[cjensen]

Is the typo in the first sentence (the letters in "to" are reversed) a joking reference to the the topic "text SEQUENCE"?

[gavinpc]

Good question. It was asked (but never answered) last time this was posted:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8828207

Personally, I think it must be a joke. Besides the fact that it would have been noticed and corrected by now, it's just not a "typo" kind of error (i.e. a common transposition).