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The Big Hunger by Walter J Miller, Jr. (1952)

https://lauriepenny.substack.com/p/the-big-hunger
1•shervinafshar•40s ago•0 comments

The Genus Amanita

https://www.mushroomexpert.com/amanita.html
1•rolph•5m ago•0 comments

We have broken SHA-1 in practice

https://shattered.io/
1•mooreds•6m ago•1 comments

Ask HN: Was my first management job bad, or is this what management is like?

1•Buttons840•7m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: How to Reduce Time Spent Crimping?

1•pinkmuffinere•8m ago•0 comments

KV Cache Transform Coding for Compact Storage in LLM Inference

https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.01815
1•walterbell•13m ago•0 comments

A quantitative, multimodal wearable bioelectronic device for stress assessment

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-67747-9
1•PaulHoule•15m ago•0 comments

Why Big Tech Is Throwing Cash into India in Quest for AI Supremacy

https://www.wsj.com/world/india/why-big-tech-is-throwing-cash-into-india-in-quest-for-ai-supremac...
1•saikatsg•15m ago•0 comments

How to shoot yourself in the foot – 2026 edition

https://github.com/aweussom/HowToShootYourselfInTheFoot
1•aweussom•15m ago•0 comments

Eight More Months of Agents

https://crawshaw.io/blog/eight-more-months-of-agents
3•archb•17m ago•0 comments

From Human Thought to Machine Coordination

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-digital-self/202602/from-human-thought-to-machine-coo...
1•walterbell•17m ago•0 comments

The new X API pricing must be a joke

https://developer.x.com/
1•danver0•18m ago•0 comments

Show HN: RMA Dashboard fast SAST results for monorepos (SARIF and triage)

https://rma-dashboard.bukhari-kibuka7.workers.dev/
1•bumahkib7•19m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Source code graphRAG for Java/Kotlin development based on jQAssistant

https://github.com/2015xli/jqassistant-graph-rag
1•artigent•24m ago•0 comments

Python Only Has One Real Competitor

https://mccue.dev/pages/2-6-26-python-competitor
3•dragandj•25m ago•0 comments

Tmux to Zellij (and Back)

https://www.mauriciopoppe.com/notes/tmux-to-zellij/
1•maurizzzio•26m ago•1 comments

Ask HN: How are you using specialized agents to accelerate your work?

1•otterley•27m ago•0 comments

Passing user_id through 6 services? OTel Baggage fixes this

https://signoz.io/blog/otel-baggage/
1•pranay01•28m ago•0 comments

DavMail Pop/IMAP/SMTP/Caldav/Carddav/LDAP Exchange Gateway

https://davmail.sourceforge.net/
1•todsacerdoti•29m ago•0 comments

Visual data modelling in the browser (open source)

https://github.com/sqlmodel/sqlmodel
1•Sean766•31m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Tharos – CLI to find and autofix security bugs using local LLMs

https://github.com/chinonsochikelue/tharos
1•fluantix•31m ago•0 comments

Oddly Simple GUI Programs

https://simonsafar.com/2024/win32_lights/
1•MaximilianEmel•31m ago•0 comments

The New Playbook for Leaders [pdf]

https://www.ibli.com/IBLI%20OnePagers%20The%20Plays%20Summarized.pdf
1•mooreds•32m ago•1 comments

Interactive Unboxing of J Dilla's Donuts

https://donuts20.vercel.app
1•sngahane•33m ago•0 comments

OneCourt helps blind and low-vision fans to track Super Bowl live

https://www.dezeen.com/2026/02/06/onecourt-tactile-device-super-bowl-blind-low-vision-fans/
1•gaws•35m ago•0 comments

Rudolf Vrba

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudolf_Vrba
1•mooreds•35m ago•0 comments

Autism Incidence in Girls and Boys May Be Nearly Equal, Study Suggests

https://www.medpagetoday.com/neurology/autism/119747
1•paulpauper•36m ago•0 comments

Wellness Hotels Discovery Application

https://aurio.place/
1•cherrylinedev•37m ago•1 comments

NASA delays moon rocket launch by a month after fuel leaks during test

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2026/feb/03/nasa-delays-moon-rocket-launch-month-fuel-leaks-a...
1•mooreds•38m ago•0 comments

Sebastian Galiani on the Marginal Revolution

https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2026/02/sebastian-galiani-on-the-marginal-revol...
2•paulpauper•41m ago•0 comments
Open in hackernews

Zuck#: A programming language for connecting the world. And harvesting it

https://jayzalowitz.github.io/zucksharp/
68•kf•3w ago

Comments

jkhall81•3w ago
why?
etchalon•3w ago
cause.
TehCorwiz•3w ago
Satire maybe.
footy•3w ago
to move fast and break things, it's right there!
jayzalowitz•3w ago
Author here:

Yeah actually, I wanted to demonstrate claude code, and my relatively complicated process for developement to someone, so I made a programming language to show them.

I actually met mark when we were both mentoring the fwd.us hackathon, from that limited interaction, I do think hed probably get a reasonable chuckle out of this.

halperter•3w ago
I don't think I've seen satire in the form of a programming language before :). Neat. Does anyone else have any other examples? All I can think of are languages like Velado (uses notes) and Piet.
dleslie•3w ago
There's TrumpScript.

https://github.com/samshadwell/TrumpScript

ronsor•3w ago
It's designed completely wrong.

