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There sure are some odd articles climbing to #1 on Christmas day on HN.

• crististm 11y ago
  I think it relates to the audience still online today. It must say something about the interests of the offline people :)
  • negativity 11y ago
    It's actually been quite nice reading, today. All the articles are pretty good!
  • nickpsecurity 11y ago
    Does that mean the people chasing fads are off chasing a long-lasting fad while mere rational people are still being rational? ;)
    • crististm 11y ago
      I can't tell. My hypothesis is that there is a smaller presence of hype-oriented people (usually the majority), to skew off the first-page. Oberon submissions are in a niche that would be quickly overwhelmed on a normal day.
      • nickpsecurity 11y ago
        Makes sense. Especially the last part. Might be worth one of those analysis to look at HN submission data on holidays going back years versus what's typical.
      • MaysonL 11y ago
        Actually, Oberon has a fairly strong support on HN. Here are scores for the last year's Oberon story submissions: Project Oberon 417 points Fenume 6 months ago 87 comments (http://www.projectoberon.com/ http://www.projectoberon.com/) OberonStation, an Oberon RISC workstation 130 points sinrostro 2 months ago 96 comments (http://oberonstation.x10.mx http://oberonstation.x10.mx) Oberon – The Overlooked Jewel (2000) [pdf] 78 points marsmxm 4 months ago 23 comments (http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.90.7173&rep=rep1&type=pdf http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.90....) Oberon System, an OS Written in Oberon 46 points DiabloD3 3 hours ago 20 comments (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oberon_(operating_system) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oberon_(operating_system)) Project Oberon Emulator in JavaScript and Java 38 points cylinder714 4 months ago 10 comments (http://schierlm.github.io/OberonEmulator/ http://schierlm.github.io/OberonEmulator/) Oberon vs. C++ (1994) 26 points networked 9 months ago 18 comments (http://www.modulaware.com/mdlt49.htm http://www.modulaware.com/mdlt49.htm) Oberon operating systems 9 points networked 5 months ago 0 comments (http://www.progtools.org/article.php?name=oberon§ion=compilers&type=tutorial http://www.progtools.org/article.php?name=oberon§ion=compile...)
        • gtirloni 11y ago
          For perspective, count of stories submitted: php - 75508 javascript - 39526 python - 38836 ruby - 25275 java - 23527 cobol - 8383 node.js - 6677 c++ - 4858 lisp - 2983 haskell - 2917 scala - 2730 perl - 2479 swift - 2173 c# - 1954 erlang - 1882 modula-2 - 1648 rust - 1277 object-c - 1223 coffeescript - 1136 lua - 713 pascal - 687 f# - 606 ada - 428 typescript - 339 modula-3 - 322 oberon - 243 fortran - 182
          • PudgePacket 11y ago
            golang didn't show up? My thoughts are because of it's name makes it hard to identify correctly, possibly?
            • gtirloni 11y ago
              Yes, there was too much noise.
• chris_wot 11y ago
  It's currently Boxing Day in Australia.