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I'm surprised that this isn't old news for every HN reader. Did something change that I'm overlooking?

• mino 9y ago
  Indeed. How can scihub be on #1 on the HN homepage?
  • wallflower 9y ago
    I think it is evidence that there a lot more new HN users than old HN users now. I'm not saying this is good or bad, just an observation.
    • dogruck 9y ago
      Interesting. Any way to get data on active new user numbers over time? Regardless, Sci-Hub launched in 2011 and has been frequently discussed in the media since then.
      • stevemclaugh 9y ago
        The only data we have are the 2015-16 download logs posted by Elbakyan and a reporter for 'Science.' At the time they had 28 million+ downloads over 6 months. I truly hope no more logs are released (at least not with that level of detail).
• Confiks 9y ago
  It's not so rare for older but well-written articles to show up multiple times on the HN frontpage. It's somewhat rarer for a 'product' such as Sci-hub to show up multiple times, but considering that the HN crowd is pretty proud about Sci-hub's existence and will readily strike up a conversation about the Evil Publisher Empire, it's not so strange to see it on top.
• FabHK 9y ago
  Pertinent xkcd ("Ten Thousand", first time) https://www.xkcd.com/1053/ https://www.xkcd.com/1053/
  • dogruck 9y ago
    Ah, yes, a classic (so tempted to say, "wow never saw that before today!"). Do you think the same calculation is applicable to the HN user base? Seems like the relevant inputs are: * New active users per month (instead of 4M born per year) * Frequency that a link hits the HN top, assuming a high percentage of active HN users will subsequently forever know about the link * Total number of times the link hit the top as a proxy for longevity of popularity