On: What is your best programmer joke?

[jcr]

Humor on Hacker News?

I thought I felt a disturbance in the source!

[davidw → jcr]

You can do humor on HN. It just has to be genuinely funny and original, and appropriate to the thread in question.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=458155

[jcr → davidw]

I loved the infocom reference!

And yes you're right, but people often complain about HN being a humorless void, when it simply isn't true.