Comment by dang | Hacker News Reader

Comment by dang | Hacker News Reader

Some past related threads:

Can Programming Be Liberated from the von Neumann Style? (1977) [pdf] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21855249 - Dec 2019 (32 comments)

Can Programming Be Liberated from the von Neumann Style? (1977) [pdf] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14673817 - June 2017 (3 comments)

Can Programming Be Liberated from the von Neumann Style? (1978) [pdf] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13210988 - Dec 2016 (107 comments)

Can Programming Be Liberated From The Von Neumann Style? (1977) [pdf] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12159792 - July 2016 (175 comments)

Can Programming Be Liberated from the von Neumann Style? (1978) [pdf] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10182712 - Sept 2015 (57 comments)

Can Programming Be Liberated From The Von Neumann Style? (1977) [pdf] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7671379 - April 2014 (72 comments)

Can Programming Be Liberated from the von Neumann Style? (classic) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=768057 - Aug 2009 (34 comments)

Feature request for the submit page: live AI fuzzy suggestions of URLs to prevent dupe submits.

It's important to understand that this submission doesn't count as a dupe by HN's standards. On HN, reposts are fine after a year or so, and/or if an article hasn't had significant attention before (the latter isn't the case here, but often is). https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html

People post links to past discussions are not because they're bad (look at all those reposts!) but because they're good (wow, interesting comments from the past!) - at least in the best case.

Because there's so much randomness in what gets noticed on /newest, overzealous dupe detection would prevent many good articles from ever getting discussed. That would be a poor trade for better deduplication! HN's dupe detector is therefore left porous on purpose (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...), so good stories get multiple chances to get attention. We will probably implement karma sharing amongst the various submitters of an article, though, at least when it's a first-time discussion.

Interesting. Maybe there ought to be a Respin HN type which can quote and encapsulate a previous item with semantic links. That way, there would be fewer unconnected "dots" requiring manual previous item comments.

No thank you. It's perfectly fine to discuss something that's been discussed before. I get something new out of this paper every time I read it. We are all learning and growing every day. The conversation wasn't complete just because this has been discussed before.

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