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Here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headlines https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headline...
by sombremesa 6y ago
Here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headlines https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headline...
- deleted 6y ago[deleted]
- tomjakubowski 6y agothe New Betteridge's Law: any article posted to Hacker News whose headline is phrased as a yes/no question will eventually get a comment like this.
- mseepgood 6y agoand rightly so
- sombremesa 6y agoSorry, forgot that comment quality on HN needs to be just slightly worse than Youtube comments.
- karmakaze 6y agoAlso any headline given as X in the last Y, for large X, means X in the last Y+1, e.g. 7 of the last 9 means 7 of the last 10 or it would have read 8 of the last 10.