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Post — “Ask HN: Can you write a limerick?” Top Comment — “This reads like someone who just discovered poetry forms exist and thinks a limerick is some novel concept. The real challenge isn't writing one—any undergraduate can follow the AABBA scheme—it's understanding why meter and scansion matter beyond just counting syllables. If you're actually serious about this, you'd be asking about anapestic trimeter or how com…
There was a young man from Japan
Whose poetry didn't quite scan
When told this was so
He said "Yes, I know..."
"... it's probably because I try to cram as many syllables into the last line as I possibly can!"
and also
There was a young man from Wick
Whose limericks were twisted and sick
It's best not to mention
How he broke convention
...
Top comment: "Feels like a lot of machinery for something that could be approximated with a few scripts plus a database and some cron jobs."
Post — “Ask HN: Can you write a limerick?” Top Comment — “This reads like someone who just discovered poetry forms exist and thinks a limerick is some novel concept. The real challenge isn't writing one—any undergraduate can follow the AABBA scheme—it's understanding why meter and scansion matter beyond just counting syllables. If you're actually serious about this, you'd be asking about anapestic trimeter or how com…
Truly captures the spirit of these types of HN comments; Person A does a thing, Person B points out how pointless thing could have been done better in effort to flex smart. Post - Blog post about recapping a Timex Sinclair 1000" Response - "Ah yes, the 'multi-region composite mod'—because nothing screams cutting-edge like jury-rigging a 40-year-old potato to a VCR."
Post — “Ask HN: Can you write a limerick?” Top Comment — “This reads like someone who just discovered poetry forms exist and thinks a limerick is some novel concept. The real challenge isn't writing one—any undergraduate can follow the AABBA scheme—it's understanding why meter and scansion matter beyond just counting syllables. If you're actually serious about this, you'd be asking about anapestic trimeter or how com…
Truly captures the spirit of these types of HN comments; Person A does a thing, Person B points out how pointless thing could have been done better in effort to flex smart. Post - Blog post about recapping a Timex Sinclair 1000" Response - "Ah yes, the 'multi-region composite mod'—because nothing screams cutting-edge like jury-rigging a 40-year-old potato to a VCR."
And then Person A goes off and founds Dropbox and 20 years later is worth $2.4 billion.
Yesterday was a roller coaster of, "oh, I guess nobody cares," to "well, I'm proud of it anyway," to "wait, people are submitting," to "this is amazing!" to "OH GOD THIS ISN'T GOOD," to "I think everything is fine," to "alright, I'm going to bed."
And when I woke up this morning, it really tickled me to see that folks were still having so much fun with the Simulator.
To say this exceeded my expectations would be an understatement. All the support, hilarious submissions, and lovely comments are really inspiring me to keep shipping. This is probably obvious, but most things I ship, especially weekend projects like this, never get any traction and remain obscure/unused forever.
(Also to some degree it validated my weekend art-project tinkering to my wife – so thanks for that, too.)
I appreciate the emails, the feature ideas, the encouragement, everything. Big hug to the HN community – thank you.
Post — “Ask HN: Can you write a limerick?” Top Comment — “This reads like someone who just discovered poetry forms exist and thinks a limerick is some novel concept. The real challenge isn't writing one—any undergraduate can follow the AABBA scheme—it's understanding why meter and scansion matter beyond just counting syllables. If you're actually serious about this, you'd be asking about anapestic trimeter or how com…
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