I'm always on the boat of: "The community votes what to read" but I've seen this subject on the HN's home page over and over and over. Isn't this an old story?

I'm always on the boat of: "The community votes what to read" but I've seen this subject on the HN's home page over and over and over. Isn't this an old story? Are people discovering this about Amazon's reviews and upvoting out of curiosity or am I reading HN way too frequently?