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It's so funny that you said 'literally'.

I think I missed that part of the HN guidelines, could you point me in the right direction?

At the risk of getting too meta, the words "joke" "funny" and "humor" don't appear on the HN Guidelines[0] page at all. Nothing in there about staying 100% serious 100% of the time.

[0]https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

I mean, the second sentence of the "In Comments" section:

> Be kind. Don't be snarky.

In this case it's snarking at the consulting company, but is that alright because they're not actually involved in the story or thread?

Jokes aren’t necessarily snarky - I don’t read any malicious undertone from this joke, which I think is necessary to be considered snarky

wait, are you making a joke there?

Wow I can't believe I'm actually downvoted for this lmao. Eternal september indeed. Guess I'm getting old.