If you think a submission should not be on HN, flag it. If enough people agree, it'll most likely be

There's no consensus, but there doesn't need to be either. If you think a submission should not be on HN, flag it. If enough people agree, it'll most likely be off the front page. (There are times when the mods overrule user flags, but I don't expect April Fools posts to be one of those cases.) My personal standard is to flag any low-effort April Fools posts, whether I find them funny or not. At least build something neat as part of the joke. I'm not quite sure what a cool project to support a lame language war joke would have been. Given the zeitgeist, maybe a project that's using LLMs to auto-convert C++ to Rust releasing a mode that does the inverse? This is post actually feels like almost the worst case. It's a low effort blog post, not funny, just reiterates stale language war talking points, and ends with self-promotion.