Took me a good minute to figure this out, I kept thinking it was some kind of anti-Apple joke I wasn't understanding.

Is the joke removing the "ant" prefix?

Yes

Yeah, it's a riff on the old random factoid you used to see all the time in papers and books where someone would be talking about something like Spanish Rice and the editor would helpfully point out that in Spain they just call the dish Rice. Also, it's just fun to make puns sometimes.

A similar joke:

Batman and Robin are in hot pursuit of the Joker when they hop in the Batmobile. Unfortunately it fails to start so Batman tells Robin that he is going pull out the Batskates and continue to chase the Joker. In the meantime he tells Robin to check the battery. Robin agrees but after a moment pauses to ask "What's a 'Tery'?"

Nice

Thy probably teach this in ropology class.

this is an iquate joke

with ants

Came here for this as soon as I read the headline. Satisfied!

Thanks ants. Thants.

What is HN coming to

Dang does an amazing job of moderating but I am sure it's near impossible to keep up at this point. At least the overly political article submissions aren't making it through. I've been reprimanded and have learned the error of my ways in comments. Sometimes people just need the reminder. No matter what you are going through in life it's not ok to take it out on others.

I also assumed the same, so I looked back in time. If you read some of the early HN posts, the quality, length, variety is the same as is now. (length seems longer now).

There's even a bunch of "what did this site become" comments from way back too!

I think it's we who change, we mature, grow older, more grumpy or less grumpy.

And if that doesn't work, their immune systems fight off infection using "ibodies"