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Title and timing are everything - two versions of this story submitted previously, each to complete indifference: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1814905 h

• DanLivesHere 16y ago
  Because of me, accidentally. I found out about the story via Twitter. Someone I follow (cited in the original post here) mentioned it as an aside in a blog post of his. I write a free daily email newsletter of interesting things I come across -- that's at http://dlewis.net/nik http://dlewis.net/nik. The original post here is the issue from, I believe, Tuesday, but it's been a long week :) I submitted the link to reddit (http://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/dstpi/til_that_in_wwii_allied_forces_reverse_engineered/ http://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/dstpi/til_tha... -- please pardon my misuse of "reverse engineered") and it went over very well, hitting either the front page or the second page. So a lot of people noticed it. I'm not surprised there are other submissions. I've seen pickup across a number of sites. The title and timing? Well, the title was straightforward -- I just took the one that worked so well on reddit and whittled it down to 80 characters. The timing was accidental. I was queuing up today's issue late last night my time, and I was crediting the guy behind http://hackernewsletter.com http://hackernewsletter.com for tipping me off to the story. Then I had an "a ha" moment and figured, hey, this would be welcome on HN, too. So I submitted it.