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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.

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.

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.