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A compelling title that is cryptic enough to get you to take action on it
- wizardforhire 7mo agoA simple statement of acknowledgement. > a quote from the article A link to something relevant or interesting to add or support a point [1] An opinionated comment or personal anecdote. [1] the link from above
- Redster 7mo ago>> a quote from the article > An opinionated comment or personal anecdote. Counter opinion or added nuance. [1] [1] A link for support or to demonstrate a counterexample.
- zirkonit 7mo agoAn uncalled-for ad hominem that serves to quickly devolve the discussion in opinionated ragebait.
- bensyverson 7mo agoA reply which references neither the parent comment nor the article, but makes a strong and likely negative statement.
- gabeyaw 7mo agoA question that was addressed in the 3rd paragraph of the article
- disgruntledphd2 7mo agoA subtle counterpoint from paragraph seven (7)
- brandonmensing 7mo agoA note of gratitude from a first time poster who tries to take some credit by saying they have always felt the same way
- Eduard 7mo agoA comment at Hacker News which provides a nuanced critique and which gains plenty of upvotes as a lot of users agree to the comment's sentiment.
- sillysaurusx 7mo agoA comment disagreeing with the central argument, presenting factual evidence for why it’s mistaken. Downvoted for an hour before balancing back out to a score of 2.
- mapontosevenths 7mo agoAn irrelevant screed about AI reminding everyone that only organic, free-range, cage free code is completely bug free and perfect every time.
- _doctor_love 7mo agoTu caca, Derrida?
- NonHyloMorph 7mo agoramon156 12 minutes ago | unvote | prev | next [–] A niche reference almost no one gets, except one
- _doctor_love 7mo agoAn appreciative comment making the original niche poster feel seen.
- joshstrange 7mo ago> Cherry-picked quote from the article cut off too early Bad faith argument that could only be made by not reading further into the article or cutting the quote off before it answers the exact question/argument posed here.
- freehorse 7mo agoComment asking the previous commenter in a passive aggressive manner whether they had actually read the article, without providing any further context or counter to the argument made.
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- ninjaranter 7mo agoA comment complaining this was obviously written by an AI, and the standard template is a tell. A philosophical observation about what that says about the state on online discourse. Link to the Dead Internet Wikipedia page.
- Mordisquitos 7mo agoA response appreciating the comment above for saving ones time.
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- tsumnia 7mo agoA bad faith response that attempts to derail the conversation from the original article.
- hperrin 7mo agoA snarky and insulting joke where the above commenter is the butt of the joke, calling attention to the bad faith response.
- euroderf 7mo agoA modest plea for civility.
- cyanydeez 7mo agoOff topic summary of the discourse regarding a pet peeve that litterally no one has.
- irishcoffee 7mo agoA reminded that the riff raff can go to the “other site” when these threads occur.
- zirkonit 7mo agoA comment based on the reading of the title that could only be conceived if the commenter didn't bother to click the article at all.
- mihaic 7mo agoA snide and vitriolic remark that observes on how the first paragraph actually addresses the concern of the person which hasn't read the article. A further continuation on this being representative of the state of modern online discourse.
- stevepotter 7mo agoA condescending put down from someone who has expertise in this area but also didn’t read the article and just felt like feeling superior this morning
- ted_bunny 7mo agoA low-effort continuance of the format of these comments, demolishing the comedic premise and irreparably Redditizing the thread.
- stevepotter 7mo agoWell played
- jasong 7mo agoA poor attempt at joining the convo too late because I don't browse /new like everyone else. No one upvotes, and I question my intelligence for the 3rd time today.
- awkwardpotato 7mo agoA random reply hours later, long after the post has left the front page
- mjmas 7mo agoA second reply that happened because the article reappeared on the front page.
- dgan 7mo agoMotivational comment to remind OP that his life matters, even and especially, in difficult times
- cpfohl 7mo agoAnyone struggle with the large font size? I can only consume about 2 lines, maybe three lines at that size before I struggle with tracking. The article itself was in fact delightful once I zoomed out a bunch.
- stephbook 7mo ago[dead]
- j2kun 7mo agoA comment not about the article, but rather about the perceived quality of the HN comments.
- tomi_dev 7mo agoFeels similar with cold email.I used to think it was mostly about better copy or subject lines, but lately it feels like timing matters way more. Same message, different moment, completely different outcome. Have you seen cases where timing mattered more than the message itself?
- ramon156 7mo agoA niche reference almost no one gets, except one.
- ambicapter 7mo agoA comment haughtily linking to the original appearance of said reference.
