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This is definitely an actual phenomenon on HN -- someone posts something interesting and it gets a bunch of HNers to go down the rabbit hole together. A couple
by NobodyNada 1y ago
This is definitely an actual phenomenon on HN -- someone posts something interesting and it gets a bunch of HNers to go down the rabbit hole together.
A couple weeks ago there was one about leeches:
"You shouldn't salt a leech that's sucking your blood" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45001005 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45001005
"How Leeches Made Their Comeback" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45045235 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45045235
"Leeches and the Legitimacy of Folk-Medicine" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45009629 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45009629
"This is my brain on leeches" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45037109 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45037109
- temp0826 1y agoAh yes. We should have an annual Leech Day to commemorate. (HN feature request- community calendar)
- xenophonf 1y agoI hereby declare August 28 as Leech Day. Everybody save up your favorite weird HN posts for the year, and we'll compile them in an annual celebration of all the nerdsniping that goes on here.
- mcny 1y agoFor all I know there is already a /calendar because I didn't know about /best for a long time.
- OhMeadhbh 1y agoIt is definitely a delightful thing to learn about dimly illuminated corners of the human experience. I enjoy learning about new, weird things almost as much as I enjoy seeing the glee with which people chat about them.