Please consider that none of those posts with any comments in them took place within the last two years. And "sadly" gets created just to tell people to read more books. Sad indeed...

EDIT:

HN seems to be stuck with XSS, SQLi, and malformed XML

HN is not a person: half of today's HN didn't exist two years ago [1].

[1] http://blog.rjmetrics.com/surprising-hacker-news-data-analys...