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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 alr

by 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.