It’s a reasonable question, and one I had myself. Of course the UX is different, but that is self evident and we don’t need to be pedantic. What’s not obvious is whether this is wrapping the existing RandomPage API, filtering it, doing some sort of prediction/recommendation, etc.

So perhaps your question is “how does this choose articles differently from wikipedias own random page?”? Which I also wondered.

> we don’t need to be pedantic

You must be new to HN

Even more pedantically, parent's account is more than ten years older than yours or mine, and has ~50% more karma, so perhaps not :)

The question is fine; once you stop interpreting the words literally, you can clearly infer the question to be about substance rather than numerical identity.

> How is this (meaningfully) different from Wikipedia’s own “random article” feature?

> Your question doesn’t quite make sense.

Agreed, yet it is the standard question most people throw out for any unfamiliar idea. God forbid they have to form a single thought to grok something…although more charitably it is a form of “why should I care?”.

Your rephrasing is a bit different, it discards the selfish aspect of the question which I think is not correct.

Funnily though, anyone asking why they should care probably shouldn’t care yet.

Nice to know HNers don’t read past the first word. Can’t say I am surprised.