I think you're both right. It's a fun little page that doesn't actually serve any purpose, like... comedic art?

The practical solutions to this opinion divide are to somehow categorize entries like this as [funny] or whatever so people can skip them informedly, or to simply accept that HN aggregates content that appeals to different minds.

I personally find it uninteresting, but I don't think it decreases the value of HN or the quality of the community-- people will find novelty in different things. It also seems like the kind of content that the guidelines praise. I appreciate when people deep-dive into niche topics because it fosters (in my subjective view) the best type of discussion.

This is the kind of thing HN is for. That's not to say it's not also great at incubating overly-pedantic technocratic bikeshedding of computing minutiae, which has its place. Don't ever change, HN.

How old are you by chance?

There's a chance younger people simply won't understand or appreciate the interest in DEADBEEF.

Personally I found it kind of neat and wondered if I could design a colour palette out of rememberable code names.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deadbeef

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hexspeak

Heh looks like this has been done before too: http://bada55.io/

It’s one of those ‘do it because you can’ kind of things. I wouldn’t spend time doing it myself, but happy to see others do it.

Let's keep having threads with 4 comments discussing the latest Haskell library borefest then. Threads like this have their place.

The point is it's a lot easier to remember facade than ffb6c1. Also since when did HN posts need a point?!

Interesting. You consider it a waste of time. So this post from you must be an example of the sunk cost fallacy, as you throw good time after bad.