HN is the antithesis of the long tail, it provides a very short, fixed length tail (~50 topics for 24 hours, and everything repeated), and the classic shared ex

HN is the antithesis of the long tail, it provides a very short, fixed length tail (~50 topics for 24 hours, and everything repeated), and the classic shared experience which literally disappeared from the world in the past few years. (Okay, every niche is a short tail in a long tail, still.)