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Shit HN Says
- Lewton 14y agoThis is fairly retarded. It's not hard to make something look foolish when you take a single sentence out of context.
- dsirijus 14y agoI've found most tweets to be really self-contained thoughts.
- thirsteh 14y agoIf those tweets actually appeared in text somewhere on Hacker News, they are foolish regardless of the context they were taken from. Dropping down to node.js to get close to the metal? Come on! Love it.
- Lewton 14y agoNow I'm confused. Is it made up tweets? because I recognized two or three of them from threads I've read
- chris_wot 14y agoYeah, they are real tweets. Except that some of them are from the articles themselves, not the comments. Like this one "services like github and sourceforge are just fads, with very little (I think no) added value."
- itmag 14y agoDropping down to node.js to get close to the metal? It's actually not that strange of a remark, depending on context.
- ibotty 14y agowith what definition of metal again?
- georgemcbay 14y agohttp://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2710383 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2710383 seems to be the source. IMO it is still pretty strange. I would feel a lot more comfortable if he said "close to the wire" (as in little abstraction above the basic TCP/HTTP layer).
- kmfrk 14y agoThis is fairly retarded.
- mparlane 14y agoI have a feeling this thread will be made pseudo-dead. [and this post haha]
- Swizec 14y agoWhat I want to know is who's running that account? I want to buy them a chocolate heart or something. Maybe some bacon. Shaped as a heart.
- fogus 14y agoWhat I want to know is who's running that account? Technically, Hacker News.
- Udo 14y agoIt's actually not as bad as I expected it to be from the title. However, the lack of links to sources as well as the obvious limitations of Twitter mean this idea could be executed much better.
- Sirupsen 14y agoReally? You want a shithnsays.com? The beauty of this idea is providing smiles in your Twitter timeline once in a while. Not to execute a cool-lean-webscale-startup.
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- Udo 14y agoIt doesn't need its own domain, but the Twitter format is so limited, I'm not very likely to visit this again even though it was quite entertaining. Maybe make it a blog instead? It doesn't need its own domain or anything. > Not to execute a cool-lean-webscale-startup. Now you're just attacking a straw man, aren't you? :)
- purephase 14y agoI love it. I searched for a few of these just to confirm that real comments were being used. Was not disappointed.
- TazeTSchnitzel 14y agoOh wow. These are real? I thought they were mostly jokes.
- nodata 14y agoNeeds links really.
- jlgreco 14y agoI hope that this, err.. service I guess?... service doesn't go sour. It is pretty amusing but if it becomes popular and starts taking things out of context it could have a sort of chilling affect where HNers are forced to design their sentences to be immune to contextual changes, like politicians.
- snorkel 14y ago... and when assembly isn't fast enough then I drop down to binary.
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- NickPollard 14y agoHow long before this thread goes recursive?
- dsirijus 14y ago23 minutes ago.
- icebraining 14y agoOh look, copyright infringement ;)
- mootothemax 14y agoInteresting that it appears to be being run by hand using Buffer (http://bufferapp.com/ http://bufferapp.com/). From outward appearance at least, not a bot.
- tathagatadg 14y agoHow to botify this? The easiest I can think of is to keep polling for the most downvoted comment ... any fancy information retrieval effort is bound to generate false positives. And oh yes ... I see what you are thinking, HN Hall of Shame - handles with get most downvotes/week ranked in reverse sorted. Reverse gamification. It obviously needs to be like a leaderboad. And obviously has to have a REST api. Now you want "web-scale" -- Node.js+MongoDb+HTML5 charts ...
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- mibbitier 14y agoI think the aim would be to poke fun at the bubble community rather than downvoted comments. Some of the most upvoted comments on HN are the most ridiculous and absurd.
- moconnor 14y agoMost of those quotes don't come from downvoted comments...
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- manaskarekar 14y agoI think it would be way cooler if they were quoted word for word (with a link to the original post).
- unimpressive 14y agoThis. I wanted to source some of these to make sure they were legit and turned up empty. But I know some of them are real because I read the originals.
- kenkam 14y agoWe now have to make sure all our sentences are longer than 140 chars to avoid being featured. Unless you want to be featured of course.
