When the "Dry erase HOPA" slideshow was revealed as a myth, the subsequent interviews with the Resig brothers revealed how they always got two waves of traffic

When the "Dry erase HOPA" slideshow was revealed as a myth, the subsequent interviews with the Resig brothers revealed how they always got two waves of traffic from such hoaxes. The first is the hoax traffic, the second wave is the wave of traffic about the hoax story. I'm interested to see the increasing frequency of the "HN stats followup article" describing the numbers from the traffic to the first article. Despite the frequency this may still be an under-utilised property of HN. Why not follow the recursion down the rabbit hole - and tell us how many signups come from the followup article too? Perhaps bonus points for publishing a chart of signups v. derivative index of article? I jest but honestly only slightly.