You cannot explain everything to everyone all the time. Besides, this is not even a paper. Sometimes you are not the target audience and have to put some words into Google.

Because I think the norm we reinforce here actually matters.

When confusion gets framed as "this is substandard writing", it rewards showing up and performing a lack of context rather than engaging with the substance or asking clarifying questions. Over time that creates pressure to write to the lowest common denominator, instead of the audience the author is clearly aiming at.

HN already operates on an implicit baseline (CUDA, open source, LLVM, etc.) and mostly lets comments fill in gaps. That usually produces better discussions than treating every unfamiliar term as an author failure, especially when someone is just trying to share or explain something they care about.

So yeah, I am genuinely curious why you see personal unfamiliarity as something the entire discussion should reorganize itself around.