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Is it me, or have HN submissions gotten shorter and shorter recently? At this rate, top-scoring articles will consist of a single word in a few years.
by quotemstr 5mo ago
Is it me, or have HN submissions gotten shorter and shorter recently? At this rate, top-scoring articles will consist of a single word in a few years.
- darepublic 5mo agoThis title makes you want to click the article. Other titles that give away the lede influence people to just directly hit the comments section
- AndrewKemendo 5mo agoTo wit: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48368059 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48368059 There’s basically no content in that one At least this one has reasonable content
- wl 5mo agoWhat little content is in that one is a quote by a fraudster.
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- toast0 5mo agoCould be worse. They could have padded this out a ton with emojis and dashes.
- officialchicken 5mo agoIt's already about 85%: (Look at) me - with charts. We can replace those with TikTok dances instead.
- hoppyhoppy2 5mo agoI'd rather have a short article than a short article that was fed into an LLM to be expanded into a long one that says very little. But yeah, when I seek truly "intellectually gratifying" material I usually log off of HN and read a book.
- MarsIronPI 5mo agoYes.
- prmph 5mo agoNo, there is something intellectual gratifying about short pieces that contain so much depth and layers the more you think about them. It is not the length of a price of writing that determines how good it is, the same way lines of code does not an effective program make. To be able to say a lot with fewer words is impressive
- dapperdrake 5mo agoLet me LLM-expand that for you…
- nunez 5mo agoTwitter submissions have been a thing for a long time here