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Already discussed in depth at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26891811 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26891811

dylan604 6y ago
I saw the original post, but was unfamiliar with anything in the title. I chose to skip it. The title of this post sounded much more interesting to me, so I clicked on it today. While not judging a book by the cover, this cover was definitely more attractive to my atention span.
- celticninja 6y ago
  I did exactly the same. Sometimes the title is relevant if you are already on the blog so you are aware of context, here though I missed it until I read about it elsewhere, then I can back to find the thread.
- dang 6y ago
  I understand, and of course all of us are subject to that mechanism, but we can't run HN that way (not that you're saying we should). Threads of the second freshness pointing to mediated sources that come out after HN has already had a major discussion—and sometimes even because HN has had a major discussion—fail the following heuristics: We downweight follow-ups that don't contain significant new information: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sort=byDate&type=comment&query=follow-up%20by%3Adang https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor... and https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&sort=byDate&type=comment&query=%22significant%20new%20information%22%20by%3Adang https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so... Repetition is not good for curiosity: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&sort=byDate&type=comment&query=curiosity%20repetition%20by:dang https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so... Front page is the scarcest resource: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&query=by%3Adang%20scarce&sort=byDate&type=comment https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que... ... and no doubt a bunch of others.
  - FridayoLeary 6y ago
    but it's not even on the third page as far as i can see. Can you at least maybe transfer the thread and upvotes, or otherwise refloat it to at least the second page?

dylan604 6y ago

I saw the original post, but was unfamiliar with anything in the title. I chose to skip it. The title of this post sounded much more interesting to me, so I clicked on it today. While not judging a book by the cover, this cover was definitely more attractive to my atention span.

celticninja 6y ago
I did exactly the same. Sometimes the title is relevant if you are already on the blog so you are aware of context, here though I missed it until I read about it elsewhere, then I can back to find the thread.
dang 6y ago
I understand, and of course all of us are subject to that mechanism, but we can't run HN that way (not that you're saying we should). Threads of the second freshness pointing to mediated sources that come out after HN has already had a major discussion—and sometimes even because HN has had a major discussion—fail the following heuristics: We downweight follow-ups that don't contain significant new information: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sort=byDate&type=comment&query=follow-up%20by%3Adang https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor... and https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&sort=byDate&type=comment&query=%22significant%20new%20information%22%20by%3Adang https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so... Repetition is not good for curiosity: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&sort=byDate&type=comment&query=curiosity%20repetition%20by:dang https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so... Front page is the scarcest resource: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&query=by%3Adang%20scarce&sort=byDate&type=comment https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que... ... and no doubt a bunch of others.
- FridayoLeary 6y ago
  but it's not even on the third page as far as i can see. Can you at least maybe transfer the thread and upvotes, or otherwise refloat it to at least the second page?