I know this is unrelated to the actual content, but I have such a visceral reaction to any headline in the "x is different than you think"... how do you know what I think? I am sure many people who read this will be experts on tides, and the title is completely wrong.

For me, the worst are posts about scale and things I won't need, like "You don't need kafka" or "your data isn't actually big data" or "don't horizontally scale, just get a bigger server"

I get that I am not the target audience and there are people for whom those statements are true, but I am running Kafka clusters with data from 10s of thousands of servers, I absolutely can't move that to a single machine.

I wish they would phrase it as "Tides are weirder than most people think", although that probably doesn't drive as much engagement.

Because if someone says "one" it sounds affected.

It is property of English language where "you" is used in place of "one" very often. This is particularly common in American English which has less formality to it; less Frenchiness. No 'on' etc. Everyone is 'tu'.

It is language quirk, but you can probably use LLM to replace HN headlines like this. Pretty cheap and one will no longer have visceral reaction that one does not wish.