4chan discusses HN

[vezzy-fnord]

We've had these types of threads posted several times before and they've always been fun, though it seems like /g/ are really struggling for material this time around.

That said:

> [600 points] Why only web development matters (http :// nautil.us medium wordpress theverge gawker .com)

[hookey]

Here's the first one: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6747373

Some really good ones in there.

[cantbecool]

You're not wrong, but I find it I still find it hilarious. It's a good thread for a Friday afternoon laugh.

[CPLX]

There is some inspired content in that link. My personal fave:

We're disrupting the 1gorillion dollar [insert industry] sign up for our beta to check it out[0].

[0]We just need your name, address, credit card, and birth date. To verify your a human.[1]

[1] and we store all of this in clear text files on our server.[2]

[2] which was written using [insert new hipster language] by some guy who's been programming for 3 weeks.[3]

[3] but we promise not use your data to mine the shit out of you and sell it to advertisers.[4]

[4] jk

[anonydsfsfs]

Oh shit, 5 footnotes in a single comment? We've got another David Foster Wallace here.

[angersock]

Some are kinda on point:

  [1000 points] Some hot-button political issue that we know nothing about

  [-1 points] An O(n) time algorithm for multiplying matrices

And that's why I have been phasing my tech news away from HN.

It's really enjoyable watching the 4chan folks take the piss out of here--though a lot of the posts are, I suspect, newfags (in the vernacular) posting purposefully bigoted things in language that isn't typical to /g/.

[threatofrain]

"[145 points] Node.js + ASM.js + Angular.js + Coffee Script: how I built my static website"

[andresmanz]

That one made me laugh out loud. Some of them are quite good.

[kethinov]

"But progressive enhancement is the past!"

[calbear81]

[213 points] Sleeping considered harmful - Why I stopped sleeping

I liked this one.

[pigscantfly]

For all its immaturity, 4chan can be surprisingly clever. A lot of the commenters on that thread were complaining about having had accounts banned here, though.

[nether]

"Harm considered harmful"

[sergiotapia]

It's refreshing to see what people post without fear of retaliation or identification on the web.

Gold!

"Ask HN: Why won't VCs invest in our dating app, and why is it because we're women founders?"

"[1583] We taught 13 women from Sierra Leone node.js"

[fao_]

These are great; my favourites are:

> How I rewrote Bash in javascript.

> I decided to re-implement Javascript in Javascript. It failed. Here is my story.

> [450 points] Why I have private Github repos at my startup but everyone else should give away their software for free.

It's so true ;~;

[bytesandbots]

Can an interpreted language be completely written in itself?

[Cyph0n]

Uninformed opinion I'll try to pass off as insightful and fact-centric by using footnotes [1][2][3].

[1] theatlantic.com [2] theverge.com [3] blog.tumblr.com

[Koahku]

Archive link for future readers : https://archive.rebeccablacktech.com/g/thread/48696148

[bichiliad]

Someone mentioned that they hated the lack of humor in HN's comments section, which I tend to agree with.

[megablast]

Humour is allowed here. Just not the same humour as you get on reddit, with links to memes, or annoying puns.

[anon_adderlan]

I started frequenting HN because I kept encountering these kinds of problems everywhere else. Certain subjects just have more gravity as it were, and when present will inevitably take up all the oxygen in a room. The only way I know to manage it is to isolate it in sub-fora, and be very strict about containment.

An important difference between HN and other fourms I frequent(ed) however is that instead of taking offense and going on the defensive when 'attacked' by 4chan, they recognize the joke and find it funny. That alone puts HN lightyears ahead of those other organizations.

And regardless of why, it's exactly this kind of self-awareness and identity that enables people to discuss ideas without feeling threatened by them, something which has held back both social and scientific progress in the past.

[chetanahuja]

"An important difference between HN and other fourms I frequent(ed) however is that instead of taking offense and going on the defensive when 'attacked' by 4chan, they recognize the joke and find it funny. That alone puts HN lightyears ahead of those other organizations."

This. This comment could just as easily have been on that 4chan thread as a great example of HN think to be laughed at.

[jmottz]

My fav: Why I rewrote Go in node.js in Java to play tic tac toe

[c2the3rd]

> [dead] I'm Terry Davis and I created TempleOS

How many people know who Terry Davis is?

[makeset]

Everyone with showdead=yes.

[underwater]

So I'm out of the loop. Are complaints about social justice warriors just a modern twist on "I'm not racist, but..."?

[JesperRavn]

Not sure what you mean by that. If you are asking if they are a joke, a parody on real racists/sexists would say, then no. The complaints are serious. If you mean that people who complain about social justice warriors are really racists/sexists, well that's hard to answer, because it depends on one's definition of social justice warrior and one's definition of racism and sexism.

[LGBT_2000]

Yes.

[daveloyall]

Yes.

[runn1ng]

Yes.

[a8da6b0c91d]

Are the perspectives of racists not welcome here? No interest in the thoughts of Lee Kwan Yew and Nelson Mandela? I respect these schools of thought.

[eranation]

I liked this one

> Anonymous 06/26/15(Fri)17:51:52 No.48697104 [600 points] [meta] 4chan technology board satires hacker news, hilarious.

[johnsberd]

That was the original title of this thread but someone changed it.

[kethinov]

That reminds me of the time I googled "Google" on Google while visiting Google and the universe ended.

[twerkmonsta]

Most of these are incredibly accurate parodies of HN. As someone who reads HN every day, these are making me cry laughing.

[state]

I wonder how they got to know their material so well...

[runn1ng]

Yeah, and also the stupid 4chan racism and constant fear of "SJW"s.

[marcus_holmes]

SJW represent :)

I know people that don't read HN because it's too virulently sexist, so having 4chan see it as too SJW is interesting.

Will we end up with two "social justice" realities, like we have with vaccination, creationism/evolution and climate change, where it's entirely possible to spend your entire browsing time on sites that agree with your opinions on everything?

[programmernews3]

So HN "is" "virulently sexist" and 4chan merely "sees it" as "too SJW". Sigh

[djent]

Even after many HNers read this thread and appreciate the points being made, I'm sure we'll still see the same "Site I made in unique2me.js" garbage headlines in the top feed. Hopefully what we all take away from this is that we need to better spot patterns of articles/blogspam and self-moderate those submissions.

[ryan-c]

> [999 points] Why we raised $6 billion in a series J and deferred IPO

I wouldn't be surprised to see this in a few years.

[rakoo]

> Shitty layout from 2003

I actually like this layout. It's fast and easy to read, renders ok on mobile and is lightweight. I'm grateful that the maintainers didn't switch to an over-the-top look-at-my-framework.js thing just to make it look modern at the detriment of usability.

[jeffbush]

"Edit: why all these downvotes?"