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Ask HN: Haiku?
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- chriskelley 17y agoHacker finds success, contentment not guaranteed. Feature, not a bug.
- PebblesRox 17y agoHacker News geyser: Insight and inspiration Bubble from the depths.
- movix 17y agoWhat has this got to do with hacking? I can't see any point in it.
- windsurfer 17y agoHackers push boundaries. Haikus limit sentances, so you have to cram!
- byrneseyeview 17y agoArbitrarily Pushing boundaries is not what Hackers do, at all. Random mutation Is not usually an Improvement. It fails.
- thunk 17y agoThe point can't be taught. QWAN will always elude you. You code but don't hack.
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- viggity 17y agoHaikus are easy but sometimes they don’t make sense Refrigerator
- joeyo 17y agoI am reluctant to upvote any haikus that employ plagiarism.
- uninverted 17y agoI am reluctant to upvote any haikus that employ plagiarism.
- vito 17y agoI thought this was a post for the Haiku OS but am now saddened.
- windsurfer 17y agoOh Haiku OS! Thou art minimal and grand! Unlike this poem.
- dca 17y agoIn Haiku OS, Do the docs look like these posts? Or are they normal?
- windsurfer 17y agoThey are like normal, but with a slight twist: they have more metadata!
- dca 17y agoThanks for the info. More metadata sounds nice. I'll go check it out.
- J_McQuade 17y agoA confusing thing: Many seem to say "Oh Ess" Whereas I say "Oss"
- jrockway 17y agoThose that say "Oh Ess" are using something I call correct English (hah)
- uninverted 17y agoBeOS was an Operating System, 'twas never meant to Be.
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- windsurfer 17y agoPlease don't try to post this kind of "story". It has been flagged (this is fun :))
- ramidarigaz 17y agoA site too focused On purpose, becomes mundane Broaden your interests.
- pbhj 17y agoPointless post What's my response Flag it! [I think I got it right, never done Haiku before]
- jrockway 17y agoWhat you have written is not Haiku, but rather is inane drivel.
- windsurfer 17y agoThere was an old man From Peru, whose lim'ricks all Look'd like haiku. He Said with a laugh, "I Cut them in half, the pay is Much better for two." Found on the net. No idea who's it is!
- freakwit 17y agolimerickdb - http://www.limerickdb.com/?top150 http://www.limerickdb.com/?top150 not the original source but "oh well", i say
- thunk 17y agonascent RSI 100 emacs buffers yet love at first hack
- paulbaumgart 17y agoDr. John Sarno says it's a tension-induced ill must say: true for me
- jimm 17y agoEmacs not the cause Twenty-five years I've used it Fingers good as new
- thunk 17y agoEh, I'm going to break with the theme here and just respond, because the last thing I want to do is give the wrong impression about emacs: I'm not getting RSI. My fingers feel great. It just sort of fit in the haiku. Swap caps and ctl. Use emacs. M-x can-i-get-a-hell-yeah
- kyro 17y agoThis is Hacker News. Not a place for your haikus. GTFO NAO.
- thunk 17y agoThis is Hacker News. A place for haikus, but not lame internet memes.
- gwern 17y agoHaikus need _kigo_ - OP is not a haiku. But neither is this. Director's special edition alternate ending: This is; summer rain!
- movix 17y agoAustralians, Google kigo, Never mind the Ashes, A season
- dca 17y agoThis is bullshit man. I refuse to write haikus. And you can't make me.
- GrandMasterBirt 17y agoSon-of-a-gun the haiku returned to my life I despise it still -- I refuse to post more haikus to this here thread I feel so dirty.
- div 17y agoWikipedia! Just to find what it takes writing a haiku
- jrockway 17y agoA new tradition To replace "Erlang day", we could do this instead
- Robin_Message 17y agoIn the trees Sour grapes glow — fireflies
- tigerthink 17y agoThat's not a haiku But I still rather like it Are others checking?
- PebblesRox 17y agoIt is still haiku 5, 7, 5: Maximums Shorter is okay
- chriskelley 17y agoTick tock tick tock hands, you behave like molasses, be more like Usain
- mark_h 17y agoOne of my favourites: "Cherry blossoms fall" Is a sneaky haiku trick Cherry blossoms fall. from jwz: http://bethesignal.org/misc/jwz-haiku.html http://bethesignal.org/misc/jwz-haiku.html
- algorias 17y agoDo they make sound if no-one hears the cherry blossoms fall.
- behe101 17y agoCherry blossoms fall Down to the ground Burma shave.
- uninverted 17y agoFour then Five then Five A proper haiku makes not Try Five Seven Five
- diiq 17y agohttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haiku_in_English http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haiku_in_English
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- boredguy8 17y agoTwice five syllables plus seven can't say much but that's haiku for you (-Hofstadter)
- iuguy 17y agoFor ramen profit You don't need VC funding Unless it's YC
- anigbrowl 17y agoSunday afternoon; often more interesting, if less rigorous
- awt 17y agothe sun of dawn shows orange in the eastern sky like news dot yc
- tlrobinson 17y agoI am not quite sure How to write proper haikus. Is this one valid?
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- harkain 17y agoI 'm flabbergasted! I come here for Hacker News, and find poetry. --- these are however very amusing to read. Gentlemen, proceed.
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- anatoly 17y agoBefore my mouseclick, This post had forty-two comments. ...I'm sorry.
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- shughes 17y agoHaiku in Java: System.out.println( "My little pony...");
- noonespecial 17y ago10 PRINT "Hello World!" 20 PRINT "Its a Haiku!" 30 GOTO 10
- sev 17y agoI have understood A use case of hacker news: Learning poetry.
- diiq 17y agoA thousand words dully glow in unsmiling cages --- the summer still yearns for haiku's pale fire
- tommusic 17y agocome be a poet with people around the world one line at a time http://haikoo.org http://haikoo.org
- qbit 17y agoHaikus on HN? What has the world come to now? Still, I can't resist.
- abijlani 17y agoCode is poetry UI a story Hack... a haiku
- BearOfNH 17y agoHacker News haiku: Should one write about nature or technology?