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What 4chan thinks of HN
- trippy_biscuits 13y agoRight on the mark!
- dillonforrest 13y agoI find this HILARIOUS!! Some of those guys visit hacker news WAYYYY TOOOO MUCHHH.
- daliwali 13y agoI love how anonymity engenders such honest commentary. When people aren't tied down to their reputation/ego, they are free to say what they really think.
- QuasarLogic 13y agoIs this something thats specific to 4chan? I'm not aware of any other popular anonymous boards
- krapp 13y agoThere are many, many, many other such boards, but none of them are very popular. Unless you like porn.
- 011011100 13y agoYes, I like porn.
- betterunix 13y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usenet https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usenet
- ANTSANTS 13y ago4chan started as a clone of the Japanese Futaba imageboard, which was itself a variation on the premise of the (also Japanese) 2ch text board. Other people have since made sites that, as I understand them, boil down to "4chan for people that speak language X" (eg Krautchan (German), Ylilauta (Finnish)) which are themselves fairly popular and influential. Beyond that, there are many small and interesting English-language boards that aren't "just for porn," but as krapp said, most aren't very popular, but tend to have tightly knit communities (as strange as that sounds, talking about an anonymous board) that I'd feel wrong drawing unwanted attention to.
- AlexMax 13y agoIs it really honest? Anonymous discussion tends to bring out the bigots - there's even some of it in the linked thread - but is it their genuine opinion, or could it be that it's just bored teenagers trying to rile someone up for a laugh?
- aspensmonster 13y agoIt's everything. Truth, Lies, works of fiction and falsehood, hyperbole, bigotry, faggotry...
- GhotiFish 13y agoI believe it is, it might not be accurate, but there's no reason not to express yourself. Morderate or extremist. I'll wager many of them are from HN and are just poking fun at what they think are problems. I can also assure you that no one in that thread started with the idea to rile HN up. Once that thread got bigger, I wasn't surprised it was posted here though. I can also say that despite it being totally illogical and pointless, there is a bit of showboating that happens on 4chan. So... take from it what you will, I doubt the intention of the thread is to make anyone on HN mad.
- SwellJoe 13y agoSo... take from it what you will, I doubt the intention of the thread is to make anyone on HN mad. I don't get the impression anyone on HN is mad. Much of the commentary in the thread is entirely accurate, and many folks here at HN are pointing out the really funny and really accurate ones...and I've seen some of the same jokes here at HN in the past. And, I've had conversations with tons of folks about the Silicon Valley echo chamber; and there's serious discussion happening pretty regularly about what's broken about this culture we're in. A lot of it's actually quite funny. But, even a thread about HN brought out some of the bigotry of 4chan. Not the bigots against the mostly middle class (or wealthy, or even filthy rich) white people on HN...that's irrelevant. It's not about people being mad, riled up, or outraged. It's just about calling people on their shit. I know it's senseless to do so on 4chan (I have more than passing familiarity with the place), but I can hope that HN is willing to consider the cost of continuing thousands of years of oppressive language and behavior and societal norms, and what that means for our community. I think we'd be better off with more women and people of color and LGBTQ people in our industry; people who casually make sexist, racist, and homophobic jokes do not agree with me, and they express that opinion freely...even here and on reddit, which are merely pseudonymous, casual use of oppressive language and support of oppressive behavior goes unnoticed or encouraged much of the time.
- priyadarshy 13y agoAnd it has a name: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Online_disinhibition_effect http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Online_disinhibition_effect
- SwellJoe 13y agoSome folks probably should feel tied down by their reputation/ego. Casual sexism, misogyny, racism, homophobia, etc. for a laugh brings the entire discussion down to a level that I don't have any desire to participate in. I think anonymity is awesome. But, 4chan is often on par with YouTube in terms of the quality of its comments. Sure, there's some smart kids there (some younger friends of mine are regularly channers), and a few not-as-smart oldtimers who ought to have grown out of it by now. Notice several comments spend a lot of time talking about the people who call out sexism (as white knights, for instance). They're the kind of sexist who thinks that because they don't believe they are sexist, when they say sexist things, it's not actually sexist. The same kind of racist that says racist things, but because they have a black friend who's totally cool with it, it's all good. The kind of folks that do this are mostly young, mostly white, mostly middle class, and mostly assholes who should stop and think before they speak, whether it is an anonymous forum or not. Racist/sexist/misogynist/homophobic behavior is racist/sexist/misogynist/homophobic, and 4chan is full of it, on a scale that no non-anonymous forum would ever be.
