[Madsn]

This is in no way new, and is fairly easy to find for anybody looking for this sort of material, so why post it to HN? It's a good book, I used it myself for a school project, but it has been available for free for at least 5 years now.

[dpatru]

HN is a way to find interesting stuff. This includes older material. If people don't find it interesting, they won't vote it up.

[Madsn]

You are of course 100% correct (although it seems to me that most stuff on HN is "new" stuff). My gripe is that I use the RSS feed so I see EVERYTHING that gets posted to HN, and this is one of those posts where I feel like the target audience is quite small, and those who need it will have no issue finding it themselves. But I guess I'm just biased because I have actually used this book before, and therefore don't find it interesting at all when it is brought to my attention at a time where I have no further use for it.

[jamesbritt]

I don't have the links handy, but there are RSS feeds that only serve up HN items that hit certain point levels, such as 20, 50, or 100 points. I like them because there is often a lot of noise getting submitted to HN and often only want to see what has managed to garner some attention.

[tvorryn]

I believe this is the link you're looking for: http://talkfast.org/2010/07/23/a-cure-for-hacker-news-overlo...

It has rss feeds and twitter accounts for stories that get 20, 50, 100, or 150 points or more.

[cdcarter]

Seems like it hit the main page, so I'd say people like it.