Parody Hacker News (2013)
This article describes a 2013 parody website designed to mimic the layout and community behavior of Hacker News. It serves as a meta-commentary on the typical discourse and pedantic arguments found on tech forums.
Why it matters
It highlights the cultural history of early 2010s tech community forums and the self-aware humor prevalent among developers.
This page is intended to be a humorous parody of Hacker News . It is not in any way affiliated with Hacker News. The page's theme and layout are based on the original site. The usernames (with two exceptions) are intended to be fictitious.
I wrote a blog post about this page listing some of the effort put into it. Here's the submission to Hacker News .
[1]: http://SomeScientificJournal.com/141421
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