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Re:NixOS on M1 by jjtheblunt on Monday December 26, 2022 @07:29AM (#34137136)
I see your account is 1 day old, and your question makes total sense to me too.

So, welcome, glad to have you here of course.

The answer is a commented "tldr" is widely used on news.ycombinator.com, and, as comments below say, it's become a conventional courtesy: people tend to scan comments for tldrs, in order to possibly avoid digressing into commonly (but not always) long winded posts.

Re:NixOS on M1 by benreesman on Monday December 26, 2022 @09:19AM (#34137763)
FWIW I’ve been around for ages and I routinely browse the comments to get signal on whether or not the linked content is worthwhile.
Re:NixOS on M1 by jjtheblunt on Monday December 26, 2022 @11:59AM (#34139427)
yep same here: have been here since before it started, and the new person didn't realize such.
Re:NixOS on M1 by barganzo on Friday December 30, 2022 @10:42AM (#34186030)
Right, but to not even open the linked page when it is so tiny seems an obvious mistake.