Significant past threads. I had to leave a ton of submissions out! Any others that are particularly good?

Awk: The Power and Promise of a 40-Year-Old Language - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28441887 - Sept 2021 (118 comments)

Awk is the coolest tool you don't know - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27039608 - May 2021 (20 comments)

CGI with Awk on OpenBSD Httpd (2020) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27037113 - May 2021 (22 comments)

The State of the Awk - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25142867 - Nov 2020 (58 comments)

Awk: `Begin { ` Part 1 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24940661 - Oct 2020 (106 comments)

Show HN: Awk-JVM – A toy JVM in Awk - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23612910 - June 2020 (27 comments)

Running Awk in parallel to process 256M records - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23394024 - June 2020 (101 comments)

The State of the AWK - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23240800 - May 2020 (86 comments)

Awk in 20 Minutes (2015) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23048054 - May 2020 (126 comments)

Show HN: An eBook with hundreds of GNU Awk one-liners - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22758217 - April 2020 (48 comments)

Learn Awk by Example (2019) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22455779 - March 2020 (29 comments)

Awk As A Major Systems Programming Language, Revisited (2018) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22304017 - Feb 2020 (80 comments)

Why Learn Awk? (2016) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22108680 - Jan 2020 (235 comments)

Learn Just a Little Awk (2010) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21101478 - Sept 2019 (69 comments)

Awk by Example - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20308865 - June 2019 (21 comments)

Removing duplicate lines from files keeping the original order with Awk - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20037366 - May 2019 (154 comments)

GNU Awk 5.0 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19671983 - April 2019 (49 comments)

Learn just a little Awk (2010) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17322412 - June 2018 (244 comments)

The Awk Programming Language (1988) [pdf] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17140934 - May 2018 (207 comments)

Learn to use Awk with hundreds of examples - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15549318 - Oct 2017 (116 comments)

Awk for multimedia - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15410259 - Oct 2017 (24 comments)

Awk driven IoT - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14735752 - July 2017 (35 comments)

Skip grep, use awk - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14692233 - July 2017 (130 comments)

Awk vs. Perl (2009) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14647022 - June 2017 (71 comments)

The Awk Programming Language (1988) [pdf] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13451454 - Jan 2017 (103 comments)

Show HN: 3D shooter in your terminal using raycasting in Awk - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10896901 - Jan 2016 (55 comments)

Awk in 20 Minutes - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8893302 - Jan 2015 (85 comments)

An Awk Primer - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7961848 - June 2014 (28 comments)

A Crash Course In Awk - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6578960 - Oct 2013 (37 comments)

Why Awk for AI? (1997) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5725291 - May 2013 (53 comments)

Ask HN: Do people build websites in Awk? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5041323 - Jan 2013 (12 comments)

Why you should learn just a little Awk - A Tutorial by Example - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2932450 - Aug 2011 (76 comments)

Announcing my first e-book "Awk One-Liners Explained" - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2674284 - June 2011 (24 comments)

AWK-ward Ruby - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2486231 - April 2011 (31 comments)

Music with AWK - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2294909 - March 2011 (15 comments)

Exercise #1: Learning awk Basics - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2210085 - Feb 2011 (20 comments)

Why you should learn at least a little bit of Awk - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1738688 - Sept 2010 (62 comments)

Don't MAWK AWK - the fastest and most elegant big data munging language - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=815529 - Sept 2009 (22 comments)