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Without being able to see the flagged comment, I'd venture the authors had a quiet chuckle when titling this piece.

I've unkilled it for you.

I agree with you here 99% of the time.

But this one is too on the nose. This might qualify as the 1%.

I’d blame this one on the headline author. You don’t do that by accident.

The article title was obviously a troll (I've changed it to the subtitle now). The HN guidelines ask commenters to abstain not only from feeding trolls but also from gobbling their bait:

"Please don't pick the most provocative thing in an article or post to complain about in the thread. Find something interesting to respond to instead."

I know it's a lot to ask, but we have to, given the site mandate, and anyway why not? It's an interesting experiment to work on as a community.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

You have to admit it’s a good one though. Haha. I don’t want this place to become a cesspool like Reddit but once in a blue moon I do need a good laugh

Not sure I'd agree it was a "good one" even before this joke was made a million times. Certainly not after.

Funnily enough, the pun is intentional and the reason that name was chosen.

I know; that's one of the components of this endlessly looping cliché.