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Great HN parody
- DanielBMarkham 14y agoIt's missing the "Why I'm leaving HN (This time for good)" and "A front page HN story about how being on the front page of HN changed my business" and "A rambling article about how voting is broken on HN" and "How I lived out of a shoebox and traveled the world on a bicycle while creating my startup" Anybody interested in more, I refer you to my javascript parody of two years ago, "Roll Your Own Linkbait Tech Headline": http://www.whattofix.com/blog/archives/2011/01/roll-your-own-l.php http://www.whattofix.com/blog/archives/2011/01/roll-your-own...
- anthonyb 14y ago30. A Legitimately Interesting Technical Blog Post Should probably be marked 'unflag', too...
- pja 14y agoEvery online community needs a good flounce every now and again. Extra points for the 'I just wanted to see if you all loved me really' reverse flounce shortly afterwards!
- bleakgadfly 14y agoAlso: "I made something awesome in a functional language"
- RaSoJo 14y agoAnd it's missing a post pointing out things missing on another post about things missing out on another post about...umm...uhhh
- duiker101 14y ago"HN is great but the design is terrible! So here is my innovative version(filled with just eye candies)" "How I learn to program in 30 minutes and bootstrapped my first startup" "Show HN: My new social network that will change the world", from the author of the previous article
- Andrex 14y agoLater that day: "That social network from earlier today has a gaping security hole (uses default Rails scaffolding)"
- biot 14y agoIt also needs "Apologist piece on why copyright infringement is good (torrentfreak.com)" with "94 polarized comments".
- startupfounder 14y agoIt also needs clever comments that tell the article what it is missing.
- bpatrianakos 14y agoPolarized comments? Usually it's all the apologists and me in there. I didn't know there was anyone else who wasn't an apologist for copyright infringement. Nice to meet you
- smoyer 14y agoDo you honestly need a shoebox and a bicycle?
- DanielBMarkham 14y ago"How I finally ditched my shoebox and found the successful startup I always wanted"
- chris123 14y agoAnd then the post mortem / lessons learned and how next time I'll use Lean Startup (shit, do I need to pay Eric Rice a licensing fee for mentioning the generic term that existed since he was in diapers, but trademarked somehow?).
- vitorarins 14y agoIt's also missing "Summer LL(2013)"
- JonnieCache 14y agoDon't forget "10% of a UNIX manpage typed out in hipster compatible phraseology and intimated like it's forbidden knowledge."
- batgaijin 14y agomore like 'hipster' knowledge. they have fixed gear bikes, we have custom compiled FreeBSD kernels because we don't know what we are doing.
- JonnieCache 14y agohttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=paJqHPHLExo http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=paJqHPHLExo
- paulgb 14y ago"Show HN: Bluestrap, a Twitter Bootstrap theme with more blue"
- diminish 14y ago"What I learned from Steve Jobs?" "How iPad kills PCs" "My iCruft and Me"
- bluekite2000 14y agoYou are missing the "How I lived out of a shoebox and traveled the world on a bicycle while creating my startup that teaches people how to live out of a shoebox and traveled the world on a bicycle while..."
- notdan 14y agoI'm surprised nobody has included this: Unknown or expired link. http://news.ycombinator.com/x?fnid=ZVizUZJ5Ar http://news.ycombinator.com/x?fnid=ZVizUZJ5Ar
- holznot 14y ago"How I managed to get VIM to work just like Eclipse. With dotfiles."
- pron 14y ago"A long personal essay with a moving anecdote on why surviving cancer is more important than building a startup" "Why you should always validate your first $100M in sales with a mockup, before writing a single line of code" "How we can implement Ayn Rand's ideas on success to solve world hunger with crowdsourced electronics" "What is success, anyway?"
- IheartApplesDix 14y ago"Apple makes the only developer laptop"
- pkorzeniewski 14y agoI laughed at "How I bootstrapped my company in 6 hours (with breaks)" :) I always wondered why this was a thing on HN, it doesn't matter if something took one weekend, one month or one year to finish - it's the result that matters, and saying "I build it in 24h" is the same as saying "it has a lot of bugs, but I want to launch it anyway".
- omd 14y agoBecause that's not a company, it's a website. It takes 6 hours just to file all the paperwork to get a company started.
- blablabla123 14y agoIt's all about the timing ;)
- wyclif 14y ago"Why C++ Is Not 'Back'." 12 hours later... "Why C++ Is Back."
