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Hacker News Parody Thread (2013)

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Re: Hacker News Parody Thread (2013)

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Came hear to say this. +1 for https://zombo.com/#HACKER_NEWS_PARODY_DOT_IO

*here Back in the day nobody on HN would so egregiously misspell words. This place is turning into Reddit.

Not fully reddit until a bot matches /came +hear/i and posts a snarky "Um Actshualleeee" comment.

Re: Hacker News Parody Thread (2013)

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post #227

Unrealistic. Not a single person complained about link not working with JavaScript disabled.

Also missing: How does this compare to X? (where X is an obscure project on github with no documentation of what it's feature boundaries are, has at best 1000 stars and further internet sleuthing suggests its at best only tangentially associated with the original comments domain. The end result being the author feels obliged to figure it out and reply incase not doing so seems arrogant and/or poorly educated in the d…

Oh no, not a mere 1000 Facebook likes!

Re: Hacker News Parody Thread (2013)

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A true parody of HackerNews needs the following.

> Be midwit

> Pops in at random 5 levels deep into some discussion

> Says that a point is "whataboutism"

> Takes great personal pride in thinking that he's won the debate by using the vocabulary term he just learned

> Refuses to elaborate

> Leaves

Re: Hacker News Parody Thread (2013)

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This is missing the “scrolling is broken, history is broken, text isn’t high contrast enough, doesn’t work on mobile Safari, I hate paywalls, I hate cookie pop-ups, I hate newsletter signups, doesn’t work with adblock, doesn’t work without JavaScript, so didn’t read the article” comment.

Re: Hacker News Parody Thread (2013)

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post #58

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In 10 years of reading hacker news I never thought to press the [-] until this moment.

I always assumed [-] subtracted a point from that comment.

Important fact: The [-] does not remove a point. After you get 500 points, you earn the privilege of down voting, you will get a "down triangle" underneath the "up vote up triangle" that you can click on.

Re: Hacker News Parody Thread (2013)

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Damn, 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 present algorithm whereby each byte is iterated from 0 to 255, following recursively for next byte for each previously yielded result. From above nonsensical results are removed.

Above algorithm generalizes all human knowledge ever conceived, in any format, as well as any future (duplicated!) ideas that may be conceived.

I donate above algorithm and all its results to public domain.

You're welcome.

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