Hacker News Parody Thread • Hacker News Board

B-Con wrote: post #185

lancefisher wrote: post #182

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Ha ha! Thanks! I have exactly 500 now. Maybe I should change my handle to icandownvote. Edit: Maybe it takes more than 500, or some time. I don't have down arrows yet.

It got mine relatively recently. I remember it took about 15 minutes after I reached 500. Either the system takes a little while to recognize the change, or I reached 501 in that time. Note that you can't vote on comments over 24 hours old or replies to yourself, so don't use those to check your ability.

I just got downvote power!

Re: Hacker News Parody Thread

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Post by ndesaulniers » Wed, Mar 06, 2013, 6:11 AM UTC

skeletonjelly wrote: post #151

pg is not top comment.

Did you actually read the article?

Re: Hacker News Parody Thread

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Post by ndesaulniers » Wed, Mar 06, 2013, 6:13 AM UTC

johnernaut wrote: post #48

chimeracoder wrote: post #40

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> Alas I don't know for certain, but my guess is that if you have a high average karma then your posts are automatically weighted higher, so you can inject your opinion into almost any topic at any time. This affords me the luxury of being a contradictory whine even if I come late to the party! One thing I dislike about the 'average karma' is that it discourages engaging in an extended discussion. For example, if you…

It matters in high performance Python.

I have stuff to say about JIT.

Re: Hacker News Parody Thread

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Post by reinhardt » Wed, Mar 06, 2013, 6:28 AM UTC

jckt wrote: post #178

j_baker wrote: post #128

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I don't understand why you're making this so complicated. This problem can be easily solved using unix pipes. There's no need to complicate your technology stack with extraneous definitions of "parody".

Or you can use Lisp S-expressions, which are much more elegant and powerful.

Or perl regexps for that matter.

Re: Hacker News Parody Thread

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Post by Hortinstein » Wed, Mar 06, 2013, 12:30 PM UTC

trotsky wrote: post #121

vectorpush wrote: post #18

The usernames made me chuckle, my favorite is "DefaultSearchIsWikipedia". Also, you forgot at least one archetype: the enthusiastic rant from an oblivious hell-banned poster.

Seriously, LoseThos is the reason to read HN

Lose Thos actually was renamed Sparrow OS http://www.sparrowos.com/

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Post by rapind » Wed, Mar 06, 2013, 1:10 PM UTC

B-Con wrote: post #161

rapind wrote: post #140

I know this is off-topic, but does anyone know how he put this together?

Just in case you're serious: I wrote the replies out in a simple indentation format. Then when I had convinced myself I had some legitimate humor material I saved an HN page, looked at the internal layout structure (and lost a few IQ points in the process), and found an easy way to copy blocks of markup to create comments. Then I did a ton of link replacing and modifying for each comment, to give them unique IDs for…

Seems like a typical idea v.s. execution case. I found it funny. Thanks for taking the time.