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> HN tends to downplay every sort of achievement until it cures cancer Oh, don't sell HN short. If a cure for cancer topped the frontpage, one of the top two c
by chimeracoder 10y ago
> HN tends to downplay every sort of achievement until it cures cancer
Oh, don't sell HN short. If a cure for cancer topped the frontpage, one of the top two comments would be someone remarking that "it's not really that novel, because chemotherapy has been around for ages."
- always_good 10y ago"Heh, I had this idea when I was eight years old. Color me surprised when I saw it at the top of HN this morning. ;)"