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Comment by hayksaakian | Hacker News Reader

Was there something in current events that prompted the rise of this post?

I didn't realize posting links to encyclopedia articles qualified as "hacker news".

While I think the discussion is an interesting one, it's still odd to see a random wikipedia article on the front page of HN

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One of my projects at the moment is to make a hand cranked USB power source. I stumbled across this while Googling for "stepper motor power generator" or something like that. It looked interesting, so I submitted it.

This makes the discussion much more interesting to me.

Thanks for the context.

See my response to a similar statement in another thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5630031

Hacker News isn't just about news, it's about learning and community. I, for one, would like to see more random Wikipedia articles on HN.

I like seeing this kind of stuff too, but it can be nice to see some context for how someone ran across it (which anthonyb provided in a sibling comment to yours).

"I didn't realize posting links to encyclopedia articles qualified as "hacker news"."

If you actually have to be told this, I don't know what to say, but the analogy is if your virtualization system can't boot without working DHCP and DNS, you've got a big problem if you virtualize your DHCP and DNS.

This is obvious. The more likely failure mode is some goofy homemade thing. Like you can't boot any server including the database server unless the LDAP backend can succesfully talk to the database of user info, but you can't talk to the database unless its already booted, so..

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