[jasonlotito]

"2022 is the year where Tech Compensation drops for the first time in decades."

First line of the actual article.

Subheader: "2022 is bringing us one of the largest declines in tech compensation in decades"

Not sure how you are confused. Yes, Salary was used in headline, but the article made it very clear it was instead referring to compensation as a whole, and how this was affecting, basically, your take home.

So, not sure where the article (which is pedantically separate from the headline) is confusing about this.

Meta: It's annoying to see comments discuss the typos, the precise definition of things, and the otherwise useless pedantic-isms in HN articles. This isn't a recent occurrence, and I'm sure I've been a part of the problem in the past, but these comments are usually worthless at best, if not harmful in that it detracts from a more useful and constructive discussion.

In the race to be "clever" and "technically correct", it's actually lazy and pointless. I wish there was a way to simply filter out this drivel.

In many ways I dislike even having to type this meta commentary, but I feel it needs to be said. Apologies for the disruption.

[pliny]

The difference is between something obvious and uninteresting (equity comp goes down when the value of the equity goes down) and something interesting and untrue (tech salaries are crashing). I get that post writer needs a hook in case they have something interesting to say about the equity comp situation (having read the article I don't think this is the case), but lying in the title to trick people into reading your article is still bad.

[jasonlotito]

Then you flag it.

Commenting about it promotes it.

Comments like the one I replied to are worthless at best, and more harmful than any title.

[slowmovintarget]

I disagree. Here on HN, I generally read the comments before reading the article because I'll usually get a quick idea of whether the article is worth my time.

This doesn't work well elsewhere, like Reddit, but it does work here. Comments will, at the very least, steer me clear of wasting time. I'm guessing I'm not alone, though.

[geerlingguy]

99% of us just read the headline on HN and jump to the comments to leave a hot take ;)