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Every time I feel like writing a "pastbot" I start to think it ought to be part of the site, and then I look up top and see the "past" button! :-) Maybe it should be highlighted and blinking if it's a frequent flyer...

>>imglor+(OP)
I've also thought about bots on Hacker News - they might be useful for somethings though I can't put a pin on what exactly.

I'm pretty sure the community won't really like the idea of bots on HN because of spam issues and such, but what is the official policy on this? Can't find anything about bots anywhere.

>>plibit+d6
you could probably figure out some cool insights about tech people's beliefs and opinions in aggregate with some clever NLP and sentiment analysis and some.... ahh, not asking for user's consent to use their data for that! classic.

>>plibit+d6
We don't allow bots to post to HN, other than https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=whoishiring.

>>imglor+(OP)
I frequently read HN and this site was new to me. The (2011) in the title lets me know it isn't new content.

What do I have to gain by knowing it was posted several times before?

>>colecu+qo
Threads like that are typically linked because people might be interested in the previous discussions. This is especially true for this one, because people will inevitably suggest their own preferences for programming music in the comments.