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Other posts weren’t gamed, but just more catered to this audience.

Your example is extremely obvious: I don’t know what a DAW UI is and it isn’t explained in the first sentences of the page and I don’t really bother to put more time into finding out. It doesn’t matter how in-depth the article is if it doesn’t resonate at all with most average HN users.

>>WA+(OP)
True, people often assume everyone knows their acronyms ...

>>EVa5I7+N3
While that's perhaps the case, I was under the impression that the HN crown was one that favored research. In this particular case, if I search for "DAW", then the Wikipedia entry is first of the results: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_audio_workstation