Making the front page change on reloading or for different readers (making it a random sample) would indeed be really disruptive, but it could have a kind of se

Making the front page change on reloading or for different readers (making it a random sample) would indeed be really disruptive, but it could have a kind of second-order benefit, that new experiments would become easier to introduce, because we'd stop expecting it to look the same for everyone. Not that I'm seriously advocating this for HN -- maybe for a new site? Geez, I forgot about /best. I tend to visit here to shirk work, and I'm not even shirking most effectively. That's a great suggestion, pointing out the short story. I enjoyed it too.