- GhotiFish 13y agoI've seen too many discussion that didn't happen because people were stymied by political correctness. It's there because it's constantly stopped, and it should be there.
- SwellJoe 13y agoSo, is it mere political correctness which prevents me from calling people "nigger"? Or, is it a desire to respect my fellow human beings? It's not about political correctness. It's about not being a dick. I've said nothing about saying controversial things...I've called out intentional attacks by people with power on people with less power. White kids calling everybody nigger isn't an important discussion that needed to happen to further the discourse on race in America. It's a bunch of privileged white kids being little shits and perpetuating and endorsing centuries of oppression. So, yeah, anonymity is great. But, the culture of 4chan is often racist, misogynist, sexist, and homophobic. That's privileged people having fun reveling in their privilege at the expense of those with less power. I just don't see the appeal. Obviously, I'm not suggesting censorship (or maybe somebody has assumed I am, since I've been downvoted a bit). I'm suggesting that the casual culture of oppressive language as it is used by the mostly white, mostly middle class, people on 4chan is a negative for the world. And, I'm pointing it out for what it is. It always gets wrapped up in, "You just don't understand, it's funny!" But, minstrel shows were considered funny, too. It doesn't make it OK.
- Segmentation 13y agoAnonymity isn't why. You can be anonymous on Hacker News very easily. Most people here are. It's the lack of a karma system that is why people on 4chan post whatever they like.
- babby 13y agoIt's not Karma. It's the fact that your comments are persistent. On 4chan, they have a life between a few minutes and a few days, and that it really. No persistent ID to lay "claim" to your work. It's not about whether someone else can identify you by your comments, its about the psychology of creating something that will exists for an indefinite time, that your peers will read and judge, and thus judge you. You feel the same feeling even when contributing to 4chan, however, you know it wont matter for long thus it's far less mental weight to deal with.
- smsm42 13y agoYou can be anybody on the internet. It is just sad how many people choose to be just random jerks. Somehow those people confuse nihilistic empty sarcasm with "being honest". Usually it has much more with having nothing (else) to say than with being honest.
- blahbl4hblahtoo 13y agoThat's the most accurate assessment I've seen so far...
- swills 13y ago[Actually interesting topic] - 0 comments -- this thread is proof!
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- almosnow 13y agobeautiful
- 011011100 13y agoThere are a lot people on this forum who seem to think they're absolutely right about some convention or way of life and that they're entitled to attention (ie they believe their take is actually insightful). This describes the "I did or think X, and you should also think or do X" threads.
- AndrewKemendo 13y agoI think the business of being an entrepreneur selects for such traits. The whole notion of "disruption" that is central to so many of the ideas floating on HN, is rooted in the arrogance necessary to make them work.
- kyzyl 13y agoIt's a shame that such an intelligent group tends towards such arrogance, even in situations where it doesn't help. I think you have a point about the demographic around here being one of the causes of such posts/comments/whatever. However, while the personality traits at fault might have some place in the world of startups--i.e. getting a startup off the ground, against all odds-- it's really too bad that many of us seem to lack to ability to self moderate, even just enough to realize that an arrogant disposition does nothing to further our post about what port we think SSH should run on.
- marincounty 13y agoI have found that if a person calls themself an Entrepreneur; they usually have delusions of grandeur--and hide behind that title. They go through life wondering why no one wants them around. Kinda pathetic.
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- mcescalante 13y agoThese are hilarious, some pretty good (and accurate) ones in there. I'll bet at least a few of the posters there are lurking here, as well. Don't even want to know what the thread would have turned out like on /b/.
- aspensmonster 13y ago>Needlessly negative opinion with the purpose of making me seem more intelligent that I really am. edit: lololol toasting in an epic thread. edit2: The actual thread is https://boards.4chan.org/g/res/38087806 https://boards.4chan.org/g/res/38087806
- drewblaisdell 13y agoThe Stallman interruptions to promote the term GNU/Linux are perfect.
- mehmehshoe 13y agoOh I was in tears by the third Stallman posting. It looks like he was posting the same things in other threads as well. Stallman spamming
- angersock 13y agoThere are actually rampaging Stallman bots that will post those. It's pretty great, actually. New startup idea: Stallman-as-a-service.
