Submitter and author here: My friend Dave and I made this over a decade ago, and I just stumbled on it again. I found it to be a fun walk down memory lane, and more broadly, an interesting time capsule of HN's culture and tropes.

It got a laugh from me, not much changes. Thanks!

Glad you enjoyed it! :)

Wait, a time capsule? The parody article titles all basically showed up over the last week on the serious HN.

Thanks for making this. I saw it back then and thought it hit the nail on the head. It still does -- if you hadn't put (2012) readers would think it was made today.

"Twitter is down (2010)" is just perfect.

Also, has the phrase "link-bait" completely been replaced by "clickbait" at this point?

It was awesome! I think it misses just two things: "Coder's Generalizations on Software Architecture/Careers in Tech", or "Venture Investor's Generalizations on Society".

Oh, forgot: "Another Very Long New Yorker Article Philosophizing on Their Local Stuff"

Wait. This was made over a decade ago? I thought all the posts were relevant today.

Feeding this list in to chatGPT, some of these are hilarious:

Here are some more examples:

Upvote arrow Local Man Discovers Shocking Truth About Popular Programming Language 27 points by techskeptic 4 hours ago | flag | 12 skeptical comments

Upvote arrow How My Startup Became a Unicorn in 10 Days (and How You Can Too!) 89 points by startupguru69 8 hours ago | flag | 37 skeptical comments

Upvote arrow Why I Stopped Using Social Media and You Should Too 54 points by digitaldetoxer 6 hours ago | flag | 72 argumentative comments

Upvote arrow Company Announces Major Product Update, Users Unimpressed 42 points by disillusioneduser 5 hours ago | flag | 28 critical comments

Upvote arrow 10 Reasons Why Agile is Dead and Waterfall is the Future 16 points by projectmanagerpro 2 hours ago | flag | 24 heated comments

Upvote arrow New Study Shows That Coffee Actually Decreases Productivity 11 points by sleepisbetter 1 hour ago | flag | 78 incredulous comments

Upvote arrow Founder Blames Failure on Lack of Investor Support, Investors Disagree 35 points by realitycheck123 4 hours ago | flag | 19 skeptical comments

Upvote arrow Why I Quit My High-Paying Tech Job to Live Off the Grid 73 points by offgridtech 10 hours ago | flag | 49 curious comments

Upvote arrow Breaking News: Company Raises $100 Million in Funding, Still Has No Revenue Model 62 points by skepticalinvestor 9 hours ago | flag | 24 incredulous comments

Upvote arrow I Tried Every Productivity Hack and Here's What Actually Worked 29 points by productivityhacker 6 hours ago | flag | 12 skeptical comments

I love this

A Legitimately Interesting Technical Blog Post, 3 upvotes. Loved it!

A Legitimately Interesting Technical Blog Post 3 points by happy4crazy 5 hours ago | flag | discuss

The most underrated post. But I don't even bother opening these, so this is not even anecdotal. :)