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I actually confirmed your GitHub before I made the previous comment. It was just a frivolous reply that I found funny but HN didn't. Tough crowd. But I really, really appreciate your reply, thanks for taking your time to prove your identity. Hopefully I didn't waste too much of your Sunday morning.

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My experience here is that humor (especially deadpan) tends to land very poorly on HN, both because people are never contextually expecting it and because they tend to downvote it when they do recognize it, as they dislike perceived low effort comments that they don't feel are meaningfully contributing to the discussion (i.e. adding noise, not signal). HN may as well put "Don't try to be funny" in the FAQ, because it almost never works out.

Mistake made and lesson learnt. After being introduced to the larger internet community via reddit, sometimes you slip up in more serious places like HN.

Yep, Hacker News is like Reddit, without the jokes and porn.

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