alt Hacker Newsi'm gonna write this terrible news in all lowercase cause it's super aesthetic. maintain a bit of professionalism for the 4,000 people whose lives i'm throwing into turmoil? i don't think so, i have my shift key taped over so i don't accidentally show respect to anybody
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chrishare • today at 12:32 AM
Does the lowercase convey authenticity or lack of care?
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kevinfiol • today at 12:08 AM
Ha glad to see I'm not the only one irked by that.
bigtex88 • today at 2:41 AM
He didn't even write it. There's one phrase where there is a curly apostrophe vs a straight apostrophe. He likely only wrote one single phrase in the entire thing and used AI for the rest of it.
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rottencupcakes • today at 12:59 AM
i like it. it's how you show you didn't use ai to write the message.
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Interestingly Jerry Yang's letter back in 2008 was also like this and someone pointed that out in HN : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=339513