Trump programs would end with "Thank you for your attention to this matter."

zahlman•3w ago
The project dates to the 2016 election campaign and was archived in 2020. I don't think Trump had that particular speech affect that time around, or at least I can't recall it being memed upon the way it is now.
bryanrasmussen•3w ago
I mean theoretically brainf*ck is, but I'm pretty if you were to find satirical programming languages they would be satirizing development itself or a type of development (object-oriented, functional), and this is satirizing a purpose of development.
tyre•3w ago
These are the types of projects that are becoming viable with AI. Previously they were too expensive.

I love this.

mrisse•3w ago
Many types of projects are now vibable.
refulgentis•3w ago
It isn't a programming language. It is a static site written by AI, with jokes written by AI. Tastes like microwaved steak & it definitely would not have been too expensive to do before AI.
jayzalowitz•3w ago
No, actually Zuck# works, this is a working language.
Gabrys1•3w ago
https://github.com/buyukakyuz/corroded
pnut•3w ago
Does Rockstar count? https://codewithrockstar.com/
forgotpwd16•3w ago
Some well-known satire/parody languages are Omgrofl, Shakespeare, ArnoldC, but there're many more. Can check https://esolangs.org/wiki/Category:Thematic & https://esolangs.org/wiki/Category:Joke_languages. But although weird esolangs, don't see how Velda and Piet be considered satire.
zahlman•3w ago
I would say these are just joke languages that aren't trying to parody anything or use satire.

When I think of parody or satire in programming languages, the example that comes to mind is the "C plus equality" project used for rather trolling critique of contemporary "social justice" ideology.

forgotpwd16•3w ago
Parody definition is humorous imitation so the ones I mentioned definitely are. Omgrofl (and similar LOLCODE) can be argued is also satire in regards to adoption of internet slang/memes in formal environments and chasing trends in programming/engineering design. The other two agree they aren't. But to me seemed, considering submitted language and their own examples, GP was asking for parody/thematic languages, which is why included those. The wiki links weren't meant to say joke/thematic == satire/parody. It's just that the wiki lacks explicit "parody" and "satire" categories, instead listing any relevant to those topics under the two given ones.
zahlman•3w ago
Fair enough.
sedatk•3w ago
INTERCAL was also a satire of the programming languages of its era, AFAIK.
everydayZombie•3w ago
https://github.com/TodePond/GulfOfMexico
aboveandbeyond•3w ago
https://github.com/munificent/vigil
forgotpwd16•3w ago
A rare example of language implemented atop PHP. Should've made with Llama for extra Meta points.
psnehanshu•3w ago
Or atleast should have been Hack
timeon•3w ago
Probably not related but source of page is also funny: '<section class="section">'
IncreasePosts•3w ago
should probably have id="section" too, then you don't need to do all that hard work remembering if you should write section, #section, or .section in your code
refulgentis•3w ago
It's written by AI, I strongly believe (ex. the random konami code)
jayzalowitz•3w ago
Am author: This is accurate.
alex1138•3w ago
Previously https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14135045

(It's not enough to copy Snapchat - probably severely financially hurting them, by stealing their Prior Art - you have to do things like https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2019/09/snapchat-reporte... as well, and just remember: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1692122)

refulgentis•3w ago
Flagged: code and prose written by an LLM, and uncanny-valley as a result - a few examples:

- the programming language part is dropped almost immediately by the LLM.

- The unrelated meat emojis to give it an animated background

- Painfully generic / not attempting to make a joke: "This language finally lets me express my true feelings about variable assignment."

- Every section has exactly the "right" length, ~3-5 items per list, ~2-3 paragraphs per section.

Hate to eat downvotes for saying this, I hate what FB / Zuck too and understand the impulse to treat it as unneeded negativity.

However, I've been on HN for 16 years, and can't remember a time I've seen a human-generated surface-level satire persist in the top posts. Seems to me the length and subject let the slop skate, at least so far.

StilesCrisis•3w ago
Smoked meat is not at all random here. Google "Zuckerberg sweet baby rays". This is the deep Facebook lore.
jayzalowitz•3w ago
Hi author here: 100% smoked meats floating around was out of my head and not the ai.
xerox13ster•3w ago
Have you never seen the Zuckerberg “in my backyard smoking meats with the boys” video? It’s so uncomfortable.

The meat emojis are relevant

chrisnight•3w ago
I’d be interested to see a satirical concept like this that goes more in depth by, say, having the operational semantics help fuel the satire. When I see things like this, I always feel underwhelmed when it’s just a keyword swap.

For example, take the title. Imagine if the PL was a declarative way of describing a distributed system, with HTTP endpoints or web sockets connecting modules. Then, for harvesting, it gives unbounded ability for nodes to read and write to other nodes outside of the standard interface. You can just go in and read/write their data, without any public interface needed. Of course someone else can probably come up with something better, but I think it’d be cool to see something that more fully uses what a “programming language” means.

jayzalowitz•3w ago
Im the author. Feel free to dm me anything you want added.
jayzalowitz•3w ago
Hey yall, author here.

This was made by claude code as a demo to someone, and because I thought it would be funny.

It actually works have a look: https://github.com/jayzalowitz/zucksharp

hulitu•3w ago
> Requires PHP 8.1+

... any other version will break it. RIP SW engineering.

I guess this has become a mantra: "Going forward is a way to retreat. " TTOP

maomaomiumiu•3w ago
I still don’t really get the point. If the joke works without being a programming language, why make it one? We already have plenty of real languages people don’t want to learn or maintain — adding a satirical one feels more like a novelty than a statement.