Re:A compelling title that is cryptic enough to get you to t...
by ninjaranter on Friday April 10, 2026 @01:57PM
(#47721563)
A comment complaining this was obviously written by an AI, and the standard template is a tell. A philosophical observation about what that says about the state on online discourse. Link to the Dead Internet Wikipedia page.
Re:A compelling title that is cryptic enough to get you to t...
by jasong on Friday April 10, 2026 @02:08PM
(#47721689)
A poor attempt at joining the convo too late because I don't browse /new like everyone else. No one upvotes, and I question my intelligence for the 3rd time today.
Re:A compelling title that is cryptic enough to get you to t...
by joshstrange on Friday April 10, 2026 @01:57PM
(#47721560)
> Cherry-picked quote from the article cut off too early
Bad faith argument that could only be made by not reading further into the article or cutting the quote off before it answers the exact question/argument posed here.
Re:A compelling title that is cryptic enough to get you to t...
by freehorse on Friday April 10, 2026 @03:05PM
(#47722289)
Comment asking the previous commenter in a passive aggressive manner whether they had actually read the article, without providing any further context or counter to the argument made.
Re:A compelling title that is cryptic enough to get you to t...
by sillysaurusx on Friday April 10, 2026 @02:29PM
(#47721895)
A comment disagreeing with the central argument, presenting factual evidence for why it’s mistaken. Downvoted for an hour before balancing back out to a score of 2.
Re:A compelling title that is cryptic enough to get you to t...
by mihaic on Friday April 10, 2026 @02:22PM
(#47721820)
A snide and vitriolic remark that observes on how the first paragraph actually addresses the concern of the person which hasn't read the article. A further continuation on this being representative of the state of modern online discourse.
Re:A compelling title that is cryptic enough to get you to t...
by econ on Friday April 10, 2026 @02:55PM
(#47722156)
Repeat the title 3 times in the first 3 lines then again as the start of the next paragraph.
Fill the rest of the article assuming this is the readers first day on planet earth. Like, an article about a CPU architecture should start with the early history of mathematics.
Re:A compelling title that is cryptic enough to get you to t...
by Animats on Friday April 10, 2026 @03:46PM
(#47722782)
In other words, clickbait.
Fox News used to be awful in this respect, with ledes such as "(Important thing) happens in (unnamed city)". Now they name the city. So that trick apparently backfired. It seems to have died out, along with "One weird trick..." articles.
New York Times opinion articles, though, have become worse. Today, "This May Be the Most Important Medical Story of the Decade". It's not.
Re:A compelling title that is cryptic enough to get you to t...
by Karrot_Kream on Friday April 10, 2026 @02:52PM
(#47722129)
A comment making a subtle point about something discussed in the middle of the article that languishes near the bottom of the page because nobody read the full article.
Re:A compelling title that is cryptic enough to get you to t...
by CephalopodMD on Friday April 10, 2026 @03:07PM
(#47722307)
A link to the HN discussion from when this was already posted here 6 months ago, possibly to be helpful, but also possibly as an attempt to admonish others for not knowing this is a repost.
Re:A compelling title that is cryptic enough to get you to t...
by terramex on Friday April 10, 2026 @02:54PM
(#47722144)
Link to HN guidelines with following quote pasted below:
> Please don't complain about tangential annoyances—e.g. article or website formats, name collisions, or back-button breakage. They're too common to be interesting.
Re:A compelling title that is cryptic enough to get you to t...
by sunrunner on Friday April 10, 2026 @03:46PM
(#47722785)
A related comment to mention the perceived good performance of the website and how the web would be much better if such simple and performant designs were more prevalent.
A second paragraph vaguely taking aim at every common framework and library used and why they're all the real fundamental problem.
