HN Spoof

I don't get the joke, what so funny in an exact copy of hacker news in the past few months, only the links not working

The beautiful part of this is that this isn't just a spoof about "things that tend pop up on the HN front page." I'm pretty sure they took the front page at one point in time and turned it into satire post by post, perhaps injecting a couple stereotypical links after the fact.

Amusingly accurate, but you forgot to include an article about the US Patent system, and a few Marco/Daring Fireball/etc articles on the latest event or rumor in Apple Land. Oh, and those Elon Musk and Tim Cook articles could use a few more zeroes tacked to the end of their comment counts.

While we're at it, a parody of the average HN comment thread would have to include:

  When will people get the message about grey text on light backgrounds?

  WHY DID THE MODS CHANGE THE TITLE IT WAS PERFECTLY DESCRIPTIVE BEFORE AND NOW
  IT ISN'T
    Separate comment thread discussing Stack Overflow's moderation.

  Helpful link to Wikipedia article explaining some concept explicitly mentioned
  in story or parent comment.

  Is this site down for anyone else?
    viewtext.org mirror

  Does not work in my browser.

  jbigglesworth48, I just wanted to let you know, you've been hellbanned.

  Ugh, Flash video/bootstrap/touch gestures?

  Steve Jobs
    Steve Jobs
      Steve Jobs
    Steve Jobs
      Tim Cook
        Steve Jobs
    Can we stop talking about Steve Jobs already? I mean, he did XYZ but he
    wasn't exactly Q.
      Steve Jobs
        How is this even relevant to the story?
          Steve Jobs

  I don't mean to be pedantic, but you made a spelling or grammatical error.
    Well, actually...

  This story is *Not HN Worthy*, any Freshman CS student should have learned
  this within seconds of stepping into his first lecture.
    Actually, there are a lot of non-programmer HN readers who are interested in
    this, you need to check your programmer/college educated/computer loving/
    first world/middle class/white/male/young/old privilege.

  Insightful and relevant comment containing a subtle joke.
    Please excuse me while I completely misunderstand this joke and write a
    fervent argument against something the author never argued.
      Please excuse me while I explain the joke in excruciating detail.
      I think the author meant X.
      It was a joke.
      I think the author was joking.
      I should know better, but I'm going to argue with you anyways.
        Guy who didn't get the joke here, I saw your comment before the ones
        explaining the joke, let's have a giant flamewar.
    I don't get this joke. Can someone explain?
      Another excruciatingly detailed explanation of the joke.
    Zero responses to the actual comment.

  This comment is *what's Wrong with HN*

  Recent Apple decision is bad, and I am saying this *as a guy who owns
  APPLE_PRODUCT*

EDIT: How could I forget:

  I didn't actually read the article, but I'm going to start arguing about what
  I *thought* the article was about, based on the title.
  
  EDIT: Why am I being downvoted?
  

and of course, my personal favorite:

  Ok, go ahead and downvote, me, assholes, see what I care!

  11. Twitter is down (2010) 
  67 points by retrothrowback 6 hours ago | flag | 140 short comments

Clever.

Contrary to popular belief, HN does not have an informal "no humor" policy; HN has an informal "no cheap humor" policy. We (if I may presume to speak for the general community) don't want links to meme images or cheap recitations of popular quotes from TV or movies or something, but if you put some work into it to good result, it's great. Be not ashamed. This was pretty funny at several points. I especially enjoyed the adjectives on the comment counts.