Oops didn't mean to dup! I came across it because of all the cloud computing stuff that's happening - and reminded me of when all the powerful computing came down in price. Just wanted to go back in time to see how people used up all the extra computing power.

Thanks for reposting... It's new to me! I'm instantly thinking about IBM's cell processors and how much the connection machine parallel concepts fed into their design.

Seems like the kind of thing that is okay to repost, at least once in a while. Its not really "breaking news."

Otherwise, the site would be called "Hacker Breaking News", or (ouch) "Breaking Hacker News".

Sorry, what I meant is that breaking or recent news being reposted is problematic. But classics being reposted every so often isn't bad since you'll certainly get new commentary on it.

No need to be sorry. I was trying to be funny ;-)