As I've said before: the thing is, the HN crowd is a really tough audience -- they will only be amused by jokes if they're actually funny.
If your idea of humour is "make some pop-culture reference and it will automatically be funny" or "be generically cynical about everything and it will automatically be funny" then, yeah, you're going to have a difficult time on HN.
Something like 1% or so of my HN comments are jokes. They usually do pretty well for karma. (Slightly to my surprise, the most recent one to flop completely was one that was also making a slightly serious point, and one that I don't think many HN readers would disagree with. Ah well, can't win 'em all.)
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This is why we need to implement everything in JavaScript
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Apparently, to some people, irony is an undefined behavior...
(Just to be clear, I am referring to the people that downvoted you.)
Good one. Too bad humour is not tolerated here :)
As I've said before: the thing is, the HN crowd is a really tough audience -- they will only be amused by jokes if they're actually funny.
If your idea of humour is "make some pop-culture reference and it will automatically be funny" or "be generically cynical about everything and it will automatically be funny" then, yeah, you're going to have a difficult time on HN.
Something like 1% or so of my HN comments are jokes. They usually do pretty well for karma. (Slightly to my surprise, the most recent one to flop completely was one that was also making a slightly serious point, and one that I don't think many HN readers would disagree with. Ah well, can't win 'em all.)