In the 80s and early 90s, when the vast majority of people with access to the internet were university students, there would be an influx of new users every Sep

In the 80s and early 90s, when the vast majority of people with access to the internet were university students, there would be an influx of new users every September to usenet discussion groups--users who didn't understand the rules and conventions of the space. September was the time when every newsgroup would go to shit for a while, and we'd have to educate the newbies. "Eternal September" was a term coined when internet access started arriving for everybody in the mid 90s; there was a constant influx of new users. It would seem that the commenter above thinks that HN is not that well-known, and getting linked from boingboing is going to lead to an influx of newbies. I think that's pretty silly, personally; these days HN probably has a significantly wider readership than boingboing.