What 4chan thinks of HN

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."

> 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.

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)

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)

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

4chan: smart people pretending to be dumb.

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

Actually interesting topic (3 comments, 4 points)

Hilarious..

"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.

It's amazing how accurate it is.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

Trying so hard not to lol at work...

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

<completely irrelevant rant that will get upvoted to the top>

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

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

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

:O

<passive aggressive argument>

Have you heard about our Lord and Saviour JavaScript?

> 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!

> 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.

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

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).

Omg Lol :

Why flat design just doesn't stack up

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

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.

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

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)

So accurate. Such parody. Wow.

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

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

I chortled at very many of these. So good.

It is funny because it is true.

this just made my day.

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)

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.

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

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

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?

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.