Title Misreading Confusion

Commenters share experiences of initially misreading the Hacker News title or post phrasing, leading to humorous confusion or shock before parsing the correct meaning.

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Sample Comments

non-entity Aug 16, 2020 View on HN

lmao this is how I initially read it. I was rather confused for a second.

dbrueck Aug 18, 2021 View on HN

I misread 'to the' as just 'the' and was very intrigued.

georgehaake Jan 8, 2016 View on HN

Well I read that wrong at first glance.

gus_massa Aug 4, 2025 View on HN

I got very confused too. After reading a few times I interpreted it as a typo.

voldacar Apr 12, 2023 View on HN

Oh I see. Yeah, I read that weirdly

wkdneidbwf Jul 18, 2023 View on HN

haha, I was confused for a minute reading this post thinking the same thing.

wingerlang May 24, 2014 View on HN

That was my initial reading too, hence the confusion.

Tijdreiziger Dec 25, 2020 View on HN

Am I the only one who misread the name on first glance?

dzdt Apr 15, 2016 View on HN

I read it as "goofed" at first.

rusticpenn Jun 17, 2020 View on HN

I admit, I misinterpreted the sentence in the first read and was pretty shocked.