I disagree, I think we can solve this problem without placing a hard limit on the number of articles on the home page. Consider: 1. That to place a limit on th

I disagree, I think we can solve this problem without placing a hard limit on the number of articles on the home page. Consider: 1. That to place a limit on the number of articles on a particular topic on the homepage you must be able to group articles into topics. 2. If you can group articles into topics why not implement either: (a). a filter control which filters out topics based on user selection or (b). a second "diversity of topics" page HN which includes only the top articles on HN per topic (a log plot of HN).