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

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JRandomHacker42 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

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"

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geophph 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

By this point I’m not sure why everyone isn’t in “default satire” mode.

	▲	FridgeSeal an hour ago \| parent [-]
		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.

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unknownfuture 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Cognitive surrender evidencing itself en masse? :D

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mlyle 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

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.

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jibal 3 hours ago | parent [-]

Just below the title are the tags "package-managers security satire ai"

	▲	mlyle an hour ago \| parent [-]
		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.

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jibal 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

And immediately below the title are the tags "package-managers security satire ai"