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Why does the title read "(2014)"? This seems to have been published today. It's new content, even though it's probably internally prepared in 2014.

• dang 9y ago
  The article was written in 2014. If, say, a letter from Mark Twain got published for the first time today, we'd put the year it was written in the title.
  • nickm12 9y ago
    Count me among the confused. Works are usually referenced by their publication year and, on Hacker News, I always assume something with a (YEAR) in the title was published in that year.
  • pm 9y ago
    That seems strange, and the example you give is less applicable than one might first think. A letter is private correspondence; the date it is written is essentially the date it is published. A manifesto, on the other hand, could be considered a public document, and so its date of publishing may not necessarily be the date it was written. I get that it was written a while ago and only made available for public consumption recently. However, appending a date to the article name signals to most users that the article is an older article that may have been previously posted. This is the part that's confusing, and I think masks what is essentially a new document in the eyes of the public.