[nabla9]

The readership of online publications is open ended. You should not expect community or memory of past exchanges. Wolfram is irritating prick and that fact will come up frequently when people discover it again and again. Don't except evolution in discussion when the site is just stream of links.

[rayuela]

This is actually a really interesting commentary on the nature of this type of platform. Is not the evolution of discussion the most desirable outcome here?

[dang]

You put that well (edit: mostly), but HN is more than a stream of links. There's a community here, and it has emergent behaviors.