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Comment by ricardobeat | Hacker News Reader

This is perfect. I opened it on a new tab, and went off to read another article. After coming back and opening multiple links I found myself thinking "where are all this posts with gramatical errors coming from" for a solid one minute - until I noticed "pg" where my username should be!

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I, too, did this. >.<

"Wait, how did Hacker News get opened twice?"

...

"Eh, I'll just close this one." (You can guess which one I closed. :P)

[One pile of middle-clicking later]

"Wait, ycombinator is defaulting to opening comments now?!"

I noticed the "ycombniator" shortly after that.

I wish those links were real :(

- http://news.ycombniator.com/comments/comments_198.html: "Git 2.0 changes push default to using only CSS3 - No more remote work work: An adventure in civic hacking (scienceblogs.com)"

- http://news.ycombniator.com/comments/comments_210.html: "Show HN: Farmly – find anyone for anything you want and keep the Olympic germs away. (nowthenapp.com)"

- http://news.ycombniator.com/comments/comments_208.html: "Twitter will pay for anything [Product] (skullsinthestars.com)"

- http://news.ycombniator.com/comments/comments_184.html: "Ask HN: Angry/hardcore rock music to code the summer away, stuck for ideas to practice/exercice a new UI designer/programmer (NYC)"

- http://news.ycombniator.com/comments/comments_190.html: "Is GTK+ the real reason people are startups using? (blog.cto.hiv)"

My responses ranged from "they're doing what to Linux now?" to "that one sounds cool..." to "that's true..." to "...of course I'm clicking that" to to "hm... well they must be going for an Indian motif".

And somewhere in there I was like "wow, /r/titlegore meets HN."

I'm very dense though. This was really well-made! :D

I still wish that 4th link was real. Like, I have a different taste in music, but I'd so reply to that. lol

I did virtually the exact same thing - except my first reaction on seeing the fake HN was: "Why the heck am I logged in as pg? Security hole? This ought to be fun, let's see what kind of things he can do in here..."

Took me a while to figure out that this was actually a fake :-(

I had the same experience. LOL'd when I realized I'd clicked on 5-6 links that looked interesting that were actually auto-generated.

Imagine how it will feel at midnight after spending 15 min replying to ... whatever this is.

Hopefully you are real. :)

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