> It seems like a lot of people skimmed without reading the top or bottom of this site:

This is the nature of Hacker News recently: people post as soon as possible to demonstrate their knowledge on a related subject. I've twice recently had articles posted on HN where a commenter loudly ranted about the article missing something that's covered explicitly in the first 3 paragraphs.

dang how about adding 'RTFA' to https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html ?