The story where emails could only be sent a certain distance is fun. I haven't r...

ljf · on Sept 4, 2022

https://web.mit.edu/jemorris/humor/500-miles for those who have not read it - it is brilliant and solving the bug involves understanding the speed of light!

allendoerfer · on Sept 4, 2022

It's on "Did you win the Putnam?" or "xkcd 927" level and does not really need a link on HN at this point.

wffurr · on Sept 4, 2022

Now I need to look up "Did you win the Putnam?". It's my lucky day to learn about this.

danielheath · on Sept 4, 2022

https://hackernews.hn/item?id=35079

ljf · on Sept 4, 2022

https://xkcd.com/1053/

I can assure you there are plenty of readers here who have not heard of it. I shared the link at work recently and was interested that not a single person knew of it (they are fairly young though).

allendoerfer · on Sept 4, 2022

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karmakurtisaani · on Sept 4, 2022

You just come off so fucking cool.

TallGuyShort · on Sept 4, 2022

The irony of referencing September with one's own obnoxious overconfidence that everyone memorizes the same XKCD jokes as you.

Beldin · on Sept 4, 2022

Similarly: open office cannot print on Tuesdays.

https://beza1e1.tuxen.de/lore/print_on_tuesday.html

(Date embedded in printjob and parsed by the wrong filter)

Sophira · on Sept 4, 2022

There's a whole load of stories like these linked from https://dbrgn.ch/stories-from-the-internet.html . I'd definitely recommend them.