Hacker Read

tonyedgecombe · 2021-08-12 07:56:13

Humour is wasted on Hacker News.

njdullea | karma 32 | avg karma 1.78 · | 2021-02-23 21:10:16+00:00

It's official: hacker news has no sense of humor

galenward | karma 162 | avg karma 3.68 · | 2012-10-31 22:31:54+00:00

I view this as proof no one on Hacker News has a sense of humor.

farresito | karma 1147 | avg karma 2.53 · | 2015-01-29 08:52:14+00:00

Getting downvoted. The lack of humor in Hacker News is astonishing.

lj3 | karma 1746 | avg karma 1.89 · | 2016-11-05 18:31:01

And here I thought my jokes were wasted on hacker news. :)

HenryKissinger | karma 117 | avg karma 0.16 · | 2020-05-03 23:39:08+00:00

Hacker News can't take a joke, can it?

beaumartinez | karma 1838 | avg karma 3.53 · | 2011-01-23 16:31:21

(nbpoole, I think Reddit-like humour is wasted here on HackerNews.)

DOMhead | karma 20 | avg karma 5.0 · | 2010-09-20 05:06:21+00:00

Enjoy Hacker News, thought i could contribute a little humor, i not good for much else.

krapp | karma 17552 | avg karma 1.17 · | 2021-07-07 19:31:05

Yeah, Hacker News is starting to become as allergic to nuance as it is to humor.

seanw444 | karma 2596 | avg karma 1.85 · | 2023-01-13 18:31:14

I got downvoted. Humor is bad on Hacker News.

super_mario | karma 544 | avg karma 1.38 · | 2019-04-09 17:17:31+00:00

I guess Hacker News community doesn't like jokes.

system2 | karma 1517 | avg karma 1.12 · | 2021-08-31 21:20:47

I believe HackerNews lost its humor these days.

xj9 | karma 1748 | avg karma 3.01 · | 2013-07-10 10:13:27+00:00

Wit, sarcasm, and hacker news don't mix well. :(

iamwil | karma 14162 | avg karma 5.22 · | 2007-11-15 13:23:24

funny, yes. relevant to hacker news? no. save it for your friends elsewhere please.

vegancap | karma 658 | avg karma 2.12 · | 2014-09-16 10:58:14

Hacker News doesn't like mild-hearted jokes, apparently. Lesson learnt.

ExpiredLink | karma 1372 | avg karma 1.15 · | 2012-05-08 14:30:28+00:00

Hacker News readers are very serious people. No humor allowed.

yellowapple | karma 10766 | avg karma 1.37 · | 2019-08-23 17:52:45+00:00

Unfortunately, it seems either my own joke was insufficiently witty or Hacker News is even more humorless than depicted by the memes of it.

Oh well.

argonaut | karma 6570 | avg karma 2.73 · | 2016-02-06 01:01:53+00:00

Agreed. Hacker News is not Reddit. A joke is fine, but rather predictably, it has turned into a subtree with just jokes/puns.

peakaboo | karma 773 | avg karma 1.23 · | 2022-02-05 01:38:30

I'm actually more surprised to see the hacker news crowd actually has a sense of humor. Where has that been hiding for all these years?

angrow | karma 300 | avg karma 3.7 · | 2013-09-18 16:09:15

Posting on Hacker News Can Turn You Humorless