- mpyne 13y ago> Stallman-as-a-service. Just make sure the backend is Affero GPL. ;)
- chrismonsanto 13y agoThe API endpoint is an e-mail address, and you send a request by e-mailing it a link to a JSON file. Said JSON is read by downloading it with wget. If you're interested, please read our ToS here: https://secure.mysociety.org/admin/lists/pipermail/developers-public/2011-October/007647.html https://secure.mysociety.org/admin/lists/pipermail/developer...
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- stolio 13y agoyou mean like a cloud based VRMS written in javascript? p.s. - http://packages.debian.org/wheezy/vrms http://packages.debian.org/wheezy/vrms
- sliverstorm 13y agoStallman-as-a-service Written in either Go or JS, of course. Preferably both.
- alayne 13y agoThank you. I haven't laughed so hard in a long time.
- marze 13y agoYeah! Very awesome!
- edlebert 13y agoWow, it's actually super funny, and accurate. Well done.
- vezzy-fnord 13y ago[231 points] Show /hn/: I ripped off an existing product and added Bootstrap to it. "[some program/service] in Javascript" - 6075 comments Why [obscure framework] is the next [industry standard framework]. Hacker, entrepreneur, genius, lifestyle blogger, CEO of Whoof! Pastebin for dog owners and pixel.io image-resizing service made entirely in Go. Startup culture in a nutshell.
- kyzyl 13y agoHaha, at risk of completely fitting the stereotype 4chan is setting out for us: *Silicon Valley startup culture. It is very different in other places, really!
- wfunction 13y ago*HN culture
- sfrechtling 13y agoAs an Australian, my viewpoint into Silicon Valley culture is through HackerNews. What are the main differences then?
- kyzyl 13y agoYeah, as a Canadian startup person, my impression of the SV startup scene is largely shaped by what I see on HN, although I do personally know a few people who've participated themselves and what their report seems to correlate.
- wfunction 13y agoWell, not everyone here is ripping off existing products and adding Bootstrap to them. :) A few startups working on other things are... https://angel.co/boosted-boards https://angel.co/boosted-boards https://angel.co/counsyl https://angel.co/counsyl https://angel.co/crowdmed https://angel.co/crowdmed
- nickbarnwell 13y agoVery similar to the Linked List news parody [1] which was on HN a few months ago. [1]: http://www.linkedlistnyc.org/archive/issue_081.html http://www.linkedlistnyc.org/archive/issue_081.html
- djent 13y agoSimilar parody twitter: https://twitter.com/HackerNewsOnion https://twitter.com/HackerNewsOnion
- jared314 13y agoAlso: https://twitter.com/StuffHNSays https://twitter.com/StuffHNSays https://twitter.com/shit_hn_says https://twitter.com/shit_hn_says (No longer updating) https://twitter.com/search?q=%23ShitHNSays https://twitter.com/search?q=%23ShitHNSays
- msutherl 13y agoNew favorite one: https://twitter.com/ViceHN https://twitter.com/ViceHN
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- almosnow 13y agoHahaha, I literally just wrote "beautiful" and got downvoted here, I'll write it again "beautiful" !
- d0m 13y agoOnly reason you probably got downvoted is that it doesn't really add to the discussion. An upvote is way better than "beautiful" imho. But, hey, I do agree, that was hilarious.
- tszming 13y agoMissing this one: [foobar] in Pure CSS Honestly, the one I hated most is Why you should never use [foobar]
- skylan_q 13y agoBonzi buddy favicon
- confluence 13y agoI love it. The biting sarcasm reminds me of the radio talk shows from GTA 5. Rockstar devs take the shit out of everybody. Here's my contribution: [542 points] Why you should work for a startup: Low pay, long hours, no equity, uninteresting dipshit problems and privileged tools for bosses [224 comments] [Posted by a VC, founder, or current employee/inmate]
- melling 13y agoNo mention of the TSA, Snowden, or how the United States made them sad today?
- daniel-cussen 13y ago"Can the NSA blow up your PC remotely?"
- melling 13y agoThe TSA... Careful, there might be another 4chan joke about confusing the NSA with the TSA.
- mpyne 13y agoThose were filtered by the NSA after the NSA was drawn to the thread in one of the first comments.
- Springtime 13y agoThis is absolute gold. Glad there's some humor on HN from time to time, as well as showing 4chan isn't just /b/
- gerberduffy 13y agoCan pg please add HN Gold so I can give this guy some?
- gum_ina_package 13y agoI feel like this is similar to when the Native Americans and Columbus met.
