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Sample Comments

Aloha Aug 10, 2017 View on HN

I was seeming to recall I saw this come up before.

sidcool Jan 19, 2014 View on HN

I recollect this being posted earlier.

afsina Apr 6, 2015 View on HN

I was about to mention about this :)

jayflux Feb 20, 2014 View on HN

I was just about to post this on here, cool to see someone already has!

mike503 Feb 22, 2025 View on HN

I came here wondering if someone had posted this :)

MikeCapone Feb 13, 2009 View on HN

Thanks for posting that! Saw it a while ago, but had forgotten about it.

pidu87 Jan 23, 2019 View on HN

I've seen this topic posted a few times..... Thank you for the reminder haha

mcphage Mar 24, 2025 View on HN

I came here to mention this, so I'm glad to see someone else got there first :-)

hmexx Mar 31, 2019 View on HN

For a second I thought I was reading through my post history when this came up!

Koiwai May 7, 2021 View on HN

Glad I scrolled a bit before I was gonna post exactly this.