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I might be really off but it seems they rarely get more than 50 comments (unless it's some major breach).

• dang 8y ago
  Did you see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19315273 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19315273? It's just one data point but you might find it interesting. There is a pattern where highly specialized technical posts don't get as many comments, relative to votes. Possibly reverse engineering and other security-related specialties fall into this. One can see the same thing in e.g. articles about type theory: people are interested, but don't necessarily feel qualified to add to the discussion. That's probably good if it prevents the dumb sorts of comment from getting posted, but maybe the threads would be more valuable if more users would ask questions. Then the users who know could explain, and more learning would take place.
  • saagarjha 8y ago
    Then again Ghidra was hyped for months prior to its release.
  • qaq 8y ago
    Good point might be because it was NSA tool
• pjc50 8y ago
  Upvotes and comments are very different; even commenting beyond a certain limit counts negatively towards the article's front page position. If you want a lot of comments start an argument.