Shit HN Says

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by dsirijus • 14 years ago

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Lewton2• 14 years ago

This is fairly retarded. It's not hard to make something look foolish when you take a single sentence out of context.

dsirijus5• 14 years ago

I've found most tweets to be really self-contained thoughts.

chris_wot2• 14 years ago

Oh, that so totally needs to be tweeted.

thirsteh2• 14 years ago

If those tweets actually appeared in text somewhere on Hacker News, they are foolish regardless of the context they were taken from. Dropping down to node.js to get close to the metal? Come on!

Love it.

Lewton2• 14 years ago

Now I'm confused. Is it made up tweets? because I recognized two or three of them from threads I've read

itmag• 14 years ago

Dropping down to node.js to get close to the metal?

It's actually not that strange of a remark, depending on context.

kmfrk• 14 years ago

    This is fairly retarded.

mparlane2• 14 years ago

I have a feeling this thread will be made pseudo-dead. [and this post haha]

Swizec• 14 years ago

What I want to know is who's running that account?

I want to buy them a chocolate heart or something. Maybe some bacon.

Shaped as a heart.

fogus• 14 years ago

    What I want to know is who's running 
    that account?

Technically, Hacker News.

Udo7• 14 years ago

It's actually not as bad as I expected it to be from the title.

However, the lack of links to sources as well as the obvious limitations of Twitter mean this idea could be executed much better.

Sirupsen2• 14 years ago

Really? You want a shithnsays.com? The beauty of this idea is providing smiles in your Twitter timeline once in a while. Not to execute a cool-lean-webscale-startup.

Udo7• 14 years ago

It doesn't need its own domain, but the Twitter format is so limited, I'm not very likely to visit this again even though it was quite entertaining. Maybe make it a blog instead? It doesn't need its own domain or anything.

> Not to execute a cool-lean-webscale-startup.

Now you're just attacking a straw man, aren't you? :)

jfoutz• 14 years ago

Or a good understanding of site: in google search.

purephase• 14 years ago

I love it. I searched for a few of these just to confirm that real comments were being used.

Was not disappointed.

TazeTSchnitzel• 14 years ago

Oh wow. These are real? I thought they were mostly jokes.

nodata• 14 years ago

Needs links really.

jlgreco• 14 years ago

I hope that this, err.. service I guess?... service doesn't go sour. It is pretty amusing but if it becomes popular and starts taking things out of context it could have a sort of chilling affect where HNers are forced to design their sentences to be immune to contextual changes, like politicians.

snorkel• 14 years ago

... and when assembly isn't fast enough then I drop down to binary.

NickPollard• 14 years ago

How long before this thread goes recursive?

dsirijus5• 14 years ago

23 minutes ago.

icebraining4• 14 years ago

Oh look, copyright infringement ;)

mootothemax• 14 years ago

Interesting that it appears to be being run by hand using Buffer (http://bufferapp.com/). From outward appearance at least, not a bot.

tathagatadg• 14 years ago

How to botify this? The easiest I can think of is to keep polling for the most downvoted comment ... any fancy information retrieval effort is bound to generate false positives.

And oh yes ... I see what you are thinking, HN Hall of Shame - handles with get most downvotes/week ranked in reverse sorted. Reverse gamification. It obviously needs to be like a leaderboad. And obviously has to have a REST api. Now you want "web-scale" -- Node.js+MongoDb+HTML5 charts ...

mibbitier• 14 years ago

I think the aim would be to poke fun at the bubble community rather than downvoted comments.

Some of the most upvoted comments on HN are the most ridiculous and absurd.

moconnor• 14 years ago

Most of those quotes don't come from downvoted comments...

manaskarekar• 14 years ago

I think it would be way cooler if they were quoted word for word (with a link to the original post).

unimpressive• 14 years ago

This. I wanted to source some of these to make sure they were legit and turned up empty. But I know some of them are real because I read the originals.

kenkam• 14 years ago

We now have to make sure all our sentences are longer than 140 chars to avoid being featured.

Unless you want to be featured of course.

crygin• 14 years ago

darkstalker• 14 years ago

We'll now have a nice list of HN readers on twitter

jacques_chester• 14 years ago

I've been out-jerked. :(

barik5• 14 years ago

This is fantastic. I followed it immediately. It reminds me of a condensed version of The Daily WTF [1] or perhaps http://bash.org/, but for Hacker News. More amusingly, it seems to have that strange meta property in which this thread itself is sure to generate a few more tweets, much in the same way that no one is quite sure if the real Daily WTF is the post itself or the comments that try to solve the problem in the post.

[1] http://thedailywtf.com/

peterwwillis• 14 years ago

Because there isn't enough retarded shit on twitter.

theycallmemorty• 14 years ago

Frostbeard• 14 years ago

I was expecting more misogyny. I may be spending too much time on reddit.

(Edit: To be clear, I'm referring to the group "Shit Reddit Says", who highlight and then downvote instances of misogyny and the like in reddit comments).

btilly3• 14 years ago

Like everyone else I would like them to add the post id so people can easily find the source of the quote.

I also think that a distinction should be made between comments that are ridiculous (like Node.js being close to the metal) versus surprising (what one quote claims is true - men actually are over-represented in the top 1% of the population by IQ - of course men also dominate the bottom 1%).

gilrain• 14 years ago

IQ does not equal intelligence, except possibly in the extreme subsets of mental abilities which actually feature on the test. It's not been treated seriously in the scientific community for almost ever. It's almost solely a cargo cult for people who excel at it and want to feel superior.

btilly3• 14 years ago

The scientific debate is much more complex than you give it credit for. Yes, there really are people who believe that IQ, or (to be more sophisticated) g, really has validity. I personally view it as convenient shorthand, but not real. However this is not a universal position. For a take on why it is probably not valid, see http://cscs.umich.edu/~crshalizi/weblog/523.html.

But whether or not you accept that IQ is meaningful, the following fact remains true. On a wide variety of abilities that we can measure, including most specific mental attributes (working memory, processing speed, etc), males have much higher variability than females. The average gender differences are small, but men are over-represented in both tails. That fact is true both when abilities are measured in isolation, or on a test that aggregates them, like a standard IQ test.

See http://www.edge.org/q2008/q08_10.html#cronin for an example of where this is discussed.

marknutter• 14 years ago

HN is starting to go meta like Reddit went and I'm not sure that's a good thing. How on earth is it productive or healthy to publicly ridicule HN commenters?

dsirijus5• 14 years ago

It's popping some HN bubbles. I find that extremely healthy, if not neccesarily productive.

novalis• 14 years ago

Let us just say it was ripe for disruption.

alecco3• 14 years ago

EDIT: now it's completely banned, not even on 2nd page.

Aaaand... downgraded from front page by mods.

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charliesome• 14 years ago

I was wondering what was with that. It could easily be #1...

alecco3• 14 years ago

These are the same kind of moderator games vs. community Digg played before collapsing into oblivion.

mparlane2• 14 years ago

I called this in the first comment, it then reached -4. Oh well.

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