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As ridiculous as what he did is, ironically the post itself does constitute a germane HN link: 1. He describes a social engineering experiment (a kind of hacki
by phaedrus 16y ago
As ridiculous as what he did is, ironically the post itself does constitute a germane HN link:
1. He describes a social engineering experiment (a kind of hacking).
2. It's partially about the interesting idea of organizing your writing so that two different readers will interpret the same text different ways. (Literary steganography?)
3. What better way to for HN readers to respond to this than to dispassionately analyze it and then move on? The fact that he used HN and reddit itsef as part of a hack is amusingly recursive - and also irrelevant.