- bdesimone 13y ago/thread
- icpmacdo 13y agoThis one is my favourite -"Things I've learned from coding for a month" -"Ten ways to become a better programmer" - by the guy who's been coding for a month
- emilis_info 13y agoThis. These kinds of posts always make me roll my eyes. Frequently they get hundreds of upvotes. Makes me wonder about the quality of submissions from the fields I understand much less (sciences, humanities, politics, etc.).
- claudius 13y agoYeah, but that last thing holds for nearly everything – whenever I read an article on, say, physics, I cannot help but wonder whether the articles on (e.g.) the war in Iraq were produced with the same complete disregard of correctness.
- marvin 13y agoDon't be silly - computer programmers are experts in every field due to Google and Wikipedia, so certainly the science and humanities posts must be of top quality.
- coldarchon 13y agoI had already been banned here if I voiced my real thoughts about posts like this. If only 10 percent of the questions I ask these people were answered, I had hope ..
- eruditely 13y agoI used to participate actively on /g/ in 2007 to 2011 roughly, I go back for a few months at a time. Funny I used to be on so much I could tell who was posting by seeing the frequency of their favorite images to post and what fonts they were using. Their ircs are good too. It's nice to see some of the communities I frequent meet each other.
- nzmsv 13y agoHow could they have left out the patronizing irrelevant [0] links [1] to Wikipedia [2] in all the wannabe-academic [3] comments with references[4]? (and yes, references must be 0-based [5]) [0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relevance http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relevance [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uniform_resource_locator http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uniform_resource_locator [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia [3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academia [4] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citation http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citation [5] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero-based_numbering http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero-based_numbering
- sillysaurus2 13y agoParodies are usually funny because they're true. The citations in HN comments are some of the most valuable contributions to the site. This whole post is depressing. Far from lighthearted fun, these comments all have an undercurrent of hostility ("wannabe-academic"). The mosaic formed by these comments imply pg has harmed the world by creating HN. But that couldn't be further from the truth. Imagine where you'd be forced to go if HN didn't exist, for example.
- nzmsv 13y agoI had in mind the kind of format that in effect says "really, I think you are too dumb to use Google" rather than someone pointing out an actual useful resource or a place for further reading. If the reference took some non-trivial research to find, it is of course welcome and useful. The too-obvious Wikipedia link is an attempt to imitate references of the useful variety with the intent of appearing sophisticated.
- Bahamut 13y agoI think 4chan has harmed the world a lot more than HN shrug.
- yen223 13y agoI like how, in a thread parodying HN comments, one 4-channer still managed to complain about "white-knighting".
- ekianjo 13y agoHaha, I love this one : I went to the Apple Store and this guy was really nice to me
- GhotiFish 13y ago4chan's commenting system is simultaneously more annoying, and more enjoyable to use. The backtrack style lets you follow conversations, but it doesn't become a nested nightmare. Backtracks also highlight comments of importance or significance. the Reddit/HN system is hunting the most valuable comments through democracy, but it throws that work out because of its visible tree structure. People can ride the top post. Also the auto updates are nice to stay current on an active conversation. Gotta give it to 4chan, nice system. Shame about the captcha.
- hn_has_piqued 13y ago>Shame about the captcha. you were never on 4chan before captchas, were you?
- GhotiFish 13y agoI was. At least before that bot hit that copied a random file from someone's document folder and uploaded it along with another copy of the bot to 4chan. That was hilarious. I still have an archive of those files somewhere.
- moot 13y agohttps://gyp.blogs.balabit.com/2009/03/anon-youve-been-infctd/ https://gyp.blogs.balabit.com/2009/03/anon-youve-been-infctd... I think this was my "We've made it!" moment with 4chan. When people are writing viruses tailored to your service, you've clearly done something right. ...Or wrong.
- lobotryas 13y agoPurchase a 4chan pass to post without captchas: https://www.4chan.org/pass https://www.4chan.org/pass You'll also be supporting the site.
- aspensmonster 13y agoHEY GUYS DOWNLOAD THIS IMAGE AND SAVE IT AS A JS FILE! Red squares. Red squares everywhere.
- benologist 13y agoThey missed my favorite, A Startup Anecdote To Advertise My Unrelated Company
- 1gor 13y agoRelevant XKCD: http://dynamic.xkcd.com/random/comic/ http://dynamic.xkcd.com/random/comic/
- vezzy-fnord 13y agoThat's not just an HN issue. It's a problem in any community where there is a significant ratio of self-professed geeks or the like.
