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Off-topic on my part here but I think it is so weird that people say “TFA” when referring to the article in the way you are doing. I see this a lot on HN.

IMO it would be natural to use “TFA” in the same way you would use “RTFM” — when you are scolding someone for not having read what they should — but using “TFA” as just a synonym for “the article”... that always throws me off.

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You’re both right and wrong. That is, the... anger? you’re picking up isn’t incorrect, but instead lost in translation.

Back in the /. days, which, as far as I know, is where this comes from, people would use it in this way. “Read TFA.” “Have you read TFA?” “Seems like you haven’t read TFA.” Eventually, that morphed into the usage you see on HN and everything else, as kind of a different version of OP.

One useage grows, another dies off.

In a nice tone, it's "The Featured Article."

Ah, clever, I like that :) Thanks!

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