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Comment by fhrow4484 | Hacker News Reader

Really cool!

Out of the 2k+ posts you list, some people are good at finding good quality classics!

The top 10 here combined accounts for more than 10% of all the posts:

    USER         POSTS COUNT
    Tomte        66
    luu          42
    tosh         33
    ColinWright  27
    adamnemecek  26
    vezzy-fnord  26
    brudgers     25
    pmoriarty    24
    networked    23
    shawndumas   22

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Unfortunately, I have so far failed to get a (1538) submission to stick.

Well, let's try again: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16444460

I think it does not stick, because I don't understand anything from the title

Well at least you know that it's by Andreas.

LOOOOOOOL :D

Looking at the source code, it only considers titles from 1900 to 2010 as classics.

Tomte is Swedish for "Santa", which seems fitting.

Why? Does he know when you are naughty? Do you also feel like watching out and not crying when he comes to town?

If I recall correctly, the story of Tomte is one where he is alone on Christmas night, pondering what life and death is, and decides that the art of giving is best virtue. He then knocks on everyone's door with a pig beside him and hands out presents to everyone who opens it for him.

we need more Tomtes in this imperfect world of ours.

Tomte is not really Santa. It's more a gnome like creature. He's normally living near farms and protects the family and animals. The connection with christmas is quite new and seems more connected with it's other name Nisse, or Julenisse in particular. "The Tomten" by Astrid Lindgren seems to give a good overview of the folklore.

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