- adamnemecek 13y agoI wonder if there is a relevant xkcd about this very issue.
- tobyjsullivan 13y agoThis one covers it pretty well: http://dynamic.xkcd.com/random/comic/ http://dynamic.xkcd.com/random/comic/
- stolio 13y agorelevant xkcd: http://xkcd.com/307/ http://xkcd.com/307/ relevant to the first xkcd: http://xkcd.com/917/ http://xkcd.com/917/
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- eranation 13y ago> Today I must accuse a further 3 commenters of "ad hominem" to fill my quota.
- tn13 13y agoThat is what you call :pawned:
- pvnick 13y ago203 votes - How I learned my 6 year old daughter how to do high algorithm trading in Haskell 1 hour later, 421 votes, Your children should be outside playing, not coding That brought me to tears
- neya 13y agoSadly, most of the things on there are true. We can try to deny it all we want, but most of the stuff that's there is true. The power of anonymity is that you get to voice honest opinions without tying it up with your identity and/or feeling responsible for it. Of course, this can be argued otherwise too, by citing some (bad) comments as example from that thread, but for the most part, what you see there are honest comments. Some of my favorites: >Why [popular technology] is [unexpected opinion] >Why I have decided to stop using [ Tried and true web dev environment] and start using Meteor >Why [obscure framework] is the next [industry standard framework]. >Ask HN: Why is nobody using [obscure niche technology from the 80s]? >[Actually interesting topic] - 0 comments >Can the NSA blow up your PC remotely? >Why you shouldn't store your files locally, but in the cloud >Why it's impossible to use PHP even though millions of people are doing great things with it >Some blog post about scalability... blog crashes after posting link to HN and /r/programming >Show /hn/: I ripped off an existing product and added Bootstrap to it >Pay me $50 to teach you decades old vim features in screencast form >Reasons Why A Basic Income Guarantee Might Just Be A Bad Idea And this is the best: >38090087 so the password is password?
- dhruvmittal 13y agoMy favorite was >Disrupt Disruption
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- bigtunacan 13y agoyeah, I really got a kick out of this one... Show /hn/: I ripped off an existing product and added Bootstrap to it So true. Health Sherpa comes to mind as one recent example...
- jwarkentin 13y agoI don't know that you can consider healthcare.gov an existing service. I don't know anyone who's actually been able to get service there. It's more in the idea/alpha phase. Health Sherpa ripped off an existing idea and made a improved functioning (bootstrap) version.
- duairc 13y agoI'm actually really surprised they seem to think that the HN community is anti-sexist. Compared to 4chan, maybe, but from my experience it isn't at all.
- minimaxir 13y agoThere have been a few incidents where discussions about gender issues have been very quickly flagged off the front page. Example: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6495950 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6495950
- Nav_Panel 13y agoI don't understand why the post you linked would have been flagged. I see nothing at all wrong with it.
- minimaxir 13y agoThat's the problem. It was at #3, then immediately dropped off. (see the comments)
- redthrowaway 13y agoIt would have tripped the flamewar detector. If a submission engenders (get it?) a flame war in the comments, it gets buried automatically.
- sliverstorm 13y agoThe HN community appears to have embittered members of both sides of that argument.
- sbierwagen 13y ago4chan considers reddit to be a hotbed of radical feminist activism, solely due to /r/SRS. Of course, they'd probably say the same of any community where you use something close to real names, like HN.
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- necenzurat 13y agoWhy PHP is bad "Why PHP is bad" debunked Ask HN: What about PHP? 203 votes - How I learned my 6 year old daughter how to do high algorithm trading in Haskell 1 hour later, 421 votes, Your children should be outside playing, not coding
- Tzunamitom 13y agoThe fact that this is front page on HN is a deliciously ironic recursive joke...
- zalzane 13y agoIt keeps going. Somewhere in that thread, someone mentioned that they might post the thread on HN. Later in the thread someone says that would be a bad idea and links to the previous time someone linked a 4chan HN-satire thread on HN.
- joeblau 13y agoThis is one of the most accurate parodies of this site. I still love reading HN, but I'm doing more work now, so I don't have as much time to comment, but I'm sure that I've seen every one of those 4chan titles in some form or another over my 2 year tenure. Edit: I didn't see any framework battle posts... ▲ 200 points Why Angular is better than Ember ▲ 200 points Why Ember is better than Angular
- cgtyoder 13y agoI needed a good laugh tonight.