- TZubiri 7mo agoComplaining that the joke is ruined, but secretly a way to belong to the in group without actually knowing the joke beforehand
- MathMonkeyMan 7mo agoAdmonishing the joke for excluding some, allegedly, particularly me, as a venue for wider grievences about feeling to be in the out group.
- mhb 7mo agoAn expression of surprise and appreciation that the author, an expert in his field, is actually a HN participant.
- Joeboy 7mo agoAn opinion about the design of the website.
- terramex 7mo agoLink to HN guidelines with following quote pasted below: > Please don't complain about tangential annoyances—e.g. article or website formats, name collisions, or back-button breakage. They're too common to be interesting. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- sunrunner 7mo agoA related comment to mention the perceived good performance of the website and how the web would be much better if such simple and performant designs were more prevalent. A second paragraph vaguely taking aim at every common framework and library used and why they're all the real fundamental problem.
- chrismorgan 7mo agoWhich in this case will be a complaint about the preposterously large font-size, and will be warranted iff the author is in the thread.
- stevekemp 7mo agoAn obvious attempt to insert a link into my own vibe-coded project, in the pretense it is either relevant or related.
- alphawhisky 7mo agoA scathing review of the project in one or two sentences. With no help or improvements to offer.
- ratmeadow 7mo agoA suspiciously upvoted hyperspecific critique of niche features of the project which are not relevant to most users
- stevekemp 7mo agoThanks!!!1!!
- stitched2gethr 7mo agoA question asking how your project compares to x so I don't have to do the research for myself.
- r721 7mo agoReminds me of Schizopolis movie (by Steven Soderbergh): >Fletcher Munson: [sunnily, on homecoming] Generic greeting! >Mrs. Munson: [warmly] Generic greeting returned! >[they kiss and chuckle at each other] >Fletcher Munson: Imminent sustenance. >Mrs. Munson: Overly dramatic statement regarding upcoming meal. >Fletcher Munson: Oooh! False reaction indicating hunger and excitement! https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0117561/quotes/ https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0117561/quotes/
- lostmsu 7mo agoReminds? In a way that's basically a ripoff of the idea just applied to a different topic.
- mellosouls 7mo ago"A Technical Blog Post by a Big Name Expert" (2013) http://bradconte.com/files/misc/HackerNewsParodyThread/ http://bradconte.com/files/misc/HackerNewsParodyThread/ Discussion (589 points, 189 comments): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5326511 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5326511
- cperciva 7mo agoA complaint about the quality of posts and the comments they elicit here, followed by an allegation that Hacker News is turning into Reddit.
- Aurornis 7mo ago> followed by an allegation that Hacker News is turning into Reddit. A reminder that saying Hacker News is turning into Reddit is explicitly against the rules here, delivered in an unnecessarily condescending manner.
- seamossfet 7mo agoA false dichotomy that segments typical replies into one of two groups. Group 1: A thinly veiled straw man that buckets everyone I disagree with, along with an attempt to appear as if I'm being unbiased Group 2: The group I put myself in and provide better arguments for why this perspective is correct. Vague motte and bailey statement that gives me plausible deniability when someone criticizes my analysis.
- Karrot_Kream 7mo agoA comment making a subtle point about something discussed in the middle of the article that languishes near the bottom of the page because nobody read the full article.
- nusl 7mo agoThis seems like a useful reference when asking AI to create content for you, despite the irony
- econ 7mo agoRepeat the title 3 times in the first 3 lines then again as the start of the next paragraph. Fill the rest of the article assuming this is the readers first day on planet earth. Like, an article about a CPU architecture should start with the early history of mathematics.
- saaaaaam 7mo agoA schtick that is at least as old as the internet, revitalised for new audiences who think it is brilliantly original, to make the author look clever.
- cortesoft 7mo agoBlues Traveler wrote a song in this format in the 90s: https://youtu.be/pdz5kCaCRFM?si=qDavEW8o-VFbYLDF https://youtu.be/pdz5kCaCRFM?si=qDavEW8o-VFbYLDF It is especially effective because he is doing all the things he is describing at a high level.
- salomon812 7mo agoA sentence remarking this concept was implemented in a different media. ---- Title of the song Naive expression of love Reluctance to accept that you are gone Request to turn back time and rectify my wrongs Repetition of the title of the song
- throwanem 7mo ago...sheesh.
- CephalopodMD 7mo agoA link to the HN discussion from when this was already posted here 6 months ago, possibly to be helpful, but also possibly as an attempt to admonish others for not knowing this is a repost.
- ijk 7mo agoAn ouwardly earnest reminder that reposts are explicitly encouraged on HN, but disingenuously omitting to mention the "after 12 months" part of that.
