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Comment by webkike | Hacker News Reader

Every now and then an article gets to the front page of this website that completely baffles me as to the reason it got there. Could someone explain this one to me?

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Could be in part bot activity. I've seen a couple other weird things rise up on here.

The blogging platform for this one is interesting, if you follow the rabbit hole a bit you'll find e.g. https://herman.bearblog.dev/building-software-to-last-foreve...

I don't see that many posts, but it appears to have some interesting traffic on it at present. Worth holding on to perhaps?

https://github.com/HermanMartinus/bearblog/

I looked at the data; the upvoters are ordinary HN users—not bots, unless someone created bots 7 years ago to comment about monorepos and upvote Haskell blogs.

Alas, you have discovered my fiendish plan.

wait a minute... OMG https://www.haskell.org/cabal/

I read the featured article and found it interesting. Maybe just a difference of opinion?

Cults (and cult-deprogramming) rely on socio-psychological hacks. So it's definitely related to hacking, though maybe not in the way most tech folks default to.

I see the reasoning - but I don't think there needs to be a hack involved in submissions to Hacker News. Just an interesting story that might appeal to the sort of people who hang around, apparently this one caught on.

I don't personally like articles that start off with "accusing" the reader of something - like this or the You will never "fix it later" one - but it's easy to click "hide" or to just ignore if I'm not interested.