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HN is on the internet, no? Also, HN definitely has a particularly bad headline-only problem, or maybe it just shows worse than some other places because people here have a tendency to ask really basic questions that the article clearly answers.
I think the problem here is that HN has higher standards (and we should keep it that way). Reddit is far worse, but I don't want to deal with all the stupid there.
Does HN have higher standards? Maybe different standards, but I don't know that when it comes to reading the article that HN is much better than Reddit.