Exactly. Or at last a comparative analysis with similar news feeds. Would reddit tech posts not yield similar results? If not then perhaps one has an edge in te

Exactly. Or at last a comparative analysis with similar news feeds. Would reddit tech posts not yield similar results? If not then perhaps one has an edge in term of early discovery future trends. The variety of tech subjects submitted by hacker newsers is very large, and mostly about the most innovative and financially rewarding domain: tech. So sure, hacker news does predict every upcoming trend since someone will be posting something about each and every plausibly promising thing.