- georgeorwell 14y agoThey should update the list so that when this gets posted for the third time in 2013, the top item is: "Great HN parody (2012) (linkedlistnyc.org)"
- tzaman 14y agoThis one's old.
- jychang 14y agoNo it isn't.
- subsystem 14y agohttp://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4621731 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4621731
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- GotAnyMegadeth 14y agoI've seen it before, maybe two months ago.
- crowding 14y agoSomewhat fittingly, though.
- willvarfar 14y agodoes it ever get old?
- duiker101 14y agoOld, but still valid, which shows how true it actually is.
- derwildemomo 14y ago"A Story About Sexism in Tech Filled With Sexist Comments Denying Sexism in Tech" :-)
- ahelwer 14y agoIt's like any time Anita Sarkeesian is mentioned on reddit, and people take 7000 rageful comments to convince themselves a problem does not exist.
- iamdave 14y agoPeople (reddit and elsewhere, internet and elsewhere) have a crippling mental condition where if they haven't experienced a problem on a personal level, it must not exist. It's a glaring logical problem that should be as obvious as the word "NO" on a 500 foot tall, illuminated billboard. Yet it keeps happening.
- mpyne 14y agoAnother logical fallacy I've seen is kind of the contrapositive (if I remember ethics class correctly): If people hear an anecdote of a problem affecting someone in a group, the problem exists throughout the entire group. E.g. the other day Reddit had a story about an atheist who dropped out of West Point because he felt there was too much religion, which somehow mutated on some of the subreddits to how all atheists in all of the military branches are continuously being oppressed (which is far and away untrue).
- makomk 14y agoEven more astoundingly, even people who've run headlong into this attitude from others still don't realise when they're doing it themselves. For instance, a lot of feminists have trouble grasping that racism does actually exist, anti-racism activists can't understand why sexism is a big deal, etc...
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- davedx 14y agoMy favourite: "How I remapped my capslock key to be both ESC and Ctrl" -- maybe should have had VI in there too ;) If a community can't laugh at itself, then it's surely doomed :D
- wlue 14y agoThe funny thing is that I know a few people who do this. (Holding Caps Lock = CTRL, tapping Caps Lock = ESC)
- demetrius 14y agoWhat an excellent idea! If I didn’t use CapsLock for choosing keyboard layout, I would have done this...
- djisjke 14y agoHow could we not think about this? It's genius! How is it done? Does your buddy use X, mac or where in the stack is the hack?
- wlue 14y agoOn OS X, you can use KeyRemap4Macbook (http://pqrs.org/macosx/keyremap4macbook/ http://pqrs.org/macosx/keyremap4macbook/) to turn on the feature with a bit of hackery. I have not figured out how to do it on Windows, but I imagine that it might be possible with AutoHotKey.
- hudibras 14y agoI'm slightly embarassed to admit that I remapped them after reading this: http://stevelosh.com/blog/2012/10/a-modern-space-cadet/#controlescape http://stevelosh.com/blog/2012/10/a-modern-space-cadet/#cont...
- why-el 14y agoI read about it in one of Steve Yegge's Emacs posts. Now I use it everywhere!
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- Vivtek 14y agoI'm swooning just from Elon Musk's being parodically referenced.
- DanielBMarkham 14y agoI kept trying to click the upvote button but it didn't work
- pivotal 14y agoI could tell it was fake because the Elon Musk link wasn't in the top 3. ;)
- wyclif 14y ago"Latest Daring Fireball Post."
- Nordvind 14y agoMade me smile.
- Devilboy 14y agoIt's funny because it's true
- khet 14y ago"How I remapped my capslock key to be both ESC and Ctrl" That really got me thinking. Then I realized I was reading a parody. I am still thinking.
- ovi256 14y agoIf computer keyboards were velocity sensitive like music keyboards, maybe you could do it through discriminating touch velocity (force). I imagine it could be tricky to get used to though! Idea, maybe key down duration could be used as proxy for velocity, as in, more forceful key press last less?
- Jach 14y agoI was thinking something simpler. Holding down caps lock produces the same effect as holding down either esc or ctrl, but after you release it the mode for the next time toggles to the other.
- Lapsa 14y agosomeone has to make this happen. imagine - no need for shift/caps_lock keys - just BASH HARDER your fingers to get uppercase.
