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DeadBeef News: Like the Onion but for Programming and Startups

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> DOUGLAS CROCKFORD ADMITS '!' OPERATOR THE ONLY GOOD PART OF JAVASCRIPT

Now that's funny

We already have techcrunch.

And @shithnsays https://twitter.com/shit_hn_says

The site and content is hosted on Github (https://github.com/deadbeefnews/deadbeefnews.github.io) I wonder if they support pull requests?

Yep, submit an article!

I'd describe these four published so far as moderately funny - slight smile inducing, no LOL, no meh. So keep them coming. The jokes are something that many comedians develop through iterations :)

To be fair, I get a proper LOL from Onion maybe once in 15 days (not counting their videos, which are always hilarious). Onion's stories are always smart though and the satire biting.

Plus, it's always easier to satirize politicians than programmers.

With the Onion, it's always the headlines than nail it, better than the body.

In a way, they've been doing parody tweets since 1988.

Someone made a TechCrunch parody site like this called TrapCrunch[1] a while back as well.

[1] http://trapcrunch.com/

That site is actually funny. Haven't seen any updates in months.

Any idea what happened?

Segfault used to be at the top of the game back in the day: http://web.archive.org/web/20021207224656/http://www.segfaul...

One of the first sites I've seen in the wild on a new TLD. Interesting choice.

The others in the 30 pages of HN are: http://fucklove.paris, http://proofs.wiki, http://vart.institute and http://paperwork.rocks

I thought the Google Skynet was funny, and there's potential for a few more jokes there. FYI, we check out at the checkout (first story).

Ahaha really good, although usually one writes more than 4 posts before starting a site like this.

Painfully unfunny.

I thought it was quite humorous.

So did I. I'm going to reuse the SVN joke for my local area, instead of Californians. (We don't get many of those on the eastern sea-board.)

I hate to follow the HN stereotype, but I have to agree with you.

In case it's not obvious...

D E A D B E E F

Those are all valid hexadecimal characters. Much like C A F E B A B E for Java class files.

One of many other examples: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hexspeak

And antagonist to freshmeat.net?

It's also a common filler to initialize memory for easier debugging later.

Cringe

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