Well, this one is wrong: "I built a language nobody will use just to learn generics"

The comments make it clear that the language author has not yet learned generics by this exercise.

Yes, it is wrong. Take the top one:

> We rewrote it in Rust so you have to upvote it

I'm pretty sure they didn't go through all the trouble of rewriting it in Rust to get some internet forum points!

To quote Foghorn Leghorn: It's a joke, son, you're supposed to laugh.

The joke was fun the first time. When the joke posts (low effort AI slop no less!) are spammed to HN every week, it stops being fun.

Its on the front page, that means it atttracted attention and was upvoted. If what you are saying was true, these posts would die very quickly and we would never see them.

Maybe its just you who doesnt like them?

I guess if everyone thinks mocking peoples' projects and efforts is funny, it's okay!

My opinion is a weakly that this is tiring and borderline insulting to people who are genuinely looking for feedback and community. Clever once a year or so, but the creator has leaned into it and posted a lot of meta in a small timeline.

Then if the community agrees with you, these posts will get zero upvotes and we will never see them on the front page again.

If not, then you will start seeing them more and more and you will need to suck it up my friend!

> Maybe its just you who doesnt like them?

Obviously it's just me who doesn't like them. What's your point?

I already made my point. If the community agrees with you then we wont see these on the front page anymore. If not then you will either need to be ok with seeing more of them, or not read HN.

> The joke was fun the first time.

> ...

> it stops being fun.

Right. Sorry. We apologise. We didn't know the joke police was monitoring.

Usually, people highlight functional/architectural changes over superficial things like language choice.

But it sure does lampoon a current point which is that people seem pretty quick to want to share their Rust rewrites of other software.

It’s a Fark.com style applied to HN. Maybe we should do a SomethingAwful theme next?