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Funny, I just saw a comment about this a couple days ago :) https://news.ycombinator.com/reply?id=18518778&goto=item%3Fid%3D18518302%2318518778 https://news.yc

• Sharlin 8y ago
  That may not be completely coincidental.
• buboard 8y ago
  there is a name for this phenomenon in HN, comments giving birth to posts, giving birth to more comments. I forget the name
  • booleandilemma 8y ago
    Maybe we’ll see an HN post for it in a couple days...
    • buboard 8y ago
      according to my research of sample size n=2 the time delay is 1 day
  • gist 8y ago
    > name for this phenomenon in HN, comments giving birth to posts What's interesting is that that is a question that a person could answer (in context) quite easily. But can a google search or a computer answer the same question posed the same way? It can but only if the question or similar has come up before in some way. But if not it would take a human to figure it out. For example if I said 'what is the name of the person who was initially involved in HN that no longer makes comments' most of us would know it is PG (as the likely person). But do a search and not include any more info and the answer does not exist.
  • bch 8y ago
    May not be what you’re thinking of, but there’s the frequency illusion or Baader–Meinhof effect. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cognitive_biases https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cognitive_biases
    • buboard 8y ago
      yes , except in this case it's not an illusion but real
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