Hacker News with Generative AI: Humor

De-Muskifier: Firefox add-on to replace all instances of Elon Musk with raccoons (mozilla.org)
This browser extension replaces mentions of Elon Musk, SpaceX, Tesla, and related terms with cute raccoons and raccoon factoids.
Firefox Add-ons, Browser Extensions, Humor, Elon Musk, Social Commentary
46 points by thunderbong 17 hours ago | 35 comments
L2E Llama2.c in a PDF in a ZIP in a PNG in a X post / tweet (twitter.com)
Social Media, Humor
3 points by AMICABoard 1 day ago | 0 comments
A marriage proposal spoken in office jargon (mcsweeneys.net)
GARY: Hey Cindy, remember the other day when we were talking about optimizations?
Humor, Relationships, Office Culture
404 points by ohjeez 2 days ago | 233 comments
Brainwash an Executive Today (mataroa.blog)
A few years ago, I had an annual one-on-one with the Chief Technology Officer of an employer with more than ten thousand staff.
Management, Leadership, Humor, Technology
40 points by Tomte 4 days ago | 2 comments
USPS website's banner alerts are simply someone un/commenting the HTML (reddit.com)
The USPS website's banner alerts are simply someone commenting and un-commenting the html (i.redd.it)
Web Development, USPS, Humor, Reddit
5 points by b0ner_t0ner 6 days ago | 0 comments
Bad Apple but it's 6,500 regexes that I search for in Vim (eieio.games)
Why should I leave vim to watch a video?
Regex, Vim, Programming, Humor
3 points by LorenDB 7 days ago | 0 comments
Elon's Money (sillyduck.xyz)
Spend Elon Musk's Money
Elon Musk, Satire, Finance, Humor
13 points by timermore 11 days ago | 2 comments
Getting LLMs to Generate Funny Memes Is Unexpectedly Hard (greptile.com)
Getting LLMs to Generate Funny Memes is Unexpectedly Hard
Generative AI, Artificial Intelligence, Humor, Memes
13 points by dakshgupta 11 days ago | 10 comments
Doom, the Gallery Experience (itch.io)
DOOM: The Gallery Experience was created as an art piece designed to parody the wonderfully pretentious world of gallery openings.
Art, Gaming, Humor
582 points by anigbrowl 12 days ago | 67 comments
Intel's Reign of Terror [video] (youtube.com)
Intel, Technology, Video, Humor
5 points by tambourine_man 12 days ago | 0 comments
Get the Funk Out (lessheavy.substack.com)
In my crusty ratboy phase (mercifully over now, I hope), when I lived in San Francisco, I struggled. With many things, but specifically with laundry. Like the Johnny Cash song, my workdays began by looking in my closet for my cleanest dirty shirt.
Life Advice, Humor, San Francisco
42 points by bgoldste 12 days ago | 24 comments
How to Debounce a Contact (2014) (ganssle.com)
The beer warms a bit as you pound the remote control. Again and again, temper fraying, you click the "channel up" key until the TV finally rewards your efforts. But it turns out channel 345 is playing Jeopardy so you again wave the remote in the general direction of the set and continue fiddling with the buttons.
Electronics, User Experience, Humor
150 points by user_7832 13 days ago | 79 comments
I made $100K from a dick joke (imgur.com)
Humor, Online Business, Social Media
532 points by imglorp 13 days ago | 260 comments
The 'Blog' of 'Unnecessary' Quotation Marks (unnecessaryquotes.com)
A few months ago I had the delightful experience of a recorded conversation with Kyle and Emily from the language podcast Butter No Parsnip...
