From Guidelines (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html):

> On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.

I'd say this type of thing most-definitely applies here.

A lot of us HN readers are geeks and love Monty Python. I still use the Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch to explain why Zookeeper needs 3 nodes but not 1, 2, or 4. (Though in contrast to the Pythonic instructions 5 is actually OK.)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rabbit_of_Caerbannog

Though if interested in learning more, I recommend watching this 4-part debate on the subject from 1979.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ni559bHXDg

Tech people like Monty Python

I'm with you.

Maybe this trend is inevitable because people spend a lot of time here (as I do). It's a forum after all. Focus on tech and intellectual pursuit gets diluted in general conversation.

And that's really a loss.

Weekends definitely wander a bit.

Hacker News is becoming like a Reddit for tech!