Great HN parody
linkedlistnyc.org
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and "A front page HN story about how being on the front page of HN changed my business"
and "A rambling article about how voting is broken on HN"
and "How I lived out of a shoebox and traveled the world on a bicycle while creating my startup"
Anybody interested in more, I refer you to my javascript parody of two years ago, "Roll Your Own Linkbait Tech Headline": http://www.whattofix.com/blog/archives/2011/01/roll-your-own...
30. A Legitimately Interesting Technical Blog Post
"How I learn to program in 30 minutes and bootstrapped my first startup"
"Show HN: My new social network that will change the world", from the author of the previous article
they have fixed gear bikes, we have custom compiled FreeBSD kernels because we don't know what we are doing.
"How iPad kills PCs"
"My iCruft and Me"
Unknown or expired link. http://news.ycombinator.com/x?fnid=ZVizUZJ5Ar
"Why you should always validate your first $100M in sales with a mockup, before writing a single line of code"
"How we can implement Ayn Rand's ideas on success to solve world hunger with crowdsourced electronics"
"What is success, anyway?"
Despite this being a parody, I would still like to point out "a labor of love you can say mean things about". I have seen it happen here way too often. Someone posts something and the crowd goes wild - "this is a feature not a product", "as a designer I can tell you you suck", "another cool aid drinkers pretending node.js is cool" etc. Someone posts a "Show HN" doesn't mean you get the right to walk all over it. And the worse part is, you pretend you were doing him a favor - "I was only giving feedback which the poster asked for". The poster asked for feedback, not for insults. It doesn't matter if you are a programming god(most of the people doing it aren't, but still) - there is a difference between feedback and "look at this pathetic shit thinking he is worth anything".
I am sure I am not the only one who thinks people go overboard with their so-called feedback. pg especially made a post about the flood of launches coming in and being nice to them.
Please be nice to them. For you their launch may be "yet another YC startup," but for each individual startup this is their big moment.
If I do a "Show HN", I will read each and every comment and think about it. But that's not the point of contention here. The point is you can be honest, unfiltered, upset and can still not be an asshole.
the right definitely exists and should be cherished. I agree that being nice is a nice goal but I also love unfiltered honest feedback like you can easily get from this community.
You can give great, thoughtful feedback that accurately describes your feelings without being unprofessional or disrespectful.
But saying that people don't have the right to do otherwise is a much stronger statement than what you just stated. In fact, people in general have the right to do many things which are immoral or even unethical, e.g. the Westboro Baptist protests at funerals.
I should have worded it differently - I didn't mean right as in legal definition of rights(which isn't applicable here anyway) Let's just rephrase it as someone asking for feedback doesn't mean you can walk over it.
As for what rights people have, HN is private property and what speech is acceptable and what is not is totally up to the owners.
What right? If you are talking about free speech, that isn't applicable here. Owners of site can allow or disallow expressions on their discretion.
When I said right, I meant the typical defense - "They posted it here. They asked for it.". I am saying just because someone posts a "Show HN" doesn't imply you can be a jerk and hide behind "but they wanted feedback".
> unfiltered honest
The problem with "unfiltered and honest" is it doesn't have a agreed-on definition.
You must be blind to not notice the crime against humanity that "white on yellow" text is.
The white on yellow text is unreadable.
To some people, 1 might look honest and unfiltered; to me it looks like some asshole trying to be tough guy on the web.
2 isn't filtering anything and is honest. "Not being an asshole" and "being honest and straight forward" aren't mutually exclusive.
Inserting 10000 records, each in their own transaction, is a crime against humanity.
Posting comments with get requests and without csrf tokens is a crime against humanity
I can sincerely believe these are crimes against humanity, and still be right. What I believe to be crimes against humanity is not going to affect xss in any way.
By your analogy, if Hitler says exercising is good, you will respond "why would you consider his opinion in the first place".
Hitler had some good qualities? Yes. Do you have to be Hitler to have those? No. Does being Hitler help? No.
I didn't realize that signing up to HN entitled me to negativity free advertising for my pet project.
Wouldn't you expect people posting Show HN posts to know what happens in the comment threads of all of them?
I agree that the community should try to discourage plain insults, but I want to see well reasoned thoughts and critiques of other projects from the community. If that critique is harsh then it's harsh. Welcome to going public with your idea. I agree with you about the insults, but you are also drifting towards encouraging protecting egos that are tied to their product. That's not a helpful community norm. Be supportive of people working hard and ruthlessly honest about their ideas and products.
Also, we're coming up on a decade of digg/reddit/HN style social news sites. Is it time to stop being surprised that the behaviour that this medium incentivises is the behaviour we keep seeing?
It happens all the time and posters are well aware of the behavior. Neither of these mean it's desirable to put down everyone who does a "Show HN". If anything, it happens all the time is the reason behind the concern.
> I want to see well reasoned thoughts and critiques of other projects from the community.
> Be supportive of people working hard and ruthlessly honest about their ideas and products.
I am not advocating heaps of praise for anyone who does a "Show HN". Honesty and not being an asshole aren't mutually exclusive.
> Is it time to stop being surprised that the behaviour that this medium incentivises is the behaviour we keep seeing?
I am not too sure if HN incentivises being a jerk to "Show HN" or posts in general. But if it does, it should stop. Just because it happens doesn't make it desirable.
Never said it was desirable. I'm just fairly convinced that this is the type of interaction that humans do when they communicate in this medium. Like I said, we have 7 or 8 years of experiments and people acting pretty much the same throughout. Some combination of anonymity, fake points to score every contribution with voting and emphasis on many short nuggets of information rather than long form maybe? who knows.
