It's a common topic posted by people looking for a big boost of karma.
1. Find the most popular topics (by points) in HN
2. Manually filter out 'event' topics (e.g. product releases, time specific news items, etc) that won't work when reposted
3. Wait until a topic hasn't been raised for a while and post a unique URL (either a related URL that hasn't been posted as a topic but maybe appeared in the discussion, or an existing URL that is made unique)
4. Hope for big boost of karma
Which is why we often see many of the same old subjects being brought up again and again. Not necessarily a bad thing, but I'm sure that some are being posted by people trying to get their karma scores up.
1. Find the most popular topics (by points) in HN 2. Manually filter out 'event' topics (e.g. product releases, time specific news items, etc) that won't work when reposted 3. Wait until a topic hasn't been raised for a while and post a unique URL (either a related URL that hasn't been posted as a topic but maybe appeared in the discussion, or an existing URL that is made unique) 4. Hope for big boost of karma
Which is why we often see many of the same old subjects being brought up again and again. Not necessarily a bad thing, but I'm sure that some are being posted by people trying to get their karma scores up.
Reminds me, where's that list of pg's essays...