Parody HN Homepage (2012)
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Parody HN Homepage (2012)
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Re: Parody HN Homepage (2012)
#2Submitter and author here: My friend Dave and I made this over a decade ago, and I just stumbled on it again. I found it to be a fun walk down memory lane, and more broadly, an interesting time capsule of HN's culture and tropes.
Re: Parody HN Homepage (2012)
#3Submitter and author here: My friend Dave and I made this over a decade ago, and I just stumbled on it again. I found it to be a fun walk down memory lane, and more broadly, an interesting time capsule of HN's culture and tropes.
It got a laugh from me, not much changes. Thanks!
Re: Parody HN Homepage (2012)
#4Submitter and author here: My friend Dave and I made this over a decade ago, and I just stumbled on it again. I found it to be a fun walk down memory lane, and more broadly, an interesting time capsule of HN's culture and tropes.
It got a laugh from me, not much changes. Thanks!
Glad you enjoyed it! :)
Re: Parody HN Homepage (2012)
#5Submitter and author here: My friend Dave and I made this over a decade ago, and I just stumbled on it again. I found it to be a fun walk down memory lane, and more broadly, an interesting time capsule of HN's culture and tropes.
Wait, a time capsule? The parody article titles all basically showed up over the last week on the serious HN.
Re: Parody HN Homepage (2012)
#6Wait. This was made over a decade ago? I thought all the posts were relevant today.
Re: Parody HN Homepage (2012)
#7Feeding this list in to chatGPT, some of these are hilarious:
Here are some more examples:
Upvote arrow Local Man Discovers Shocking Truth About Popular Programming Language 27 points by techskeptic 4 hours ago | flag | 12 skeptical comments
Upvote arrow How My Startup Became a Unicorn in 10 Days (and How You Can Too!) 89 points by startupguru69 8 hours ago | flag | 37 skeptical comments
Upvote arrow Why I Stopped Using Social Media and You Should Too 54 points by digitaldetoxer 6 hours ago | flag | 72 argumentative comments
Upvote arrow Company Announces Major Product Update, Users Unimpressed 42 points by disillusioneduser 5 hours ago | flag | 28 critical comments
Upvote arrow 10 Reasons Why Agile is Dead and Waterfall is the Future 16 points by projectmanagerpro 2 hours ago | flag | 24 heated comments
Upvote arrow New Study Shows That Coffee Actually Decreases Productivity 11 points by sleepisbetter 1 hour ago | flag | 78 incredulous comments
Upvote arrow Founder Blames Failure on Lack of Investor Support, Investors Disagree 35 points by realitycheck123 4 hours ago | flag | 19 skeptical comments
Upvote arrow Why I Quit My High-Paying Tech Job to Live Off the Grid 73 points by offgridtech 10 hours ago | flag | 49 curious comments
Upvote arrow Breaking News: Company Raises $100 Million in Funding, Still Has No Revenue Model 62 points by skepticalinvestor 9 hours ago | flag | 24 incredulous comments
Upvote arrow I Tried Every Productivity Hack and Here's What Actually Worked 29 points by productivityhacker 6 hours ago | flag | 12 skeptical comments
Re: Parody HN Homepage (2012)
#8Submitter and author here: My friend Dave and I made this over a decade ago, and I just stumbled on it again. I found it to be a fun walk down memory lane, and more broadly, an interesting time capsule of HN's culture and tropes.
Thanks for making this. I saw it back then and thought it hit the nail on the head. It still does -- if you hadn't put (2012) readers would think it was made today.
Re: Parody HN Homepage (2012)
#9Submitter and author here: My friend Dave and I made this over a decade ago, and I just stumbled on it again. I found it to be a fun walk down memory lane, and more broadly, an interesting time capsule of HN's culture and tropes.
"Twitter is down (2010)" is just perfect.
Also, has the phrase "link-bait" completely been replaced by "clickbait" at this point?
Re: Parody HN Homepage (2012)
#10I love this