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Betteridge's law of headlines comes to mind.

• patrickg 13y ago
  Yes. Thats why I rarely click on such titles.
  • i386 13y ago
    > Obviously, this isn't exactly the reinvention of the Web, but Famo.us has pushed JavaScript in a novel direction At at least they admit its just hyperbole... right?
• candydance 13y ago
  "Any headline which ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no." I had to look it up, so this might save some others the trouble.
• corobo 13y ago
  My instant thought too
• jimzvz 13y ago
  What's the law for someone always mentioning Betteridge's law of headlines when a headline is posed as a question on Hacker News?
  • jafaku 13y ago
    "I wanna sound smart without too much effort" law of comments.
  • quarterto 13y ago
    Ahem: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5742893 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5742893
    • frou_dh 13y ago
      How about this one: Any time a commenter cries ad hominem, there will be a sub-thread arguing about the definition of ad hominem.
    • kevjiang 13y ago
      I came to this comments page just to check if quarterto's law was still holding up :)
• Kiro 13y ago
  I would like to analyze the comment threads of all the submissions ending with question marks and see in how many Betteridge is referred to. I would guess it's close to 100%. This was a particular bad reference since the title was very rhetorical and not meant to be taken literally.