No need to be puzzled- occasionally a funny submission will live for a bit on the front page but in general the spectrum of acceptable humor around here is very narrow.
It's sort of a case of barking up the wrong tree on that front. Personally I've been enjoying laughing at the slickdeals forums such as https://slickdeals.net/f/19069660-16-5-ft-pancellent-snake-i.... Obviously it can't compete with higher brow humor, but at least the people are nice there.
IYKYK, hilarious.
Could be worth starting at the beginning: https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/every-bay-area-house-party
I searched every part on hacker news and the most comments a submissions had was only 2. Two!
I am puzzled why the parodies of bay area tech-culture fall flat here.
No need to be puzzled- occasionally a funny submission will live for a bit on the front page but in general the spectrum of acceptable humor around here is very narrow.
It's sort of a case of barking up the wrong tree on that front. Personally I've been enjoying laughing at the slickdeals forums such as https://slickdeals.net/f/19069660-16-5-ft-pancellent-snake-i.... Obviously it can't compete with higher brow humor, but at least the people are nice there.
I enjoyed summarizing this hilarious blog post with my Claude Code and I thank Scott for having his Claude Code write it!