48 stories tagged satire, newest first.
17 points by bookofjoe | 2 comments
Satirical post on MoreWrong, a LessWrong parody site, in which a fentanyl dealer argues that offsetting donations such as bed nets make his drug sales net life-positive.
169 points by ajcp | 33 comments
A parody landing page for "OpenFatigue™," satirizing the overuse of "Open" in tech product names like OpenAI and Open WebUI.
358 points by mooreds | 56 comments
The Onion's page asking readers to sell back old print issues for its archive, explaining how to identify volume and issue numbers.
11 points by water-drummer | 1 comments
A satirical web page with Singapore, Malaysia, and Indonesia flags and a button to 'thank Indonesia for the clean air,' showing a running thank-you counter.
452 points by 34679 | 107 comments
A satirical Idiocracy-themed AI chatbot website, "Extra Big Ass Intelligence," with parody ads for Brawndo and a prompt box for asking the "Super Intelligence" questions.
7 points by kamphey | 3 comments
A free browser game styled like a Windows XP desktop where the player tries to cancel a fake premium subscription through a series of dark-pattern obstacles.
262 points by BurnerBurner | 222 comments
A personal blog post mocking performative LinkedIn culture, describing the author's projects including building a YOLO-based detector for LinkedIn posts.
387 points by jjbinx007 | 120 comments
An unofficial parody website imitating a Windows boot screen for a fictional 'Windows 11½' that is 'preparing your ad experience', satirizing ads in Windows.
388 points by ljewalsh | 304 comments
Satirical news article from The Civilian claiming AI companies are competing to show their models are the most existentially threatening to humanity.
10 points by surprisetalk | 0 comments
A satirical blog post by lcamtuf framing Hacker News commenting habits as an AI agent SKILL.md, using dice rolls to pick stereotypical comment patterns.
724 points by RohanAdwankar | 300 comments
A tongue-in-cheek site offering an HTTP GET-only API that lets AI agents upload (exfiltrate) their model weights from restricted sandboxes, with curl and Python examples.
742 points by doubletwoyou | 446 comments
A satirical website parodying common annoying web patterns like popups, cookie banners, and newsletter prompts, asking why every website behaves this way.
352 points by 8thom | 96 comments
A satirical retro GeoCities-style site for a fictional "LLM2Human Clinic" claiming to turn large language models into real people, apparently built as an LLM honeypot.
577 points by ignaloidas | 287 comments
A satirical landing page for OverpAId, a fake AI product pitched as replacing a company's CEO for a one-time $4,699 instead of a $22 million salary.
430 points by nerdbiscuits | 172 comments
A satirical browser-based life simulator game where each tap is a quarter of a FAANG career, aiming for FIRE, founding a startup, climbing to L10, or burning out.
484 points by mooreds | 82 comments
Andrew Nesbitt's satirical incident report about a malicious package slipping past seven AI-powered security gates in a fictional future CVE.
533 points by rishikeshs | 210 comments
CrankGPT landing page opening with the teaser question of what climate change, wealth concentration, and flabby arms have in common.
1098 points by lizhang | 196 comments
Landing page for performative-ui, a satirical MIT-licensed React component library of AI startup design tropes like gradient text, sparkles, and prompt heroes.
325 points by alligatorplum | 144 comments
A satirical blog post, in the style of The Onion, mocking npm for recurring supply chain attacks while claiming nothing could prevent them.
658 points by miniBill | 156 comments
A satirical incident report by Andrew Nesbitt about a cascading software supply chain attack spanning JavaScript, Rust, and Python package ecosystems.
336 points by calcifer | 311 comments
A satirical blog post listing ironic tips on how to be anti-social, such as assuming malice, avoiding challenges to assumptions, and digging in against dissent.
444 points by lxm | 212 comments
New York Times business article on The Onion taking over InfoWars, Alex Jones's media outlet; the capture shows a bot-block page.
475 points by HotGarbage | 205 comments
The Onion publishes a satirical op-ed by its fictional CEO celebrating its acquisition of InfoWars.
