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The author implemented /dev/printerfact. Someone else came up with printerfact. If someone said they implemented /dev/null I wouldn't think they came up with the concept of null.

Also printerfact was implemented by a high person with sed and a list of cat facts. While excellent, it's not an incredible achievement we need to defend the integrity of.

HN strips out prefix ‘How’s by default. I guess that was applied here as well...

Ummm...I dont think so

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=pastYear&page=0&prefix=tru...

These titles you linked are re-edited to add the "How" back.

"I reimplemented" might be better

Author of the article here, I think "I Implemented" is the least wrong way to phrase it. I didn't reimplement it because it didn't exist before I implemented it.

Didn't realize it was only a web thing before - that's fair.

Edit: I hadn't had my coffee yet, reading comprehension wasn't yet active. :)