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A few more: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12778904 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12778904 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21578606 https://

• grzm 6y ago
  Generally people submit links to past submissions that have comments that maybe of interest.
• hombre_fatal 6y ago
  The reason people share links from the past isn't some passive aggressive "UGH reposts amirite?!" like what you appear to be doing -- it's because past discussion on a fun read has lots of fun morsels of comments, and it's fun to revisit them alongside today's discussion. HN doesn't have a rule that there should only be one canonical submission for every individual link or topic. That you thought your comment would contribute anything leads me to believe that you aren't aware of that.
  • anamexis 6y ago
    I am well aware of HN policy regarding reposts. I just found it amusing that this one has so many.
    • hombre_fatal 6y ago
      Maybe next time just link to the search query. Most people familiar with forums are well aware that some topics come up more often than others.
  • keithnz 6y ago
    its pretty common for previous threads to be posted in the current thread
    • hombre_fatal 6y ago
      Check again. We tend to enumerate previous threads that got traction and have past discussion. It's nice to go back to read those. But most of what this person linked had 0 to 1 comments and like 2 points. I mean, yes, I would expect an interesting story from 2002 to have at least 30 failed submissions on HN that never got traction over 18 years.
• akeruu 6y ago
  Yes, this story gets posted a lot, and many of us might know it, but at the same time, I like to think about the ones that didn't. They will learn something new today. XKCD said it better than I could: https://xkcd.com/1053/ https://xkcd.com/1053/
  • frandroid 6y ago
    One of the most endearing xkcd strips. A bit lightbulb moment when I figured this out in my life.
  • dredmorbius 6y ago
    Genuine perennial favs are worth repeating every so often --- a year or two's interval seems reasonable, and is vouched by HN. A marker of aging for me was seeing, a decade or two after I'd first read them in the local paper as a callow youth, repeats of previous features, by topic if not the actual text. Eventually the thought occurred to me that perhaps the versions I'd remembered were themselves not original. People tell, and repeat, and embellish, stories. Sometimes because the young'uns and whippersnappers and new arrivals haven't heard them yet. Sometimes because they're just damned good stories and we enjoy the retelling.
    • divbzero 6y ago
      Yes, I’ll continue upvoting this classic when it pops up in the years ahead.
  • ElFitz 6y ago
    I did. And it was not only informative but also hilarious.
• savrajsingh 6y ago
  Obvious feature request for HN: page that lists most reposted stories / links. :)
  • wolfgang42 6y ago
    That would be the ‘past’ link, though it doesn’t turn anything up in this case as the title on this post is different. (The usual title is “The case of the 500-mile email,” but this copy is missing the subject line for some reason so the submitter used a representative phrase instead.)
• tempestn 6y ago
  Ha, I was just thinking if one wanted to farm karma they could just set up a cron to post this monthly. Seems to be a perennial favorite!
• dang 6y ago
  It's better to link to just the past submissions with interesting discussions. Those appear to be: 2008 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=123489 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=123489 2008 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=385068 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=385068 2010 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1293652 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1293652 2011 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2701063 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2701063 2015 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9338708 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9338708 2017 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14676835 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14676835
  • divbzero 6y ago
    I love that after all these years there are still people discovering this classic for the first time.
    • iso1631 6y ago
      That's a great non-cynical non-humbuggy view to have I see something like this and have to consciously think of https://xkcd.com/1053/ https://xkcd.com/1053/
      • bibinou 6y ago
        thanks, I was looking for this comic for some unrelated reason.