Threads (with some explainy links) from a million and a million and a bit years ago
Factorizer - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10776019 - Dec 2015 (30 comments)
Animated Factorisation Diagrams - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4788224 - Nov 2012 (72 comments)
Animated Factorization Diagrams - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4713048 - Oct 2012 (2 comments)
Second this old comment!
Edit: I actually looked through https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=imurray yesterday to see if there was anything we could invite a repost of. (I do this sometimes when looking at which users were first to submit an interesting article.) I didn't see anything, but on a second look https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7984992 could be interesting, so you'll get an email inviting you to repost that one, if you want to :)