| ▲ | Parody Hacker News (2013)(bradconte.com) |
| 35 points by chistev 19 hours ago | 29 comments |
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| ▲ | m463 18 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| There's no comment I could make that isn't already in the parody. |
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| ▲ | heathrow83829 18 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| all the parody jokes aside, I still think hacker news commenting is so much more informative and solution oriented than reddit. |
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| ▲ | nearlyepic 18 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | I’ve got a bridge to sell you. Look past the VC tech blog shine everyone puts on their comments here and you’ll find it’s just as bad as Reddit, if not worse. | |
| ▲ | krapp 18 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | Depends entirely on the subreddit and the subject matter. | | |
| ▲ | chistev 18 hours ago | parent [-] | | What are some comparable or superior subreddits? I know the history subreddit doesn't permit jokes, and the askscience sub doesn't like jokes as parent comments. | | |
| ▲ | krapp 17 hours ago | parent [-] | | Every time I say HN doesn't permit jokes, someone pipes up and claims it does, but then often I see a joke it results in downvotes, flags and tedious lectures about how jokes aren't allowed here. I honestly don't think humor is the cancer a lot of people here seem to think it is - the most brilliant minds in our fields often had a sense of humor and it's been a part of hacker culture since the beginning. That said, any technically focused niche subreddit (like /r/askhistorians) is likely to be better than HN on average because it will attract more actual experts on that subject, and the more specific you get, the more likely you are to find actual experts on Reddit than HN . Also many of those subs don't allow jokes or memes anyway. HN is too broad in its mandate, "anything good hackers find interesting," and tends to be spotty outside of anything related to Silicon Valley startups and web development. | | |
| ▲ | karmakurtisaani 17 hours ago | parent [-] | | I've gotten plenty of upvotes (ok, something like 3 at best) for joking here. The ones that need to go are the unoriginal repetitions of reddit-style "jokes". |
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| ▲ | apercu 15 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | 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. |
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| ▲ | 18 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
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| ▲ | sellmesoap 17 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| I have stuff to say about JIT. |
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| ▲ | jraph 15 hours ago | parent [-] | | 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. | | |
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| ▲ | WalterGR 17 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Font sizes are pretty spot on. The up- and down-vote arrows need to be smaller, though, at least on mobile. ;) |
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| ▲ | robotnikman 15 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Speaking of Hacker News parodies, I wonder what happened to n-gate. They stopped updating their site around 2021 |
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| ▲ | jraph 15 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| 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";
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| ▲ | stodor89 15 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| dang comment with links to other parts of the discussion |
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| ▲ | AnonHP 17 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Someone please create something similar about AI slop and comments about AI slop in an article. That will be more 2026 HN. /s (partially) |
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| ▲ | marcellus23 18 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| I still miss n-gate so much. I wonder where that guy went. Hope he's okay. |
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| ▲ | tamimio 18 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| It’s missing the new comments after 2015 - an archive link to bypass paywalls - someone self promoting their similar tool/blog - a wild paid shill - kagi guy, he brings kagi into most discussions - the AI slop |
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| ▲ | 19 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
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| ▲ | ohm 17 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| The closest hacker news parody would be this https://desuarchive.org/g/thread/48696148 |
