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Am I missing something about how and why this made it to the HN front page?

Seems to be a fairly trite government publication that is more of interest to civil engineers.

I thought maybe there was something in the document that would provoke a few laughs but can't find anything there either.

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Perhaps it was posted here because it seems to have a remarkably broad scope going well beyond what might be considered railway-related? Just guessing, not the OP.

I am curious though, what part of the title indicated to you that there was something humorous in it?

Yawn, figure it out

This was the pattern I read in the title: "[Country] [Government org] Works Manual".

Surely, I thought to myself, the only reason this would have made it to the HN front page is if there were a few guffaws in it related to how asinine a government document could be, but I couldn't find anything in there that indicated the same.

pretty sure there are quite a bit of indian viewership on HN

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