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Google: did you mean "recursion"?

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123 pointsjergosh26 comments

Obligatory:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1231262

You made me click. Have I just been recursion-rolled?

ok ok, I never thought this would last so long :( It's not even my joke originally so there is no need to keep upvoting (though I appreciate the sentiment)

Threads like this are how HN starts to become like reddit. I stopped reading reddit because of threads like this. The fact that this is the #1 post at the moment makes me think HN is overdue for another "Erlang Day".

I figured it would die quite quickly.. however apparently not

This was posted a few times ages and ages ago so I don't think it really counts as a "reddit" claim :) (though the commentary this time isn't as good - could just be because it is old)

A little light heartedness is never a problem IMO.

A little light heartedness is never a problem IMO.

I disagree. I come here for things that are interesting, not lighthearted. Things that change my model of how the world works. As the concentration of interesting stuff goes down, people who only want to expose themselves to interesting stuff will turn elsewhere, resulting in a further decline of the ratio of interesting:funny on the site.

No funny!

What was "Erlang Day"?

"Why HN is slow lately" -> http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=512145

Basically, HN was spammed with nothing but Erlang articles, and they all got voted up, so the front page was nothing but Erlang-related posts.

This is really old news.

Maybe it's a metajoke

Base case.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1231607

I knew I would get downvotes. Please forgive me, today I am in a hilarious mood so don't mind the downvotes. And I expect -4 on this one also.

Really, downvotes are liberating.

Déjà vu (quite recently): http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=719408

Come on HN, you can do better than this!!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google%27s_hoaxes#Easter_eggs

new easter eggs?

Not that new: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=719408

this is one more reason to love google. they don't take themselves too seriously to allow stuff like that.

damn those geeks :)

very funny. very very funny.

I wonder if it's tail call optimized or you get to DOS Google by clicking one too many times on it...

What is more surprising/worrying to me is the twitter spam showing up in results:

  eg "@newsycombinator the recursion thingy in google is old :)"

Why would I want twitterspam in my result pages by default?

Given that its probably a piece of python or java code spitting that out, it shouldn't be too surprising really. If it is C++, hmmm ... maybe they need a better compiler.

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