I absolutely understand the sentiment, but LWN is a second-to-none publication that on this rare occasion couldn't resist the joke, and also largely plays to an audience who will immediately understand that it's tongue-in-cheek.

Speaking as a subscriber of about two decades who perhaps wouldn't have a career without the enormous amount of high-quality education provided by LWN content, or at least a far lesser one: Let's forgive.

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zengid 6 hours ago | parent | next [-]

He didn't intend it as a joke and his intent matches the op's title revision request: https://lwn.net/Articles/1049840/

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DrammBA 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

> on this rare occasion couldn't resist the joke

It was unintentional as per author

> Ouch. That is what I get for pushing something out during a meeting, I guess. That was not my point; the experiment is done, and it was a success. I meant no more than that.

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DANmode 5 hours ago | parent [-]

The “Ouch.” was in reference to being compared to Phoronix.

Has anyone found them to be inaccurate, or fluffy to the point it degraded the content?

I haven’t - but then again, probably predominantly reading the best posts being shared on aggregators.

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		I don't know about the "ouch" but the rest of the comment seems pretty clear that they didn't intend to imply the clickbait.
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	▲	IshKebab 4 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Nah I used to read Phoronix and the articles are a bit clickbaity sometimes but mostly it's fine. The real issue is the reader comments. They're absolute trash.

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b33j0r 7 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Fair. But there’s even an additional difference between snarky clickbait and “giving the exact opposite impression of the truth in a headline” ;)

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nailer 7 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Hacker news generally removes Clickbait titles regardless of the provenance