[shhehebehdh]

I like the original more without your embellishment. The addition sounds like every attempt at follow up humor on reddit.

[labster]

Yeah but it's not Reddit, it's HN. You have to know your audience, read the crowd. On Reddit it's 90% sarcasm so there's no fixing it. Here it's the reverse and people take things seriously without a tell. You just have to bury the tell in another joke or it will ruin the funny.

[Dylan16807]

"given that software can't [ridiculous thing no one has ever claimed]" is plenty for a tell.

[Aeolun]

Just the fact that this “fix” exists tells you some people believe differently.

[rujuladanh]

If you can’t discern the joke, the joke isn’t for you to begin with; so it doesn’t matter.