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1. ur-whale · 1790838127 · focus · HN ↗

   > 5x faster Edge Functions: V8 isolates to Firecracker MicroVMs

   Off-topic, but ...

   I've noticed over the last 5 years I find myself increasingly incapable of understanding the title of HN posts upon first reading them.

   And then sometimes also, reading the article itself does not help either.

   The likely explanation is that I'm probably getting old and senile, but maybe, just maybe, I am not the only one experiencing this.

   This post's title is a decent example, albeit far from the worse I've read.

   I think HN should have a feature to graph the level of incomprehensibility of post titles over time.

   An LLM should probably be able to measure this automatically.

   1. masklinn · 1790855437 · focus · HN ↗

      > The likely explanation is that I'm probably getting old and senile, but maybe, just maybe, I am not the only one experiencing this.

      Here it looks like you haven’t gotten interested or kept up with some of the field, none of “edge functions”, “v8 isolates”, and “microvms” / “firecracker microvms” are ultra novel or made up, just relatively specialised.

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