2 ms·

This announcement of an announcement is very important for people looking to buy a GPU now.

• dang 6y ago
  Fair point, but we have to go for the global optimum, which is having the most interesting front page. That means sacrificing local optima, so you may be right that there isn't zero harm in waiting. Most of the people you mention (at least the ones who read HN) are probably googling for GPU information, though, so I doubt there will be too many GPU purchase disasters. The trouble with "announcement of an announcement" posts isn't just that they're unsubstantive and lead to generic discussions (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sort=byDate&type=comment&query=generic%20discussion%20by:dang https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...). It's also that when the real announcement is made, we end up with a duplicate thread. I suppose this follows from the competing interests of the publishers and this forum. Their interest is to copy the same information to as many places as possible; our interest is to deduplicate it.