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Comment by numtel | Hacker News Reader

That's a misleading headline if I've ever seen one.

Type 1 without extra qualifiers refers to diabetes.

I immediately thought it was about fonts, because I saw the website was “typenetwork.com”-never heard of them before, but their name rather obviously suggests typography over anything else.

Personally, I wouldn’t associate “type 1” without context with diabetes over its other possible meanings (type 1 fonts, type 1 errors, type 1 hypervisors, HIV type 1, herpes type 1, etc). Diabetes may well be the most famous example, but numbered types are very popular in medical science, and many other fields besides

That is an interesting fact, considering you seldom see type 1 refering to diabetes without the qualifier. I guess medical society is used to naming things and the problems with that. (Even though T1D is really too broad, often used to describe other types of diabetes)

Oddly enough, I was not misled and assumed that it referred to Adobe Type I, given that is HN and end of Type I diabetes would be making headline news in most all other news outlets. Which it is not.

An article about therapies under development before they reach the market would absolutely fit on HN while being ignored by news outlets.

I guess that article would be titled, "The coming end of Type 1"

It was type 1 errors or “false positives” that popped into my head especially as a post just a few lines down had “false positives” in the title

> Type 1 without extra qualifiers refers to diabetes.

That may very well be accurate.

In your world, though.

And see here I was hoping it was a discussion of post Kardashev type 1 civilizations.

Personally i thought it was clear. This is a tech website, and we're obviously not going to solve type 1 diabeties overnight out of nowhere. That's two context clues for what it is about.

[Which is not to say that the headline shouldn't be disambiguity]

Also, Type 1 fonts have been on the decline for a long time, so announcing their end is a likely thing to do.

It's where my head went too and I'd be in favour of the headline being updated, but I don't think diabetes owns the association between a letter and number.

I was worried that Wizards of the Coast had announced the end of the Vintage format.

We are not writing here for AI bots but for humans. In this (CS) context, the first association clearly isn't about diabetes.

I'm not sure what "this context" refers to. The site (typenetwork) is probably more "design" than "computer science". The HN user base includes a lot of people from computer science backgrounds but not exclusively so, nor does the majority of the articles featured on here (remember that "tech" does not mean "computer science"). HN itself is an outlet of a venture capital startup accelerator. I'd say the expectation for HN users would be to at least be "tech-adjacent" but computer science is neither a necessary nor sufficient part of that and the topics in submissions far exceed direct professional interests (or even "hacking" in any sense of the word, despite what the guidelines suggest).

An article about research that could mean the end of Type 1 diabetes would hardly be out of place here, though I agree that assuming that "Type 1" without qualifiers automatically refers to diabetes is not a safe bet here, if anywhere.

> (remember that "tech" does not mean "computer science")

If you're going to be that nitpicky, this article isn't about anything that could reasonable be called "computer science" either

> I'm not sure what "this context" refers to.

HN, see https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html

Did you read that? Because it doesn't contradict what I said.

You probably meant this: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

And that doesn't mention computer science either. Instead it says this:

> On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.

Note that this doesn't even mention technology, just "startups" and "hacking" (which to be clear isn't specifically about technology either).

This headline is also initially alarming for those interested in the most performant type of hypervisor.

I think you might be biased. I didnt think about diabetes in the slightest when seeing the headline.

To you it does.

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