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I love seeing random Wiki pages hit the front page. On this topic I can highly recommend the book "The Lost Works of Isambard Kingdom Brunel". It was a fascinat
by stn8188 3y ago
I love seeing random Wiki pages hit the front page. On this topic I can highly recommend the book "The Lost Works of Isambard Kingdom Brunel". It was a fascinating read to learn of his impact on both bridges and trains, and neat to see a few sights from my visit to London years ago.
- icegreentea2 3y agoIt is fun seeing the random wikis. But I can't tell if it more or less fun to try to recognize which article inspired the post. In this case, I imagine it's the TBM post (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37836889 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37836889), which has a link to Brunel in the first fifth of the article. It happens a lot on HN...
- dang 3y agoIt does and it's not such a good thing - we try to avoid having multiple frontpage slots consumed by the same story cluster, and so we try to downweight follow-ups: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&query=follow-up%20downweight&sort=byDate&type=comment https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que.... Follow-up links are great of course! but they belong in the comments, not the submission feed.
- mattl 3y agoWikipedia. It’s not enough to call it a wiki