Hacker News Parody Thread (2013) • Hacker News Board

tomger wrote: post #86

nicky0 wrote: post #58

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Doesn’t [-] set it to zero?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brainfuck

Re: Hacker News Parody Thread (2013)

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Post by [deleted] » Sun, Nov 20, 2022, 3:30 PM UTC

gooseus wrote: post #156

Needs (2013) Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5326511 :)

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Re: Hacker News Parody Thread (2013)

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Post by wruza » Sun, Nov 20, 2022, 3:30 PM UTC

thatwasunusual wrote: post #88

mirekrusin wrote: post #83

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As a ruby guy, does it really matter which language it's written in if it works?

As a Perl guy: yes. :(

As a Perl guy: yes. :(

Warning all, don’t paste this into your shell!

Re: Hacker News Parody Thread (2013)

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Post by jablala » Sun, Nov 20, 2022, 3:30 PM UTC

antihero wrote: post #126

input_sh wrote: post #16

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

Not a single person went on about vue

No Svelte either, I'm in shambles.

Re: Hacker News Parody Thread (2013)

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Post by wildermuthn » Sun, Nov 20, 2022, 3:31 PM UTC

sdwr wrote: post #152

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…

Can't tell if this is a parody comment or not...

Those comments violate the HN guidelines.

Please read and follow them: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Kidding, I too thought this thread was the parody at first. After all, they are real HN comments!

Or maybe this is part of the parody. Maybe if we trained an AI to detect genuine vs. parody?

Re: Hacker News Parody Thread (2013)

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Post by jablala » Sun, Nov 20, 2022, 3:31 PM UTC

PicassoCTs wrote: post #112

heresie-dabord wrote: post #33

As 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 a(As a(As a(recursive defined class of person)))) im astounded by how important perspective and caste has become for some, while we are all just the same hairless monkeys

As a ______"____"______________, I agree.