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Comment by isLoginBroken | Hacker News Reader

Guys, it's a joke: http://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=pg

Damn. Forgot that. Yes, sorry, it's an April Fools' joke. Thanks, Alex, for helping out. The recent outage (now fixed, let's hope) is unconnected, btw.

What a pity. I had been assuming for a while that nickb was a code for 'nickname b' (where pg was 'nickname a').

pg!!! you admitted it too early!

Nice joke though :)

Personally I think it would have been funnier if it was rms or someone else slightly more controversial :) Before I realised it was a joke I just couldn't understand where you found the time submit so many articles.

Um, how does that thread show that it's a joke? What am I missing?

In other news: login does appear to be very broken.

The nickb comment in question shows up under pg's posts.

What makes it a joke, exactly? nickb shows up under pg's posts. OK. So he has a sock puppet. That's an April Fool's joke?

he faked it, to trick us. that's the joke. nickb isn't really a sock puppet.

... or so the Germans would have us believe.

Applying Occam's Razor, the simpler explanation is that PG actually does use nickb as a sock puppet, made a mistake, and then attempted to cover it up using April Fool's Day as a convenient excuse.

The chance that the mistake would happen today in particular is what makes it not the simplest explanation. That also wouldn't explain why the comment would appear on pg's comments thread.

Clearly the simplest explanation is that nickb is PG, but an earlier version of himself that had traveled back in time to kill his own grandfather.

Dude, I was just joking. :-)

Damn. Forgot that. Yes, sorry, it's not an April Fools' joke. I am actually nickb.

Or maybe this 'pg' character is an elaborate front for nickb.

The pipe organ fugue should be right about here.

That's just the sort of joke you would make if you really were nickb!

You can not fool me. This is what really is happening: pg IS nickb's SOCKPUPPET! Even in IRL! I figured it out! OMG! Wake up shee...

Ok, enough, I'm loling too hard.

it must be a joke. i looked back at nickb's posts and he mentioned depending on textmate?! no way a vi user would betray the brotherhood, even in puppet form.

Occam's razor? You mean "entities should not be multiplied beyond necessity"? So <i>every</i> account here is pg?

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