I understand the sarcasm but copy pasting a bash or powershell command is faster and less error prone than following the instructions to open menus, dialogs, tabs and clicking buttons, especially in deeply nested UIs.

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g947o 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I don't see how a command line tool with 10 different flags is necessarily less "error prone" than UI. In fact, I have used many tools where a flag is confusing or has conflicts with another flag in an unexpected way, not to mention subtle issues like escaping.

	▲	shevy-java an hour ago \| parent \| next [-]
		It is easier to copy/paste. If the GUI has more than one step people might be confused. Also some GUIs are hard to see or read for people with vision handicaps.
	▲	badc0ffee an hour ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		I once had to pass along to the support team a command for one of our customers to run. It ultimately didn't work because someone along the chain A) autocorrected the spelling of the command name, B) converted the quotation marks to fancy “”, and C) converted the hyphen into some fancy dash.

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einsteinx2 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

You’re preaching to the choir, I’m a heavy terminal user and I agree completely.

	▲	hojofpodge 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I think you are being premature, I'll wait until HN updates the site and someone posts their counter point in dance notation before deciding which medium supports actions that are easiest to communicate about.