[hombre_fatal]

The reason people share links from the past isn't some passive aggressive "UGH reposts amirite?!" like what you appear to be doing -- it's because past discussion on a fun read has lots of fun morsels of comments, and it's fun to revisit them alongside today's discussion.

HN doesn't have a rule that there should only be one canonical submission for every individual link or topic. That you thought your comment would contribute anything leads me to believe that you aren't aware of that.

[anamexis]

I am well aware of HN policy regarding reposts. I just found it amusing that this one has so many.

[hombre_fatal]

Maybe next time just link to the search query. Most people familiar with forums are well aware that some topics come up more often than others.

[keithnz]

its pretty common for previous threads to be posted in the current thread

[hombre_fatal]

Check again. We tend to enumerate previous threads that got traction and have past discussion. It's nice to go back to read those.

But most of what this person linked had 0 to 1 comments and like 2 points. I mean, yes, I would expect an interesting story from 2002 to have at least 30 failed submissions on HN that never got traction over 18 years.