There are a few hot subjects that the HN crowd loves to talk about: UBI, FAANG salaries, interviewing/leetcode, opinions on Agile, house prices in the US etc. E

There are a few hot subjects that the HN crowd loves to talk about: UBI, FAANG salaries, interviewing/leetcode, opinions on Agile, house prices in the US etc. Eventually, someone makes some remark that is touching on one of these and it triggers a tangential subthread that can generate more posts than the OP, in which (usually) few people were originally interested.