This was a good test to catch those HN members who don't bother to read the article but decide to argue with the headline.
You can do both!
Busted...I usually do!
Just thought this was a Stallman writeup. To be fair, the titles are usually similar.
Look, if the title is “why GNU/Linux viruses are fairly uncommon”, that’s fair game as a topic. In fact, you should expect that most of the discussion will be about that, rather than the self-deprecatory joke answer. Certainly it was last time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20680291.
(Also, my own observation is that it’s regularly far more amusing to take jokes seriously, ignore sarcasm, and otherwise wrest humour.)