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That is literally hilarious. "Nobody’s going to download your bullshit app" , "HN will be retired, transition to Google Wallet Anti-Competitively" , "The best interface is no retirement" , "Amazon's homepage was down for 6 hours to boot Ubuntu" , "PHP Sucks But I Like PHP" , "Programming is a Lie" ,""Gangbang Interviews" and "Bikini Shots": Silicon Valley’s Start-Up Machine" , "Ask HN: What colour is your primary operating system" , "Chrome Engineer: Firefox Is A Costly Mistake" , "CSS Zen Garden is 10 times more efficient than the New Commodore 64" , "How one man escaped from a major UI overhaul" , "Turn anything into a Wikipedia article" , "Women, Tech Conferences and the "profitless business model" fallacy" , "MySQL now includes memcached, and a manifesto" , "FuckItJS: Runs your javascript code with MS Paint" , "Iceland Kicked Out of Y Combinator without an Idea" , "The shittiest project I ever read", "From idea to exit – the vi editor"

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My favorites, almost too good to be fake:

- A conversation between two chatbots and how one found out the other company has bigger monitors

- Amazon and the adults who get upset about Sparrow’s acquisition

- Orin Kerr: Why I Quit My Job to Start the Rest of My Todo List

- How to handle 1000s of concurrent users on a cube-shaped planet

- My Name Is Me - Supporting your freedom to drink coffee

- 15-year-old girl invents flashlight powered by node.js + socket.io

- Nobody's Going to Get Good at Making Money

- Airbnb Has Arrived: Raising Mega-Round at a $1 billion fraud

- Microsoft launches an HTML5 game. I finally understand why I'm not going to steal a Russian airport

One I got thats similarly almost too good

"Whatever works for you – and giving up reading it will make your customers much happier"

There have been way too many like this once recently

Two I got in this same category:

- Man places his genome to Github, smartass forks and issues a pull request - Paul Graham consistently says ‘um’ ~7 times per year, audit finds

And this one is hilarious enough to get an honorable mention:

WYSIHTML5: A better way to get $12 billion of gold to Venezuela

I hate myself for posting these, but I cannot resist (I am silently shaking from laughter fighting hard not to wake up my newborn):

Show HN: Let's Be Civil (I think his was a real post but with Tell HN -- the small change is hilarious)

Jordanian citizen was denied re-entry to the Post PC Era

Firefox now only has one big flaw

I feel I am a programmer

Web Intents - the future of spam in Windows

A new Python web framework for Haskell

Damn it, I want to read all of those!

I got this and it seemed a bit.. too real:

Two Senators Say the NSA Is Storing Voice Content, Not Just Metadata

So hard to stop posting...

    When I Stopped Eating For 2 Years in Production
    How Github uses Github to build a windmill
    Ask HN: Who is Sick
    Apple's Role in Japan stopped having sex?
    Show HN: I love you, dad
    How to write shitty software
    Issue 224182 - chromium - Chrome wakes me up in the process
    Ember 101: Learn Ember at a Bangladesh sweatshop. Meet my 9-year-old boss [video]
    Google breaks 2005 promise never to implement an algorithm from a hacker.
    Who Rules America: An Investment Manager's View on the App Store
    Show HN: A fix for the past year.
    Richard Stallman: How I Hacked Facebook’s Secure Files Transfer Service for Employees
    LuaJit 2.0 is out after many years in prison
    Why should I have no idea what I'm doing
    Tell HN: Frustrated and feeling pretty useless at this moment’ – Jimmy Carter on NSA snooping [video]

>Ember 101: Learn Ember at a Bangladesh sweatshop. Meet my 9-year-old boss [video]

Incredible.

Why I Don't Want Your App. Try Again Later

Ask pg: Please consider not doing a PhD.

When I Stopped Eating For 2 Years

Ask HN: I'm an American and a JPEG (view source on it)

What it’s like to be an accident

Paul Graham consistently says ‘um’ ~7 times per year, audit finds

CISPA Passes in the Womb

US Government: You Don't Prioritize Your Life, Someone Else Will

Stallman: "Facebook is an anti-pattern

Civet coffee: why it's time to submit a pull request

Some too good not to share:

- Your Username Will Now Have Amazon Ads Pre-Installed

- Android Ported to ANSI C

- Memories of Stasi color Germans’ view of time, if nanoseconds were seconds

- Cook something or get out of Facebook.com

- Mark Cuban: If you want to order it, use 'view source' to find the commented-out link.

- How Little Sleep Can You Get From McDonald's?

- Ocean acidification due to SOPA

- Love startups but not a developer? We need Ruby developers

- Lenovo CEO Gives His $3 Million Bonus to 10,000 Users in 1 Month (with stats)

   > Android Ported to ANSI C

The most common issue is the different semantics of 'inline' between historic gcc and C99.

The first one I saw was

> The WorldWideWeb application is now larger than LinkedIn

I had to follow the link to the code to convince myself it really was random and not satire.

My favorites:

"Google is about to learn stats"

"Progressive JPEGs: a new alternative to Node.js"

"Canadians Just Became World's Biggest Problem"

"Your Username Will Now Have Amazon Ads Pre-Installed"

Soylent: What Happened to the Nexus 7

- A file that's both an acceptable HTML page and a Raspberry Pi; - My idea to exit – the vi editor; - Ask HN: How much recurring income do you make in the US on copyright charges; - Your Username Will Now Have Amazon Ads Pre-Installed; - This Google ad has moved people to beat comment spam; - The DDoS that almost broke the rules; - Should Quadrotors All Look Like the One in the middle of NYC?

"White House: What's Blocking Innovation in America? My Answer: IP Laws"

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