you guys need to take things a little bit less seriously.. leojg was using the "Trust Me, I'm an Engineer" meme http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/trust-me-im-an-engineer

yeah... but it seems that HN users lack of sense of humor :(

Sure, because this article is the most serious in the world... and all the HN post are extreamly serious... come on dude, re read yourself, you are talking about "normals" what are you, some kind of godlike being?

Humor is not intellectually stimulating, and has been optimized away in favor of elitist posturing. Memes are for the normals on Reddit. Hacker News is serious business.

Nah, HN is totally fine with humor. But it has to actually be funny.

Unfortunately, for unfunny people, it's easy to confuse this with "no humor allowed."

Not quite. I think that HN is such a diverse group, its hard to tell sarcasm from a straight answer. Especially in a text forum. So its darned confusing.

I'd say both. There's lots of sarcasm that gets missed, and also lots of unfunny attempts at humor that are obvious in their nature.

id rather have a lunatic engineer than a lunatic politician, but that's just me.

"This whole race has become a circus"

>has become