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The Alice and Bob After Dinner Speech (1984)

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Resurfaced independently across 5 calendar years, with breakout response in 2 of them.

submissions
5
submitters
5
observed span
2018–2024
peak thread · 23 comments
107 pts
latest 20+ return · 2024-04-09
107 pts

Submission timeline

2007–2026

One slot for every year since HN launched. Height is that year's peak points; orange marks a 100+ point or 50+ comment breakout. Select a bar to open its strongest thread.

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> So you see Alice has a whole bunch of problems to face. Oh yes, and there is one more thing I forgot so say - Alice doesn't trust Bob. We don't know why she doesn't trust him, but at some time in the past there has been an incident. > Now most people in Alice's position would give up. Not Alice. She has courage which can only be described as awesome. Against all odds, over a noisy telephone line…

The first top-level comment from each of the four biggest threads, in HN’s own order. Excerpts are shortened; open a comment for full context.

Breakout years
2

100+ points or 50+ comments

Total points
214

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Total comments
44

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Every submission

DateTitle as submittedByPointsComments
2018-04-12The Alice and Bob After Dinner Speech (1984)First breakoutalexwebb210223
2019-11-26The Alice and Bob After Dinner Speechdevicetray020
2020-02-07The Alice and Bob After Dinner Speechbig_chungus10
2022-11-24The Alice and Bob After Dinner Speechlproven20
2024-04-09The Alice and Bob After Dinner Speech (1984)Best thread · Latest 20+ point returnColinWright10721