Hey, guy who's been here for a couple days and has never written a comment more than 50 words long who just flagged a J Kenji Lopez-Alt story --- written by probably the best food writer on the web today --- about something you can actually do at In-N-Out burger, an SFBA hacker moth-light?

I just flagged your comment.

I suspect my flag will have about as much impact as yours, but, like yours, it sure made me feel better.

Welcome to Hacker News. We like articles like this.

Oh come on! I enjoyed that immensely and if it wasn't on HN I would have never knew about it. As a native Californian I feel truly well-equipped now. I had known about the Animal styles, and extra meats, but almost everything else is unbelievably new. BTW, another trick I learned which wasn't mentioned in the article is dipping your fries in your milkshake. Try it, trust me.

The article isn't worth flagging over the submitter's poor title choice. I prefer the real title of the article because it actually tells you what you're going to read: "The Ultimate In-N-Out Secret Menu (and Super Secret Menu!) Survival Guide."

There is actual hacking involved.

Per the definition: "Hacking (English verb to hack, singular noun a hack) refers to the re-configuring or re-programming of a system to function in ways not facilitated by the owner, administrator, or designer"

The owner (or in n out burger corporate) would like you to enjoy from a very limited menu. The article writer was attempting to circumvent that and use the underlying system in a different manner to produce other results.

A better title would be "Gratifying My Intellectual Curiosity Regarding In-n-Out". It still pleads relevance to HN, and is even more difficult to argue to be inaccurate.

Read this: http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

>On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.

Lots of hackers eat In-N-Out, the 'secret menu' is something that's pretty interesting. I learned something out of this, and while it wasn't entirely highbrow or technically complex, I'm still glad it was posted to HN.

This kind of reminds me of the story in Steven Levy's "Hackers" about how the early MIT AI Lab hackers learned the ins and outs of Chinese-language menus that were not intended for non-Chinese at Chinese restaurants (this at a time when egg rolls were still sort of exotic).