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509 points tosh | 1 comments | 29 Aug 25 09:40 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source

(the referenced HN thread starts at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45060519)
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vjerancrnjak ◴[02 Sep 25 14:10 UTC] No.45103358[source]▶
I recently remembered a question I had a decade ago.

Why 1 nostril is always clogged up when breathing and it seems to switch now and then?

It's magnificent that I can finally get an answer for that and would never imagine it is completely natural. Never learned about it at school.

No way I can find this via search engine as it just gives me SEO garbage or anecdotal silliness.

I've been going back and getting answers to many questions I previously couldn't.

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1. SpicyLemonZest ◴[02 Sep 25 14:22 UTC] No.45103520[source]▶
I just Googled the exact phrase "Why 1 nostril is always clogged up when breathing and it seems to switch now and then", and the first result was an explanation from a major medical center about it (https://health.clevelandclinic.org/why-do-i-sometimes-get-st...). Perhaps there's other questions search engines don't do well on - but why don't you consider the AI answer to be "anecdotal silliness" in the same way as you would if it were just some guy on Reddit spouting off?