I don't understand this response. You are proud you didn't read the article? Does it add any value to the conversation to just pull out one sentence and react to it out of context?

The only thing I can think of is that HN rewards early responses with more karma, so people feel a need to rush past the "reading" and "thinking" parts and just skip to the "responding" part to rack up more internet points. Perhaps HN should look into ways to rework things to reduce or remove that incentive.