The case of the 500-mile email (2002)
The 500-mile email story seems to be the Hacker News equivalent to Reddit's SR-71 speed check story [1].  It keeps coming back again and again because everybody loves it.<p>[1] <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/SR71/comments/2dpmw7/the_sr71_speed_check_story/" rel="nofollow">https://www.reddit.com/r/SR71/comments/2dpmw7/the_sr71_speed...</a> (and many others, too numerous to reference)