I wish HN had a parallel community for these kind of silly posts. I use it as a worksafe site to take a break at work and sometimes jokes like this, while not being in the spirit of HN, are things I very much appreciate.
Levity does seem inconsistently received, not least because it so often relies on shared cultural understanding. I was somewhat confounded by this until realising that timezone matters. Nevertheless I don’t think puns and wry observation are entirely out of place, and even surreal irony or absurdist tales can go over quite well; sometimes very well if they convey a parable.
Satire and parody are probably the hardest to pull off. They’re often at someone’s expense, and that is frowned upon; even when they’re not intentionally so, someone with different points of reference may read it as such.
I wish HN had a parallel community for these kind of silly posts. I use it as a worksafe site to take a break at work and sometimes jokes like this, while not being in the spirit of HN, are things I very much appreciate.