These kind of posts are why I check HN pretty much every day for 15+ yrs now. Hard to believe I've missed this one. Glad I caught it this time! This posts reminds me to stay humble and avoid jumping to conclusions without analysis.
> Btw for those wondering about reposts: reposts on HN are just fine after a year or so (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html), and reposts of classics every now and then are good because it's important for new users to learn the classics!
It would be nice if HN would simply "float" to the front page the classics, a year or two after their submission. That would avoid duplication (specially of comments!), and allow people in the lucky 10,000 group know about it.
This gets posted just infrequently enough that I remember that I've read it before but forget why those emails weren't delivered, so I read it every time :-)
These kind of posts are why I check HN pretty much every day for 15+ yrs now. Hard to believe I've missed this one. Glad I caught it this time! This posts reminds me to stay humble and avoid jumping to conclusions without analysis.
That story has been repeated in various places for decades now.
One of the lucky 10,000! https://xkcd.com/1053/
I think I’ve been one of those 2 or 3 times for this story. Read it, forgot it, read it again and only remembered after some time :D
I was one of the lucky ones today
Such a refreshingly good attitude!
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I wonder when we will see a timeless classic like this on HN, but for AI.
We can then poke some fun at what AI did, what went wrong, and our incredibly illogical "debug" of AI
AI bots on dead internet will bring them up and have an earnest metallic laughter together.
You guys beat me to it - I was working on the list!
Btw for those wondering about reposts: reposts on HN are just fine after a year or so (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=123489 - Feb 2008 (7 comments)
I can say that a new user (me) did learn the classic (this).
Congratulations! You are one of today's ten thousand!
Relevant XKCD: https://xkcd.com/1053/
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> Btw for those wondering about reposts: reposts on HN are just fine after a year or so (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html), and reposts of classics every now and then are good because it's important for new users to learn the classics!
It would be nice if HN would simply "float" to the front page the classics, a year or two after their submission. That would avoid duplication (specially of comments!), and allow people in the lucky 10,000 group know about it.
I hear you from a technical point of view (deduplication!) but I think the chaos and ferment have creative qualities too.
This gets posted just infrequently enough that I remember that I've read it before but forget why those emails weren't delivered, so I read it every time :-)
I believe I'm up for submitting it in a couple of months.
And still a treat. I love that story.
I thought it sounded familiar. Still a good read.