It's one of the hottest stories we've ever seen on HN and I tend to see 'quantity of stories on X' as one indicator of where X will be going in the near future.

It's one of the hottest stories we've ever seen on HN and I tend to see 'quantity of stories on X' as one indicator of where X will be going in the near future. Simply scanning through the HN headlines without reading every individual post has value for me.