> it should stop
"why can't everyone just get along". I think it's safe to assume by now that this behaviour is human nature + this communication medium. You can tell people to "stop it" or you can change the system that encourages/causes/incentivises that behaviour. Only one of those approaches has ever worked.
So, guys, should I or should I not learn to code? :D.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4621731
item from a different URL
http://us2.campaign-archive1.com/?u=193b767bbb3b0eb0d949d592...
two months ago. (That is shown by the date on both submitted mock front pages of HN, and by their identical text.) It's funny, and memorable enough that I still recall the last time this was posted.
If a community can't laugh at itself, then it's surely doomed :D
I think that's why my 'double stealth' parody was such a hit a while back: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4166183
You should write a book ... although too many people would probably take it as serious advice and start following it :/
How is it done? Does your buddy use X, mac or where in the stack is the hack?
I have not figured out how to do it on Windows, but I imagine that it might be possible with AutoHotKey.
$ setxkbmap -option ctrl:nocaps
$ xcape
http://rachelbythebay.com/fun/hrand/
Some of the examples look curiously close to actual news, but they're all random. Really.
That's just gold.
Sorry HN, but I think I'm addicted to that other site now. goes there and keeps hitting f5
I'm Quitting [Popular Nonessential Service] for 1 Month
What I Learned from Quitting [Popular Nonessential Service] for 1 MonthYet it keeps happening.
E.g. the other day Reddit had a story about an atheist who dropped out of West Point because he felt there was too much religion, which somehow mutated on some of the subreddits to how all atheists in all of the military branches are continuously being oppressed (which is far and away untrue).
It also turns up as the first hit for "hacker news parody" or "hn parody" on Google.
That really got me thinking. Then I realized I was reading a parody. I am still thinking.
"Surely I can spin this Tweet into an article"
"Why latest Apple product is the best thing you have ever seen" - Marco, Gruber or MG
But this is pretty funny. No MS hate?
I guess I should write a blog about this, but first I need to get a blog. Perhaps I could blog about getting a blog so I can blog an analysis of how HN's topics are both cyclical and wave-like. Both, of course posted to HN at optimal hours for maximum effect!
"10 mistakes that I made during my unsuccessful YC interview, 9 of which PG probably didn't even notice"
"Show HN: My first (read: I'm younger than you) app I hacked up in less than 20 mins (read: I'm smarter than you), because I had nothing else to do (read: don't feel too cozy in your job, cuz I'm dropping out of college any day [if my parents agree, that is])"
"How I made big bucks with something so trivial that I'm surprised my cleaning lady did not think of it before me"
"Apple is no longer as innovative as they were 5 minutes ago"
Plenty of discussions that mix a lot of fancy Latin expressions and Scotsmen
Recruiter: a derogatory term for somebody that knows less about a specific field than than the experts in that field they hire
Fanboy: favoriteGadget.brand != other.favoriteGadget.brand
Fanboy of a Recruiter: greatest insult on HN
12 hours later...
"Why C++ Is Back."
..but then some other guy would defend it by saying "but it is hacker-y, etc"
The next level is a realization that it isn't any different form /b/ - just a flow of a community-generated content about some buzzwords.))
Well, we must admit that a distribution of our interests is a little bit broader, but it is a substitution-based activity nevertheless.)
Not to offend dschiptsov, but (ab)using them is an awful habit to have.
(at least where I came from, EE girls are very rare)
But they do type smiles properly.
I would assume EE types would have other problems with typyjng, or maybe not;
Tipzntrix: hi Tipzntrix: )
The closing paren is supposed to be attached to the colon to make a super quick happy face.
or sad face.
Tipzntrix: (
But the colon combination is a bit awkward for adding quick smileys (SHIFT+6) which makes it understandable that one would use )) instead.
A bit unrelated, but I once had a guy trying to scam me on Steam using some neat chat request trick using a friends name. Disregarding all the other scamming signs I easily spotted this being another user because of the )) overuse. I know it is silly, but I can't help but chuckle a little bit when I see )) or similar.
"Woz disagrees with something Apple does."
"Why this wildly successful and profitable company is doomed. Someday."
"Commonly-used technology is obsolete."
"You are not cool enough to succeed, especially if you are in any way successful. Please develop impostor syndrome."
That's the one that got me. Now pardon me while I write a post about duplicating comic timing graphically, as a constraint.
(And someone will use this fact as a reason to not use Go. Of course their website will melt after a couple of minutes on the front page of HN because they forgot to do any basic load testing on their servers and didn't catch something very simple)
To complete the picture, i would really like to respond here with a very long-form comment of at least 8 paragraphs, in which i address one by one a number of points that irritated me in a boastful way that makes my arguments sound authoritative and deep, while in reality it's just my brain-fart of the moment. I should also add a couple of references in square brackets, because that's what scientists do[1] and people seem to believe scientists (what's more, the most respected scientific journals use the vancouver reference style, which makes me look even more knowledgable). Because of the outrageousness of my long-form comment (and because it takes up a large portion of the screen real estate), people will upvote me and respond with equally half-cooked comments , some of them applying Godwin's law, and others merely acknowledging this application of the law.
Unfortunately, i barely made it to 3 paragraphs and i 've more or less run out of stupid things to say.
Looking forward to the new version of your website that will be implemented in a single var javascript statement, because that's my favorite programming paradigm this afternoon.
[1] they really do