Difficulty Keeping Secrets
Comments focus on the challenges and irony of maintaining secrecy, questioning what information is truly secret, and joking about secrets being revealed through public discussion on Hacker News.
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Well, that's secret information
Keeping something like this secret is... Hard.
It is a carefully guarded secret. ;)
Of course! It is a secret after all.
you are right, it was a secret.
What's the point of keeping it secret?
Sure. However, secrets are hard to keep.
The secret is nobody needs to know
What's with all the secrecy?
One can infer that a secret exists, without knowing its contents.