Mr. Betteridge retired after a thousand of these or so. https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu....

Interestingly, it was pg who got it going on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4092880

I once used the joke about Mr. Betteridge retiring and got a reply pointing out that he hasn't: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10393754.