Fil-C has come up on HN plenty of times before. If it was going to make much of a dent in the discussions, it would have by now.

It's strange how ideas seem to explode at random into the discourse despite being known for a long time. It's as if some critical mass stumbles on a thing and it becomes "the current thing" everyone talks about until the next current thing.

odd fallacy. things grow in popularity / awareness over time