Very happy that “tangential” and “could you elaborate” are in there.
Hacker News Parody Thread (2013)
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Re: Hacker News Parody Thread (2013)
#172Damn, I was afraid this was going to be someone stealing my genius idea. Gladly it was just tangential to that idea. Idea: Train an ai to construct entire threads based on the input of the title and link. There should be plenty of training material, and frankly I think it would be hilariously similar to the real threads. When new submissions are added to HN, the system will fetch the title and link, and predict the e…
I love this idea—I think it would be fun to gamify it! Keep the predicted thread secret, and then use it to award points to hn commenters based on originality. If a comment is functionally the same as a predicted comment, it gets -10 points. If the comment is novel, it gets 10 points. Then there's a sliding scale between.
You'd need some checks to prevent people from posting a bunch of Zalgo text (maybe a model to identify "interesting" or "insightful" posts), but it could be a fun overlay on the hn commenting ecosystem.
Re: Hacker News Parody Thread (2013)
#173This is hilarious, but this is the best we have! But since it's funny, one must concede the truth that made it so. Well done.
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#174This is too generous considering none of these comments trigger an unrelated and subtly racist political response.
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#175Unrealistic. Not a single person complained about link not working with JavaScript disabled.
... and no one about site's contrast or scroll hijacking...
Re: Hacker News Parody Thread (2013)
#176> 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/CheckRepliesToMyComme…
>Here's a hyper-anal correction that is itself correct, but doesn't exactly contradict the OP.
I've always hated this. Thankfully I've found it happens much, much less on HN vs say reddit haha.
The cherry on top is how the correction is effectively useless.
Re: Hacker News Parody Thread (2013)
#177The only thing missing is the actual expert making a clueful statement at the very bottom of the page where nobody reads. Possibly downvoted a couple of times.
Please downvote this person
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#178As a US poster, I need all units of measure to be what the Founding Fathers used and all pickup trucks to be what the Founding Fathers drove. As an EU poster, I won't understand the US obsession with large vehicles and I will recommend bicycling instead. As a programmer, I think we can improve performance if we multithread, containerise, microservice, and store n-depth JSON in a No-SQL database. As a Python programme…
> As an EU poster, I won't understand the US obsession with large vehicles and I will recommend bicycling instead.
This will launch the inevitable nightmare of pro/anti-helmet subthreads.
Re: Hacker News Parody Thread (2013)
#179Thanks to this parody, I finally saw how the interface changes when you're finally able to downvote :D
Re: Hacker News Parody Thread (2013)
#180Earlier quoted context omitted.
In 10 years of reading hacker news I never thought to press the [-] until this moment.
> In 10 years of reading hacker news I never thought to press the [-] until this moment. I thought you had to click the [-]. How do I press the [-]?
I don’t understand if I should click or press [-] What does it do?