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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. (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.)
An obvious attempt to insert a link into my own vibe-coded project, in the pretense it is either relevant or related.
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.
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A condescending put down from someone who has expertise in this area but also didn’t read the article and just felt like feeling superior this morning
A low-effort continuance of the format of these comments, demolishing the comedic premise and irreparably Redditizing the thread.
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Downvotes. Greyed out text. For no explicable reason.
a condescending note about not commenting about votes on comments 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.
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.
A complaint asking what this has to do with hackers or hacking.
A mildly annoyed reply quoting the Hacker News Guidelines to point out that: > On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups.