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Here's a 113 day old Where's nickb thread: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=775507

Actually, there's several post like the above one. Here's all (recent) posts with nickb in title: http://searchyc.com/submissions/nickb

The final link is also notable because it's immediately followed by a discussion about the HN "signal to noise ratio".

They seem to be the two most common topics here - are we becoming Reddit? and why isn't nickb around to help prevent it?

Perhaps the answer lies in some erlang source code?