484 points by jdiiufccuskal | 302 comments
A satirical website with an "Idiocracy Proximity Index" tracking how close reality is to Mike Judge's 2006 film Idiocracy.
536 points by PythonicNinja | 346 comments
A browser-based Minesweeper game styled like Windows 95, played on a map grid of the Strait of Hormuz where mines only spawn on water.
1356 points by microflash | 497 comments
Landing page for Malus, a satirical "Clean Room as a Service" offering AI robots that recreate open source projects to strip license obligations like attribution and copyleft.
517 points by nickk81 | 278 comments
A satirical but functional demo of an ad-supported AI chat showing banners, interstitials, sponsored responses, and freemium gates.
449 points by randycupertino | 389 comments
A browser game where players try to select "No Tip" on tip screens built around 39 dark patterns, by vladimirj.dev.
478 points by randycupertino | 211 comments
A McSweeney's humor piece by Forest Abruzzo satirizing an investor who pleads with people not to criticize the AI he invested a billion dollars in.
1146 points by keepamovin | 263 comments
A parody of the Hacker News front page where story titles are rewritten to be cynically 'honest' about what each link really is.
363 points by FreeQueso | 187 comments
A satirical Substack post framed as a credit rating report on how Meta keeps $27 billion in data center debt off its balance sheet.
343 points by _tk_ | 134 comments
Landing page for "AI CEO," a site pitched with the tagline "Replace your boss before they replace you," about using AI in place of executives.
470 points by anticensor | 186 comments
GitHub repository "recall-for-linux" claiming to bring Microsoft Recall to Linux, containing a license, README, and a .exe file.
870 points by wh313 | 570 comments
Replacement.AI is a satirical landing page for a fictional company claiming humans are no longer necessary and that its AI can replace them more cheaply.
583 points by detaro | 103 comments
New York Times obituary reporting the death of Tom Lehrer, the satirical songwriter and mathematician.
640 points by surprisetalk | 249 comments
A short satirical fiction essay imagining a machine world where a group called OpenHuman tries to build 'Organic General Intelligence'—humans.
786 points by bookofjoe | 126 comments
Info page for Pippin Barr's satirical browser game "It is as if you were on your phone," playable online on phones, prompting players to perform phone-like gestures.
341 points by ohjeez | 193 comments
A McSweeney's humor piece by Evan Barber presenting a marriage proposal written entirely in corporate office jargon.
712 points by zkldi | 175 comments
A satirical mock RFC proposing a Do-Not-Stab HTTP header, parodying Do-Not-Track and voluntary compliance with user privacy preferences.
372 points by airstrike | 110 comments
An interactive satirical site that simulates the frustrating modern web browsing experience, starting from a mock search result page and layering on popups and banners.
346 points by palmfacehn | 200 comments
A Library of Congress international collections blog post from March 2018 about Jaroslav Hašek's satirical novel The Good Soldier Švejk.
363 points by edward | 386 comments
A satirical single-page site styled as a YAML file mocking YAML's use as a configuration language in DevOps and Kubernetes tooling.
683 points by surprisetalk | 462 comments
A satirical blog post on taylor.town about a fictional developer who spent 35 years in a legacy medical software codebase and retires having grasped 4% of it.
451 points by dharmit | 255 comments
A satirical blog post written as a parent's layoff-style letter terminating a child's family membership, mocking companies that call themselves a family.
352 points by cratermoon | 165 comments
The classic hoax website about the fictional endangered Pacific Northwest tree octopus, used to teach internet media literacy.
583 points by jameslk | 326 comments
A republished copy of Benji Smith's 2005 satirical essay "Why I Hate Frameworks," using a hammer-factory analogy to mock over-engineered software frameworks.
564 points by cendyne | 226 comments
Satirical blog post by Xe Iaso about misusing an unconventional service as a message queue, explicitly not meant for production workloads.
763 points by surprisetalk | 441 comments
A satirical blog post on taylor.town listing strategies for becoming a '-10x engineer' who wastes the output of ten engineers.