Is this of special significance today?
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.
Feels more prescient every time.
Still, options will differ.
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.
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.