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Comment by ewfwfewefewfwef | Hacker News Reader

One of those hidden gold comments that make me read comments in the first place.

Maybe that's just me, but I read hackernews comments for the usually insightful additional information and related discussions that are often more interesting than the article itself.

GP comment provides no useful information nor sparks interesting discussion related to the topic. It's better suited for reddit than hn.

> GP comment provides no useful information nor sparks interesting discussion

I disagree. Turns out, that there is a LOT of collected specimens that nobody ever looked at closely. We've seen this a lot in terms of biology, archaeology, anthropology, astronomy, even mathematics. Something some found ages ago, and said, "Huh, that's interesting ..." then logged it away, just shows that there is much more science to be done.

You've been wooshed, the comment was a joke about computer shells like "sh".

It's the top comment for me, I'm not sure if people are upvoting because they got the joke or upvoting because they missed the joke.

Makes sense. If I’m collecting data to look for exoplanet transits, I might go “wow, weird” if I get some strange light curve, but then not really follow up on it since I’m busy looking for exoplanets and only have so much time with the scope.

Seeing shell in the title and then going "haha computers have shells too, such comedy" is a pretty low bar for "hidden gold".

I prefer we leave such knee-slappingly advanced humor on r/funny where it can be truly appreciated.

One of Paul Graham's essays cites the "dumb joke" as the #1 pollutant of discussion threads. Might be "What I've Learned from Hacker News", February 2009, though alas Firefox won't load the article due to untrusted encryption.

https://paulgraham.com/hackernews.html

works without encryption:

http://paulgraham.com/hackernews.html

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