Comment by hinterlands

(Note: the original title was "Computer Scientists Figure Out How To Prove Lies" before being changed by the admin)

I honestly think that Quanta Magazine just found the perfect formula to farm HN traffic. The titles are clearly carefully engineered for this audience: not the outright clickbait of university press releases, but vague profoundness that lets us upvote without reading the whole thing and then chime in with tangential anecdotes.

I don't think they're bad people, but I honestly think they end up on the front page multiple times a week not on the quality of the articles alone.