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Not having heard of something is always understandable, and it's pretty immature to make fun or "feign surprise" when someone doesn't know something you know.

But not searching to see if something had been posted before on a forum is a bit different[0]

[0] https://hn.algolia.com/?q=inverse+square+root



> If a story has not had significant attention in the last year or so, a small number of reposts is ok. Otherwise we bury reposts as duplicates.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html




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