Hacker News with Generative AI: Satire

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 10 days ago | 19 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

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 13 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 16 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 24 days ago | 0 comments

Web3 Is Going Just Great (web3isgoinggreat.com)

Web3, Satire, Criticism

4 points by imichael 28 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 38 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 38 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 52 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 61 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 64 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 65 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 65 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 65 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 65 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 66 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 96 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 100 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 100 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 125 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 129 days ago | 12 comments

Disenshittify or Die (pluralistic.net)

Web Development, Humor, Satire

39 points by moonleay 153 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 154 days ago | 4 comments

Why Does Ozempic Cure All Diseases? (astralcodexten.com)

Medicine, Health, Science, Satire

44 points by tosh 157 days ago | 5 comments

Why Does Ozempic Cure All Diseases? (astralcodexten.com)