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There is some inspired content in that link. My personal fave:

We're disrupting the 1gorillion dollar [insert industry] sign up for our beta to check it out[0].

[0]We just need your name, address, credit card, and birth date. To verify your a human.[1]

[1] and we store all of this in clear text files on our server.[2]

[2] which was written using [insert new hipster language] by some guy who's been programming for 3 weeks.[3]

[3] but we promise not use your data to mine the shit out of you and sell it to advertisers.[4]

[4] jk



Oh shit, 5 footnotes in a single comment? We've got another David Foster Wallace here.


It's probably making fun of Paul Graham's essays, which have footnotes in that style (though not usually nested)[0].

[0] Like this.


Or every other HN comment?


Citation needed.


my post history is guilty of this crime quite often. will that count?


Some are kinda on point:

  [1000 points] Some hot-button political issue that we know nothing about

  [-1 points] An O(n) time algorithm for multiplying matrices
And that's why I have been phasing my tech news away from HN.

It's really enjoyable watching the 4chan folks take the piss out of here--though a lot of the posts are, I suspect, newfags (in the vernacular) posting purposefully bigoted things in language that isn't typical to /g/.


> And that's why I have been phasing my tech news away from HN.

To where?


Lobste.rs is a good place, sometimes 4chan (though it's mostly garbage, at least it's honest and obviously garbage), sometimes the relevant project issue trackers and website myself, sometimes twitter.




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