I'm pretty sure this is actually the 2nd or 3rd time this one's been on HN.
The '500 mile email' and 'The story of Mel the Real Programmer' are trotted out on a regular basis also.
As long as you can glean the story from the headline, you can ignore it. It's a tiny bit annoying but I'm not asking for a refund.
"All right, I've been thinking. When HN gives you recycled content, don't make comments - make the submitter take the story back! Get mad! I don't want your damn recycled stories, what am I supposed to do with these? Demand to see Paul Graham! Make life rue the day it thought it could give Cave Johnson recycled content! Do you know who I am? I'm the man who's going to to burn your house down! With the recycled content! I'm going to get my engineers to invent a combustible anecdote that burns your house down!"
Don't give him lemons, either.
What's/where's that?