A compelling title that is cryptic enough to get you to take action on it

A Technical Blog Post by a Big Name Expert - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5326511 - March 2013 (189 comments)

A compelling title that is cryptic enough to get you to take action on it - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43219556 - Feb 2025 (112 comments)

A Hacker News thread where every comment describes itself - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38451203 - Nov 2023 (74 comments)

A request for others to add to the list.

Bad faith argument that could only be made by not reading further into the article or cutting the quote off before it answers the exact question/argument posed here.

http://bradconte.com/files/misc/HackerNewsParodyThread/

Discussion (589 points, 189 comments):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5326511

Fill the rest of the article assuming this is the readers first day on planet earth. Like, an article about a CPU architecture should start with the early history of mathematics.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G025oxyWv0E

  It goes like this, the fourth, the fifth
  The minor falls, the major lifts

Continuation of the thoughts from the first paragraph and repetition, because either I forgot what I had and had not written, but also because the flow of the thought naturally brings me back to the main thesis, as if solving a mathematical problem and then going backwards to the original problem statement with a different technique for verification. Deranged poorly formatted comment that only barely connects to the topic at hand, which I only read the first part of anyways.

(Are sentences like this akin to literary quines? The sentence describes its own purpose/function, while also fulfilling that function. It feels like constructing one should be easy, but ends up being harder than it looks.)

Also that: I never saw HN being so playful before.

> a quote from the article

A link to something relevant or interesting to add or support a point [1]

An opinionated comment or personal anecdote.

[1] the link from above

[0] https://medium.com/@hondanhon/this-is-a-think-piece-78618692...

The article itself was in fact delightful once I zoomed out a bunch.

>Fletcher Munson: [sunnily, on homecoming] Generic greeting!

>Mrs. Munson: [warmly] Generic greeting returned!

>[they kiss and chuckle at each other]

>Fletcher Munson: Imminent sustenance.

>Mrs. Munson: Overly dramatic statement regarding upcoming meal.

>Fletcher Munson: Oooh! False reaction indicating hunger and excitement!

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0117561/quotes/

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Title of the song

Naive expression of love

Reluctance to accept that you are gone

Request to turn back time and rectify my wrongs

Repetition of the title of the song

some random thoughts on it and facts about it being literally infinitesimally low chance that this would ever occur irrespective of the fact that somehow it did

<insert favorite bigoted insult here>

Selective Study Confirms Already Held Prejudice.

It makes a good companion to;

Outlier Study Upends Conventional Wisdom.

I did enjoy this, though. Even the title worked.

Group 1: A thinly veiled straw man that buckets everyone I disagree with, along with an attempt to appear as if I'm being unbiased

Group 2: The group I put myself in and provide better arguments for why this perspective is correct.

Vague motte and bailey statement that gives me plausible deniability when someone criticizes my analysis.

Have you seen cases where timing mattered more than the message itself?

Fox News used to be awful in this respect, with ledes such as "(Important thing) happens in (unnamed city)". Now they name the city. So that trick apparently backfired. It seems to have died out, along with "One weird trick..." articles.

New York Times opinion articles, though, have become worse. Today, "This May Be the Most Important Medical Story of the Decade". It's not.