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Posted two days ago, doesn't have very many upvotes; not super obvious why it's even on the frontpage right now.
by fuglede_ 3y ago
Posted two days ago, doesn't have very many upvotes; not super obvious why it's even on the frontpage right now.
- sundarurfriend 3y agoInteresting - the visible timestamp says "2 hours ago", but hovering over it does show a time two and a half days ago. I guess the mods think it deserves a second chance, as not-so-well-known early scifi that has things like: > Surgeons and lawyers may be steam-powered automatons. Air travel, by balloon, is commonplace. A kind of Internet is predicted in it. Besides trying to account for the revivification of the mummy in scientific terms—galvanic shock rather than incantations—"she embodied ideas of scientific progress and discovery, that now read like prophecies" to those later in the 19th century.
- 2-718-281-828 3y ago> but hovering over it does show a time two and a half days ago now that's pretty incriminating. could it well be that this jane webb, if that is her true name, is in cahoots with the hn management?
- mkl 3y agoThe second chance pool is a thing: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26998308 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26998308
- spamatica 3y agoAlthough this seems the likely reason I prefer to think the previous comment is right. Jane has been reanimated and is in cahoots (was it?) with the HN management!
- nvarsj 3y agoProbably because it's sufficiently interesting for the nerds on HN. Random articles like this crop up from time to time! I upvoted.
- mrec 3y agoI not only upvoted but bought the book. HN would be a poorer place without occasional dashes of serendipitous whimsy like this.
- qingcharles 3y agoAmen to that. I love AI as much as the next nerd, but I don't need every post on the front page to be Sam Altman...