It's not snarky. How many times do I have to say that it's standard practice on HN to put the year in the title of article submissions? There are literally 4 examples of this just on the HN front page right now, 2 of them from 2021:
Typically when someone notes the article year in a comment — which happens all the time — the year is added to the title of the submission, either by the submitter or a HN moderator (who are the only ones with the ability to edit the title), without complaint. These complaints here are really out of line.
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It's not snarky. How many times do I have to say that it's standard practice on HN to put the year in the title of article submissions? There are literally 4 examples of this just on the HN front page right now, 2 of them from 2021:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32222683 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32219776 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32213825 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32202751
More examples on page 2:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32213468 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32217511 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32210438
Typically when someone notes the article year in a comment — which happens all the time — the year is added to the title of the submission, either by the submitter or a HN moderator (who are the only ones with the ability to edit the title), without complaint. These complaints here are really out of line.