SOTA on Bay Area House Party

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Post by srijan4 » Tue, Jan 13, 2026, 10:04 PM UTC

SOTA on Bay Area House Party
astralcodexten.com

Re: SOTA on Bay Area House Party

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Post by bigwheels » Tue, Jan 13, 2026, 10:18 PM UTC

IYKYK, hilarious.

Could be worth starting at the beginning: https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/every-bay-area-house-party

Re: SOTA on Bay Area House Party

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Post by ralfd » Tue, Jan 13, 2026, 11:15 PM UTC

I enjoyed summarizing this hilarious blog post with my Claude Code and I thank Scott for having his Claude Code write it!

Re: SOTA on Bay Area House Party

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Post by ralfd » Tue, Jan 13, 2026, 11:24 PM UTC

bigwheels wrote: post #2

IYKYK, hilarious. Could be worth starting at the beginning: https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/every-bay-area-house-party

I searched every part on hacker news and the most comments a submissions had was only 2. Two!

I am puzzled why the parodies of bay area tech-culture fall flat here.

Re: SOTA on Bay Area House Party

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Post by bigwheels » Tue, Jan 13, 2026, 11:32 PM UTC

ralfd wrote: post #4

bigwheels wrote: post #2

IYKYK, hilarious. Could be worth starting at the beginning: https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/every-bay-area-house-party

I searched every part on hacker news and the most comments a submissions had was only 2. Two! I am puzzled why the parodies of bay area tech-culture fall flat here.

No need to be puzzled- occasionally a funny submission will live for a bit on the front page but in general the spectrum of acceptable humor around here is very narrow.

It's sort of a case of barking up the wrong tree on that front. Personally I've been enjoying laughing at the slickdeals forums such as https://slickdeals.net/f/19069660-16-5-ft-pancellent-snake-i.... Obviously it can't compete with higher brow humor, but at least the people are nice there.