Like the other reply points out, it's fairly standard community practice to link previous discussions for those who might be interested in checking them out. dang (the public moderator) has automated up his postings of past links so they show titles and dates but that's work and I wasn't going to do it by hand for this chonklist. The good news is, eventually, the tectonic plate of HN development will reach 'make the fancier formatting automatic for everyone':
It's a community effort. One person posts the links, then you come along and help out by posting the titles, then I help out by telling you what to do. Go team!
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27236708
The reply I really wanted to write was 'the point is to confuse passers by', though.