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Cited on HN 17 times, 2017–2025, never outright recommended score 0
Years with an HN recommendation, 2007–2026

HN posts it as a joke whenever a real smart toilet, IoT gadget or silly startup idea appears, because reality keeps matching the parody.

An Adult Swim infomercial parody for Smart Pipe, a fictional startup that turns toilet waste into data and social connectivity. It satirizes everything-connected tech culture.

“Adult Swim did a critical parody two years ago which still nails the hidden motives of many startups.” (HN, 2017)

17 jokes · Comedy

17 Hacker News comments

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@clydethefrog Sep 2017 Makes a joke
on HN thread Every Dumb Startup Ever
Adult Swim did a critical parody two years ago which still nails the hidden motives of many startups. [this video]
@StudentStuff Nov 2017 Makes a joke
on HN thread Why I’m Digging Deep Into Alzheimer’s
It'd be great to be able to pull glucose, hydration and more out of urine samples real time, so long as we stay away from say live telemetry to insurers or something like SmartPipe[1] it'd be enormously beneficial. 1 - [this video]
@clydethefrog Nov 2017 Makes a joke
on HN thread Startup Ideas
The Smart Bathroom idea seems beyond parody. See the Smart Pipe satire infomercial comedy channel Adult Swim produced in 2014. [this video]
@godelski Mar 2024 Makes a joke
on HN thread Google ordered to identify who watched certain YouTube videos
I would contend that Blackstone was of the position that no innocent person who was not of sufficient suspicion of committing a crime should be investigated. These are innocent bystanders. There is nothing suspicious about their activities other than they did something that a suspected criminal did. A perfectly legal activity? To take this to the ridiculous side, are we going to investigate everyone who took a poop at a specific time because a criminal did? [this video]
@amy_petrik Mar 2025 Makes a joke
on HN thread I won't connect my dishwasher to your cloud
the use of customer-central water usage data piques my interest. there's a huge market for selling water and waste data to advertisers and other companies interested in consumer data. This is one of my friend's startups, smartpipes, which is a type of smart sewage pipe - these smart washers remind me of smartpipe (which supports dishwasher waste!): [this video]
@avidiax Sep 2025 Makes a joke
on HN thread Samsung confirms its smart fridges will start showing you ads
That is dystopian, but to be fair, this is China. They are literally rolling out facial ID tech to prevent paper thieves. [link] [link] > soon toilets will be photographing your butt to fingerprint your anus, while data brokers sells your poop data Life imitates art: [this video]
@gowld Dec 2025 Makes a joke
on HN thread Kohler Can Access Pictures from "End-to-End Encrypted" Toilet Camera
[this video] Smart Pipe | Infomercials | Adult Swim Everything in our lives is connected to the internet, so why not our toilets? Take a tour of Smart Pipe, the hot new tech startup that turns your waste into valuable information and fun social connectivity. [Smart Pipe Inc. is a registered sex offender.]

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