Hacker News with Generative AI: Satire

It's Easy to Save Billions in Taxpayer Funds When Everything Is Made Up (techdirt.com)
Here’s a neat trick for saving taxpayers billions of dollars: just make stuff up!
Government Spending, Misinformation, Satire
21 points by hn_acker 2 days ago | 1 comments
Show HN: I built an AI satirical news site because news was depressing me (netlify.app)
Artificial Intelligence, Satire, News, Web Development
25 points by vuciv 15 days ago | 18 comments
Umlauts, Diaereses, and the New Yorker (2020) (arrantpedantry.com)
Several weeks ago, the satirical viral content site Clickhole posted this article: “Going Rogue: ‘The New Yorker’ Has Announced That They’re Going To Start Putting An Umlaut Over Every Letter ‘O’ And No One Can Stop Them”.
Language, Satire, Journalism
35 points by jplrssn 26 days ago | 39 comments
Buying Wikipedia (wikipedia.org)
Howdy! Are you a government sick and tired of being described as a state sponsor of terrorism? Or an autocratic regime that wishes a few pesky articles would just go away? How about a multinational corporation that could use some nifty advertising? Well, you've come to the right place! As of November 12, 2002, Wikipedia is officially FOR SALE!
Humor, Satire, Wikipedia
6 points by Fileformat 28 days ago | 1 comments
David Lodge, British novelist who satirized academic life, has died (nytimes.com)
David Lodge, the erudite author of academic comedy and a wide-ranging literary critic, died on Wednesday in Birmingham, England. He was 89.
Obituary, Literature, British Authors, Novels, Satire
94 points by lermontov 45 days ago | 19 comments
Elon's Money (sillyduck.xyz)
Spend Elon Musk's Money
Elon Musk, Satire, Finance, Humor
13 points by timermore 46 days ago | 2 comments
Washington Post cartoonist resigns after cartoon satirising Jeff Bezos rejected (abc.net.au)
A cartoonist at the Washington Post has resigned after the newspaper refused to publish a sketch featuring the publication's billionaire owner, Jeff Bezos, satirised bowing before Donald Trump.
Politics, Media, Satire, Censorship
31 points by adrian_mrd 47 days ago | 14 comments
The Peter Principle still resonates (cbc.ca)
Published in 1969, The Peter Principle skewered corporate culture decades before Dilbert and The Office became pop culture hits. While it was written as satire, researchers have looked into the treatise to see what can be done to prevent workers from rising to their level of incompetence.
Business, Culture, Management, Satire, Psychology
81 points by empressplay 50 days ago | 75 comments
Billionaires want you to know they could have done physics [video] (youtube.com)
Billionaires, Physics, Satire, Video
7 points by indigodaddy 58 days ago | 0 comments
Web3 Is Going Just Great (web3isgoinggreat.com)
Web3, Satire, Criticism
4 points by imichael 63 days ago | 0 comments
Bankruptcy judge rejects The Onion's bid for Infowars (npr.org)
The owners of The Onion say they are "deeply disappointed" in a judge's decision to reject their bid to buy Alex Jones' Infowars company.
Media, Law, Business, Satire
46 points by pseudolus 72 days ago | 3 comments
Bankruptcy judge rejects sale of Infowars to The Onion (nytimes.com)
A judge late Tuesday night said he would not approve the sale of Infowars, the website founded by the conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, to the Chicago-based satirical publication The Onion, prolonging a messy tug of war between two high-profile suitors.
Bankruptcy, Media, Satire, Law
584 points by jbegley 73 days ago | 935 comments
Elon Musk wants to block the transfer of InfoWars' X accounts to The Onion [pdf] (courtlistener.com)
Elon Musk, Twitter, Free Speech, Satire, Lawsuits
17 points by vinni2 86 days ago | 21 comments
Onion CEO: We won InfoWars auction, can't wait to relaunch, fun still to come (bsky.app)
News Media, Satire, Business, Auctions
9 points by MilnerRoute 96 days ago | 1 comments
Judge orders hearing to review Onion's purchase of Alex Jones's InfoWars (theguardian.com)
A judge has intervened and ordered a hearing to review the purchase of the conspiracy theorist Alex Jones’s InfoWars site by the satirical news site the Onion.
