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I don't get why this is on the front page. It's just a normal fuse, except it works in the opposite manner. Now a standard fuse made of anti-matter...
by mkeblx 15y ago
I don't get why this is on the front page. It's just a normal fuse, except it works in the opposite manner. Now a standard fuse made of anti-matter...
- burgerbrain 15y agoI never understand how bare wikipedia articles with no commentary or news worthiness make it to the front page...
- endgame 15y agoI suspect a number of people will go "hey, cool. I didn't know about that", click the +1 button, then go about their day. I certainly didn't know antifuses existed.
- burgerbrain 15y agoThat's fine and all, but if this continues to be a pattern then everything else will be crapfloaded off the front page. There is little end to the slightly geeky stuff on wikipedia that most people probably don't know of.
- mixmastamyk 15y agoI'd enjoy it if the crap was flooded off the home page by interesting articles such as this.
- scott_s 15y agoPeople have done this for years, and the front page is not flooded with them.
- cachemoney 15y agoSomehow, the comment threads get flooded instead.
- _delirium 15y agoReddit was having that problem in some subreddits, so they created a subreddit just for those posts: http://www.reddit.com/r/wikipedia http://www.reddit.com/r/wikipedia
- jey 15y agoThat makes the problem go away, but doesn't solve it. Just shifts it onto having to wade through a lot of tiny subreddits.
- kragen 15y agoReading this article about antifuses has given me knowledge that will remain equally valid and relevant for at least a decade or two. Probably sometime during that time, it will turn out to be useful to me — either debugging old Christmas lights, designing a circuit, or as a metaphor to use in explaining something to someone. By comparison, the quality of Google Music β [0] or whether "being an indie [is] all fun and games" [1] are almost certainly irrelevant to me in a year, and indeed probably are irrelevant to me now. [0] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2534276 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2534276 [1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2534602 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2534602 I'd love to see all the obsessively recency-oriented breathless crap flooded off the front page by high-quality Wikipedia articles like this.
- maw 15y agoProbably because it's interesting.
- ignifero 15y agoNot necessarily. Look at how none of the comments is about it.