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    A comedy break for programmers

    Curated by HackerTube · 14 videos · 2 hr 7 min

    These are the funny videos Hacker News commenters keep linking when a thread gets a little too true: office sketches, tech-hype parodies, deadpan fake research and one famously funny keynote. Most are under ten minutes. The list starts with workplace humor, moves through hype and programming culture, and ends with absurd talks, closing on the longest one.

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      7:35

      The Expert (Short Comedy Sketch)

      Lauris Beinerts · 33M views · 12 years ago

      The obvious opener: an engineer asked to draw seven red lines with blue ink, which HN posts whenever a thread turns to impossible requirements.

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      10:24

      The Website is Down #1: Sales Guy vs. Web Dude

      Josh Weinberg · 2.8M views · 17 years ago

      A Webby-winning classic about an outage call where sales and engineering talk straight past each other.

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      3:09

      Microservices

      KRAZAM · 4M views · 6 years ago

      KRAZAM's three-minute tour of a hopelessly tangled backend, the go-to joke in any thread about architecture sprawl.

    4. 4
      2:49

      I Have Delivered Value... But At What Cost?

      KRAZAM · 1M views · 4 years ago

      A second KRAZAM sketch, this one about Slack chimes and corporate life, which one commenter called so good it is painful to watch.

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      4:22

      Interview with an Agile Coach - Sprint1

      Kai Lentit · 524K views · 4 years ago

      Kai Lentit's parody of scrum and sprint jargon, recommended because it looks a lot like agile at large companies.

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      5:36

      Episode 1 - Mongo DB Is Web Scale

      gar1t · 1.2M views · 16 years ago

      The animated NoSQL-hype dialogue that still gets posted whenever someone promises a database will just scale.

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      11:32

      Erlang: The Movie

      uncertainyesterday · 175K views · 14 years ago

      Not meant as comedy, but HN loves this earnest Ericsson film showing hot code reloading, and you need it before the sequel.

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      9:55

      Erlang The Movie II: The Sequel

      gar1t · 117K views · 13 years ago

      The parody follow-up, with the Outlaw Techno Psychobitch take on OTP; one commenter shows both films to classes at Oxford.

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      4:08

      We're Gonna Build a Framework

      Dylan Beattie · 231K views · 10 years ago

      Dylan Beattie sets 'We Didn't Start the Fire' to a list of real framework names, a fair joke about the churn in web development.

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      2:46

      Apple Introduces Revolutionary New Laptop With No Keyboard

      The Onion · 14M views · 17 years ago

      The Onion's MacBook Wheel, still HN's punchline whenever a device drops physical keys.

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      1:50

      "Turbo Encabulator" the Original

      Dave Rondot · 3.5M views · 16 years ago

      The original late-1970s technobabble parody, a minute of solemn engineering jargon that means nothing.

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      5:56

      How to sound smart in your TEDx Talk | Will Stephen | TEDxNewYork

      TEDx Talks · 16M views · 11 years ago

      Will Stephen does the same thing for TED talks, spending six minutes saying nothing while sounding brilliant.

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      5:34

      On The Turing Completeness of PowerPoint (SIGBOVIK)

      Tom Wildenhain · 1.2M views · 9 years ago

      A deadpan SIGBOVIK result proving PowerPoint animations are Turing complete, which HN often names as one of the funniest talks it knows.

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      51:22

      USENIX Security '18-Q: Why Do Keynote Speakers Keep Suggesting That Improving Security Is Possible?

      USENIX · 204K views · 8 years ago

      The long one to finish: James Mickens's keynote is both very funny and a serious warning about trusting machine learning, and HN keeps rewatching it.