Erm, that last is this very item - so when you wrote that it had one comment, and now has at least two.

He doesn't appear to be a bot either. Hey, someone should make a bot that indicates previous discussions on reposts.

It's been done: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2013666

That was tried before - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2013666