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Security researcher publishes guide to predictable Hacker News comments

Czarnecki posts satirical guide to Hacker News commenting patterns

Security researcher Łukasz Czarnecki posted to Mastodon a satirical breakdown of recurring comment patterns on Hacker News, highlighting how commenters often quote the weakest tangential sentence and dismiss articles without engaging with the main thesis.

Czarnecki posts satirical guide to Hacker News commenting patterns
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“SKILL.md for commenting on Hacker News: 1) Read the article. 2) Find and quote the weakest sentence. Must be tangential to the main thesis. 3) "This makes me not want to read the article."”

Łukasz Czarnecki

Łukasz Czarnecki Security researcher, creator

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