Creeping normality

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Post by Ismair » Sat, Aug 10, 2019, 7:18 PM UTC

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#2

Post by Torkel » Sat, Aug 10, 2019, 8:46 PM UTC

Interesting, frogs boiling etc, but... What is up with all of these wikipedia entries making the front page of hacker news? Has it always been so and I’m mis remembering thinking this is something new?

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Post by akhilcacharya » Sat, Aug 10, 2019, 9:22 PM UTC

Torkel wrote: post #2

Interesting, frogs boiling etc, but... What is up with all of these wikipedia entries making the front page of hacker news? Has it always been so and I’m mis remembering thinking this is something new?

I’ve seen it for a while. My 2c.

They’re usually off beat enough to be interesting.

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Post by gpvos » Sat, Aug 10, 2019, 9:29 PM UTC

Torkel wrote: post #2

Interesting, frogs boiling etc, but... What is up with all of these wikipedia entries making the front page of hacker news? Has it always been so and I’m mis remembering thinking this is something new?

They have always been there, but in recent months the frequency has increased a little, and a lot in the last two weeks or so.

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Post by Torkel » Sat, Aug 10, 2019, 9:36 PM UTC

gpvos wrote: post #4

Torkel wrote: post #2

Interesting, frogs boiling etc, but... What is up with all of these wikipedia entries making the front page of hacker news? Has it always been so and I’m mis remembering thinking this is something new?

They have always been there, but in recent months the frequency has increased a little, and a lot in the last two weeks or so.

I guess I should mostly attribute it to the Baader-Meinhof effect [0] then.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baader-Meinhof_effect

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Post by [deleted] » Sat, Aug 10, 2019, 9:36 PM UTC

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#7

Post by abathur » Sat, Aug 10, 2019, 9:39 PM UTC

Torkel wrote: post #2

Interesting, frogs boiling etc, but... What is up with all of these wikipedia entries making the front page of hacker news? Has it always been so and I’m mis remembering thinking this is something new?

I suspect their record is incomplete since I don't see some pretty hot threads from the past few weeks, but https://hntrending.com/domains/all/index.html does purport to accumulate domains/listings/score.

Full English Wikipedia is 15 over both the past year and all-time, 6 over the last month, but back down to 12 over the past week.

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Post by abathur » Sat, Aug 10, 2019, 9:44 PM UTC

abathur wrote: post #7

Torkel wrote: post #2

Interesting, frogs boiling etc, but... What is up with all of these wikipedia entries making the front page of hacker news? Has it always been so and I’m mis remembering thinking this is something new?

I suspect their record is incomplete since I don't see some pretty hot threads from the past few weeks, but https://hntrending.com/domains/all/index.html does purport to accumulate domains/listings/score. Full English Wikipedia is 15 over both the past year and all-time, 6 over the last month, but back down to 12 over the past week.

(This rank is just based on points, but it lists total points. I don't see a way to force it to re-sort, but it wouldn't be too hard to re-compare them by volume.)

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Post by lrsjng » Sat, Aug 10, 2019, 9:50 PM UTC

Torkel wrote: post #2

Interesting, frogs boiling etc, but... What is up with all of these wikipedia entries making the front page of hacker news? Has it always been so and I’m mis remembering thinking this is something new?

..creeping normality

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Post by [deleted] » Sat, Aug 10, 2019, 9:56 PM UTC

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