Hacker News Parody Thread (2013)

Post by Cupertino95014 » Sun, Nov 20, 2022, 7:52 PM UTC

onionisafruit wrote: post #280

Cupertino95014 wrote: post #231

LOL. A serious post (I know, it's hard to tell at this point, isn't it?): Why does HN need the karma points system at all ? Downvoting is hardly used on other social networking sites any more, which should tell you something. Getting one pedantipoint has to be a motivation for "I have stuff to say about JIT." posts. Blocking & muting people is quite effective on Twitter, for example. The dream of a civil discourse wi…

HN “needs” karma points because HN has karma points and is over all a good forum. Changing it at this point risks changing the balance that makes HN what it is. I don’t block or mute people on forums where that is allowed because I don’t want to see a different conversation from everybody else.

Post by fleddr » Sun, Nov 20, 2022, 8:01 PM UTC

Post by dmarchand90 » Sun, Nov 20, 2022, 8:07 PM UTC

genghisjahn wrote: post #181

rosmax_1337 wrote: post #121

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…

That’s what this site is. You’ve been talking to a machine all this time. Do you really think a person would have this much time to argue day in and day out over systemd? That that many people care wherever or not Go has generics and which other languages does them best? That rust somehow is the cure for everything from game engines to the common cold? Think about all the times a “person” stated something was Turing…

Post by combatentropy » Sun, Nov 20, 2022, 8:25 PM UTC

Post by mmsimanga » Sun, Nov 20, 2022, 8:56 PM UTC