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Purely meta: It would be nice if HN could automatically show links to the discussions that took place the numerous other times this and other links have been submitted and front-paged. Seems like a lot of waste if each batch of HN users has to re-discuss the article from scratch. I tried Googling for the rest of them but so many irrelevant pages came up that I just gave up.

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RiderOfGiraffes scripted a bot that would do that automatically, but others here thought it was some cheap novelty trick he was pulling.

Yeah I remember. Freaking good idea and well executed, destroyed by a small but vocal bunch of whiners.

It was certainly novel, and probably cheap. In most other discussions on HN, that combination would be regarded as a good thing.

I don't really know what caused some - few? - people to have a fit. Maybe anything that remotely reminds them of reddit calls for outrage.

Excellent idea. Shouldn't be hard to implement since these discussions all target exactly the same URLs.

searchyc.com?

http://searchyc.com/submissions/The+Python+Paradox

Doesn't show the past submissions of this article.

Googling:

  site:news.ycombinator.com +"the python paradox"

  site:news.ycombinator.com http://www.paulgraham.com/pypar.html

Pulls up only a handful of results. There are comments pointing to this link, but I don't think there's any story submissions. I could have sworn that this has come up before, but maybe we're both remembering wrong (or those submissions were killed and are now '[dead]') and we're just thinking of discussions where someone mentioned it in the comments.

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