@tete called it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44262324
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Shame on the author. I clicked the "cats" link in the header only to find out it's short for categories. Boo.
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I think the addition of "comments" on webpage is more of a cruse than a blessing.
It is! For the latest incarnation of my blog I forwent comments in favor of a simple mailto: link at the bottom of each post which prefills the email subject with the post's title. I've had significantly fewer interactions with readers this way, but they've also been much more meaningful and insightful. There is a performative nature to public forums of any kind--and HN is not immune to this--that stifles any genuine discussion, or drowns it in a sea of attention-seekers.
Yes, I am aware of the hypocritical irony of complaining about online comments in an online comment.
I appreciate a good "AI" hate session as much as the next man, but these people would have had to be rescued no matter what tool they used to plan their trip, as long as the one tool they should have used--their brain--was apparently already on vacation ahead of them.