Hacker News Parody Thread (2013) • Hacker News Board

Re: Hacker News Parody Thread (2013)

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Post by throwaway675309 » Sun, Nov 20, 2022, 11:14 PM UTC

They missed the commentor who has nothing substantial too add too the actual conversation but managed to hone in on a piece of English semantics that needs to be endlessly nitpicked.

Inevitable followup "reddit level" comment left as an exercise for the reader.

Re: Hacker News Parody Thread (2013)

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Post by vram22 » Sun, Nov 20, 2022, 11:32 PM UTC

sedatk wrote: post #312

It's missing a top-level dang comment saying: "This has been discussed before in these threads: 2013 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33680661 2014 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33680661 2015 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33680661 2016 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33680661 2017 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33680661 2018 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33680661 2019 -…

dang it! how did we all miss that?

i rate your comment pg-14

Re: Hacker News Parody Thread (2013)

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Post by abnry » Sun, Nov 20, 2022, 11:58 PM UTC

allendoerfer wrote: post #69

You do not really need parody sites. You can accomplish the same using rsync and 3 lines of bash.

The real concern is that you can fire 75% of the parody site workers and still have it keep humming.

Re: Hacker News Parody Thread (2013)

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Post by smusamashah » Mon, Nov 21, 2022, 1:00 AM UTC

There is a parody sub https://ps.reddit.com/r/SubSimulatorGPT2/ all written by a set of GPT bots, where each bot writes in a specified tone.

Something like that *can* exist for HN too.

Re: Hacker News Parody Thread (2013)

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Post by starkd » Mon, Nov 21, 2022, 1:41 AM UTC

jason-phillips wrote: post #298

starkd wrote: post #97

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Wow. I just realized the [-] feature. This changes everything about HN!

I call it the "minimize bullshit" feature. Reddit also has it.

I might actually read more of the top level comments below the first one now.

Re: Hacker News Parody Thread (2013)

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Post by efreak » Mon, Nov 21, 2022, 1:47 AM UTC

zozbot234 wrote: post #84

xeromal wrote: post #74

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Or back button hijack

Off-topic aside, but why do people complain about back-button hijack when you can long-press or right-click and get out of the site? It works on any browser AIUI.

1. Long press doesn't show full history, it limits to 10-15(? Might be more). I've seen the occasional scummy background script that exploits this with numerous scripted redirects (usually pages with seo snippets cloned from SO). You have to disable the network to go back without being re-redirected, then go through a couple rounds of the back button history to get back to your original page.

2. If you're not using a full browser or are set up to keep a short history, you're basically SOL (Materialistic for HN has a built-in WebView, and I've used similar apps for other sites)

3. I shouldn't have to use history just because some site decided that it should add multiple history entries when I tried to scroll down an infinite list. I'm only on your website because it showed up in a search result, I'm not here to browse other unrelated content.

Re: Hacker News Parody Thread (2013)

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Post by still_grokking » Mon, Nov 21, 2022, 2:18 AM UTC

other_herbert wrote: post #262

narrator wrote: post #254

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Who could argue for hours and praise and upvote someone getting Doom running on all their household appliances?

Ok that’s it then it’s time to run doom on my toaster, rendering onto bread… input will be tough though

Have you considered a touch screen toaster?

https://www.cnet.com/reviews/revolution-r180-toaster-review/

Re: Hacker News Parody Thread (2013)

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Post by Gunnerhead » Mon, Nov 21, 2022, 2:24 AM UTC

Here would be a long winded thread debating a very pedantic point while using the definition of different fallacies to argue the other poster makes no valid points.

Re: Hacker News Parody Thread (2013)

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Post by still_grokking » Mon, Nov 21, 2022, 2:33 AM UTC

neonihil wrote: post #118

timeon wrote: post #48

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Since it was missing there I realized how am I overusing '[-]' instead of scrolling. Like Tarzan swing on vines. (Also is this relavant or am I just piggy-backing your top comment?)

Most useful comment on the whole thread. Thanks for the tip about the [-].

It can be even better. With a little bit more JavaScript.

https://github.com/plibither8/refined-hacker-news

Re: Hacker News Parody Thread (2013)

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Post by andreareina » Mon, Nov 21, 2022, 2:39 AM UTC

mdp2021 wrote: post #218

andreareina wrote: post #201

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Have you heard about our lord and savior root|parent|prev|next ?

> our lord and savior root|parent|prev|next You are welcome! My very small contribution to the system (I asked and "pushed" for it) - of course, Dang and/or his team implemented it. It is pleasant to read about it in such appreciative terms.

Hey that's awesome! They work really, really well for the way I read HN. Thanks for suggesting this, and thanks to 'dang et al for the implementation!