alt Hacker NewsOh, man. My rate of trying to insert a non-obscure joke into a comment and a half-dozen commenters taking the exact words at face value and then pointing out their factual incorrectness is too damn high. I don't know if it's a symptom of, let's say, neurodiversity, or ESL, but humor on HN is almost universally punished. I don't think they are bots because once in a while I crack jokes in AI prompts (to amuse myself when exceptionally bored) and the LLMs always recognize them, even if they don't respond right away with a sensible chuckle GIF.
In my experience, those HNers actually think that they are the ones being funny when they point out your factual incorrectness or when they want to be pedantic about something.