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It takes 60 seconds to read every title on the front page of HN. Nobody is disrespecting your time.

by unclad5968 3y ago

plonk 3y ago
You don’t know how many times a minute I read HN.
- EatingWithForks 3y ago
  Consider you may be the person disrespecting your time
  - dspillett 3y ago
    And they might like to consider that a thread about it is disrespecting other readers time as well as their own :-)
    - plonk 3y ago
      Here’s more disrespect for your, my, and everybody else’s time. Though I was mostly joking. :)
Supermancho 3y ago
The issue was about bait titles. Following links, reading the content (usually partially) and squaring the title with what you can summarize, is an effort. "You Don't Know Jack about Application Performance" has very little information. Is this the title of a talk or blogpost? What runtime is it targeting? Is it because of containerization or hardware issues? Is this about statistics? This is a low quality title. If HN were full of low quality titles, the negative impact of having to weigh through the chaff would be more obvious. Better to just be vigilant and call it out when you see it.
chefandy 3y ago
60 seconds, if that... Because most of the links have genuinely descriptive headlines. If I had to click on each link and skim to see what was on the other end because the headline was about as descriptive as a top-level topic tag, it would take 10 minutes.
davecb 3y ago
Did the tag line "How capacity planners credibly estimate application performance (acm.org)" show up? The ACM series is called "you don't know jack", but the tag line is supposed to distinguish it from all the other "jack" articles. And yes, the series title is not want you want for something like HN.
- chefandy 3y ago
  No— it was "you don't know jack about application performance," which is a nice fun title for the series. The current headline is much more useful totally out of context on HN.
CyberDildonics 3y ago
It probably takes less since most of the titles are a vague half sentence with no context

It takes 60 seconds to read every title on the front page of HN. Nobody is disrespecting your time.

plonk 3y ago

You don’t know how many times a minute I read HN.

EatingWithForks 3y ago
Consider you may be the person disrespecting your time
- dspillett 3y ago
  And they might like to consider that a thread about it is disrespecting other readers time as well as their own :-)
  - plonk 3y ago
    Here’s more disrespect for your, my, and everybody else’s time. Though I was mostly joking. :)

Supermancho 3y ago

The issue was about bait titles. Following links, reading the content (usually partially) and squaring the title with what you can summarize, is an effort. "You Don't Know Jack about Application Performance" has very little information. Is this the title of a talk or blogpost? What runtime is it targeting? Is it because of containerization or hardware issues? Is this about statistics? This is a low quality title. If HN were full of low quality titles, the negative impact of having to weigh through the chaff would be more obvious. Better to just be vigilant and call it out when you see it.

chefandy 3y ago

60 seconds, if that... Because most of the links have genuinely descriptive headlines. If I had to click on each link and skim to see what was on the other end because the headline was about as descriptive as a top-level topic tag, it would take 10 minutes.

davecb 3y ago

Did the tag line "How capacity planners credibly estimate application performance (acm.org)" show up? The ACM series is called "you don't know jack", but the tag line is supposed to distinguish it from all the other "jack" articles. And yes, the series title is not want you want for something like HN.

chefandy 3y ago
No— it was "you don't know jack about application performance," which is a nice fun title for the series. The current headline is much more useful totally out of context on HN.

CyberDildonics 3y ago

It probably takes less since most of the titles are a vague half sentence with no context