- mhd 14y agoThe Emacs Wiki has an item about remapping the space bar to be both space when pressed alone and Ctrl when pressed with another key. With implementations for OS X, X11 and Windows. Might be suitable for adaption. http://emacswiki.org/emacs/MovingTheCtrlKey#toc24 http://emacswiki.org/emacs/MovingTheCtrlKey#toc24
- cfontes 14y agoThis should be pinned somewhere... it's just great :D
- anthonyb 14y agoJust wait another two months, and it'll be around again ;)
- phatbyte 14y agoI love HN but this made me laugh :P, nailed it pretty much. I would just add "Why X sucks because now I'm learning a trendy hipster new Y that no one knows of"
- TeMPOraL 14y agoMy favourite HN piece ever: https://dl.dropbox.com/u/216352/guys_youre_not_helping.png https://dl.dropbox.com/u/216352/guys_youre_not_helping.png So, guys, should I or should I not learn to code? :D.
- pkorzeniewski 14y agoThe "don't" has more points so.. it's obvious, majority can't be wrong :)
- anthonyb 14y agoNot a two-thirds majority though :)
- sageikosa 14y agoVotes of interest, not necessarily approval of the thesis. That's what's wrong with HN voting ;-)
- neic 14y agoEven if the votes was approval of the thesis it would not necessarily make it the right thing to do. :) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argumentum_ad_populum http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argumentum_ad_populum
- InclinedPlane 14y agoBoth have excellent points, read them and then make up your own mind.
- TeMPOraL 14y agoUnfortunately it's too late for me - I decided years ago (in favour of learning). However you're right, both articles (and associated discussions) had excellent points and were well worth reading.
- InclinedPlane 14y ago
- mtgx 14y agoI thought the funniest was "Why Go can't scale past 2 billion users".
- jamesmiller5 14y agoI love that it was submitted by "nodejs4eva"
- Peroni 14y agoWould have liked to have seen "Recruiters suck. AMIRITE?"
- atourgates 14y agoDon't forget, "Why all MBAs should be forcibly relocated to a deserted island with no food or water."
- indiecore 14y agobut what's wrong with that one?
- robryan 14y ago"I learnt Haskell and just had to write about it" "Surely I can spin this Tweet into an article" "Why latest Apple product is the best thing you have ever seen" - Marco, Gruber or MG
- markprovan 14y agoNothing about Ruby and scaling? :O
- anthonyb 14y agoEveryone knows Ruby doesn't scale! ;)
- raverbashing 14y agoYeah, but apparently you can use Go for the backend and scale up to 2 Billion users (And someone will use this fact as a reason to not use Go. Of course their website will melt after a couple of minutes on the front page of HN because they forgot to do any basic load testing on their servers and didn't catch something very simple)
- praptak 14y agoThey included "A Legitimately Interesting Technical Blog Post", that's pretty generous :)
- blablabla123 14y ago"How I bootstrapped my company in 6 hours (with breaks)" :D
- irahul 14y agoSome of them have been thought out - "how I mapped caps lock" by yakshaver, "derailed by a pedantic comment" by wellactually(I suffer from this; working on it), "apple's downfall" by armchairceo; the comment puns(stylish, worn-out, nebolous) are pretty meh. Despite this being a parody, I would still like to point out "a labor of love you can say mean things about". I have seen it happen here way too often. Someone posts something and the crowd goes wild - "this is a feature not a product", "as a designer I can tell you you suck", "another cool aid drinkers pretending node.js is cool" etc. Someone posts a "Show HN" doesn't mean you get the right to walk all over it. And the worse part is, you pretend you were doing him a favor - "I was only giving feedback which the poster asked for". The poster asked for feedback, not for insults. It doesn't matter if you are a programming god(most of the people doing it aren't, but still) - there is a difference between feedback and "look at this pathetic shit thinking he is worth anything". I am sure I am not the only one who thinks people go overboard with their so-called feedback. pg especially made a post about the flood of launches coming in and being nice to them. Please be nice to them. For you their launch may be "yet another YC startup," but for each individual startup this is their big moment. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2862067 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2862067
- brudgers 14y agoI've noticed a drop in meanness since it was brought to the attention of the community. It still happens, but many people appear to be making a conscious effort to avoid it in their comments and combat it editorially in the comments of others.
- johnyzee 14y agoSome comments are mean because the poster is a jerk. But some of the most valuable comments you will get are angry diatribes from people who probably saw potential in your idea but were disappointed for some reason. These are well worth tuning into. The worst type of comment is the one that wasn't made because no one gave a damn one way or the other.
- irahul 14y ago> These are well worth tuning into. If I do a "Show HN", I will read each and every comment and think about it. But that's not the point of contention here. The point is you can be honest, unfiltered, upset and can still not be an asshole.
