HN loves posting Wikipedia links, either as a social signalling tool, as a puppy-like wish to inform the world TIL, or a cynical karma-farming method.
From my dataset, here are the top 10 Wikipedia article submissions
- The Year 2038 Problem - 37
- Timeline of the far future - 29
- Lindy effect - 27
- Project Cybersyn - 27
- Hyper Text Coffee Pot Control Protocol - 26
- Dunning-Kruger effect - 25
- Jevons paradox - 25
- Peter principle - 25
- Wirth's law - 25
- Cobra effect - 24
EDIT here are the most commented Wikipedia submissions.
- Wikipedia user edits over 90k uses of “comprised of” - 695 comments
- 0.999 - 627 comments
- Wikimedia Foundation's runaway spending growth - 452 comments
- Georgism - 432 comments
- Men Without Work (2016) - 412 comments
- Wikimedia Foundation spending - 411 comments
- Wikipedia:Lamest edit wars - 408 comments
- The Great Vowel Shift (Wikipedia) - 386 comments
- Illegal Prime Numbers - 384 comments
- Severance payments at Wikimedia Foundation - 382 comments
EDIT EDIT the most commented submissions from Wikipedia on https://lobste.rs
- Today I discovered /dev/full. Let's talk about more not well-know Linux features - 55 comments
- Wikipedia removing support for old Android smartphones and "Web Security" software - 54 comments
- GNU Readline - 25 comments
- Lobsters Wikipedia article - 25 comments
- Illegal prime - 18 comments
- ncdu: NCurses-based disk usage tool - 18 comments
- TempleOS - 17 comments
- Srinivasa Ramanujan - 15 comments
- BioFabric - Wikipedia - 14 comments
- Fisher-Yates Shuffle - 13 comments