Yeah but it's not Reddit, it's HN. You have to know your audience, read the crowd. On Reddit it's 90% sarcasm so there's no fixing it. Here it's the reverse and people take things seriously without a tell. You just have to bury the tell in another joke or it will ruin the funny.
"given that software can't [ridiculous thing no one has ever claimed]" is plenty for a tell.
Just the fact that this “fix” exists tells you some people believe differently.
If you can’t discern the joke, the joke isn’t for you to begin with; so it doesn’t matter.