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Heh. I'm curious how a link to a wikipedia entry made it to the front page, or why it was even submitted at all! Is it Poisson's birthday or something?

• welder 4y ago
  Yea, are we going to see a link to Wikipedia's page for Calculus next? HN is for new information, not wikipedia pages that happen to be interesting but are already common knowledge. Although I guess it does technically fit the guidelines [1]. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
  • IshKebab 4y ago
    This happens all the time and they always say it is fine according to the HN rules. I agree it is a bit stupid. It's clearly not news.
    • User23 4y ago
      Ever hear the phrase “that’s news to me?”
      • IshKebab 4y ago
        Sure, but this site isn't called Hacker News to Me.
    • orzig 4y ago
      I, for one, appreciated the reminder that this mathematical subject exists. and I’ve loved some of the ideas discussed in this thread.
  • kqr 4y ago
    HN is for information that might be new to enough of its readers, even if the information itself was not published in the last few days.
    • welder 4y ago
      I would assume most programmers have heard of queueing theory, and I thought most HN readers were programmers. The comments look interesting and it's not against the guidelines, I was just surprised to see it on the front page.
  • pthreads 4y ago
    Perhaps, however I find decent value in some of these kinds of submissions - it is in the comments. The book recommendations and benefits of queueing theory mentioned here have already been worth it for me. I love going down technical rabbit holes.