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Interesting article and definitely a good read. But I find it interesting that it has broken the top 20 most upvoted articles of all time on HN and is threaten
by kwamenum86 15y ago
Interesting article and definitely a good read. But I find it interesting that it has broken the top 20 most upvoted articles of all time on HN and is threatening the top 10. This probably has to do with f8 and whatever amount of "upvote inflation" that may be taking place as a result of more users being on HN (6 of the top 10 all-time most upvoted links are from this year. Only one in the top 20 comes before 2010). Timing is everything I guess.
1 1638 Steve Jobs Resigns as CEO of Apple [2011-08-24]
2 1324 Boot a linux kernel right inside your browser. [2011-05-17]
3 1262 Introducing Word Lens [2010-12-17]
4 1232 Today you, tomorrow me [2010-12-14]
5 1196 Google Buys Motorola For $12.5 Billion [2011-08-15]
6 1129 A new approach to China [2010-01-12]
7 1100 Ooops. [2011-06-16]
8 1083 So A Blogger Walks Into A Bar… [2010-09-21]
9 1004 Airbnb Nightmare: No End In Sight [2011-07-29]
10 994 Twitter Bootstrap [2011-08-19]
11 940 Thoughts on Flash [2010-04-29]
12 929 Violated: A traveler’s lost faith, a difficult lesson learned [2011-07-27]
13 906 Chosen: A javascript plug-in that makes long select boxes user-friendly. [2011-07-22]
14 859 I was once a Facebook fool [2011-09-23]
15 856 Osama bin Laden Is Dead [2011-05-02]
16 850 I don't learn anything on HN anymore, bring back the upvote count [2011-04-28]
17 832 How I Hacked Hacker News (with arc security advisory) [2009-06-03]
18 827 Bored People Quit [2011-07-12]
19 822 33GB of public domain JSTOR articles, and a manifesto [2011-07-21]
20 808 A lesson on the importance of encouraging your children with their projects [2011-07-13]
- Empedocles99 15y agoA more interesting metric is: # of votes up / (# of times viewed or # of users viewed) (to normalize against changing userbase size)
- davidhollander 15y ago> the top 20 most upvoted articles of all time I don't think that's an accurate list, as it excludes [dead]ed articles. Zed Shaw's "Programming, Motherfucker" received 870 upvotes: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2355427 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2355427
- freemarketteddy 15y agowhat is the link to the deaded article
- freemarketteddy 15y agohttp://programming-motherfucker.com/ http://programming-motherfucker.com/
- dools 15y agoThis is OT but the term upvote inlfation made me think of it. I don't see why any story gets more than, say, 300 votes. Honestly if a story gets more than a couple of hundred it's on the home page for at least a day - is that not enough? Why do people even bother continuing to upvote those stories? To me it just suggests that comparatively no-one reads the newest section or votes there. Basically the new pages is moving way too fast compared with the front page.