A compelling title that is cryptic enough to get you to take action on it

Posted by mooreds 3 hours ago

A compelling title that is cryptic enough to get you to take action on it(ericwbailey.website)

97 points | 59 comments

danhon 2 minutes ago|

This should be read in conjunction with a think piece[0]

[0] https://medium.com/@hondanhon/this-is-a-think-piece-78618692...

ninjaranter 2 hours ago||

A 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 1 hour ago||

A response appreciating the comment above for saving ones time.

tsumnia 1 hour ago|||

A bad faith response that attempts to derail the conversation from the original article.

hperrin 37 minutes ago||

A snarky and insulting joke where the above commenter is the butt of the joke, calling attention to the bad faith response.

mckirk 27 minutes ago|||

Nitpicky reply questioning the adherence of OP's comment to HN guidelines.

seamossfet 1 hour ago||

This is why I built [AI slop tool]. [Self promotion link to my vibe coded startup with no users]

jasong 2 hours ago||

A 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 52 minutes ago|

A random reply hours later, long after the post has left the front page

joshstrange 2 hours 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 1 hour ago|

Comment 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.

Eduard 2 hours ago||

A 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 1 hour ago|

A 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.

zirkonit 2 hours ago||

A 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 1 hour ago|

A 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.

mellosouls 1 hour ago||

"A Technical Blog Post by a Big Name Expert" (2013)

http://bradconte.com/files/misc/HackerNewsParodyThread/

Discussion (589 points, 189 comments):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5326511

cperciva 1 hour ago||

A complaint about the quality of posts and the comments they elicit here, followed by an allegation that Hacker News is turning into Reddit.

Aurornis 23 minutes 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.

saaaaaam 1 hour ago||

A 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 59 seconds ago|

Blues Traveler wrote a song in this format in the 90s: 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.

Animats 27 minutes ago|

In 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.

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