I am not sure, many times in front of The Onion¹ I get the drive "I should post this on HN".

Maybe we could have a parallel twin site for non serious "news"?

Edit: ¹or other sources mixed with the serious ones: for example, the pages from Andy Borowitz on The NewYorker. This just came out in real time... https://www.newyorker.com/humor/borowitz-report/trump-calls-...