Re:A compelling title that is cryptic enough to get you to t...
by boznz on Friday April 10, 2026 @03:12PM
(#47722353)
I guess I am too honest to go down the click-bait title stuff. I would love to get more traffic too my web site, but not this way. I prefer to write up interesting hardware of software projects, but i'm in the middle of writing another sci-fi epic and there are only so many projects you can juggle :-)
Re:A compelling title that is cryptic enough to get you to t...
by tomi_dev on Friday April 10, 2026 @02:16PM
(#47721760)
Feels similar with cold email.I used to think it was mostly about better copy or subject lines, but lately it feels like timing matters way more. Same message, different moment, completely different outcome.
Have you seen cases where timing mattered more than the message itself?
Re:A compelling title that is cryptic enough to get you to t...
by TZubiri on Friday April 10, 2026 @04:46PM
(#47723470)
Deranged comment that has only a vague connection to the article topic, but allows me to explore a thought that I had beforehand, poorly formatted and stream-of-consciousnessy because this is not a blog post or even a linkedin article, it's a random comment buried in the depths of the internet and I wrote it for myself.
Continuation of the thoughts from the first paragraph and repetition, because either I forgot what I had and had not written, but also because the flow of the thought naturally brings me back to the main thesis, as if solving a mathematical problem and then going backwards to the original problem statement with a different technique for verification. Deranged poorly formatted comment that only barely connects to the topic at hand, which I only read the first part of anyways.
Re:A compelling title that is cryptic enough to get you to t...
by beemboy on Friday April 10, 2026 @05:54PM
(#47724106)
A note from the original author, possibly even a minor nerd celebrity, expressing surprise at this making the HN page and gratitude for those that rediscovered and reposted it.
Re:A compelling title that is cryptic enough to get you to t...
by rolandog on Friday April 10, 2026 @09:03PM
(#47726068)
A suspiciously highly upvoted psyop disguised as lengthy diatribe authoritatively waxing poetic in a tone that conflates the thing that has been linked with everything that is wrong with humanity but that can be boiled down to empty platitudes that end up tiring the average reader and successfully prevents more people from engaging with the content.
Re:A compelling title that is cryptic enough to get you to t...
by valiant55 on Friday April 10, 2026 @09:31PM
(#47726319)
A comment the adds nothing to the discussion but derails the conversation with an anecdotes from the writers childhood because how this topic vaguely reminds them of something kind of similar.
Re:A compelling title that is cryptic enough to get you to t...
by andromaton on Friday April 10, 2026 @10:40PM
(#47726779)
A comment from someone who knows or knew the author or was part of the project sharing details that makes readers feel like they've just been handed backstage passes.
Re:A compelling title that is cryptic enough to get you to t...
by Liftyee on Saturday April 11, 2026 @01:48AM
(#47727811)
An unnecessarily long comment that rambles on about a simple core point, that could be summed up in one sentence but has excessive detail added to ensure that everyone gets it.
(Are sentences like this akin to literary quines? The sentence describes its own purpose/function, while also fulfilling that function. It feels like constructing one should be easy, but ends up being harder than it looks.)
Re:A compelling title that is cryptic enough to get you to t...
by vednig on Saturday April 11, 2026 @01:54AM
(#47727840)
> with reference to original text written in the blog
some random thoughts on it and facts about it being literally infinitesimally low chance that this would ever occur irrespective of the fact that somehow it did
Re:A compelling title that is cryptic enough to get you to t...
by alfiedotwtf on Saturday April 11, 2026 @02:48AM
(#47728123)
An opposing comment that is vaguely on-topic only so that the commenter can talk about themselves and their n=1 experience that they incorrectly extrapolate onto everyone else in the world
Re:A compelling title that is cryptic enough to get you to t...
by bryanrasmussen on Saturday April 11, 2026 @03:51AM
(#47728441)
Since I haven't actually read the article I'm just going to note that the title obviously wasn't cryptic enough to get me to take action on it; I'm not saying this to brag, the brag is totally accidental like.
Describing its own structure,
Hoping for upvotes.
Bonus mention of a pg essay which the commenter clearly only read the title of.
