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It is a rather popular story, indeed:

https://hn.algolia.com/?query=The%20case%20of%20the%20500-mi...

I love this every time I see it. Newcomers may not have seen it so reposting doesn't seem a problem. And 24 days ago it was totally ignored in the new submission lottery, so again reposting doesn't seem a problem.

It was my first time reading about it; it was fantastic.

If you haven't read it before, there's also "The Story of Mel" which is quite a bit older (1983) but is also a very fun read. http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/story-of-mel.html

Yeah, I'll never not upvote this one.

I actually looked up this story myself yesterday, because it was mentioned by the top comment of this thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14672174

I wonder if the current OP posted it for the same reason.

Yep! Hadn't seen it before and bet a few others probably wouldn't have either.

That can be said about any hn story.