Hacker News Parody Thread (2013) — Investigating why Steam started picking a random font — and I quit my programmer job to become a chicken

Issue #957 — November 21, 2022

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Hacker News Parody Thread (2013) bradconte.com \| points: 954 \| comments: 296

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Investigating why Steam started picking a random font blog.pkh.me \| points: 745 \| comments: 143

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I quit my programmer job to become a chicken sebastiancarlos.medium.com \| points: 482 \| comments: 117

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Ask HN: What is the thing you’ve built that you regret the most? news.ycombinator.com \| points: 469 \| comments: 474

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Putting Z-Library on IPFS annas-blog.org \| points: 340 \| comments: 123

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The erasure of women from online pregnancy literature quillette.com \| points: 324 \| comments: 642

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Show HN: Haxophone github.com \| points: 322 \| comments: 41

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Planes are still decades away from displacing most bird jobs guzey.com \| points: 321 \| comments: 127

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Greg Bear has died file770.com \| points: 287 \| comments: 65

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Just a bunch of idiots having fun: a photo history of the LAN party arstechnica.com \| points: 254 \| comments: 144

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TIC-80 tiny computer tic80.com \| points: 253 \| comments: 25

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Mildly interesting quirks of C gist.github.com \| points: 206 \| comments: 50

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The 539kernel Book: A journey in creating an operating system kernel 539kernel.com \| points: 202 \| comments: 7

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Tea: A new package manager from the creator of brew github.com \| points: 194 \| comments: 99

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Ask HN: Again: The “I want to do everything but end up doing nothing” dilemma news.ycombinator.com \| points: 193 \| comments: 104

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Tiniest x86-64-Linux emulator github.com \| points: 187 \| comments: 20

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UK food price inflation hit 16.2% in October – cost of food basics surging bbc.co.uk \| points: 182 \| comments: 311

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While crypto bro scammed clients, reporters scammed readers fair.org \| points: 171 \| comments: 83

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10 KB Club: Curated list of websites whose home pages do not exceed 10 KB size 10kbclub.com \| points: 159 \| comments: 65

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Power struggles among nice people edbatista.com \| points: 155 \| comments: 47

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