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Comment by nwellinghoff | Hacker News Reader

So why is this surfacing again now and why not a up to date article on Oxy? Which sounds very useful btw.

There are always people who haven't heard about stuff. https://xkcd.com/1053/

They also could forget about it. I bet I've probably seen Oxy in some cloudflare post from years ago (maybe even from a launch week or something) but it never resonated.

But I might have encountered this problem or am about to, and such a post might resonate more.

It is like advertising in a way. But for knowledge. As long as people upvote it, it's resonating.

Surely you're not saying that everyone should just start posting all of cloudflare's blog posts? Let alone all blog posts on the net.

So, what's the threshold for what should be shared, given that most people don't know most thing things...?

Isn't this the point of upvoting though - if people find it interesting and new, they will upvote and stuff will be visible.

I also think HN does some sort of deduplication if something has been posted recently (to count as upvote instead of new submission), but not sure of the details.

It's also the point of commenting. I think they were hoping for a more specific explanation along the lines of "I'm interested in it because it has X, Y, Z implications" or "Oxy continues to be important because ____ and here's the best comprehensive intro to it."

People can submit anything they want. If it’s interesting, it’ll get upvoted. If not, it’ll not reach the front page.

Isn’t that the whole benefit of sites like HN and Reddit?

I think it would be nice to have a Hacker Canon of stuff that's no longer news but still worth reading. Maybe the HN front page could have a few threads looking back 1/5/10/20 years where people could re-discuss things in a historical context.

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