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Slow and steady, this poem will win your heart
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- mrholme 1y agoNot an affiliate, nor a fan of nytimes.. Not sure why the title was changed and the context removed from the submission. I was highlighting an interesting ux where the review of the poem appears in context to the verses. And I could skip login in my private window in brave.
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- tomhow 1y agoYou seem to be a new contributor to HN, so, welcome! It's our policy and well-established convention here that we use the same title as the original article, with the only exception being if the original title is misleading or baity, in which case we'll try and lift an appropriate phrase from the article (including the URL, or a subtitle, or a photo caption). A title that editorializes or makes a meta-commentary about the article is against that policy. It's nothing personal! We make these changes to titles every day, and over the years we've found it serves our purposes very well.
- evertedsphere 1y agoalso, you can leave a comment on your own post highlighting what you found interesting about the link
- mrholme 1y agoThanks..my bad for not going through the rules on titles..
- pvg 1y agoThis is a long-settled HN practice - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10178989 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10178989
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- tomhow 1y agoWe know it's an imperfect solution but it's the least-worst solution. We'd lose far more than we'd gain if we banned all paywalled content, as it's such a huge share of the total body of content (esp. when weighted by masthead prominence and traffic) on the web. But it's also a policy that it doesn't belong on HN if there's no easy way around the paywall. We don't want to list anything that's not freely accessible for everyone, reasonably easily.
- neonate 1y agohttps://archive.md/MeXgh https://archive.md/MeXgh
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- tptacek 1y agoWhy this poem in particular?
- mrholme 1y agoIt is not about the particular poem.. It was about the innovative ux aporoach of showing the poem stanza in context of the review.. but unfortunately the archive link strips this javascript feature. Try opening the page in private or alternate browser and If you are able to bypass the paywall, you can enjoy it.
- b0a04gl 1y agoyeah i got what it was going for eventually, but tbh it was annoying at first. the scroll interaction wasn’t clear and it broke the reading flow. felt more like a bug than a feature until i slowed down and figured it out. the context jumps were jarring too. didn’t really help with continuity.
- goldfeld 1y ago> until i slowed down Maybe the poem has a message
- mcphage 1y ago> It is not about the particular poem. The particular poem itself is also quite nice.
- p3rls 1y agoSome things are best left to a youtube production team.
- IncreasePosts 1y agoA gift link was posted in this thread
- js2 1y agoWhy not? > Because even as this poem is about what it’s like to be a turtle, it’s also about what it’s like for a turtle to be a metaphor. And — you could say therefore — about how looking at (or as) a turtle illuminates what it’s like to be a person, a woman, a poet.
- js2 1y agoGift link: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/06/12/books/kay-ryan-turtle-poem.html?unlocked_article_code=1.Ok8.mwqo.AKACHx5iMRF0&smid=url-share https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/06/12/books/kay-rya...
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- dctoedt 1y ago> NYtimes are testing their new AI's summarization capabilities? It's attributed to A.O. Scott, who's been around for awhile. https://www.nytimes.com/by/a-o-scott https://www.nytimes.com/by/a-o-scott
- idiotsecant 1y agoThe text of the story does seem AI-ish, but I think the idea is that this story has a somewhat unique presentation. I don't understand why it's on HN frontpage, exactly, but it is pretty innovative for the NY Times.
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- b0a04gl 1y ago>She lives below luck-level, never imagining some lottery will change her load of pottery to wings. nails the mindset where imagining change doesn’t even happen. it’s not about failing to win. it’s about never thinking you’re in the draw. that kind of mental floor sits deep.
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- spiderfarmer 1y agoThat’s why I like poems that adhere to a specific structure.
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- darepublic 1y agoPatience, the sport of truly chastened things
- jihadjihad 1y agoPoem itself is from 1994. If you'd like to read the text by itself, you can do so here: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/50611/turtle-56d22dd3f31c2 https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/50611/turtle-56d22dd3...
- dash2 1y agoHere is another poem about a weak, slow creature: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/57076/the-armadillo https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/57076/the-armadillo There is a hint of war in there.
- zem 1y ago"shell-y skylark" was brilliant (:
- Noelia- 1y agoAt first I thought the page was frozen, but then I realized it was designed to make you read one line at a time. It felt a bit awkward at first, but after a while the rhythm started to feel right. You don’t see many websites that ask you to slow down, but for a poem like this, it actually works. It’s not something that grabs you instantly, but if you give it a few quiet minutes, it kind of gets under your skin.