Parody Hacker News (2013) • Hacker News Board

Re: Parody Hacker News (2013)

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Post by stodor89 » Thu, Jul 30, 2026, 6:40 PM UTC

dang comment with links to other parts of the discussion

Re: Parody Hacker News (2013)

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Post by robotnikman » Thu, Jul 30, 2026, 6:42 PM UTC

Speaking of Hacker News parodies, I wonder what happened to n-gate. They stopped updating their site around 2021

Re: Parody Hacker News (2013)

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Post by jraph » Thu, Jul 30, 2026, 6:44 PM UTC

sellmesoap wrote: post #19

I have stuff to say about JIT.

You've made a shortcut that's subtly wrong in some very obscure way concerning some yet to be actually seen obscure edge case and you should feel bad.

Re: Parody Hacker News (2013)

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Post by krapp » Thu, Jul 30, 2026, 6:48 PM UTC

robotnikman wrote: post #22

Speaking of Hacker News parodies, I wonder what happened to n-gate. They stopped updating their site around 2021

There's an n-gate bot posting to Mastodon: https://mastodon.social/@ngate

Re: Parody Hacker News (2013)

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Post by apercu » Thu, Jul 30, 2026, 6:53 PM UTC

heathrow83829 wrote: post #8

all the parody jokes aside, I still think hacker news commenting is so much more informative and solution oriented than reddit.

Mostly agree. Hacker News has a stronger signal-to-noise ratio, but I wouldn't say it's immune to enshittification. It just manifests differently. And it feels anecdotally worse to me than it did 5 years ago. Some of that is all the posts about LLMs (which I would expect HN readers to be scientifically critical about, but the community is (mostly) not), but I don’t think that’s the only reason.

Re: Parody Hacker News (2013)

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Post by jraph » Thu, Jul 30, 2026, 7:26 PM UTC

The author's website design is insufferable, here's a fix for the horrible font and scrolljacking that's worse than the reader mode of your browser in case you are reading comments before the article:

    document.body.style.color = "pink";

Re: Parody Hacker News (2013)

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Post by tiagod » Thu, Jul 30, 2026, 7:27 PM UTC

robotnikman wrote: post #22

Speaking of Hacker News parodies, I wonder what happened to n-gate. They stopped updating their site around 2021

I miss them so much.

Re: Parody Hacker News (2013)

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Post by tiagod » Thu, Jul 30, 2026, 7:28 PM UTC

krapp wrote: post #24

robotnikman wrote: post #22

Speaking of Hacker News parodies, I wonder what happened to n-gate. They stopped updating their site around 2021

There's an n-gate bot posting to Mastodon: https://mastodon.social/@ngate

It's an insult to call that n-gate style... That's just sassy AI style - a horrible read.

Re: Parody Hacker News (2013)

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Post by sellmesoap » Thu, Jul 30, 2026, 8:04 PM UTC

jraph wrote: post #23

sellmesoap wrote: post #19

I have stuff to say about JIT.

You've made a shortcut that's subtly wrong in some very obscure way concerning some yet to be actually seen obscure edge case and you should feel bad.

I saw a pattern and figured I'd stick my neck out ;D

Re: Parody Hacker News (2013)

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Post by m463 » Thu, Jul 30, 2026, 11:18 PM UTC

dr_kiszonka wrote: post #5

m463 wrote: post #3

There's no comment I could make that isn't already in the parody.

Why are we regurgitating the past? How did it even make it to the home page? (And why is this the top comment?!)

ok, that's pretty good - three things not on the parody.

(I find it interesting that the parody logo Y upside down looks like lambda)