I'm not telling the author to read the article, I'm telling them to read the actual rules which anticipated this trivial attempt to be clever. Per HN guidelines

I'm not telling the author to read the article, I'm telling them to read the actual rules which anticipated this trivial attempt to be clever. Per HN guidelines [1], it would have been better to do that than to post a shallow dismissal of the idea. The article only contains a paraphrasing of the rules missing these essential details. Per HN guidelines [2], it would have been better to post the original link and avoid the confusion that you now also fell for. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html [1] Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. A good critical comment teaches us something. [2] Please submit the original source. If a post reports on something found on another site, submit the latter. The HN rules aren't terrible, but with no-one actually following them nor having followed them for as long as this site exists I don't see the point in bandying them about to make pointless comments.