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1. I don't know. 2. Relative to their importance in 2023, HN disproportionately upvotes headlines mentioning Mozilla, Linux desktop frameworks (#1 recently!),
by spenrose 3y ago
1. I don't know.
2. Relative to their importance in 2023, HN disproportionately upvotes headlines mentioning Mozilla, Linux desktop frameworks (#1 recently!), and other technologies that were extremely important in 2003.
3. Based on that (imperfect) evidence, my hypothesis is that HN voters are heavily drawn from people who have been hackers for two decades are more *and who haven't fully updated their perspectives on software*. An implication of this hypothesis is that there are some topics which are underweighted on HN relative to their importance. I do not know how to test this hypothesis.