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Maybe that's just me, but I read hackernews comments for the usually insightful additional information and related discussions that are often more interesting than the article itself.

GP comment provides no useful information nor sparks interesting discussion related to the topic. It's better suited for reddit than hn.

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> GP comment provides no useful information nor sparks interesting discussion

I disagree. Turns out, that there is a LOT of collected specimens that nobody ever looked at closely. We've seen this a lot in terms of biology, archaeology, anthropology, astronomy, even mathematics. Something some found ages ago, and said, "Huh, that's interesting ..." then logged it away, just shows that there is much more science to be done.

Makes sense. If I’m collecting data to look for exoplanet transits, I might go “wow, weird” if I get some strange light curve, but then not really follow up on it since I’m busy looking for exoplanets and only have so much time with the scope.

You've been wooshed, the comment was a joke about computer shells like "sh".

It's the top comment for me, I'm not sure if people are upvoting because they got the joke or upvoting because they missed the joke.

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