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I know that I've been on an xkcd spree lately, but for some reason the HN frontpage is filled with circumstances that match.

http://xkcd.com/795/

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I'm surprised no one's written a bot yet that auto-picks the most appropriate xkcd for an HN post and posts a 'relevant xkcd' comment :)

You've just given me a new scripting project to undertake over the weekend. :)

Good luck! I imagine there'll be some interesting challenges. I don't know how useful the alt-text will be since I guess it's sort of a cheeky second-comic, so coming up with clever ways to index relevant ideas/terms will be interesting.

You'd probly get some impressive looking results by just taking the echo-chamber approach of looking for HN links to comics and index what the discussion was about.

Hell, just hard-coding comments for horse battery staple and bobby tables would probably pass 30% of the unit tests :)

There's http://www.explainxkcd.com/, and some of the comics have a <div id="transcript">transcript here</div>.

This one is even more relevant:

http://what-if.xkcd.com/16/

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