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This "9 out of the last 5" quote is the deadest of beaten horses on HN. It shows up at least once a week here, and it is written with such smugness and unorigi

This "9 out of the last 5" quote is the deadest of beaten horses on HN. It shows up at least once a week here, and it is written with such smugness and unoriginality that it makes even dad jokes funny by comparison. Let's cut to the chase and make a bot that posts "9 out of the last 5 recessions, hyuk!" on every post remotely related to finance and be done with it. It is the furthest thing from a substantive comment; it is a recycled low-effort joke in the style of reddit.

hans-moleman 5y ago
9 out of 5 readers cringe at this type of comment. (I’ve never heard of the expression before so I found it amusing)
- SantalBlush 5y ago
  I agree that it's amusing the first time one reads it. But it is posted here a lot and has become very trite; it probably competes with Hanlon's razor in terms of frequency. After just a cursory search, here are some other examples: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20372163 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20372163 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19995167 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19995167 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22352073 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22352073 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2127845 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2127845 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21023682 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21023682 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14417296 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14417296 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20641031 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20641031 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17266452 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17266452 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9476984 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9476984 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20656629 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20656629 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1628716 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1628716
greesil 5y ago
My interpretation is that it's not a joke, but instead a way to convey the heuristic can have false positives.

hans-moleman 5y ago

9 out of 5 readers cringe at this type of comment. (I’ve never heard of the expression before so I found it amusing)

SantalBlush 5y ago
I agree that it's amusing the first time one reads it. But it is posted here a lot and has become very trite; it probably competes with Hanlon's razor in terms of frequency. After just a cursory search, here are some other examples: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20372163 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20372163 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19995167 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19995167 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22352073 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22352073 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2127845 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2127845 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21023682 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21023682 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14417296 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14417296 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20641031 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20641031 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17266452 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17266452 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9476984 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9476984 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20656629 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20656629 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1628716 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1628716

greesil 5y ago

My interpretation is that it's not a joke, but instead a way to convey the heuristic can have false positives.