Interesting - 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.

Probably because it's sufficiently interesting for the nerds on HN. Random articles like this crop up from time to time! I upvoted.