Ask HN: Haiku?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=780569

by PebblesRox • 17 years ago

40 56 17 years ago

news.ycombinator.com

   Reply in haiku.
   See one you like?  Upvote it!
   Gather points to win!

PebblesRox2• 17 years ago

   Hacker News geyser:
   Insight and inspiration
   Bubble from the depths.

movix2• 17 years ago

What has this

got to do with hacking?

I can't see any point in it.

windsurfer4• 17 years ago

  Hackers push boundaries.
  Haikus limit sentances,
  so you have to cram!

byrneseyeview• 17 years ago

    Arbitrarily
    Pushing boundaries is not what
    Hackers do, at all.

    Random mutation
    Is not usually an
    Improvement. It fails.

thunk4• 17 years ago

  The point can't be taught.
  QWAN will always elude you.
  You code but don't hack.

viggity• 17 years ago

Haikus are easy

but sometimes they don’t make sense

Refrigerator

joeyo• 17 years ago

  I am reluctant
  to upvote any haikus that
  employ plagiarism.

uninverted3• 17 years ago

  I am reluctant
  to upvote any haikus that
  employ plagiarism.

vito• 17 years ago

I thought this was a

post for the Haiku OS

but am now saddened.

windsurfer4• 17 years ago

  Oh Haiku OS!
  Thou art minimal and grand!
  Unlike this poem.

dca3• 17 years ago

  In Haiku OS,
  Do the docs look like these posts?
  Or are they normal?

windsurfer4• 17 years ago

  They are like normal,
  but with a slight twist: they have
  more metadata!

J_McQuade• 17 years ago

  A confusing thing:
  
  Many seem to say "Oh Ess"
  
  Whereas I say "Oss"

jrockway3• 17 years ago

    Those that say "Oh Ess"
    are using something I call
    correct English (hah)

uninverted3• 17 years ago

  BeOS was an
  Operating System, 'twas
  never meant to Be.

pbhj• 17 years ago

Pointless post What's my response Flag it!

[I think I got it right, never done Haiku before]

jrockway3• 17 years ago

  What you have written
  is not Haiku, but rather
  is inane drivel.

windsurfer4• 17 years ago

  There was an old man
  From Peru, whose lim'ricks all
  Look'd like haiku. He
  
  Said with a laugh, "I
  Cut them in half, the pay is
  Much better for two."

Found on the net. No idea who's it is!

freakwit• 17 years ago

limerickdb - http://www.limerickdb.com/?top150

not the original source

but "oh well", i say

thunk4• 17 years ago

  nascent RSI
  100 emacs buffers
  yet love at first hack

paulbaumgart• 17 years ago

  Dr. John Sarno says
  it's a tension-induced ill
  must say: true for me

jimm• 17 years ago

Emacs not the cause

Twenty-five years I've used it

Fingers good as new

thunk4• 17 years ago

Eh, I'm going to break with the theme here and just respond, because the last thing I want to do is give the wrong impression about emacs:

I'm not getting RSI. My fingers feel great. It just sort of fit in the haiku. Swap caps and ctl. Use emacs. M-x can-i-get-a-hell-yeah

kyro• 17 years ago

This is Hacker News.

Not a place for your haikus.

GTFO NAO.

thunk4• 17 years ago

  This is Hacker News.
  A place for haikus, but not
  lame internet memes.

gwern• 17 years ago

     Haikus need _kigo_ -
     OP is not a haiku.
     But neither is this.

Director's special edition alternate ending:

     This is; summer rain!

movix2• 17 years ago

Australians, Google kigo,

Never mind the Ashes,

A season

dca3• 17 years ago

  This is bullshit man.
  I refuse to write haikus.
  And you can't make me.

GrandMasterBirt• 17 years ago

Son-of-a-gun the

haiku returned to my life

I despise it still

I refuse to post

more haikus to this here thread

I feel so dirty.

div• 17 years ago

Wikipedia!

Just to find what it takes

writing a haiku

jrockway3• 17 years ago

    A new tradition
    To replace "Erlang day", we
    could do this instead

Robin_Message• 17 years ago

In the trees

Sour grapes glow —

fireflies

tigerthink• 17 years ago

    That's not a haiku
    But I still rather like it
    Are others checking?

PebblesRox2• 17 years ago

  It is still haiku
  5, 7, 5: Maximums
  Shorter is okay

chriskelley2• 17 years ago

    Tick tock tick tock hands,
    you behave like molasses,
    be more like Usain

mark_h• 17 years ago

One of my favourites:

    "Cherry blossoms fall"
    Is a sneaky haiku trick
    Cherry blossoms fall.

from jwz: http://bethesignal.org/misc/jwz-haiku.html

algorias• 17 years ago

Do they make sound

if no-one hears the

cherry blossoms fall.

uninverted3• 17 years ago

  Four then Five then Five
  A proper haiku makes not
  Try Five Seven Five

chriskelley2• 17 years ago

    Hacker finds success,
    contentment not guaranteed.
    Feature, not a bug.

boredguy8• 17 years ago

  Twice five syllables
  plus seven can't say much but
  that's haiku for you

  (-Hofstadter)

_b8r0• 17 years ago

For ramen profit You don't need VC funding Unless it's YC

anigbrowl• 17 years ago

Sunday afternoon; often more interesting, if less rigorous

awt• 17 years ago

the sun of dawn shows

orange in the eastern sky

like news dot yc

tlrobinson• 17 years ago

I am not quite sure

How to write proper haikus.

Is this one valid?

harkain• 17 years ago

I 'm flabbergasted!

I come here for Hacker News,

and find poetry.

---

these are however

very amusing to read.

Gentlemen, proceed.

anatoly• 17 years ago

  Before my mouseclick,
  This post had forty-two comments.
  ...I'm sorry.

shughes• 17 years ago

  Haiku in Java:
  System.out.println(
  "My little pony...");

noonespecial• 17 years ago

  10 PRINT "Hello World!"
  20 PRINT "Its a Haiku!"
  30 GOTO 10

sev• 17 years ago

I have understood

A use case of hacker news:

Learning poetry.

diiq2• 17 years ago

A thousand words dully glow

in unsmiling cages ---

the summer still yearns

for haiku's pale fire

tommusic• 17 years ago

  come be a poet
  with people around the world
  one line at a time

http://haikoo.org

qbit• 17 years ago

Haikus on HN?

What has the world come to now?

Still, I can't resist.

abijlani• 17 years ago

Code is poetry

UI a story

Hack... a haiku

BearOfNH• 17 years ago

Hacker News haiku:

Should one write about nature

or technology?

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