Item — HN Reader

It's fine to bemoan people commenting who haven't read the article, but reading the comments first to gauge if the article is clickbait/whatever is a perfectly valid use-case.

I also cherish summaries like these - if I read the whole article I won't remember more than 2 sentences of it tomorrow. That distillation process is inevitable and good. It's a service to do it well for those who are time/memory-limited.

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Thanks! At the time I wrote this, the majority of comments were focused on criticizing the headline [1], and there was little discussion of the article itself.

Now I see there are many comments about the content of the article. I don't know if the summary caused more people to read it or not. I wanted to encourage more readership and on-topic discussion.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20541644