> How we moved from MongoDB to a thousand Chinese children memorizing numbers and you should too! [medium.com]

> MongoDB

Snapchat for your production data.

>Chinese children considered harmful

4chan often had(maybe still has, dunno haven't checked up on anons for a while) a fantastic feel for irony, satire and parody(including of themselves). People unfairly disregard the true internet comedy gold that 4chan has gifted to society.

4chan is the single most hostile website to me and people like me. People can't even watch porn there without first stating how much they hate black people.

I don't doubt there are interesting discussions to be had there (it is filled with nerds after all) but the userbase is very clear about who is welcome there.

They're also virulently antisemitic.

Or maybe you should not take everything you read on the internet so close to heart - plenty of anons are black, Jewish and some are even women. The difference between them and you is that they have a sense of humour.

The culture of 4chan is also self-deprecating, why don't you rise up against that too and say that it's bullying against young un-successful males that can't get girls to stand within 10m distance of them?

I bet a lot of those 4chan commenters we're HN users or lurkers. The best criticism comes from those closest.

It’s amusing that 4chan is the something awful forum’s fault. I was reminded of this by the phrase “comedy gold.”

moot had a good sense of humor. Maybe he still does. No idea.

When I read the history of 4chan[0] years ago, this story in particular stuck out to me (as being hilarious).

>February 21 - Two discussion boards are added, hosted on 0ch: /amh/ (Anime-Manga-Hentai) and /bbs/ (4chan Discussion). The next day, Censored Vagina makes a newspost announcing that the cost of running 4chan for the rest of 2004 added up to $2,200 and that the money would be needed in donations. The links on 4chan are reflected to link to 4chan.org instead of 4chan.net so that users will not need to write 4chan.org's IP into their hosts file.

>March 1 - moot announces that the site will not be able to continue because the March server bill is too large to pay and that more donations will be required to pay it or 4chan will die. He makes one final request for donations and hopes for the best. According to a news post image about the original /q/, /q/ - Questions was added this day.

>March 8 - After a week-long swarm of donations, moot announces that not only does he have enough money to pay the March bill, but that enough money was donated to keep the site running into 2005. moot thanks all donators and posters and announces that he is currently in "Cancun, Mexico".

0. https://github.com/bibanon/4chan.doc/releases/tag/1.4.3

It's not too bad, but I'd only go up to comedy silver.

> No.48701403, Sat 27 Jun 2015 13:33:02

> Additionally, the following words MAY NOT be used in variable or function names: master, slave, he, him, his.

Prescient.

That 4chan link is full of the vilest antisemtism, racism, etc.

Yep, it's their way of gatekeeping.

What do you mean by gatekeeping here?

They're belligerently racist to keep non-racists away? If so, why not just say they're racist and leave it at that?

Not racists, just others not like them. If you can’t tolerate that talk then you won’t be on the site. It keeps certain types of individuals out.

* I’m not a 4chan user

The vilest? Not even. That was a mild 4chan thread.

>[420 points] Show HN: I ripped off an existing product and added Bootstrap to it

That page is actually pretty funny here and there.

> Anonymous Fri 26 Jun 2015 17:31:37 No.48696861 Report [200 points] Using machine learning to identify dick pics (facebook.com)

I just came from the “EFF writes a letter to Tim Cook about CSAM” article. I guess we’ve confirmed the parody.

That's hilarious, it's healthy to be able to laugh at yourself. Thanks for sharing!

Not half bad

not even 5 messages in and there is the first nazi carricature. certified 4chan moment

> Ruby considered harmful

I mean...