> What to Submit: [...] If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.

http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

I know you meant it jokingly but I come to Hacker News to find good technical/business posts like this one. Great thing about the internet is there are many old still valuable articles out there, many of which some people have not read yet. What might be an old article to you can still be new to other people.

Hmmm, nobody seems to understand what ";-)" means.

We do. Your post is still noise. This is a valuable article that most people here have not seen - I hadn't, even though I have seen others from this author. Which are all excellent, by the way. I upvoted this submission because I love seeing such detailed systems articles on the frontpage.

I agree. I enjoy finding detailed articles like this when I come to Hacker News. Also, even though this article is old to a lot of people I have found a new blog to follow with what appears to be well written articles.

Ok. Fair point.