Nah someone with Wikipedia database access probably looks for obscure article hits and submits them to HN for the karma.

Or a phone-home keylogger

dang?

You're discounting billions of people to whom this didn't happen, because of which they didn't make a HN comment about it.

No he’s not. He’s speaking entirely about the one person who did do this thing

That's another way of expressing exactly the same cognitive bias.

I think he was just making a joke

https://xkcd.com/196/ feels more appropriate in this thread.