> How many tech trends did Hacker News hype up only to have them go nowhere? Do all of these graphs taken into account actual "hype" or just the existence, and

> How many tech trends did Hacker News hype up only to have them go nowhere? Do all of these graphs taken into account actual "hype" or just the existence, and number, of posts on hacker news? I would like to see the graphs adjusted for discussion. Take number of comments into account, analysis of sentiment in the discussion, etc. Are they actually being hyped? For instance, the description above the Bitcoin graph gives a link to the very first mention of Bitcoin[1] but the link goes to a post with no comments. I guess number of posts and timeline of posts could indicate trend but should we call it "hyping" those trends? I would imagine that would come from the averaged response sentiment of the discussion on those posts. 1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=463793 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=463793