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We get it, xkcd is funny. Enough comics have been posted that people who didn't know about it know about it now. Not every single comic needs to be posted - that's what RSS is for.

Thanks, and I do appreciate you making sure YCNews readers are aware of xkcd. I'm a subscriber and a fan, so please don't interpret this as criticism, just the kinder side of a social news site.

Here is the solution to a simpler infinite network of resistors, if you want a big hint for the one in the cartoon.

http://math.ucsd.edu/~mathclub/games/brainteaser-archive/you...

Mathworld's partial answers to the entire Google aptitude test: http://mathworld.wolfram.com/news/2004-10-13/google/

I like xkcd, but the recent string of xkcd submissions is a bit excessive.

Why? It's not like nickb can trade his karma in for money.

Xkcd is the best comic out there. It doesn't seem like a flaw in the naive implementation of social news that one or two good comics are on the front page of news.yc sometimes.

It worries me somewhat. There were no xkcd comics before. Now we have some comics. That was the way of reddit as I remember it...

One difference is Paul probably isn't trying to get Hacker News bought out.

News.yc will have gone the way of reddit when good stories on the new page are immediately buried. As soon as good stories start going unseen, I trust PG to turn on the voter power algorithm and let's hope it works.

'Sometimes' is becoming more frequent.

And there's nothing to talk about. "Haha yeah that's so true! Um... ok I'm going to go back to work now but not before voting this up because it made me laugh"

Personally I can't figure out why people keep up-voting xkcd submissions.

>'Sometimes' is becoming more frequent.

I don't see what the problem is. As one of the best comics of all time, it seems perfectly reasonable for xkcd to have earned a permanent spot on the front page.

I think its fairly safe to assume that most news.yc readers who would enjoy xkcd already know about it.

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