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Comment by Dylan16807 | Hacker News Reader

Is a joke going over my head here, because the first sentence links to a document titled "what is eBPF?"

The joke is you have to give them all your information in a form to then download some B2B report... rather than add two sentences about what ePBF is

Seriously. I really don't know why people think that's acceptable. Who sees a website titled "A beginner's guide to X" that makes people hand over their data to even get "X" defined, and thinks "This looks good to me! Sign me up!"

This is a Github repository accompanying a book. Neither of those things were submitted here by their author. A real problem HN has sometimes is treating the entire Internet as if it was was written for HN specifically.

You can just type "What is eBPF" into Google, and the first hit will decisively answer this question for you.

You can work around pretty much any issue like this, but you shouldn't have to. A beginner's guide should define the concept.

I find this same issue with many things posted here. Even businesses marketing their product. My favourite is when they give you an abstraction salad instead of explaining something.

I clicked the first link so I got the gist but how many other people just give up and disengage with their post? Or click the link then just close the tab without reading further.

Although the fact that Google puts the Wikipedia BPF article in the sidebar might confuse you a little.

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