What 4chan thinks of HN

[ChrisNorstrom]

Brutal. Hilarious. Some good points. Some dumb ones (they don't seem to understand how important failure is and why it's good to share your failures). Their mockery is actually quite diverse.

===SV Celebrity Worship===

"Why Elon Musk is the most perfect human being alive today"

===Political===

"A Heart Divided: How a gay JavaScript programmer feels about Brendan Eich"

"Please don't mention Condoleezza Rice. Our autism is above politics."

"10 ways we unknowingly oppress female programmers and enforce patriarchy"

===Juvenile Cliq===

"Reasons why this <obscure new non-stable language that can't even compile™ yet> will replace C as a system language and why you SHOULD use it if you don't want to be left in the dust."

"Why we switched to [obscure framework] and you should too."

===HN flaws===

"<userX>, you seem to be hellbanned for no reason."

===Feel Good Superior Heroism===

"Check out this TED talk about teaching node.js to kids in Africa."

===Love of Javascript===

"Have you heard about our Lord and Saviour JavaScript?"

"How to touch yourself at night without JavaScript knowing it."

"Breaking news! POP3 and IMAP written in Javascript!"

"How I ported the control software of a nuclear reactor to reactive Javascript"

"Linux kernel ported to JavaScript running in the browser. See how we did it."

"How I made a filesystem in javascript."

"How I got my girlfriend pregnant using JavaScript."

"How to avoid getting HIV using JavaScript."

"The Linux kernel doesn't have enough javascript."

"I recommended my boss to rewrite the local powergrid infrastructure to javascript and how I lost my job."

[zem]

===Life Hacking=== "How polyphasic sleep helped me pitch my startup"

[peterkelly]

> How 2048 will make you a better programmer

They may make fun of this, but implementing another 2048 clone has helped me become a bootstrapped digital nomad with seed funding, as well as helping me to learn Ruby, node.js, mongodb, AngularJS (including Providers and Factories), while simultaneously embracing JSON to double my sales by 2x within just a couple of days at a recent hackathon.

[pbhjpbhj]

If this was reddit I'd be posting a picture of Fry squinting ...

[UnethicalHacks]

Can you expand this? Is the product generating revenue now? I own a site in a completely different niche that's also seeing quick success.

[cjf4]

Was this close to biting... well done.

[angersock]

Can you share with us your One Weird Trick To Make Angular Documentation Useful?!

I heard that stay-at-home moms are using backbone to make up to $427 a day!

[disbelief]

Hilarious:

> How I got my girlfriend pregnant using JavaScript.

> How we became ramen profitable by pivoting our cat consulting business to dogs.

> Mildly interesting topic (wikipedia.org)

[ColinCochrane]

I got a good laugh out of some of those.

Things I have learned from coding for a month

Ten ways to become a better programmer (by the guy who's been coding for a month)

[wkdown]

George RR Martin uses DOS

DOS still used by George RR Martin

George RR Martin talks about authoring in DOS

DOS to be killed off in the next episode of Game of Thrones

[nostrademons]

4chan: smart people pretending to be dumb.

[nemo1618]

Relevant: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1011656

(no, Descartes did not say this)

[Alupis]

I think it's the other way around ;-P

[joshbaptiste]

ABC in # lines of JavaScript (400 comments, 1000 points)

Actually interesting topic (3 comments, 4 points)

Hilarious..

[Shish2k]

Show HN: cool project that I built (0 comments, 0 points)

Show HN: cool project that I built with Go and Node.js (23442 comments, 63563234 points)

(Not that I'm bitter about lack of exposure due to not being a clickbaiter or anything... And no, it's not that people looked at the link and just didn't think it was interesting -- according to web server logs, I didn't get a single click at all :P )

[cgh]

"Show HN: HackerNews reimplementation in one line of x86 ASM"

This one cracked me up.

I've noticed a welcome relief from JS posts lately, not to mention politics. The new moderation system is working well from my perspective.

[cliveowen]

It's amazing how accurate it is.

[krazydad]

It's almost like some people use both sites...

[TorKlingberg]

I think HN, Reddit and 4chan have mostly the same audience. People just behave differently on each site.

[howdoipython]

I think this may be true to an extent. I think most 4chan posters aren't Reddit posters. There is a lot of distaste towards Reddit.

[paulannesley]

> Show HN: My full-stack web framework written entirely in CSS3

[ihuman]

That reminds me of backend CSS: https://medium.com/@./43dbc25cbd12

[emmanueloga_]

yeah well if you just added a couple of input/output functions to it you could potentially do it with SassScript :p

[nej]

This one was hilarious.

[deadfall]

"What HN thinks about what 4chan thinks about HN"

[SeanDav]

I hope that the comments engine supports tail-call optimization, or we gonna blow the stack!

[gajomi]

This is a fixed point combinator joke waiting to happen.

[pearjuice]

Sadly, most of the things on there are true. We can try to deny it all we want, but most of the stuff that's there is true. The power of anonymity is that you get to voice honest opinions without tying it up with your identity and/or feeling responsible for it. Of course, this can be argued otherwise too, by citing some (bad) comments as example from that thread, but for the most part, what you see there are honest comments.

[stackcollision]

It doesn't look like anyone in this thread is denying anything. Most of the comments here are about how amazingly accurate every single one of these is.

[VeejayRampay]

Uncanny how "Lapis – A Lua, Moonscript Framework built on OpenResty" fits so well in that list.

[eshyong]

That's because it was an actual submission :P

[justuseapen]

Introducing js.js: a JIT compiler from JavaScript to JavaScript

Trying so hard not to lol at work...

[fimoreth]

This one is actually legitimate. Saw it on HN a while ago, really funny:

https://github.com/jterrace/js.js/

[dsjoerg]

How I ported the control software of a nuclear reactor to reactive Javascript

[kachnuv_ocasek]

<completely irrelevant rant that will get upvoted to the top>

OK, seriously, it should be /g/ instead of 4chan.

[ihuman]

I don't think the rest of 4chan really cares about Hacker News, or even knows of its existence.

[vezzy-fnord]

Previously on "What 4chan knows-uh, thinks of HN": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6747373

[icpmacdo]

Its funny seeing people that have just copied phrases from that thread in this 4chan thread.

[awjr]

> How to touch yourself at night without JavaScript knowing it.

:O

[adamsrog]

<passive aggressive argument>

[izzydata]

<Irrelevant circumstantial evidence based on a single experience>

[dark_ph0enix]

<spirited retort>

[smoyer]

<repelled via logical fallacy>