- andrewcooke 14y agoComment on some small technical detail that I think is interesting, but that no-one else cares about.
- dschiptsov 14y agoSudden realization that HN or Zerohedge or /r/programming/ are just a mass-media?)) This is a premature enlightenment.) The next level is a realization that it isn't any different form /b/ - just a flow of a community-generated content about some buzzwords.)) Well, we must admit that a distribution of our interests is a little bit broader, but it is a substitution-based activity nevertheless.)
- toyg 14y agoI know HN is full of LISP hackers, but there's no need to add random closing brackets, surely?
- dschiptsov 14y agoThanks!
- xentronium 14y agoFor some reason, using closing parens instead of proper smileys with colons caught on in Russia and some Eastern Europe countries (never seen one from anyone living in Western Europe). Not to offend dschiptsov, but (ab)using them is an awful habit to have.
- hmexx 14y agoI've also only seen it from some EE girls I've dated. It's really odd isn't. It drove me insane initially. I guess they'd argue it reduces typing time by 50%!
- raverbashing 14y agoInteresting (at least where I came from, EE girls are very rare) But they do type smiles properly. I would assume EE types would have other problems with typyjng, or maybe not;
- Tipzntrix 14y agoIt is the case in a lot of chat programs that you will get Tipzntrix: hi Tipzntrix: ) The closing paren is supposed to be attached to the colon to make a super quick happy face. or sad face. Tipzntrix: (
- wiradikusuma 14y ago...and somebody would complain why this thing is in the front page, and other person questioning why HN becoming like Reddit, and someone will downvote the comment. ..but then some other guy would defend it by saying "but it is hacker-y, etc"
- jacques_chester 14y agoIt's this sort of thing that originally drove me away from /r/programming and which I continue to find hilarious about HN (and to found a parodic subreddit, see if you can find it).
- EddieB 14y agoCan't look at the listing in the same way after seeing that haha
- Joeboy 14y agoIt's probably best to wear alternate pairs of shoes, so that they get a chance to dry out and air between outings.
- ck2 14y agoI was a little disappointed some of them didn't link to actual articles.
- dizzystar 14y agoYou forgot to add woman-centric posts, like "How I hacked my daughter's brain into learning Python," or "How I taught 3 girls between the ages of 13 and 55 to love Linux command line." But this is pretty funny. No MS hate?
- kintamanimatt 14y agoThe MS hate comes in waves, just like everything else on HN! This is why HN can become especially addictive to me when the topic du jour appeals to my interests. I guess I should write a blog about this, but first I need to get a blog. Perhaps I could blog about getting a blog so I can blog an analysis of how HN's topics are both cyclical and wave-like. Both, of course posted to HN at optimal hours for maximum effect!
- timinman 14y agoGreat articles. Please add: "How Jokes and Parodies are turning HN into Reddit" :)
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- retube 14y agoAt least 5 entries should have been new .js libraries. Also no github posts.
- nchuhoai 14y agoFavorite: Vivek on immigration policies
- rossta 14y agoBest HN post ever.
- dinkumthinkum 14y agoIt's missing a post like: "Tech Founder that Graduated from Stanford Says College Dead, Long Live Blog Learning"
- ampersandy 14y agoThis was posted 60 days ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4621731 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4621731. It also turns up as the first hit for "hacker news parody" or "hn parody" on Google.
- greghinch 14y agoOh dear, I actually said #28 when we started ours...
- jackalope 14y agoBrilliant, though it seemed to me to have one glaring omission: I'm Quitting [Popular Nonessential Service] for 1 Month followed by: What I Learned from Quitting [Popular Nonessential Service] for 1 Month
- mixedbit 14y agoLinked List voting system is broken.
- scottmagdalein 14y ago#22
- eurodance 14y ago"I got rejected from YC and here's my idea. It still sucks"
- krmmalik 14y agoHaha. This is too funny. I love the twitter post that just happens to have 140 comments!
- JonSkeptic 14y ago1 snarky comment
- tokenadult 14y agoAFTER EDIT: This a duplicate submission, a repost of the previously submitted http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4621731 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4621731 item from a different URL http://us2.campaign-archive1.com/?u=193b767bbb3b0eb0d949d5924&id=0c3a567f95&e=5603c292b3 http://us2.campaign-archive1.com/?u=193b767bbb3b0eb0d949d592... two months ago. (That is shown by the date on both submitted mock front pages of HN, and by their identical text.) It's funny, and memorable enough that I still recall the last time this was posted.
