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Purely meta: It would be nice if HN could automatically show links to the discussions that took place the numerous other times this and other links have been su
by coderdude 16y ago
Purely meta: It would be nice if HN could automatically show links to the discussions that took place the numerous other times this and other links have been submitted and front-paged. Seems like a lot of waste if each batch of HN users has to re-discuss the article from scratch. I tried Googling for the rest of them but so many irrelevant pages came up that I just gave up.
- pyre 16y agosearchyc.com?
- coderdude 16y agohttp://searchyc.com/submissions/The+Python+Paradox http://searchyc.com/submissions/The+Python+Paradox Doesn't show the past submissions of this article.
- pyre 16y agoGoogling: site:news.ycombinator.com +"the python paradox" site:news.ycombinator.com http://www.paulgraham.com/pypar.html Pulls up only a handful of results. There are comments pointing to this link, but I don't think there's any story submissions. I could have sworn that this has come up before, but maybe we're both remembering wrong (or those submissions were killed and are now '[dead]') and we're just thinking of discussions where someone mentioned it in the comments.
- eliben 16y agoExcellent idea. Shouldn't be hard to implement since these discussions all target exactly the same URLs.
- reason 16y agoRiderOfGiraffes scripted a bot that would do that automatically, but others here thought it was some cheap novelty trick he was pulling.
- coderdude 16y agoYeah I remember. Freaking good idea and well executed, destroyed by a small but vocal bunch of whiners.
- gjm11 16y agoIt was certainly novel, and probably cheap. In most other discussions on HN, that combination would be regarded as a good thing.
- kmfrk 16y agoI don't really know what caused some - few? - people to have a fit. Maybe anything that remotely reminds them of reddit calls for outrage.