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imsohotness | 26 days ago

I've seen this before, I know Sam Altman does it (or used to do it). That was a couple years ago. Hope it doesn't become a trend.

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the_af|26 days ago

It's already a trend. It's been for at least a decade. I'm surprised people here never noticed it...

layer8|26 days ago

Unfortunately it has become quite common on HN already.

It comes from people growing up on smartphone chats where the kids apparently don’t care to press Shift.

GaryBluto|26 days ago

I've already written an extension that filters these comments intelligently. (E.g., quotes are ignored but if the rest of the body is all lowercase it is collapsed.)

Uehreka|26 days ago

What’s weird though is that modern OSes often auto-capitalize the first letter of a sentence, so it actually takes more effort to deliberately type in all-lowercase.