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2023 (1164 points, 198 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37576633

2020 (1034 points, 136 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23775404

2015 (915 points, 140 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9338708

These kind of posts are why I check HN pretty much every day for 15+ yrs now. Hard to believe I've missed this one. Glad I caught it this time! This posts reminds me to stay humble and avoid jumping to conclusions without analysis.

I wonder when we will see a timeless classic like this on HN, but for AI.

We can then poke some fun at what AI did, what went wrong, and our incredibly illogical "debug" of AI

You guys beat me to it - I was working on the list!

Btw for those wondering about reposts: reposts on HN are just fine after a year or so (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html), and reposts of classics every now and then are good because it's important for new users to learn the classics!

Can an email go 500 miles in 2025? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44466030 - July 2025 (122 comments)

Can’t send email more than 500 miles (2002) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37576633 - Sept 2023 (198 comments)

The case of the 500-mile email (2002) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29213064 - Nov 2021 (93 comments)

We can't send email more than 500 miles (2002) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23775404 - July 2020 (135 comments)

500 miles (2002) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18675375 - Dec 2018 (32 comments)

We can't send mail more than 500 miles - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17602158 - July 2018 (1 comment)

The case of the 500-mile email (2002) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14676835 - July 2017 (56 comments)

Every time we lift a pallet from the shipping room, the server times out (2006) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13347058 - Jan 2017 (82 comments)

The case of the 500-mile email - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10305377 - Sept 2015 (1 comment)

The 500-mile email (2002) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9338708 - April 2015 (139 comments)

The case of the 500-mile email - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2701063 - June 2011 (18 comments)

The case of the 500-mile email - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1293652 - April 2010 (24 comments)

The case of the 500-mile email - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=385068 - Dec 2008 (28 comments)

The case of the 500-mile email - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=123489 - Feb 2008 (7 comments)

This gets posted just infrequently enough that I remember that I've read it before but forget why those emails weren't delivered, so I read it every time :-)

I believe I'm up for submitting it in a couple of months.

And still a treat. I love that story.

I thought it sounded familiar. Still a good read.