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by skilled 1424 days ago
I'm not sure why you felt like you need to perform mental gymnastics over my comment. I said what I said because it's a valid point.

Let me help you understand it a little bit more in-depth.

First of all, the title used for this submission does not imply an announcement of a new feature. This one[0], however, does. Now, let's look past that. Let's say that the submission warrants front-page treatment fair and square because it has valuable content (a write-up at the very least). Lo and behold - it does not.

This submission[1] announcing Vercel's Build Output API has both a decent submission title (I can instantly tell it's a feature announcement) and fairly decent explanation for the feature, also. In fact, they even provided links to various documentations to help developers get started right away.

I'm still eagerly awaiting for someone to tell me what they learned from this specific submission.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15364896

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32192498

1 comments

I don't know what mental gymnastics you're talking about? I thought I was literally answering your question... I didn't know that rich metadata analytics for mysql existed in an easy to use GUI from this or any vendor. That's valuable knowledge I just learned from the post. My Cloudflare and Vercel examples were similar.

Now, if your issue was with the article title, I fully agree. I wish the titles here were clearer.