- benched 13y agoThis is exactly the level of humor and intellect you'd expect from 4chan. See how I didn't say anything there?
- crorella 13y agomostly accurate
- swatkat 13y agoThis is hilarious, liked it. Here's another one: [315 points] You should work from Starbucks. [262 points] Why working from home or Starbucks is a bad idea.
- fernandotakai 13y agoI actually have a screenshot of something like this - http://i.imgur.com/dtFupzL.png http://i.imgur.com/dtFupzL.png
- mbrownnyc 13y agoFantastically correct.
- nocommits 13y agoSerious comment about internet bullying. -148 points
- jjoe 13y agoThis is like approaching a tribe and tearing apart its social fabric. Anthropologically speaking it's never the right approach. There are times when you just have to accept certain behavior. Let the system adjust from within.
- gcb1 13y agowhat would be awesome is if the mods here changed the title to "ITT: we hacker news now"
- aspensmonster 13y agoGo big or go home. Make it the default <title> text for the whole domain.
- gcb1 13y agoit was actually a meta joke... they complain about the mods updating the title to the original one even if less informative... and that was the original title by OP
- kinnth 13y agoWhy so serious?!
- Scienz 13y ago2nd best: reddit for pseudopseudo-intellectuals I disagree of course, but it did make me lol.
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- NameNickHN 13y agoWhy does everybody think HN users and 4chan users are two separate groups of people? In order to write those things, someone has to spend some time on HN.
- axaxs 13y agoWhy again are we concerned about what 4chan thinks?
- PavlovsCat 13y agoGood question.. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6748029 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6748029
- VLM 13y agoSee the other top 20 posts on HN about how lack of anonymity will ruin youtube and G+ because of the not so hidden assumption that anonymous commentators result in a higher level of commentary. Talking about 4chan is a political statement. I like 4chan because its the standup comedy of the internet. Most of what you hear you wouldn't say to your mom, both are funnier if you're a bit drunk or whatever, some level of edginess and offensiveness is not just tolerated but expected... So I like 4chan and I like HN and unsurprisingly I like the intersection quite a bit. And I'm hardly alone. I subjectively think the overlap in the Venn diagram is huge, perhaps approaching majority. Finally, in isolation from the obvious social and political issues, its a hilarious parody.
- axaxs 13y agoYou are claiming that most HNers use 4chan? Interesting, but likely impossible to prove. I hope for the sake of our field that's not true, or maybe I'm just getting old and crotchety.
- PhasmaFelis 13y ago"Ten reasons to be really scared"
- never_again 13y agoMy favourites (apart from the already listed ones) >How Redis+Memcached+Node.js+Go+MongoDB+MariaDB+postgres+Clojure helped my start-up scale (from 10 to 20 hits per day) >Why Tesla makes your dick bigger and how you should be proud. >PG: Why it's okay to be openly and unapologetically racist as long as you're good at Lisp. >"Why choose git? Here's five reasons why it's different." >Show HN: I used a javascript framework. >"mongodb ruined my startup" >"I Dislike MBAs" 32458 comments. >How I quit my job and went into consulting.
- fuddle 13y ago"Why Go Is Better Than You And Everything You Own And Why It Always Will Be" - Seems to sum up a lot of HN posts recently.
- PhasmaFelis 13y agoRelevant: http://threepanelsoul.com/2013/09/30/on-local-color/ http://threepanelsoul.com/2013/09/30/on-local-color/
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- littlemerman 13y agoThis is hilarious.
- loser777 13y agoI was on 4chan /g/ basically every moment where I had more than an hour's worth of computer time from around 2010 to mid 2013. In those days as a PC hardware enthusiast and someone who was just beginning to use GNU/Linux, I felt I fit in with the culture fairly well. Of course, there was always "shitposting," but I found the amount of garbage to be tolerable. As I finished high school and started diving more deeply into GNU/Linux, reading /g/ slowly became less and less enjoyable. At one point, I became so jaded that I felt I understood rms's famous quote regarding /g/: "I tried to look at that page but saw online inane comments." I guess I wasn't as much of a fan of the battlestations, rms memes, desktops, and riced-out GNU/Linux desktops as I previously was. However, /g/'s influence on me will never be lost. Even after reading more and more hacker news, I still prefer the anonymous style of posting. I say GNU/Linux instead of Linux. (It may be a bit ironic that I learned about rms through a forum where he is a meme that is usually portrayed negatively.) And, to be be honest, I still kind of like battlestation threads (though I may read more usesthis.com instead of /g/). I will also probably never buy any apple products. Thank you to whomever posted this on /g/, as it really opened my eyes as to how large the intersection of these two communities really is. Perhaps I'll drop by again sometime.
