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If silly but interesting things weren't allowed, there would be no point to having a website like this. The article is a neat exploration of two things that man
by TheRealPomax 6y ago
If silly but interesting things weren't allowed, there would be no point to having a website like this. The article is a neat exploration of two things that many, many people don't realise are related because they simply don't know the maths involved in either of the two subjects.
- vletal 6y agoMaybe, if the title wan not so overblown the pushback againt the articles premise would not be so hard.
- TheRealPomax 6y agoSorry, have you seen on the internet? There is no requirement of professionalism: write a catchy title, get people to read what you had to say. HN isn't an academic publishing track, it's a reflection of what the world actually posts on the internet. You're free to not like the titles some people use to get eyeballs on their content, but this was clearly not clickbait warranting removal, and it's certainly not HN's job to police page titles on the wider web: we just upvote the cool content, and if enough people like it, it hits the front page. So really, you're complaining that not enough people on HN mind catchy titles enough to downvote a post based on its cover, rather than the book it links to =)