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by mjburgess 639 days ago
It has a lot to do with the kinds of articles that appear on HN and across the internet. And also, that spending time on something requires being interested in it, and so, there's a larger audience for summaries.

I think, in general, most people have areas of interest to them where it would not occur to them to summarise what they're having fun engaging with.