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Random question unrelated to article content: is it just me or does Lithub seem to be everywhere (on HN) as of very recently?

sehr 11y ago
You can click the domain name under the title and look at all submissions from them, they just had a big one yesterday it seems
oh_sigh 11y ago
I noticed the same thing with gwern posts. I assume what happens is HNers see a random article on the front page, like it, and start browsing the sites archives for other interesting articles. Then they submit them to HN and the process repeats itself.
- r-w 11y ago
  I’ve noticed it becomes relatively easy to anticipate which articles will reach the front page once I’ve started reading the trending sites. However, I wonder whether there’s any way to anticipate which sites will begin to trend on the front page. My first instinct is that it’s just a matter of circumstance, of one person sharing one article from a non-trending site that trends on the front page. In practice, however, it’s hard for me to believe that such a small event could decide whether or not a story gets covered by a more mainstream site after a journalist finds it—I’ve been seeing quite a few references to Hacker News articles as of late in mainstream news articles. It could be that Hacker News really is the initial component in starting news trends.
- tgb 11y ago
  Gwern was for a while submitting one article to HN every week and most of them seemed to make the front page. Maybe that's what you're recalling? It was some time ago, though.
  - oh_sigh 11y ago
    Even then, his articles from the distant past would show up on HN, which I attribute to the phenomena mentioned in my original post.
DanBC 11y ago
No. https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=lithub.com https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=lithub.com
a_bonobo 11y ago
It's less than a year old (launched April 8 2015), which could explain why you've only recently seen it: http://www.mhpbooks.com/grove-atlantic-launches-lithub-com/ http://www.mhpbooks.com/grove-atlantic-launches-lithub-com/

sehr 11y ago

You can click the domain name under the title and look at all submissions from them, they just had a big one yesterday it seems

oh_sigh 11y ago

I noticed the same thing with gwern posts. I assume what happens is HNers see a random article on the front page, like it, and start browsing the sites archives for other interesting articles. Then they submit them to HN and the process repeats itself.

r-w 11y ago
I’ve noticed it becomes relatively easy to anticipate which articles will reach the front page once I’ve started reading the trending sites. However, I wonder whether there’s any way to anticipate which sites will begin to trend on the front page. My first instinct is that it’s just a matter of circumstance, of one person sharing one article from a non-trending site that trends on the front page. In practice, however, it’s hard for me to believe that such a small event could decide whether or not a story gets covered by a more mainstream site after a journalist finds it—I’ve been seeing quite a few references to Hacker News articles as of late in mainstream news articles. It could be that Hacker News really is the initial component in starting news trends.
tgb 11y ago
Gwern was for a while submitting one article to HN every week and most of them seemed to make the front page. Maybe that's what you're recalling? It was some time ago, though.
- oh_sigh 11y ago
  Even then, his articles from the distant past would show up on HN, which I attribute to the phenomena mentioned in my original post.

DanBC 11y ago

No. https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=lithub.com https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=lithub.com

a_bonobo 11y ago

It's less than a year old (launched April 8 2015), which could explain why you've only recently seen it: http://www.mhpbooks.com/grove-atlantic-launches-lithub-com/ http://www.mhpbooks.com/grove-atlantic-launches-lithub-com/