[smhenderson]

Just look at what a long thread your comment has spawned below. And most, if not all, of these comments have nothing to do with the topic the article is about.

It's not just a lack of appreciation for jokes, it actively hijacks the conversation and, as a reader, I have to now start collapsing whole threads and hunting and pecking to get back on topic.

And here I am adding to the mess I'm complaining about...

I appreciate a good joke and there are definitely appropriate ways to slip one in on HN but this is not one of those and I'd say it's less about it being a joke and more about it being off-topic.

Edit: Just to add to this, I just refreshed the page and the majority of the comments here are now replies to the PP about SD and another, similar, joke about how the article must be referring to the NVidia kernel driver. Actual comments about TFA are minimal and the whole post seems to just have been completely taken over by content that's not relevant to the discussion. Now please down-vote me for wasting every one's time by pointing this out!