One possible answer is that people had already seen the existence of the page, but were now upvoting it because they already knew it was interesting. For example, I have been reading this for the last couple of hours already because I am subscribed to Wolfram's RSS feed.
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I'm going to try to merge this thread with https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22866284, which was posted earlier. Bear with me, as this is not a simple surgery.
Edit: ok, that's done.
Link is broken and needs to be updated to remove the `www.` prefix, which begs the question - how did this get upvoted so high within 20 minutes?
One possible answer is that people had already seen the existence of the page, but were now upvoting it because they already knew it was interesting. For example, I have been reading this for the last couple of hours already because I am subscribed to Wolfram's RSS feed.
It is working for me.
This was posted a couple hours ago and fell off the front page.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22866284