Hacker News with Generative AI: Satire

Company Reminder for Everyone to Talk Nicely About the Giant Plagiarism Machine (mcsweeneys.net)
Hey team. It’s your CEO. I know your time is valuable, so I’ll cut right to the chase: It’s come to my attention that some of you have been bad-mouthing the Giant Plagiarism Machine™.
Artificial Intelligence, Satire, Company Culture
82 points by zdw 4 days ago | 39 comments
Tesla Regret Syndrome (seattletimes.com)
Anti-Elon Musk activists from Seattle’s Troublemakers group this week are airing a satirical pharmaceutical advertisement video on the “Tesla Regret Syndrome.”
Tesla, Elon Musk, Satire, Activism, Seattle
29 points by dxs 4 days ago | 51 comments
Weddingeddon (weddingeddon.com)
Wedding Planning, Humor, Satire
14 points by jseip 5 days ago | 4 comments
Slopaganda (dbushell.com)
The internet is ruined. Ruined I tell you!
Internet Culture, Satire, Opinion
9 points by ambigious7777 7 days ago | 0 comments
Have you ever seen an emolument fly? (reason.com)
Politics, Humor, Satire
44 points by treetalker 11 days ago | 12 comments
The Impossible Contradictions of Mark Twain (newyorker.com)
Populist and patrician, hustler and moralist, salesman and satirist, he embodied the tensions within his America, and ours.
Literature, History, America, Culture, Satire
51 points by mitchbob 21 days ago | 26 comments
DOGE Just Ended Nuclear in America [video] (youtube.com)
Cryptocurrency, Satire, Video
10 points by JumpCrisscross 29 days ago | 1 comments
The World Is Ending. Welcome to the Spooner Revolution (aethn.com)
The world is ending.
Artificial Intelligence, Social Commentary, Satire
19 points by ethn 32 days ago | 34 comments
AI slop farms churning out fake heartwarming videos about political figures (motherjones.com)
The judge demanded that White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt remove her cross necklace, but soon he was humiliated. A man tried to yell at Vice President JD Vance in a cafe, but soon, he too was brought low. Barron Trump triumphed in a debate over a “liberal student” who bore a striking resemblance to the actress Emma Watson.
Artificial Intelligence, Politics, Media, Satire
9 points by anigbrowl 42 days ago | 0 comments
Critical Vulnerability: US Constitution v1.0 (upbeatmoon.com)
Security, Politics, Law, Satire
20 points by sabakhoj 45 days ago | 3 comments
Terms of Centaur Service (venkateshrao.com)
Now I am become Jevons Paradox, Destroyer of Inboxes.
Technology, Economics, Satire
10 points by surprisetalk 46 days ago | 4 comments
Fuck Run Club, Join Sit Club (rawandferal.substack.com)
Nobody actually likes running. This is just a lie that Big Run (Nike) tells us, to sell us products we don’t need, for problems we don’t have.
Running, Lifestyle, Satire, Consumerism
76 points by striking 46 days ago | 56 comments
Take this on-call rotation and shove it (scottsmitelli.com)
The familiar blue and gold intro graphic fills the screen every evening at six o’clock on the dot. The jabbing staccato string music conjures up vague secondhand memories of what a teletype machine might have sounded like. A high angle view of the studio floor with the large Lexan-clad desk in the middle, then a cross dissolve to a two shot of the presenters for this newscast.
News, Television, Satire
191 points by mirawelner 57 days ago | 148 comments
Lest We Forget the Horrors (mcsweeneys.net)
Early in President Trump’s first term, McSweeney’s editors began to catalog the head-spinning number of misdeeds coming from his administration. We called this list a collection of Trump’s cruelties, collusions, corruptions, and crimes, and it felt urgent to track them, to ensure these horrors—happening almost daily—would not be forgotten. Now that Trump has returned to office, amid civil rights, humanitarian, economic, and constitutional crises, we felt it critical to make an inventory of this new round of horrors.
Politics, Satire, Current Events
19 points by archagon 58 days ago | 2 comments
Elon Musk's Doge Moves to Gut Local Libraries While No One Is Looking (newrepublic.com)
Department of Government Efficiency operatives have found their new target: your local library.
Politics, Technology, Libraries, Satire
61 points by shscs911 62 days ago | 10 comments
'It's a Heist': Real Federal Auditors Are Horrified by Doge (wired.com)
Elon Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has spent the first six weeks of the new Trump administration turning the federal government upside down.
Politics, Government, Cryptocurrency, Satire
133 points by mdhb 66 days ago | 88 comments
Ogres Are Cool (lrb.co.uk)
The hyper-courtly​ Sir Thomas Wyatt wrote a verse satire in the mid-1530s that begins: ‘My mother’s maids, when they did sew and spin,/They sang sometime a song of the field mouse.’
Poetry, Literature, Satire
94 points by Vigier 70 days ago | 37 comments
Common Lisp in 2055 (Satire) (medium.com)
The year is 2055. AI automation has made 99.7% of all jobs obsolete — a human barista is now a rare novelty.
Programming Languages, Satire, Artificial Intelligence, Future
5 points by httbs 78 days ago | 0 comments
'Trump Gaza' AI video intended as political satire, says creator (theguardian.com)
The creator of the viral “Trump Gaza” AI-generated video depicting the Gaza Strip as a Dubai-style paradise has said it was intended as a political satire of Trump’s “megalomaniac idea”.
Artificial Intelligence, Politics, Satire, Social Media
47 points by beardyw 78 days ago | 75 comments
Elon Musk Executed His Takeover of the Federal Bureaucracy (nytimes.com)
What started as musings at a dinner party evolved into a radical takeover of the federal bureaucracy.
Politics, Government, Satire, Elon Musk
22 points by breadwinner 84 days ago | 5 comments
Buy Infowars for the Memes (bloomberg.com)
Here’s a thing I have never seen before:
Memes, Media, Satire
35 points by feross 85 days ago | 62 comments
DOGE's Chaos Reaches Antarctica (wired.com)
Few agencies have been spared as Elon Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has ripped through the United States federal government. Even in Antarctica, scientists and workers are feeling the impacts—and are terrified for what’s to come.
Satire, Politics, Elon Musk, Cryptocurrency
12 points by impish9208 85 days ago | 0 comments
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
22 points by hn_acker 93 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 106 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 117 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 119 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 136 days ago | 19 comments
Elon's Money (sillyduck.xyz)
Spend Elon Musk's Money
Elon Musk, Satire, Finance, Humor
13 points by timermore 137 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 138 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 141 days ago | 75 comments