[onion2k]

By that you mean you'd have to have read the article and interpreted in the manner by which the HN AI has accepted, right?

HN is often accused of being a 'hive mind' of users with homogenous opinions already. Making people assert that they've read the article, and understood it within a set of constraints, could remove a lot of nuance and variation.

Plus, I hardly ever read the articles.

[yaitsyaboi]

Most articles have facts that don’t require (very much) interpretation.

Provide the name of a city mentioned in this article.

[nathanaldensr]

Sounds like barely more than a captcha.