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Most active recent past posting, 120+ comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18221049 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18221049

dang 7y ago
(Edit: just to be clear, links like this don't mean that the article shouldn't have been reposted! Reposts are fine on HN after a year or so—this is in the FAQ at https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html. Had this repost had been a bad one, we'd have marked it as [dupe] in the title instead. The purpose of linking to previous threads is that readers find those interesting.) Also, from 2017: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14952908 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14952908 2014: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7443420 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7443420 2009: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=956884 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=956884 2009: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=581050 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=581050 Those are the big ones.
- masonic 7y ago
  > links like this don't mean that the article shouldn't have been reposted! I didn't say, or even imply, that. I just thought reference to past discussions would be useful.
  - dang 7y ago
    Oh, I didn't in the least think you did. I meant that bit to apply to the link you kindly shared as well as the ones I listed. I added it because another commenter in the thread referenced that this had been discussed a lot before. Sorry for the misunderstanding! I still don't know a reliable way to briefly link to past discussions, or mention linking to past discussions, without it coming across to many readers as an implicit reproach. Which is not at all the intention.
    - c22 7y ago
      Maybe the site should just automatically include links to past discussion. Perhaps hidden behind a little [+] next to or under the title in the comments view. Then you wouldn't have to spend time posting them or feeling awkward about it.
      - dang 7y ago
        I'm reluctant to clutter the HN UI. It's simple enough that when X comes up, nothing seems more natural than to just build in X... but there are many Xs. Automatically finding links to good past discussions is harder than it sounds, too.
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dang 7y ago

(Edit: just to be clear, links like this don't mean that the article shouldn't have been reposted! Reposts are fine on HN after a year or so—this is in the FAQ at https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html. Had this repost had been a bad one, we'd have marked it as [dupe] in the title instead. The purpose of linking to previous threads is that readers find those interesting.) Also, from 2017: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14952908 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14952908 2014: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7443420 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7443420 2009: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=956884 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=956884 2009: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=581050 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=581050 Those are the big ones.

masonic 7y ago
> links like this don't mean that the article shouldn't have been reposted! I didn't say, or even imply, that. I just thought reference to past discussions would be useful.
- dang 7y ago
  Oh, I didn't in the least think you did. I meant that bit to apply to the link you kindly shared as well as the ones I listed. I added it because another commenter in the thread referenced that this had been discussed a lot before. Sorry for the misunderstanding! I still don't know a reliable way to briefly link to past discussions, or mention linking to past discussions, without it coming across to many readers as an implicit reproach. Which is not at all the intention.
  - c22 7y ago
    Maybe the site should just automatically include links to past discussion. Perhaps hidden behind a little [+] next to or under the title in the comments view. Then you wouldn't have to spend time posting them or feeling awkward about it.
    - dang 7y ago
      I'm reluctant to clutter the HN UI. It's simple enough that when X comes up, nothing seems more natural than to just build in X... but there are many Xs. Automatically finding links to good past discussions is harder than it sounds, too.
- deleted 7y ago
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