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Ancient chinese curse: “may you reach the front page of hacker news”

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the curse part is it never happens when you want it to, only when you have a half-baked server with a cool demo that your friend posts randomly before you're ready

At first, just for that site. Then every site once people complained about it. Only learned the full history when marcan used that browser-history-dependant css trick to show a banner to anyone who'd visited the site.