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Serious question.. Why is this on the front page?
by hahla 6y ago
Serious question.. Why is this on the front page?
- mpalmer 6y agoBecause HN users are upvoting it.
- geek_at 6y agoor the mods
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- dang 6y agoThat's not wrong. We invited david-given to repost https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14165741 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14165741. But it's only at #1 because the community upvoted it. You can see a list of invited reposts at https://news.ycombinator.com/invited https://news.ycombinator.com/invited. If anyone sees a great, forgotten submission in the HN archives, please let us know at hn@ycombinator.com so we can consider inviting a repost. There are tons of these, like amber in rock.
- fireattack 6y agoHow does "invited reposts" work? Do the mods send email/PM to ask them to re-submit the link(s), or the mods are doing that themselves?
- dang 6y agoThe former. But we only do that when the post is older than a few days. Otherwise we re-up the original submission as described here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11662380 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11662380.
- twic 6y agoOr a huge bot farm operating at the behest of Big Chickpea.
- punkspider 6y agoWas thinking the exact same thing. Update: After paying more attention to what it's all about I now find it very interesting.
- ehsankia 6y agoI definitely never knew about this, and I too find it pretty fascinating. I don't think it's too uncommon to see Wiki links to random fun TIL stuff on HN.
- whoisburbansky 6y agoSubtext here being wondering why all the upvoters aren’t commenting (yet).
- giglamesh 6y agoWe are doing a bit of "research" first.
- ianai 6y agoWell for one it feels and browses a lot like old-internet and the premise is old-internet, too. Ie deep info on some random thing someone's blown up.
- SkyMarshal 6y agoBecause it's disrupting egg whites?
- emptybits 6y agoIt ticks these boxes for me: food and nutrition hacking, science, intellectual curiosity, community-funded research project, etc.
- pizza 6y agoIt's accessible, novel, well laid out, and something we can try for ourselves quite easily. It's nice
- ianai 6y agoExactly, I could see it being used as a good UI/UX example for someone pitching sites to someone.
- unwind 6y agoNot the poster, but I did post the same topic (but "only" at Wikipedia) four months ago [1]. That submission totally tanked, though. I felt it was interesting enough to post then not only because it's rather unexpected, and useful if you want to avoid eggs in your food, but also because it's new. I had just realized that day that the entire concept of using aquafaba as egg white replacement has not been around for very long. I mean the Wiki page says that the first recipe for meringues using aquafaba was published in 2015. I think it's really cool that such things are being discovered still. I mean the recipe for egg-based meringues is probably a few hundred years old [2] although sources are obscure. To have a vegan replacement using basically two ingredients appear six years ago is just cool! :) [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24210986 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24210986 [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meringue https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meringue
- ianai 6y agoAnd the thought process of discovering something new is the very moment that set me down the vegetarian and plant based path. I had a chile cheeseburger for the first time in over a year and realized it was actually bland compared to what I could do with plants.
- Rooster61 6y agoThere are few truer hacks than recipe substitutions. You have to know the mechanics of what you are doing and how things react with each other to do it right. Cooking in general is a tinkerers dream in that regard.
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