Law, Media, Satire, Conspiracy Theories
23 points by SamWhited 98 days ago | 7 comments
Satire Slinger The Onion Buys Alex Jones' Infowars with Sandy Hook Families (westerninvestor.com)
The satirical news publication The Onion won the bidding for Alex Jones' Infowars at a bankruptcy auction, backed by families of Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting victims whom Jones owes more than $1 billion in defamation judgments for calling the massacre a hoax, the families announced Thursday.
Satire, News, Lawsuits, Bankruptcy, Media
11 points by voisin 99 days ago | 0 comments
Not Satire: The Onion Acquires Infowars (status.news)
The Onion has successfully acquired Infowars.
Media, News, Satire, Acquisitions
20 points by RyeCombinator 99 days ago | 1 comments
The Onion wins Alex Jones' Infowars in bankruptcy auction (nbcnews.com)
The Onion, the satirical news company that repeatedly spoofed conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, has won the bankruptcy auction for control over his media empire — most notably InfoWars, the far-right, conspiracy-minded website that served as Jones' primary online platform.
Media, Bankruptcy, Satire, Conspiracy Theories
112 points by elsewhen 99 days ago | 2 comments
The Onion buys Infowars (nytimes.com)
The Onion, a satirical publication that skewers newsmakers and current events, said on Thursday that it had won a bankruptcy auction to acquire Infowars, a website founded and operated by the conspiracy theorist Alex Jones.
Satire, Media, Conspiracy Theories, Acquisitions, Bankruptcy
1901 points by coloneltcb 99 days ago | 1233 comments
Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy to Lead Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) (cnn.com)
Politics, Satire, Elon Musk, Vivek Ramaswamy
61 points by doppp 101 days ago | 50 comments
Environmentalists Exclusively Use the Microwave (worksinprogress.news)
My charts might be plastered across posters about the environment, but I’ll never be a poster girl for environmental action.
Environmentalism, Humor, Satire
10 points by bswud 130 days ago | 5 comments
Elon Musk Owes You $100 • Cards Against Humanity Saves America Day 7 (cahsuesmusk.com)
Elon Musk, Satire, Politics, Humor
22 points by janandonly 135 days ago | 1 comments
Cards Against Humanity Launches a Super Pac to Match Elon Musk's Super Pac (apologize.lol)
Politics, Super PACs, Elon Musk, Satire
86 points by bun_at_work 135 days ago | 89 comments
Show HN: Bullshit Remover (bullshitremover.com)
Paste crap, get truth.
Web Applications, Content Filtering, Humor, Satire
270 points by adrian-dzieg 160 days ago | 142 comments
How to Monetize a Blog (Satire) (modem.io)
Maintaining a blog can be a lot of work. A single article can take weeks of research, drafting and editing, collecting and producing included materials, etc. It’s not unusual to seek some form of compensation for it, and those rewards require initiative. With a good monetization strategy, it can become a fairly lucrative venture.
Blogging, Monetization, Satire, Business
62 points by FLpxpyJ 164 days ago | 12 comments
Disenshittify or Die (pluralistic.net)
Web Development, Humor, Satire
39 points by moonleay 188 days ago | 12 comments
The Beggar Barons – the rise of the trillionaire beggars (2022) (zedshaw.com)
Wealth Inequality, Social Commentary, Economy, Satire
12 points by pabs3 189 days ago | 4 comments
Why Does Ozempic Cure All Diseases? (astralcodexten.com)
Medicine, Health, Science, Satire
44 points by tosh 192 days ago | 5 comments
Why Does Ozempic Cure All Diseases? (astralcodexten.com)
Medicine, Health, Science, Satire
16 points by WithinReason 192 days ago | 7 comments
The Shameful Defenestration of Tim (chrismcdonough.substack.com)
Politics, Social Commentary, Satire
81 points by bluedino 195 days ago | 11 comments