Comment by xandrius
4 hours ago
Great write-up.
Side note: interesting to see how many folks commenting did not get it being satire (even the title has LGTM). I guess it's time to rethink how sharp the HN folks truly are compared to the average non-tech person (not that I had any big assumptions myself).
I'm curious about this recipe for chevre :D
HN has a big blind spot, in my opinion, around writing that isn't "purely technical". I've seen several cases of commenter complaining about "clickbait" for a blog post that I'd describe as "having a narrative hook and structure"
I also find it frustrating that articles expressing personality spicier than “safe for work milquetoast” are treated like out of pocket ranting.
By this point I’m not sure why everyone isn’t in “default satire” mode.
This is usually my default position, but apparently that “gas town” article was Real and Serious and Distinctly Not Satire, and I started to feel reality fragmenting underneath me.
Cognitive surrender evidencing itself en masse? :D
I read it and saw LGTM and URL and was like "probably satire" but could not rule out it being real until like 30% in.
It's like a modern version of Poe's law.
Just below the title are the tags "package-managers security satire ai"
Yah well, I don't read all front-matter like that. Most of the time it's noise. Count it in the stuff that becomes cognitively invisible, like banner ads.
And immediately below the title are the tags "package-managers security satire ai"