[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47727104
Bad faith argument that could only be made by not reading further into the article or cutting the quote off before it answers the exact question/argument posed here.
[0] https://medium.com/@hondanhon/this-is-a-think-piece-78618692...
http://bradconte.com/files/misc/HackerNewsParodyThread/
Discussion (589 points, 189 comments):
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5326511
A reminder that saying Hacker News is turning into Reddit is explicitly against the rules here, delivered in an unnecessarily condescending manner.
It is especially effective because he is doing all the things he is describing at a high level.
Fill the rest of the article assuming this is the readers first day on planet earth. Like, an article about a CPU architecture should start with the early history of mathematics.
Fox News used to be awful in this respect, with ledes such as "(Important thing) happens in (unnamed city)". Now they name the city. So that trick apparently backfired. It seems to have died out, along with "One weird trick..." articles.
New York Times opinion articles, though, have become worse. Today, "This May Be the Most Important Medical Story of the Decade". It's not.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G025oxyWv0E
> Please don't complain about tangential annoyances—e.g. article or website formats, name collisions, or back-button breakage. They're too common to be interesting.
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
A second paragraph vaguely taking aim at every common framework and library used and why they're all the real fundamental problem.
> On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups.
>Fletcher Munson: [sunnily, on homecoming] Generic greeting!
>Mrs. Munson: [warmly] Generic greeting returned!
>[they kiss and chuckle at each other]
>Fletcher Munson: Imminent sustenance.
>Mrs. Munson: Overly dramatic statement regarding upcoming meal.
>Fletcher Munson: Oooh! False reaction indicating hunger and excitement!
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0117561/quotes/
The article itself was in fact delightful once I zoomed out a bunch.
----
Title of the song
Naive expression of love
Reluctance to accept that you are gone
Request to turn back time and rectify my wrongs
Repetition of the title of the song
> a quote from the article
A link to something relevant or interesting to add or support a point [1]
An opinionated comment or personal anecdote.
[1] the link from above
> An opinionated comment or personal anecdote.
Counter opinion or added nuance. [1]
[1] A link for support or to demonstrate a counterexample.
Group 1: A thinly veiled straw man that buckets everyone I disagree with, along with an attempt to appear as if I'm being unbiased
Group 2: The group I put myself in and provide better arguments for why this perspective is correct.
Vague motte and bailey statement that gives me plausible deniability when someone criticizes my analysis.
I did enjoy this, though. Even the title worked.
A niche reference almost no one gets, except one
Have you seen cases where timing mattered more than the message itself?
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
a secondary comment explicitly explaining why this comment’s author downvoted the parent.
That wasn’t a comment about up/downvotes. It was a comment without up/downvotes.]
Oh. What? How did I get here? No comment here.
Continuation of the thoughts from the first paragraph and repetition, because either I forgot what I had and had not written, but also because the flow of the thought naturally brings me back to the main thesis, as if solving a mathematical problem and then going backwards to the original problem statement with a different technique for verification. Deranged poorly formatted comment that only barely connects to the topic at hand, which I only read the first part of anyways.
Also that: I never saw HN being so playful before.
Selective Study Confirms Already Held Prejudice.
It makes a good companion to;
Outlier Study Upends Conventional Wisdom.
A Technical Blog Post by a Big Name Expert - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5326511 - March 2013 (189 comments)
A compelling title that is cryptic enough to get you to take action on it - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43219556 - Feb 2025 (112 comments)
A Hacker News thread where every comment describes itself - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38451203 - Nov 2023 (74 comments)
A request for others to add to the list.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47721995
(Are sentences like this akin to literary quines? The sentence describes its own purpose/function, while also fulfilling that function. It feels like constructing one should be easy, but ends up being harder than it looks.)
some random thoughts on it and facts about it being literally infinitesimally low chance that this would ever occur irrespective of the fact that somehow it did
<insert favorite bigoted insult here>