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I've always thought sites like IMDB and Wikipedia are hypertext expressions of the purest form. As a nerdy kid, over a few years I read my way through a…",{"id":76,"by":77,"text":78},"4460335","njharman","I love wiki. I spend hours following links. Having loops is a feature or else I might never stop. Greek City States -> ``` Polis City Human settlement Statistics Data Level of…",{"id":80,"by":81,"text":82},"4460624","hoprocker","Puts me in mind of Translation Party[1] (which is back up, kudos to WillC and Rick!). There's a lot to be entertained via this sort of vertex-following algorithm. [1]…",{"value":84,"source":69,"evidence":85},"Mathematical explanation of why chains loop",[86],{"id":87,"by":88,"text":89},"4460333","lbarrow","From a mathematical perspective, this is actually not that surprising. Think of the act of clicking the first link in the Wikipedia article as a function that takes in the page…",[91,105],{"value":92,"source":69,"evidence":93},"Results change as Wikipedia articles are edited",[94,98,101],{"id":95,"by":96,"text":97},"4460708","justincormack","Unless the articles are edited before you come back!",{"id":99,"by":11,"text":100},"4460727","yesterday, the loop was always the same. since this made it to the top of hacker news, the loop has been changing. look at the revision history of some of those pages and you'll…",{"id":102,"by":103,"text":104},"4461352","ErrantX","Guys :) This is always fun when it crops up - especially the musing on how deeply rooted the topic of philosophy is. But please don't go editing articles to improve the loops or…",{"value":106,"source":69,"evidence":107},"First-link rule fails on images, coordinates and bolded links",[108,112,116],{"id":109,"by":110,"text":111},"4460084","joelverhagen","When images appear first in the page's source, the wrong link is chosen. I assume you are trying to go for the first link, as a human reader would see it. For example, the page…",{"id":113,"by":114,"text":115},"4461002","pooriaazimi","You have a bug. Pages like http:\u002F\u002Fen.wikipedia.org\u002Fwiki\u002FApple_Inc. (note the dot at the end) have a \"geographic coordinate system\" link at the top, that isn't part of the…",{"id":117,"by":118,"text":119},"4460614","JohnsonB","This behaves erratically. 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