People want to learn how to manipulate others, not how they themselves were manipulated. The fact that this article which basically just says "I don't try to ma

People want to learn how to manipulate others, not how they themselves were manipulated. The fact that this article which basically just says "I don't try to manipulate you!" has been sitting at the top for a while validates this. When people are done being offended maybe they will realize that there is something to learn from it, whether you agree with it or not. It would be interesting to see how this would have played out if the target of this "hack" had been someone other than the HN community themselves.