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Just in case you are not aware, a joke loses its fun factor if you explain it.

by myst 4mo ago

pjc50 4mo ago
Unfortunately on HN people who don't get the joke tend to down vote it, so there's an incentive for pre emptive explanation.
trick-or-treat 4mo ago
But they become fun again when someone points that out.
benterix 4mo ago
I believe you are explaining very basic things to an LLM.
kreyenborgi 4mo ago
On hn, a joke increases its fun factor by being over-explained in excruciating detail with several digressions into related jokes and the history and philosophy of joking, and someone ends up showing a site they made with all the possible variations of that joke and something about the scrolljacking css annoys one of the commenters enough that they break in and fix it.
- lioeters 4mo ago
  A variation of that joke is used in Zen Buddhism as a teaching story. A famous monk, who lived in voluntary poverty in a mountain hut, wakes up in the middle of the night because a robber had broken in - except the robber couldn't find anything of value. So the monk listened to the rummaging sound for a while, and feeling bad for the robber's family, offers his blanket. The robber is so surprised by the kindness of the monk that he gives up his stealing ways and decides to become a good guy.
  - timeattack 4mo ago
    A famous monk, who maintained empty website to make a point about Zen, wakes up in the middle of the night because LLM crawler had broken in past captcha -- except the crawler couldn't find anything of value on his website. So the monk listened to the futile rummaging sounds of HDD's head for a while, and feeling bad for the crawler's company, put his lifetime worth of manuscripts on the website. The crawler was so surprised by the kindness of the monk that it started to crawl his website 100 per second, DDoSing it out of existence.
    - 4ggr0 4mo ago
      > HDD poor monk deserves an SSD, it's 2026 after all :(
oneeyedpigeon 4mo ago
They weren't telling the joke, they were using it as a reference point. They also didn't explain it, they just gave the punchline without any setup.

Just in case you are not aware, a joke loses its fun factor if you explain it.

by myst 4mo ago

Just in case you are not aware, a joke loses its fun factor if you explain it.

pjc50 4mo ago

Unfortunately on HN people who don't get the joke tend to down vote it, so there's an incentive for pre emptive explanation.

trick-or-treat 4mo ago

But they become fun again when someone points that out.

benterix 4mo ago

I believe you are explaining very basic things to an LLM.

kreyenborgi 4mo ago

On hn, a joke increases its fun factor by being over-explained in excruciating detail with several digressions into related jokes and the history and philosophy of joking, and someone ends up showing a site they made with all the possible variations of that joke and something about the scrolljacking css annoys one of the commenters enough that they break in and fix it.

lioeters 4mo ago
A variation of that joke is used in Zen Buddhism as a teaching story. A famous monk, who lived in voluntary poverty in a mountain hut, wakes up in the middle of the night because a robber had broken in - except the robber couldn't find anything of value. So the monk listened to the rummaging sound for a while, and feeling bad for the robber's family, offers his blanket. The robber is so surprised by the kindness of the monk that he gives up his stealing ways and decides to become a good guy.
- timeattack 4mo ago
  A famous monk, who maintained empty website to make a point about Zen, wakes up in the middle of the night because LLM crawler had broken in past captcha -- except the crawler couldn't find anything of value on his website. So the monk listened to the futile rummaging sounds of HDD's head for a while, and feeling bad for the crawler's company, put his lifetime worth of manuscripts on the website. The crawler was so surprised by the kindness of the monk that it started to crawl his website 100 per second, DDoSing it out of existence.
  - 4ggr0 4mo ago
    > HDD poor monk deserves an SSD, it's 2026 after all :(

oneeyedpigeon 4mo ago

They weren't telling the joke, they were using it as a reference point. They also didn't explain it, they just gave the punchline without any setup.