Hacker News Parody Thread (2013)

> Here's a long detailed, objective explanation of everything related to this issue. It's probably more useful than the actual link and it may serve as one of the best efforts to consolidate information on this subject on the entire Internet. If it contains original research only a couple of readers will be qualified to tell. Half the people who upvote this won't understand more than the first two paragraphs.

Exactly explains the value of hn, when this happens.

> simulated HN top bar

Here's a hyper-anal correction that is itself correct, but doesn't exactly contradict the OP.

Actually, logged-in simulation-user icandownvote (500 karma) can't actually down vote yet.

This is genius

Also, check out the top bar link hrefs:

new | threads | comments | ask | jobs | submit

new - http://news.ycombinator.com/TakeADeepBreath

threads - http://news.ycombinator.com/CheckRepliesToMyComments?id=ican...

comments - http://news.ycombinator.com/KillACoupleMinutes

ask - http://news.ycombinator.com/KickstartADiscussionNoOneWillPar...

jobs - http://news.ycombinator.com/AnyoneActuallyClickThis?

submit - http://news.ycombinator.com/ACommentorIncludedAnAwesomeLink,...

Sound the klaxons, that link includes http not https don't people know the security risks?!

Also, I'm going for a couple of genres with the above

Is it really a parody if its indistinguishable from the real thing?

Also missing a section where someone makes a statement as a fact and has a response from an expert explaining why they are wrong.

Too bad that n-gate.com stopped updating in mid-2021. It was great for this stuff, and arguably it still is.

Edit: Don't miss the usernames in OP's parody thread though, they're just as hard to spot as on actual HN (which is a great feature of this site) but I thought they were the funniest part.

Missing "I can't view the site on my mobile phone."