What 4chan thinks of HN

https://rbt.asia/g/thread/41920845

by Floens • 12 years ago

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justizin• 12 years ago

this just made my day.

adamsrog• 12 years ago

dark_ph0enix• 12 years ago

Domenic_S• 12 years ago

Edit: you jokers need to learn your internet history. http://bash.org/?23396

scarygliders• 12 years ago

izzydata• 12 years ago

stefantalpalaru• 12 years ago

smoyer• 12 years ago

opendais• 12 years ago

LOL. :) That is adorable.

Although, tbh, catching the right trend floats alot of startups is why that kind of content matters...

I mean that is really how GitHub 'won' the whole git hosting thing, wasn't it?

ColinCochrane• 12 years ago

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)

Orangeair• 12 years ago

Have you heard about our Lord and Saviour JavaScript?

kachnuv_ocasek• 12 years ago

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

ihuman2• 12 years ago

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

nostrademons• 12 years ago

4chan: smart people pretending to be dumb.

Alupis• 12 years ago

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

4channer2• 12 years ago

I disagree, I know some pretty smart people on there. Sure there are some idiots floating around on /b/ but /g/ and /sci/ are generally intelligent.

nemo1618• 12 years ago

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

(no, Descartes did not say this)

bitJericho• 12 years ago

Here's a well reasoned statement that will be downvoted because it's unpopular.

disbelief• 12 years ago

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)

cliveowen• 12 years ago

It's amazing how accurate it is.

krazydad• 12 years ago

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

stcredzero• 12 years ago

On Javascript:

No, it's awful. But it's the only client side scripting language out there, and Web guys love to pretend they're just as skilled as systems guys. They take concepts that systems programmers discovered 30 years ago, put a fancy name on it and do it worse.

Funny, but that's exactly what people were saying about Java programmers in the 90's. Now, the Java ecosystem is full of useful libraries and well optimized systems. It's become the default language for implementing big business systems. I wonder if Javascript won't simply follow the same course?

EDIT: I seem to have struck a nerve. Please read this at face value and not as some kind of snark. What I say is factually true. There are plenty of horrible things written in Java, but eventually, that becomes true of any language, and there are tons of great things written in it. It's no accident that HFT is written in Java nowadays. Also no accident that Clojure and Scala are written on top of it.

paxcoder• 12 years ago

I hope you are joking.

iopq• 12 years ago

Doesn't make Java any less of a bad language.

joshbaptiste• 12 years ago

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

Actually interesting topic (3 comments, 4 points)

Hilarious..

Shish2k• 12 years ago

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 )

deadfall• 12 years ago

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

gajomi• 12 years ago

This is a fixed point combinator joke waiting to happen.

SeanDav• 12 years ago

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

MrBuddyCasino• 12 years ago

Only if we pretend that the HN and 4chan audiences are disjoint. I'm afraid whats happening here is more inbreeding than many are comfortable to admit.

VeejayRampay2• 12 years ago

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

eshyong• 12 years ago

That's because it was an actual submission :P

VeejayRampay2• 12 years ago

Yeah I know. Only goes to prove that this particular satire has way more truth to it than appears at first glance.

paulannesley• 12 years ago

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

ihuman2• 12 years ago

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

nej• 12 years ago

This one was hilarious.

emmanueloga_• 12 years ago

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

wkdown2• 12 years ago

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

dsjoerg• 12 years ago

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

cheetahtech• 12 years ago

I would add two more things.

Im highly moderated to the point of killing users voices.

Politically selfish when it comes to talking about YCombinator. (Politics is alright, as long as YCombinator is doing it)

4channer2• 12 years ago

tfw I came here from that post on /g/ to comment about the thread I came from. Meta af

birdsoffish• 12 years ago

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

awjr2• 12 years ago

How to touch yourself at night without JavaScript knowing it.

ChrisNorstrom• 12 years ago

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• 12 years ago

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

anon42• 12 years ago

Don't forget:

What 4chan thinks of what HN thinks of what 4chan thinks of HN: https://boards.4chan.org/g/thread/41920845#p41922057 (thread currently in progress)

justuseapen• 12 years ago

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

Trying so hard not to lol at work...

fimoreth• 12 years ago

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

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

vezzy-fnord• 12 years ago

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

icpmacdo• 12 years ago

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

snake_plissken• 12 years ago

I chortled at very many of these. So good.

pearjuice• 12 years ago

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• 12 years ago

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.

peterkelly• 12 years ago

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.

UnethicalHacks• 12 years ago

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.

angersock• 12 years ago

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!

pbhjpbhj• 12 years ago

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

cjf4• 12 years ago

Was this close to biting... well done.

estrabd• 12 years ago

It is funny because it is true.

cgh• 12 years ago

"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.

0xbadcafebee• 12 years ago

How I built an automatic Raspberry Pi garage door on top of JavaScript

I thought this was hilarious. Until I realized it's a real thing. http://itsbrent.net/2013/03/hacking-my-garage-with-a-raspber...

I'm done with the internet.

api• 12 years ago

So accurate. Such parody. Wow.

LazerBear• 12 years ago

This is hilarious and spot on. Still love HN though.

COil• 12 years ago

How I ported the control software of a nuclear reactor to reactive Javascript
How To Make Your Flat UI Flatter
I decided to re-implement Javascript in Javascript. It failed. Here is my story.

Made me laugh!

TorKlingberg• 12 years ago

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

howdoipython• 12 years ago

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.

nateabele• 12 years ago

Heh. Mostly, can't argue, barring two things:

How I got my girlfriend pregnant using JavaScript

I'm pretty sure this is directly opposed to reality.

How 2048 will make you a better programmer

Incidentally, this actually has been experience (to be clear, I mean playing it, not coding it).

tripzilch• 12 years ago

> How I got my girlfriend pregnant using JavaScript
I'm pretty sure this is directly opposed to reality.

"Mistakes were made." - Douglas Crockford

taternuts• 12 years ago

"fuck this shit we have this every month and some retard posts it on HN farming 300 points"

dang• 12 years ago

More or less a dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6747373.

rafaelvasco• 12 years ago

Omg Lol :

Why flat design just doesn't stack up

pikachu_is_cool• 12 years ago

This post and the comments here completely violate the HN guidelines. This shouldn't have been upvoted, let alone be the top post. Thank you mods, for deleting this.

falcolas• 12 years ago

190 points, 74 comments, flagged by a minority of users into oblivion.

DrinkWater• 12 years ago

It is pretty accurate, however HN is still the best source for all the topics i am interested in.

Just skip the crap posts, and you're good.

What 4chan thinks of HN

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