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Comment by sriram_malhar | Hacker News Reader

Heh. I'm curious how a link to a wikipedia entry made it to the front page, or why it was even submitted at all! Is it Poisson's birthday or something?

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Yea, are we going to see a link to Wikipedia's page for Calculus next?

HN is for new information, not wikipedia pages that happen to be interesting but are already common knowledge. Although I guess it does technically fit the guidelines [1].

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

This happens all the time and they always say it is fine according to the HN rules. I agree it is a bit stupid. It's clearly not news.

Ever hear the phrase “that’s news to me?”

Sure, but this site isn't called Hacker News to Me.

I, for one, appreciated the reminder that this mathematical subject exists. and I’ve loved some of the ideas discussed in this thread.

HN is for information that might be new to enough of its readers, even if the information itself was not published in the last few days.

I would assume most programmers have heard of queueing theory, and I thought most HN readers were programmers. The comments look interesting and it's not against the guidelines, I was just surprised to see it on the front page.

Perhaps, however I find decent value in some of these kinds of submissions - it is in the comments. The book recommendations and benefits of queueing theory mentioned here have already been worth it for me. I love going down technical rabbit holes.

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