- BCM43 14y agoYes?
- jcurbo 14y agoNeeds more Bitcoin stories.
- polshaw 14y agoHow i WISH we could rid ourselves of the 'Contrarian blog post to recently popular blog post' cancer. It's a phenomenon i can't say i even see anywhere else online.
- rachelbythebay 14y agoSo, you've seen the hand-curated fake HN. Now see the randomly-generated fake HN I did for a laugh a couple of months ago. http://rachelbythebay.com/fun/hrand/ http://rachelbythebay.com/fun/hrand/ Some of the examples look curiously close to actual news, but they're all random. Really.
- _sentient 14y ago"I bootstrapped my bitcoins while married". That's just gold.
- neumann_alfred 14y ago"Facebook buys marriage in space", "Tim Cook wants jQuery on the freeway"... I cannot stop laughing! Sorry HN, but I think I'm addicted to that other site now. goes there and keeps hitting f5
- zem 14y agobeautifully done :) "Ten Ways to use SDK on Windows" was pure gold.
- noonespecial 14y agoThere should be one on there talking about not talking about karma. I think I saw a "how I got so much karma on HN" story peak at #4 earlier this week.
- bjhoops1 14y ago131 self-referential comments
- athgeo 14y ago"My 5000 word assessment of (insert latest gadget here) that leaves no doubt about why absolutely (no-one|everyone) should buy this, conveniently ignoring that other geeks have their own opinion and the average user doesn't give a damn" "10 mistakes that I made during my unsuccessful YC interview, 9 of which PG probably didn't even notice" "Show HN: My first (read: I'm younger than you) app I hacked up in less than 20 mins (read: I'm smarter than you), because I had nothing else to do (read: don't feel too cozy in your job, cuz I'm dropping out of college any day [if my parents agree, that is])" "How I made big bucks with something so trivial that I'm surprised my cleaning lady did not think of it before me" "Apple is no longer as innovative as they were 5 minutes ago" Plenty of discussions that mix a lot of fancy Latin expressions and Scotsmen Recruiter: a derogatory term for somebody that knows less about a specific field than than the experts in that field they hire Fanboy: favoriteGadget.brand != other.favoriteGadget.brand Fanboy of a Recruiter: greatest insult on HN
- deveac 14y agoNo.22 That's the one that got me. Now pardon me while I write a post about duplicating comic timing graphically, as a constraint.
- return0 14y agoCongratulations on your neat website. I think you really should consider making you're page center aligned - i hurt my head looking left in my bigass screen. I am very much a fan of wearing the same shoe every 3 days, but i admit youre article about sexism has changed my life. Unfortunately, since you don't support openID, i refuse to join your site. To complete the picture, i would really like to respond here with a very long-form comment of at least 8 paragraphs, in which i address one by one a number of points that irritated me in a boastful way that makes my arguments sound authoritative and deep, while in reality it's just my brain-fart of the moment. I should also add a couple of references in square brackets, because that's what scientists do[1] and people seem to believe scientists (what's more, the most respected scientific journals use the vancouver reference style, which makes me look even more knowledgable). Because of the outrageousness of my long-form comment (and because it takes up a large portion of the screen real estate), people will upvote me and respond with equally half-cooked comments , some of them applying Godwin's law, and others merely acknowledging this application of the law. Unfortunately, i barely made it to 3 paragraphs and i 've more or less run out of stupid things to say. Looking forward to the new version of your website that will be implemented in a single var javascript statement, because that's my favorite programming paradigm this afternoon. [1] they really do
- zem 14y agoI loved the genuinely parodic headlines ("How I remapped my caps lock key to be both ESC and Ctrl" was my favourite), but the metaheadlines like "A long rant about a YC company falling short in some regard" are simply done to death and IMO have not been funny in years.
- orthecreedence 14y agoYou forgot the unlimited "Why I...and you should too" headlines.
- jliptzin 14y agoIt's missing "How I solved the travelling salesman problem using pure CSS and Clojure on my coffee break"
- Semiapies 14y ago"RMS hates something." "Woz disagrees with something Apple does." "Why this wildly successful and profitable company is doomed. Someday." "Commonly-used technology is obsolete." "You are not cool enough to succeed, especially if you are in any way successful. Please develop impostor syndrome."
- chris123 14y agoHow about a brogrammer or brogrammer-backlash story? Or an "I hate MBAs" one?