Wow, this is amazing. I guess the huge increase has resulted from increasing media coverage of YCombinator and its alumni. I'm here now for close to a year, I

Wow, this is amazing. I guess the huge increase has resulted from increasing media coverage of YCombinator and its alumni. I'm here now for close to a year, I haven't felt any major changes in site "flavor" except for the fact that the diversity of submissions have increased. However, the core HN reader group is quite successful in prevention too much dilution of content. One reason I don't think HN will go the way of the reddit/digg/etc is due to this dedicated, close-knit community, that is tied to HN in ways quite different from, say, reddit's community is tied to reddit. A coarse comparison could be the Wikipedia admin community perhaps. Also having "benevolent dictators for life" like PG helps :-)