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This was the first time I have seen the entire front page consisting of articles on one topic. The snapshot is from 11pm PDT, and it is from a site that archive

This was the first time I have seen the entire front page consisting of articles on one topic. The snapshot is from 11pm PDT, and it is from a site that archives the Hacker News front page.

cosgroveb 15y ago
I was shocked last night when I counted 27 articles about Steve Jobs and three about other stuff.
- geoka9 15y ago
  I saw 30/30. My first thought was that it's a special filter for the occasion. Amazing.
- jacobolus 15y ago
  For a while it was 30/30, and about 55 or 56 out of the 60 in the top two pages.
throw_away 15y ago
well, there was the great erlang flood of '09 (though I can't find a screen grab): http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=512145 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=512145
- raimondious 15y ago
  That happened again in response to the flood of posts about _why when he "died".