Ask HN: A List of the most compelling but wrong old submissions to HN?

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I see links to bold, overconfident predictions on here often. I'm kind of curious to see which articles from years past were really popular, really confident, and turned out to be really wrong.

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> ... and turned out to be really wrong.

I can only say that, if the link is to a psychology article, the chances of it being either wrong or totally forgotten (or both) in a few years is much higher than for other fields.

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