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Hacker News Parody Thread (2013)

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Re: Hacker News Parody Thread (2013)

#181

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 Complete and how it made zero sense to you. It’s been machines all this time.

Re: Hacker News Parody Thread (2013)

#182

Too bad that n-gate.com stopped updating in mid-2021. It was great for this stuff, and arguably it still is. Edit: Don't miss the usernames in OP's parody thread though, they're just as hard to spot as on actual HN (which is a great feature of this site) but I thought they were the funniest part.

The definitive hacker news mindset takedown. A cold bucket of water on silicon valley. I miss it so much, mostly because it was so insightful.

Alas, no one will know because... you didn't pilotfish-post on firstpost comment.

Re: Hacker News Parody Thread (2013)

#186
post #4

This is cool (only read the first two lines so far) but if you're really interested in Hacker News Parody software you should check out our startup: https://zombo.com/#HACKER_NEWS_PARODY_DOT_IO

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.

Re: Hacker News Parody Thread (2013)

#187
I wish I could, in the true spirit of NH, down vote every comment I don't agree with on this tread. Unfortunately, that would really count against karma. But it's tempting :)

That said, the parody shows nothing down voted. Is that part of the parody? Or an oversight?

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