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This would imply that all/most posts about popular culture figures are highly upvoted in HN but I doubt this is the case (no data, just subjective impression).
by reinhardt 11y ago
This would imply that all/most posts about popular culture figures are highly upvoted in HN but I doubt this is the case (no data, just subjective impression).
- krapp 11y agoI think it just implies that HN users are informed by popular culture. Not every cultural figure is likely to be as important to HN users as every other, but some[0] clearly are, and posts about deaths are of a different sort. [0]https://hn.algolia.com/?query=dies&sort=byPopularity&prefix=false&page=0&dateRange=all&type=story https://hn.algolia.com/?query=dies&sort=byPopularity&prefix=...