Unreasonable effectiveness of HN posts with Unreasonable effectiveness in title

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For some reasons, Hacker News really love posts with the words "unreasonable effectiveness" in the title.

Not sure if it's correlation or causation.

I was thinking the same thing earlier today! It seems to be becoming a cliche.

Ironically, Wigner's article which kicked the trope off was also unreasonably well-received, considering that its subject (mathematics in the natural sciences) is effective for good reasons -- there is nothing "unreasonable" about it.

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