I've put that link in the toptext. Thanks!

One (little) past thread:

Booted Up in 1993, This Server Has Been in Continuous Operation Ever Since - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13507972 - Jan 2017 (3 comments)

Perhaps there have been others on the topic?

Can you please not post AI-generated or AI-edited comments to HN? It's not allowed here - see https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html#generated and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47340079.

Of course, it's impossible to know for sure what was LLM processed or not, but this post got classified that way.

Related:

Sustainable Energy – without the hot air (2008) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33957424 - Dec 2022 (2 comments)

Sustainable Energy without the Hot Air (Revised, Community Edition) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29056343 - Oct 2021 (133 comments)

Keeping David MacKay's 'Sustainable Energy – without the hot air' up-to-date - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14009057 - March 2017 (39 comments)

"Sustainable Energy - Without the Hot Air" by David JC MacKay - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=845446 - Sept 2009 (31 comments)

See also:

Can solar and wind power Britain? An update of David MacKay's numbers - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38151453 - Nov 2023 (299 comments)

Sir David MacKay obituary (2016) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35670145 - April 2023 (1 comment)

David MacKay, FRS died today, his diary is remarkable - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11500614 - April 2016 (1 comment)

Just for fun—past examples with > 30 comments:

Ask HN: What Are You Reading? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45283087 - Sept 2025 (42 comments)

Ask HN: What are you reading Feb 2024 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39248780 - Feb 2024 (92 comments)

Ask HN: What are you reading these days? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38237730 - Nov 2023 (281 comments)

Ask HN: What Are You Reading? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21457827 - Nov 2019 (49 comments)

Ask HN: What books are you currently reading? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16160091 - Jan 2018 (43 comments)

Ask HN: What books are you currently reading? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14859274 - July 2017 (80 comments)

Ask HN: What books are you reading? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14608397 - June 2017 (36 comments)

Ask HN: What books are you reading? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10175465 - Sept 2015 (79 comments)

Ask HN: What are you reading? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9636361 - June 2015 (37 comments)

Ask HN: What book are you reading right now? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8108932 - July 2014 (86 comments)

Ask HN: What Books Are You Reading? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7968124 - June 2014 (80 comments)

Ask HN: What books are you reading right now? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4596721 - Oct 2012 (40 comments)

Ask HN: What are you reading? What've you read lately? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3335496 - Dec 2011 (41 comments)

Ask HN: What are you reading right now? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3230965 - Nov 2011 (59 comments)

Ask HN: What books are you reading - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2615647 - June 2011 (53 comments)

Ask HN: What are you reading right now? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1865350 - Nov 2010 (298 comments)

What are you reading? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=797070 - Sept 2009 (214 comments)

Thanks! Curious detail: no "What books are you reading now?" between 2019 and 2023. Were people too busy during the pandemic?

Please don't cross into personal attack, regardless of whether someone is being annoying or you feel they are. We're trying for something different here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Could you please stop posting unsubstantive comments and flamebait? You've unfortunately been doing it repeatedly. It's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for.

If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.

Thanks for pointing it out, dang. But if dark absurdism isn't permitted in 2026, I clearly have no mouth for the scream.

Can you please not post AI-generated or AI-edited comments to HN? It's not allowed here - see https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html#generated and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47340079.

Of course, it's impossible to know for sure what was LLM processed or not, but your posts have been getting classified that way.

Recent and related:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49882889

Can you please not post AI-generated or AI-edited comments to HN? It's not allowed here - see https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html#generated and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47340079.

Of course, it's impossible to know for sure what was LLM processed or not, but all of your posts so far have been getting classified that way.