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tl;dr: They were helping the war effort by designing better camouflage.

Does it really need a separate TL;DR when the article's subtitle says the same thing? That's not a TL, it's just a DR.

no it doesn't. I clicked, and scrolled, and skimmed. I read the title and subtitle - again after your comment. No, neither the title nor the subtitle nor any subsection heading or caption make it as obvious as the above tl;dr (which is why the cousin comment by hackaflocka thanked them). It's a good tl;dr - another thanks from me.

If you can't tell that TL;DR from the title + subtitle, you really need to work on your analytical skills, which means avoiding TL;DRs like the plague. How much spoon-feeding do you need!?

For me, I often can't articles (and subtitles) because my company Web proxy filters the actual article. I can see the discussion in HN. This title is of the highly annoying "why this and that, click me" variety which is generally a turn-off.

Therefore I really appreciate the above TL;DR because it gives me the hint that the actual article is interesting and I should read it when I get to another computer that does not have this filtering proxy.

The article title, reproduced on HN, isn't sufficient to determine what the context is. Atlas Obscura tend strongly toward this type of clickbait. It should be strongly discouraged.

Thanks.

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