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Comment by troughway | Hacker News Reader

I think those "We are HN" 4chan posts were cream of the crop.

Example: https://rbt.asia/g/thread/41920845 / https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7745561

> I started 6 companies and they failed, here's what I learned. Obviously you should take my advice because they were "learning experiences" and it has nothing to do with the fact that I'm a retard

I'd forgotten about the whole polyphastic sleep fad. Everything else there has stuck around in some form, but polyphastic sleep totally vanished.

Oh, that one's just on a longer cycle. It's not just a HN thing; the entire Internet collectively rediscovers polyphasic sleep every five or ten years.

There was a Seinfeld episode where Kramer tries it, so... very roughly pre-internet

i wonder if this thread inspired today's post

https://rbt.asia/g/thread/75860673/

Oof. Satire's not what it used to be.

The first 5 or 10 posts are 0/10 but eventually they get better

imageboard culture's progression summed up in two links. good god.

I love how many mentions to JS there are in that post from 2014.

I wonder which languages / frameworks folks would pick on if we were do to a new rendition

Rust :)

> Anonymous Wed 14 May 2014 19:58:13 No.41921096

> how Rust and Hack are changing the face of programming

It's in there.

Still JS I guess.

There's something almost a bit unique about the combination of how problematic and how popular JS is.

Last time we had this combination (extremely popular, inferior design) was on the peak of PHPs popularity.

(And now I'm referring only to JS,the language, TS for example is actually nice.)

I wasnt hn user then, I lol'd hard

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