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Antifuse, the opposite of a fuse

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I don't get why this is on the front page. It's just a normal fuse, except it works in the opposite manner. Now a standard fuse made of anti-matter...

I never understand how bare wikipedia articles with no commentary or news worthiness make it to the front page...

I suspect a number of people will go "hey, cool. I didn't know about that", click the +1 button, then go about their day.

I certainly didn't know antifuses existed.

That's fine and all, but if this continues to be a pattern then everything else will be crapfloaded off the front page. There is little end to the slightly geeky stuff on wikipedia that most people probably don't know of.

I'd enjoy it if the crap was flooded off the home page by interesting articles such as this.

People have done this for years, and the front page is not flooded with them.

Somehow, the comment threads get flooded instead.

Reddit was having that problem in some subreddits, so they created a subreddit just for those posts: http://www.reddit.com/r/wikipedia

That makes the problem go away, but doesn't solve it. Just shifts it onto having to wade through a lot of tiny subreddits.

Reading this article about antifuses has given me knowledge that will remain equally valid and relevant for at least a decade or two. Probably sometime during that time, it will turn out to be useful to me — either debugging old Christmas lights, designing a circuit, or as a metaphor to use in explaining something to someone.

By comparison, the quality of Google Music β [0] or whether "being an indie [is] all fun and games" [1] are almost certainly irrelevant to me in a year, and indeed probably are irrelevant to me now.

[0] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2534276 [1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2534602

I'd love to see all the obsessively recency-oriented breathless crap flooded off the front page by high-quality Wikipedia articles like this.

Probably because it's interesting.

Not necessarily. Look at how none of the comments is about it.

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