- boznz 7mo agoI guess I am too honest to go down the click-bait title stuff. I would love to get more traffic too my web site, but not this way. I prefer to write up interesting hardware of software projects, but i'm in the middle of writing another sci-fi epic and there are only so many projects you can juggle :-)
- nothinkjustai 7mo agoA comment pointing out that this submission and/or comment section break the HN rules, which are selectively ignored by the VC mods.
- throw_47720827 7mo agoA heavily downvoted comment from a new account registered specifically to comment on this link.
- abstractbill 7mo agoA complaint asking what this has to do with hackers or hacking.
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- ajkjk 7mo agoI for one am not playing along I did enjoy this, though. Even the title worked.
- Animats 7mo agoIn other words, clickbait. Fox News used to be awful in this respect, with ledes such as "(Important thing) happens in (unnamed city)". Now they name the city. So that trick apparently backfired. It seems to have died out, along with "One weird trick..." articles. New York Times opinion articles, though, have become worse. Today, "This May Be the Most Important Medical Story of the Decade". It's not.
- ricksunny 7mo agorrrrf cd se bbc emrrw
- throwpoaster 7mo agoA comment that takes a second to realize it’s a troll.
- olivia-banks 7mo ago"If Educational Videos Were Filmed Like Music Videos" - Tom Scott https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G025oxyWv0E https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G025oxyWv0E
- erelong 7mo ago"titlemaxxing" / "clickbaitmaxxing"
- danhon 7mo agoThis should be read in conjunction with a think piece[0] [0] https://medium.com/@hondanhon/this-is-a-think-piece-78618692b9b9?source=friends_link&sk=73ab57a31973c6cf9f0005ebf107a674 https://medium.com/@hondanhon/this-is-a-think-piece-78618692...
- vivid242 7mo agoCan I also post a question that is actually answering itself?
- Nevermark 7mo agoDownvotes. Greyed out text. For no explicable reason.
- praash 7mo agoAllegation of severe HN censorship. Further speculation on the political motives inside Y Combinator.
- dijksterhuis 7mo agoa condescending note about not commenting about votes on comments https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html a secondary comment explicitly explaining why this comment’s author downvoted the parent.
- Nevermark 7mo ago[Breaking the Wall: That wasn’t a comment about up/downvotes. It was a comment without up/downvotes.] Oh. What? How did I get here? No comment here.
- Headwig 7mo agoA comment going along with the joke of the article, but in a meta way. Thusly creating a meta context loop that needs to be addressed.
- nkmnz 7mo agoA comment about how this could be achieved using rsync instead.
- noman-land 7mo agoA link to the infamous Dropbox comment.
- TZubiri 7mo agoDeranged comment that has only a vague connection to the article topic, but allows me to explore a thought that I had beforehand, poorly formatted and stream-of-consciousnessy because this is not a blog post or even a linkedin article, it's a random comment buried in the depths of the internet and I wrote it for myself. Continuation of the thoughts from the first paragraph and repetition, because either I forgot what I had and had not written, but also because the flow of the thought naturally brings me back to the main thesis, as if solving a mathematical problem and then going backwards to the original problem statement with a different technique for verification. Deranged poorly formatted comment that only barely connects to the topic at hand, which I only read the first part of anyways.
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- Nevermark 7mo agoA link to a web archived version of the paywalled original.
- Nevermark 7mo agoA thoughtful witty self-effacing on point comment. Which for some reason gets no upvotes. No downvotes. No follow up comments.
- smitty1e 7mo agoFull-throated denunciation of anyone who can't see the marionette strings of Big Conspiracy behind all of this.
- Nevermark 7mo agoA weak argument which suggests there is a strong parallel to a famous 20th century expansionist totalitarian.
- wavemode 7mo agoA comment dismissing the author's problem as irrelevant since AI agents will soon be able to solve it for us.
- nout 7mo agoUnrelated comment nudging people to use nostr instead of the centralized established solution.
- beemboy 7mo agoA note from the original author, possibly even a minor nerd celebrity, expressing surprise at this making the HN page and gratitude for those that rediscovered and reposted it.
- stevepotter 7mo agoPraise about one their older projects that I used in the good ol’ days
- wiredfool 7mo agoIt goes like this, the fourth, the fifth The minor falls, the major lifts
- tnelsond4 7mo agoComment that starts a completely unrelated rabbit trail.
- MathMonkeyMan 7mo ago600 descendant comments that obscure the main thread.
- CompoundEyes 7mo agoA comment from a representative of the company getting raked over the coals in the article and discussion in an attempt at damage control.
- johnfn 7mo agoThe best part about this is that the title "A compelling title that is cryptic enough to get you to take action on it" is perfectly self-descriptive.
