While I would agree, I am a programmer, as are many other HN commenters, and even those who aren't are the sort of people who are ok with being on a forum fille

While I would agree, I am a programmer, as are many other HN commenters, and even those who aren't are the sort of people who are ok with being on a forum filled with a bunch of programmers. That "garbage" might actually be more readable to a different slice of the public, that finds the "dry" parts so boring as to be unreadable. Just a hypothesis, I have no data to back that up, but maybe some people find the term paper more digestible with a little perfume?