- L4mppu 13y agoRMS isn't really portrayed negatively on /g/. Sure he is made fun of but there is still large minority who agree with his philosophy.
- mion 13y agoThe jokes are so accurate I'd conjecture there's a huge intersection between the two communities. Huumm... Except the fact that, arguably, I don't normally conjecture outside HN [1]. [1] I actually want to see what pg has got to essay about this. Just wait until the Arcstar is ready... Please hold your downvotes I kid, I kid. Most of this (rather funny) criticism is geared towards SV culture in general, I guess, as HN is just a reflection of that plus common nerd/hacker/engineer/smart-kid-outcast behavior. Apart from the idiosyncrasies of large communities that HN is not invulnerable to, I actually have found great content here. And yes, I'm a white college kid in his early twenties with big ambitions, pg is my hero and I don't feel like getting a job at IBM -- that doesn't mean I'm going to chase a $1B exit with Instagram for Squirrels+social+toilets alongside my other rich friends, replacing cancer research with tweets and fucking up the economy while at it. I'm broke and from another country like many people here, and despite the stupid media frenzy, snarky HN comments, bubble or not and so on, I still want to be part of all this. Why? Because I'm young, stupid and want to see what it's like. I guess this is what the world's greatest engine of innovation looks like: a bunch of young and stupid nerds from another country.
- tomphoolery 13y agoThis is just hilarious. Thank you!
- Fa773NM0nK 13y agoWhenever I have a question whose answer is more subjective than objective, I ask it on HN. I find the community here gives the most comprehensive and unbiased answer, while still being passionate about their opinions.
- sfx 13y agoMy favorite part of the thread: https://boards.4chan.org/g/res/38087806#p38097739 https://boards.4chan.org/g/res/38087806#p38097739
- officialjunk 13y agoBut this link isn't 4chan...
- jokoon 13y agoI hate corporations, but I hate startups even more
- anonymous 13y ago> implying 4chan is one person
- master-ruse-man 13y ago/g/ (or 4chan in general) also love to be ``racist'' http://hackerjews.com http://hackerjews.com
- Nux 13y agoSpot on! And very funny, too. :)
- seivan 13y ago"Why I stop coding and focus more on my blog" 39123 comments Gold :)
- snotrockets 13y agoIt's funny because it's true.
- smoyer 13y agoLet 4chan know what we think of them! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6748619 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6748619
- josteink 13y agoI have to say a lot of this stereo-typing is entirely accurate, and definitely made me have a chuckle or two. Thanks for posting!
- CWIZO 13y agoSurely this isn't what 4chan things of HN. But rather what HN thinks of itself. To come up with such a good parody you have to be really knowledgeable about the thing you are making fun off.
- rpupkin 13y agothis is awesome.
- thatthatis 13y agoI love how hackernews is responding to this with confidence and humor. It's like an avuncular old gentleman responding to a lampooning by saying "haha, jolly good joke chaps, some of that was right on the money" I particularly appreciate the maturity and humor demonstrated by hacker news's response in stark opposition to how a lot of Internet communities (4chan, reddit) get angry when 4chan mocks them. I like a community that is self aware of its own ridiculousness.
- Zigurd 13y agoI was hoping to start another thread titled: Message board as evidence intelligence is emergent
- AbraKdabra 13y agoOh man this one killed me, I'm crying haha I went to the Apple Store and this guy was really nice to me -101 comments
- joshguthrie 13y agoTitle was a bit linkbait-y, but the content was good. And true. "We have met the enemy and he is us." It's not just 4chan talking here, it's all of us. We can't reply because everything is true. The only difference is the guys posting on 4chan are free to post under anonymity. Here? Not so much, I don't want my 714 karma to stray too far from my 720 days here. I still like you HN <3
- sameerds 13y agoLatest trend in HN comments: Why this topic reminds me of a particular entry from "that" submission on 4chan!
- fat0wl 13y agoAHAHAHahaha >I am going to [country people think is still in the stone age even though it as Western as can be, Vietnam for example] for a year and will only bring my iPad Mini and a pair of trousers