I originally thought it was. Then, I realized its Hacker News. Not many jokes float around this area.
No funyuns allowed.
No fun. Just pseudo-academia. Keep it civil.
Jokes are totes allowed. They just have to be particularly high quality, including civil.
No Beavis and Butthead. A lot of humor is only funny if you are cool with being monstrously ugly about specific topics. That type humor tends to not fly here.
I'm okay with that.
beavis and butthead is actually a cleverly subversive vehicle for social criticism and a particularly creative and intelligent comedy