I think that will just result in more articles hitting the front page, and also the RSS feed. It will certainly reduce the proportion of Apple articles on Hacke

I think that will just result in more articles hitting the front page, and also the RSS feed. It will certainly reduce the proportion of Apple articles on Hacker News, but the absolute number of Apple articles is the problem. Right now I'd say there are too many crap articles on Hacker News, and far too many duplicates. How many articles have you seen where the first few comments are all similar denunciations of the article in question?