- brumar 7mo agoA comment overgeneralizing the current comments trend to then write something less conformant. Also that: I never saw HN being so playful before.
- Garlef 7mo agoThe countless times I've read an article that starts with the description of a researcher drinking their morning coffee...
- rolandog 7mo agoA suspiciously highly upvoted psyop disguised as lengthy diatribe authoritatively waxing poetic in a tone that conflates the thing that has been linked with everything that is wrong with humanity but that can be boiled down to empty platitudes that end up tiring the average reader and successfully prevents more people from engaging with the content.
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- Jerrrrrrrry 7mo ago[dead]
- Lerc 7mo agoI liked this as much as; Selective Study Confirms Already Held Prejudice. It makes a good companion to; Outlier Study Upends Conventional Wisdom.
- andromaton 7mo agoA post by dang about related posts: A Technical Blog Post by a Big Name Expert - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5326511 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5326511 - March 2013 (189 comments) A compelling title that is cryptic enough to get you to take action on it - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43219556 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43219556 - Feb 2025 (112 comments) A Hacker News thread where every comment describes itself - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38451203 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38451203 - Nov 2023 (74 comments) A request for others to add to the list.
- andromaton 7mo agoA post thanking dang for his tireless moderation work.
- andromaton 7mo agoA post agreeing, adding a personal anecdote about a gentle nudge received years ago that the commenter still thinks about.
- acidtechno303 7mo agoA comment trying to get a response from dang regarding the recent viral Sam Altman thread
- mellosouls 7mo agoA passive-aggressive reminder that link was already posted earlier in the thread implying you should have credited it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47721995 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47721995
- andromaton 7mo agoA comment noting that the submitter has posted this exact link multiple times in the last six months.
- andromaton 7mo agoA commenter pointing out that the article is implicitly US-centric
- k1t 7mo agoA tedious response highlighting that YC is a US investment group and that US-centric articles should be expected.
- andromaton 7mo agoA comment explaining that this has long been a solved problem in some other language or domain
- andromaton 7mo agoA comment noting the article is from YYYY and asking if the mods can add (YYYY) to the title.
- andromaton 7mo agoA highly voted comment that seems insightful if you don't know the domain but amateurish if you do.
- andromaton 7mo agoA comment from someone who knows or knew the author or was part of the project sharing details that makes readers feel like they've just been handed backstage passes.
- andromaton 7mo ago[dead]
- metronomer 7mo agoA comment commenting all the comments that do not comment on themselves.
- supliminal 7mo ago[dead]
- gbibas 7mo agoVery Meta and very cool. Well written
- theopsimist 7mo agohttp://archive.today/yYCdT http://archive.today/yYCdT
- Cider9986 7mo agoA comment questioning the ethics of linking to an archive that DDosed the person who doxed him.
- clevor 7mo agoAn unhelpful comment left by a user who only read a few sentences of the blog post.
- Liftyee 7mo agoAn unnecessarily long comment that rambles on about a simple core point, that could be summed up in one sentence but has excessive detail added to ensure that everyone gets it. (Are sentences like this akin to literary quines? The sentence describes its own purpose/function, while also fulfilling that function. It feels like constructing one should be easy, but ends up being harder than it looks.)
- olmo23 7mo agoA short reply without much substance
- vednig 7mo ago> with reference to original text written in the blog some random thoughts on it and facts about it being literally infinitesimally low chance that this would ever occur irrespective of the fact that somehow it did
- nathanallen 7mo agoNow showing at a theater near you! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=602xKn3G1TI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=602xKn3G1TI
- Agentlien 7mo agoA personal anecdote which was on my mind as soon as I read the title but doesn't relate to the actual topic at hand.
- alfiedotwtf 7mo agoAn opposing comment that is vaguely on-topic only so that the commenter can talk about themselves and their n=1 experience that they incorrectly extrapolate onto everyone else in the world
- bryanrasmussen 7mo agoSince I haven't actually read the article I'm just going to note that the title obviously wasn't cryptic enough to get me to take action on it; I'm not saying this to brag, the brag is totally accidental like.
- TonyTrapp 7mo agoCharlie Brooker's How to Report the News: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aHun58mz3vI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aHun58mz3vI
- heliumtera 7mo agoOrange reddit is ded
- stevepotter 7mo agoA link to a project that does the exact same thing, except it’s built with Rust
- homeonthemtn 7mo agoKneejerk contrarian response
- LocalH 7mo agoA shitty comment that pisses people off enough that it gets flagged to death <insert favorite bigoted insult here>
- OhMeadhbh 7mo agoA comment supposedly adding to the discussion but is really a shallow attempt to drive traffic to my website.