- crygin 14y agoSee also: http://twitter.com/hackernews_txt http://twitter.com/hackernews_txt
- darkstalker 14y agoWe'll now have a nice list of HN readers on twitter
- jacques_chester 14y agoI've been out-jerked. :(
- barik 14y agoThis is fantastic. I followed it immediately. It reminds me of a condensed version of The Daily WTF [1] or perhaps http://bash.org/ http://bash.org/, but for Hacker News. More amusingly, it seems to have that strange meta property in which this thread itself is sure to generate a few more tweets, much in the same way that no one is quite sure if the real Daily WTF is the post itself or the comments that try to solve the problem in the post. [1] http://thedailywtf.com/ http://thedailywtf.com/
- peterwwillis 14y agoBecause there isn't enough retarded shit on twitter.
- theycallmemorty 14y agoSee also: http://twitter.com/HackerNewsTips http://twitter.com/HackerNewsTips
- Frostbeard 14y agoI was expecting more misogyny. I may be spending too much time on reddit. (Edit: To be clear, I'm referring to the group "Shit Reddit Says", who highlight and then downvote instances of misogyny and the like in reddit comments).
- btilly 14y agoLike everyone else I would like them to add the post id so people can easily find the source of the quote. I also think that a distinction should be made between comments that are ridiculous (like Node.js being close to the metal) versus surprising (what one quote claims is true - men actually are over-represented in the top 1% of the population by IQ - of course men also dominate the bottom 1%).
- gilrain 14y agoIQ does not equal intelligence, except possibly in the extreme subsets of mental abilities which actually feature on the test. It's not been treated seriously in the scientific community for almost ever. It's almost solely a cargo cult for people who excel at it and want to feel superior.
- btilly 14y agoThe scientific debate is much more complex than you give it credit for. Yes, there really are people who believe that IQ, or (to be more sophisticated) g, really has validity. I personally view it as convenient shorthand, but not real. However this is not a universal position. For a take on why it is probably not valid, see http://cscs.umich.edu/~crshalizi/weblog/523.html http://cscs.umich.edu/~crshalizi/weblog/523.html. But whether or not you accept that IQ is meaningful, the following fact remains true. On a wide variety of abilities that we can measure, including most specific mental attributes (working memory, processing speed, etc), males have much higher variability than females. The average gender differences are small, but men are over-represented in both tails. That fact is true both when abilities are measured in isolation, or on a test that aggregates them, like a standard IQ test. See http://www.edge.org/q2008/q08_10.html#cronin http://www.edge.org/q2008/q08_10.html#cronin for an example of where this is discussed.
- csense 14y agoOf course, it's not politically correct to say that there are more guy geniuses than girl geniuses, no matter how convincing the data may be. Saying that there are more male idiots is presumably perfectly okay; people who care about such things generally only care if it's the "minority" (never mind that women are a numerical majority in the US [1]). Caveats: I don't know how convincing the data is. My point is that the discussion would not change even if the science happened to be completely airtight. Anecdotally, many of the intelligent people I've met over the years have happened to be women, so I'm inclined to believe in equality or even a female-favorable situation for the high tail (but how this is affected by socialization and cultural expectations is a topic for another post). [1] http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/states/00000.html http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/states/00000.html
- marknutter 14y agoHN is starting to go meta like Reddit went and I'm not sure that's a good thing. How on earth is it productive or healthy to publicly ridicule HN commenters?
- alecco 14y agoEDIT: now it's completely banned, not even on 2nd page. Aaaand... downgraded from front page by mods. 3. India outsourcing back to USA (washingtonpost.com) 67 points by nightbrawler 3 hours ago | flag | 26 comments .... 31. [first of 2nd page] Shit HN Says (twitter.com) 166 points by dsirijus 3 hours ago | flag | 66 comments
- charliesome 14y agoI was wondering what was with that. It could easily be #1...
- alecco 14y agoThese are the same kind of moderator games vs. community Digg played before collapsing into oblivion.
- 18pfsmt 14y agoI think you underestimate how many of us simply flag these kinds of submissions, as they are neither intellectually stimulating, nor do they promote interesting discussions. There probably isn't as much "moderation" on HN as you seem to theorize. I wouldn't have even seen your comment were it not for the 'new comments' page.
- alecco 14y agoNo, it's been happening a lot recently. There was a huge thread about it a little while ago. One of the main mods was behind the bans. Also flagging doesn't automatically delete posts, mods do that. This is very sad, I used to have the highest respect of PG and RTM. But it's dropping like a stone in the water.
- scott_s 14y agoI thought that if enough users flag a post, it gets automatically deleted. Also, I thought that accumulated flags harms a posts' score. Has anyone said otherwise?