Reposting comment from a similar thread<p>I don't understand this. The articles about _why sometimes were a little weird [analyzing him] but there were enough people in HN interested in it and _why was one of the greatest hackers in the ruby world.<p>The last time there was a deluge of erlang articles, it was to scare away a new wave of newbies. In this case the erlang articles are pushing out legitimate articles and very few of the erlang articles have any real discussion going on. I don't think, the tactic of erlang article flooding was appropriate this time.
Today's flood of Erlang links was by request, to mitigate the flood of _why links:<p><a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=775727" rel="nofollow">http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=775727</a>