The 950+ results returned from searching HN for the term [0] would suggest that, contrary to your thesis, Hacker News readers do, in fact, appreciate one liners

The 950+ results returned from searching HN for the term [0] would suggest that, contrary to your thesis, Hacker News readers do, in fact, appreciate one liners quite a bit -- just take a look at these examples: - Also, awk has a fun way of parsing input, which makes for very enjoyable one liners [1] - In Vim, configuration is a bunch of one-liners and I love that. [2] (As for your other point, however, i.e. whether HN readers appreciate humorous comments, sadly, I'm not sure how we could go about determining that...) [0] https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Anews.ycombinator.com+"one+liners" https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Anews.ycombinator.com+... [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8894231 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8894231 [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7303266 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7303266