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Sorry. The Fine Article. I didn't mean it in the disparaging connotation.

It's a reference to RTFM, Read The Fine Manual.

TIL: RTFM was a phrase from the 40s : "Read the field manual."

I never seen the F in RTFM mean “fine” before. I’ve always seen it used as the more vulgar “read the f*ing manual”.

I believe that's the joke.

It's the same as OP, except it only means the Post, not the Poster. (The F* Article.)

Usually it's a kind of negative retort - 'well if you'd actually bothered to read TFA then ...' - but increasingly it seems to be used without such emotion (particularly, to me anyway, on HN) to mean simply 'the submission'.

https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=TFA

I always read it as "the featured article".