(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.)
A compelling title that is cryptic enough to get you to take action on it
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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.
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#122> 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
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#123Now showing at a theater near you! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=602xKn3G1TI
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#124A personal anecdote which was on my mind as soon as I read the title but doesn't relate to the actual topic at hand.
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#125A commenter pointing out that the article is implicitly US-centric
A tedious response highlighting that YC is a US investment group and that US-centric articles should be expected.
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#126An 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
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#128A 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.
A random reply hours later, long after the post has left the front page
A second reply that happened because the article reappeared on the front page.
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#129A 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.
An xkcd link summarising large number of all points discussed
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#130Since 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.