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Actually it's still there: https://github.com/MrMEEE/bumblebee-Old-and-abbandoned/commi... MrMEEE changed the repo's name.

Fortunately...

I wrote a comment under it, and since that day my mailbox was flooded with notifications about other replies for months to come. I think about doing some analytics on them; say, plot the number of comments per day over time - I'd expect to see something like e^(1/x) - 1.

You should do that - though I doubt it'd be an exponential decay. You're going to get a series of bumps every time a post about it pops up on HN (or similar site), and those bumps will probably be positively correlated with one another (note how top posts on HN are oftentimes top posts on related subreddits on Reddit, for example).

Would be interesting to see, though - let me know if you do it.

I thought of this pull request thread first actually: https://github.com/drbrain/meme/pull/13

Must've missed that one somehow when it was popular.