For other HN discussions of this phenomenon you can see some previous submissions of another article on it.

That article doesn't have the nice animations, but it is from 14 years ago ...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12998899

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3995615

And from October 29, 2010:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1846682