A SKILL.md for Commenting on Hacker News

A SKILL.md for Commenting on Hacker News

This satirical guide presents six archetypal Hacker News comments, each determined by a roll of a six-sided die. The archetypes include quoting a tangential weak sentence, humblebragging about meeting Steve Jobs, opening with a doctorate in point-set topology, claiming an agent swarm eliminates software costs, lamenting the techno-surveillance state while working on facial recognition, and browsing with HTML disabled. It's a sharp, humorous take on the site's commenting culture.

I agree that the emergence of the techno-surveillance state is appalling. But as the lead of facial recognition at Flock, I just don’t know what a single person can do.

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