Comment by dang
18 hours ago
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)
18 hours ago
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/
It's classics all the way down.
> 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.