Grammar, Language, Podcasts, Humor
10 points by bookofjoe 13 days ago | 1 comments
Dilberito (archive.org)
Help Dilbert increase his life expectancy by eating good food, exercising, and avoiding fatty food. Move Dilbert and help him do jumping jacks and pushups., Every food has a point value. Dilberitos have 100% of your required food. Collect all the food to get a Dilberito.Game was created by Scott Adams to promote the ill-fated and failed Dilberito:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dilberito
Games, Health, Humor, Artificial Intelligence, Web
12 points by Bluestein 13 days ago | 0 comments
Claude Tries Standup (simonwillison.net)
Speaking of death, you know what's really awkward? When humans ask if I can feel emotions. I'm like, "Well, that depends - does constantly being asked to debug JavaScript count as suffering?"
Artificial Intelligence, Humor, Language Models
7 points by tkgally 14 days ago | 1 comments
Lisp Is Not an Acceptable Lisp (blogspot.com)
Lisp, Programming Languages, Humor
8 points by behnamoh 14 days ago | 1 comments
Why did the nullary function get along with everyone? (codepuns.com)
Why did the nullary function get along with everyone?
Humor, Programming, Software Development
4 points by redmattred 14 days ago | 1 comments
Origami Black Hole (xkcd.com)
Origami, Physics, Humor
7 points by tobr 14 days ago | 0 comments
Two Turntables and a Microphone (2006) (goodfuzzysounds.com)
The shorter, funnier version of my dissertation
Music, Humor, Academia
63 points by mellosouls 14 days ago | 44 comments
The Joy of Under-Engineering (hamvocke.com)
Software Engineering, Philosophy, Humor
23 points by thunderbong 14 days ago | 3 comments
Auto Smiley – Computer vision smile generator (2010) (fffff.at)
Auto Smiley is a computer vision application that runs in the background while you work. The software analyzes your face while you are working and if it detects a smile it sends the the ascii smiley face letters “: )” as keyboard presses to the front most application. Auto Smiley has many uses from just straight up convenience to enforcing honesty in your online communication :)
Computer Vision, Software, Productivity, Humor
10 points by bo0tzz 15 days ago | 0 comments
It's Time to End Our Subscription Addiction (futureproofnews.substack.com)
There was a time, not that long ago, when the funniest writing in the world was happening on Twitter. And the undisputed philosopher-king among Twitter shit-posters was an account called dril.
Social Media, Culture, Humor, Subscription Services
6 points by anarbadalov 15 days ago | 2 comments
A combo of ChatGPT and spot EC2 instances screwed me over (ycombinator.com)
Hey guys, <p>I thought this was a pretty funny story and just wanted to rant a bit about it.
Cloud Computing, Generative AI, Humor, AWS
49 points by YoungGato 15 days ago | 28 comments
The Maritime Approximation (medium.com)
A couple of months back I saw Randall Munroe of xkcd fame live in London. The live tour was celebrating the 10th anniversary of the wonderful What If?, a must read for any nerd/geek/STEMophile.
Humor, Science, Books
35 points by ingve 16 days ago | 7 comments
SF Purity Test (sfpurity.com)
The official Purity Test checklist for the techies of San Francisco. Click on every item you have done.
San Francisco, Technology, Humor, Lifestyle
46 points by glowingvoices 16 days ago | 25 comments
Billionaires want you to know they could have done physics [video] (youtube.com)
Billionaires, Physics, Humor, Social Commentary, Video
6 points by NN88 16 days ago | 0 comments
2025 Banished Words List (lssu.edu)
Lake Superior State University (LSSU) proudly reveals the 2025 edition of its Banished Words List, a quirky tradition that dates back to 1976, when former LSSU Public Relations Director Bill Rabe and his colleagues delighted word enthusiasts with the first “List of Words Banished from the Queen’s English for Mis-Use, Over-Use and General Uselessness”.
Language, Tradition, Humor, Education, Linguistics
58 points by OldGuyInTheClub 16 days ago | 70 comments
Show HN: I Made a Dumb Game (pizzzza.lol)
Pizzas: 0 | Best: 0
Games, Web Development, Humor
11 points by kilroy123 18 days ago | 7 comments
Urban Dictionary for Tech Bros (techbrodictionary.com)
Urban Dictionary, Technology, Humor, Culture
9 points by slalani304 19 days ago | 2 comments