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marginalia_nuyesterday at 9:21 PM0 repliesview on HN

Starting with the point (a.k.a. the inverted pyramid) is actually a pretty good way of finding readers that care[1]. I fairly often often put the conclusion in the title, and must have been on the HN front page over 20 times by now.

This is obviously not the only way to construct an article (nor the only one I employ), but it is surprisingly reliable, and will attract and retain the readers who are actually interested in what you have to say, while letting those that aren't interested find something else.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inverted_pyramid_(journalism)