[Alex3917]

Different phrasing, but I had posted basically the exact same idea on HN and gotten tons of upvotes a few weeks earlier:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1325103

I only posted it because one of my friends told me about hearing a speaker bringing up the idea at a conference, but it's an idea that's been around for decades.

[zamber]

Few days? HN bug?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1325103 > 2659 days ago

[olympus]

He meant that he posted it prior to blue_beetle's comment in 2010. I had claimed that blue_beetle was the first person to put it on the internet, and he posted proof that he had posted a similar idea before blue_beetle did.

[zamber]

Alex3917 is either a time traveler or he's got superhuman memory. Speculation: 3917 is his mother year.

[Alex3917]

The reason I remember it is because I posted it as a HN comment, and then a few weeks later someone basically rewrote it into a blog post and got tens of millions of page views and tons of mainstream media coverage. Had that not happened, there's no way I'd remember now.

[Splines]

The source of that article was posted 2659 days ago. Maybe Alex3917 is a time traveler? (Welcome to 2017 Alex, sorry about everything).