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It's missing a top-level post which makes an analogy, which turns into a ten-deep thread of people arguing entirely about the analogy, the friendly article having been completely forgotten.
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I don’t understand if I should click or press [-] What does it do?
Don't do it! If I understand it correctly, every time you use it, it takes away one of your valuable internet points.
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In 10 years of reading hacker news I never thought to press the [-] until this moment.
I always assumed [-] subtracted a point from that comment.
But as another comment mentioned, you can click root | parent | prev | next to get navigated through the thread. Personally, I prefer the collapse, though, as having the top of my screen move without my direct control is a bit jarring, but there's more functionality from these buttons.
Damn, I was afraid this was going to be someone stealing my genius idea. Gladly it was just tangential to that idea. Idea: Train an ai to construct entire threads based on the input of the title and link. There should be plenty of training material, and frankly I think it would be hilariously similar to the real threads. When new submissions are added to HN, the system will fetch the title and link, and predict the e…
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> In 10 years of reading hacker news I never thought to press the [-] until this moment. I thought you had to click the [-]. How do I press the [-]?
I don’t understand if I should click or press [-] What does it do?
Unrealistic. Not a single person complained about link not working with JavaScript disabled.
How does this compare to X? (where X is an obscure project on github with no documentation of what it's feature boundaries are, has at best 1000 stars and further internet sleuthing suggests its at best only tangentially associated with the original comments domain.
The end result being the author feels obliged to figure it out and reply incase not doing so seems arrogant and/or poorly educated in the domain)
Too bad that n-gate.com stopped updating in mid-2021. It was great for this stuff, and arguably it still is. Edit: Don't miss the usernames in OP's parody thread though, they're just as hard to spot as on actual HN (which is a great feature of this site) but I thought they were the funniest part.
It's missing a top-level post which makes an analogy, which turns into a ten-deep thread of people arguing entirely about the analogy, the friendly article having been completely forgotten.
You could power the earth exclusively on the smug that emits from analogy arguments (or what we call analgruments in the biz).
I would like to learn more about smug-powered systems. Do you have some links I should read?
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That’s what this site is. You’ve been talking to a machine all this time. Do you really think a person would have this much time to argue day in and day out over systemd? That that many people care wherever or not Go has generics and which other languages does them best? That rust somehow is the cure for everything from game engines to the common cold? Think about all the times a “person” stated something was Turing…
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