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Is this of special significance today?

by palad1n 2y ago

arduanika 2y ago
Unclear. Maybe there's a bubble gum shortage.
arnaudsm 2y ago
The best way to farm karma on HN is to post a random Wikipedia article every day
- matthewsinclair 2y ago
  Y’know, I see these random Wikipedia articles come up every day or so on the front page and wonder what is going on. I thought they were organic at first but then I got skeptical and wondered if it was some vestige of the early days of HN where it was automatically injecting a random article to bolster content. The other thing I thought could be happening was that there is an article on the front page in a particular topic, someone reads it finds a novel topic and then thinks to themself: “I know! I can post a Wikipedia article on that topic and farm some karma”. Who knows.
- CPLX 2y ago
  I mean assuming the articles are well chosen that seems like a public service
  - kevindamm 2y ago
    ..and if they aren't well chosen, they should drift off the front page soon enough
  - HPsquared 2y ago
    Aligned incentives.
- dvh 2y ago
  I've posted this and nothing: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40106956 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40106956
- penfolder 2y ago
  Dumb question. What advantage is there to having hn karma?
  - arnaudsm 2y ago
    After 500 you're allowed to downvote
  - efitz 2y ago
    I learned from social media that having bigger numbers is better; it means that you are a better person.
surprisetalk 2y ago
> On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity. Anything that "gratifies one's intellectual curiosity" is on-topic on HN :) Wikipedia happens to be a great neutral resource to share curious media/phenomena that others might not know about.
- Hizonner 2y ago
  I saw that movie when it came out, and it did not gratify my intellectual curiosity.
  - gatlin 2y ago
    Shame, it's a brilliant film.
  - effingwewt 2y ago
    Maybe try again? I saw it many times as a child and rewatch it every few years. Feels more prescient every time. Still, options will differ.
- derstander 2y ago
  > Anything that "gratifies one's intellectual curiosity" is on-topic on HN :) Yeah — sure. But I’m with the parent comment to which you replied. Sometimes I’m not sure if I’m just coming across one of todays “lucky 10,000” [0] or if there’s another reason why something old has resurfaced and, if it’s the latter, it’d be nice to know the context. [0] https://xkcd.com/1053/ https://xkcd.com/1053/

Is this of special significance today?

arduanika 2y ago

Unclear. Maybe there's a bubble gum shortage.

arnaudsm 2y ago

The best way to farm karma on HN is to post a random Wikipedia article every day

matthewsinclair 2y ago
Y’know, I see these random Wikipedia articles come up every day or so on the front page and wonder what is going on. I thought they were organic at first but then I got skeptical and wondered if it was some vestige of the early days of HN where it was automatically injecting a random article to bolster content. The other thing I thought could be happening was that there is an article on the front page in a particular topic, someone reads it finds a novel topic and then thinks to themself: “I know! I can post a Wikipedia article on that topic and farm some karma”. Who knows.
CPLX 2y ago
I mean assuming the articles are well chosen that seems like a public service
- kevindamm 2y ago
  ..and if they aren't well chosen, they should drift off the front page soon enough
- HPsquared 2y ago
  Aligned incentives.
dvh 2y ago
I've posted this and nothing: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40106956 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40106956
penfolder 2y ago
Dumb question. What advantage is there to having hn karma?
- arnaudsm 2y ago
  After 500 you're allowed to downvote
- efitz 2y ago
  I learned from social media that having bigger numbers is better; it means that you are a better person.

surprisetalk 2y ago

> On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity. Anything that "gratifies one's intellectual curiosity" is on-topic on HN :) Wikipedia happens to be a great neutral resource to share curious media/phenomena that others might not know about.

Hizonner 2y ago
I saw that movie when it came out, and it did not gratify my intellectual curiosity.
- gatlin 2y ago
  Shame, it's a brilliant film.
- effingwewt 2y ago
  Maybe try again? I saw it many times as a child and rewatch it every few years. Feels more prescient every time. Still, options will differ.
derstander 2y ago
> Anything that "gratifies one's intellectual curiosity" is on-topic on HN :) Yeah — sure. But I’m with the parent comment to which you replied. Sometimes I’m not sure if I’m just coming across one of todays “lucky 10,000” [0] or if there’s another reason why something old has resurfaced and, if it’s the latter, it’d be nice to know the context. [0] https://xkcd.com/1053/ https://xkcd.com/1053/