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That was very different. Somehow the entire front page was Erlang, but it was only for a day or 2. AI is different from that. It's like a good 40-50% of the pos

That was very different. Somehow the entire front page was Erlang, but it was only for a day or 2. AI is different from that. It's like a good 40-50% of the posts for at least a year or more, and I don't see it going away anytime soon. It's also different from web3/etc. as those were at most 10% of the posts and most of us can see it's just hype. I'm not fighting for a split/fork, just stating the fact that it's nothing compared to Erlang.

endtime 1y ago
IIRC that was a deliberate campaign to make the site unattractive to a spate of non-technical folks who had apparently all simultaneously discovered it.
- waterhouse 1y ago
  https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=512145 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=512145 "We've had a huge spike in traffic lately, from roughly 24k daily uniques to 33k. This is a result of being mentioned on more mainstream sites [...] You can help the spike subside by making HN look extra boring. For the next couple days it would be better to have posts about the innards of Erlang [...]" "Ok, ok, enough Erlang submissions. You guys are like the crowdsourced version of one of those troublesome overliteral genies. I meant more that it would be better not to submit and upvote the fluffier type of link. Without those we'll be fine." Also some fun comments here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=512178 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=512178
  - ModernMech 1y ago
    lol ask a community of autists for more posts about the innards of Erlang, don't be surprised when you get posts about the innards of Erlang.
  - flakiness 1y ago
    This is a great little anthropology work of you. Thanks for taking time to find this out!
    - yen223 1y ago
      Here's what the frontpage looked like on the day of Erlang: https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=2009-03-11 https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=2009-03-11
dang 1y ago
https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&query=%22erlang%20day%22&sort=byDate&type=comment https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

endtime 1y ago

IIRC that was a deliberate campaign to make the site unattractive to a spate of non-technical folks who had apparently all simultaneously discovered it.

waterhouse 1y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=512145 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=512145 "We've had a huge spike in traffic lately, from roughly 24k daily uniques to 33k. This is a result of being mentioned on more mainstream sites [...] You can help the spike subside by making HN look extra boring. For the next couple days it would be better to have posts about the innards of Erlang [...]" "Ok, ok, enough Erlang submissions. You guys are like the crowdsourced version of one of those troublesome overliteral genies. I meant more that it would be better not to submit and upvote the fluffier type of link. Without those we'll be fine." Also some fun comments here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=512178 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=512178
- ModernMech 1y ago
  lol ask a community of autists for more posts about the innards of Erlang, don't be surprised when you get posts about the innards of Erlang.
- flakiness 1y ago
  This is a great little anthropology work of you. Thanks for taking time to find this out!
  - yen223 1y ago
    Here's what the frontpage looked like on the day of Erlang: https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=2009-03-11 https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=2009-03-11

dang 1y ago

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&query=%22erlang%20day%22&sort=byDate&type=comment https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...