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Well, interestingly enough, not one of the top posts was created earlier than 2 years ago. This is obviously due to karma inflation and slightly akin to saying

by mbesto 13y ago

Well, interestingly enough, not one of the top posts was created earlier than 2 years ago. This is obviously due to karma inflation and slightly akin to saying that Avatar is the top grossing movie of all time (hint: it's not[1] when you adjust for inflation). It'd be cool to see a normalized version of this. If that's even possible... [1]-http://boxofficemojo.com/alltime/adjusted.htm http://boxofficemojo.com/alltime/adjusted.htm

victoriap 13y ago
Normalizing per total users or karma has also some side effects. The demographics of HN user base has most probably changed during the past years as well as number of interesting stuff produced also changed. Now there is more submissions more competition.