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Previously... They're Made Out of Meat (1991) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43994603 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43994603 - May 2025 (3 comme

by tomhow 7mo ago

Previously... They're Made Out of Meat (1991) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43994603 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43994603 - May 2025 (3 comments) They're Made Out of Meat (1991) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38420111 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38420111 - Nov 2023 (168 comments) They're made out of meat (1991) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31965062 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31965062 - July 2022 (151 comments) They're Made Out of Meat (1991) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24737993 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24737993 - Oct 2020 (292 comments) They're Made Out of Meat [video] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23436550 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23436550 - June 2020 (4 comments) They're Made Out of Meat - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11561522 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11561522 - April 2016 (3 comments) They're made out of meat - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8910420 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8910420 - Jan 2015 (1 comment) They're Made out of Meat - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8152131 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8152131 - Aug 2014 (170 comments) They're made out of meat - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8098264 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8098264 - July 2014 (1 comment) "They're Made out of Meat?" Short first contact sci-fi story - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3549320 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3549320 - Feb 2012 (62 comments) They're made out of Meat - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=774139 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=774139 - Aug 2009 (3 comments)

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apostata 7mo ago
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- epistasis 7mo ago
  It's not a reproach, there are no negative words in the comment. It's a gathering of information so that people can get more comments.
- tomhow 7mo ago
  It's not a reproach at all! We do this all the time when something has appeared before on HN, so that people can look at older threads if they're interested. It's significant signal that a particular post has appeared repeatedly on HN over the nearly two decades we've existed. It's also interesting to see how the style of discussion about the topic may have changed over time.
  - nofunsir 7mo ago
    It's already a feature (click the link domain).
    - tomhow 7mo ago
      That isn't always a simple, reliable way of finding the historical submissions of the article. Sometimes it's on a domain that has had many other submissions. Sometimes the domain has changed or the content appears in different forms in different places. It's a longstanding convention to do this, and the audience appreciates it. Not sure why anyone would take issue with it.
      - hyperhello 7mo ago
        It does appear a bit mechanical, like something the system would do. Maybe a submission should always automatically find all previous discussions as an automatic comment.

by tomhow 7mo ago

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apostata 7mo ago

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epistasis 7mo ago
It's not a reproach, there are no negative words in the comment. It's a gathering of information so that people can get more comments.
tomhow 7mo ago
It's not a reproach at all! We do this all the time when something has appeared before on HN, so that people can look at older threads if they're interested. It's significant signal that a particular post has appeared repeatedly on HN over the nearly two decades we've existed. It's also interesting to see how the style of discussion about the topic may have changed over time.
- nofunsir 7mo ago
  It's already a feature (click the link domain).
  - tomhow 7mo ago
    That isn't always a simple, reliable way of finding the historical submissions of the article. Sometimes it's on a domain that has had many other submissions. Sometimes the domain has changed or the content appears in different forms in different places. It's a longstanding convention to do this, and the audience appreciates it. Not sure why anyone would take issue with it.
    - hyperhello 7mo ago
      It does appear a bit mechanical, like something the system would do. Maybe a submission should always automatically find all previous discussions as an automatic comment.