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Did you guys not like Anand? The moment he quit the site, it's showing up on HN every day. Or have I just started noticing it? I'm guessing VPS/cloud providers

Did you guys not like Anand? The moment he quit the site, it's showing up on HN every day. Or have I just started noticing it? I'm guessing VPS/cloud providers will like this one. You can already pack a lot of memory and SSD drives into a server so CPU was becoming a bit of a bottleneck.

christoph 12y ago
I'm not sure why you're being down voted as I have noticed this as well and thought the exact same thing regarding anandtech article frequency increasing since he left, when I logged on to HN this morning.
- petercooper 12y ago
  Call me a cynic, but I suspect many people browse/monitor certain sites for things that might do well on HN.. and the recent outpouring of love for Anand might have put the site on their radars.
  - jacquesm 12y ago
    Except Wesleys previous submission was 58 days ago so he's not exactly a mass submitter. That doesn't invalidate your theory, but I don't think it applies to this particular submission.
    - petercooper 12y ago
      Oh absolutely, I want to make it clear I didn't intend to insinuate on any particular person, more a trend I've seen on HN over the years. I've seen it a few times before when $wellKnownProgrammer has an article hit the top of HN, then their next several blog posts all seem to hit the front page before everyone fatigues of it. I'm guessing certain people and sites become "flavors of the month" for both submitters and upvoters, but maybe HN has the stats to figure it out.
      - gareim 12y ago
        Are you sure you're not the one that's experiencing the Baader-Meinhof phenomenon? I subscribe to Anandtech's RSS feeds and they had a slower period recently for technical articles.
      - seanp2k2 12y ago
        ...and with all these software people, I'm sure no one has bots submitting stories to game points :) Sometimes the meta-game is more fun than the actual game.
baq 12y ago
my guess: 1) anand left right before major planned product releases 2) anandtech usually delivers in-depth reviews that people around here like and/or need.
higherpurpose 12y ago
It's almost like HN has only discovered Anandtech with the news about Anand leaving the site.
seanp2k2 12y ago
FWIW I typically find Anandtech to have really comprehensive analyses of new products. I also appreciate that they tend to highlight the bad things in almost everything they review.

christoph 12y ago

I'm not sure why you're being down voted as I have noticed this as well and thought the exact same thing regarding anandtech article frequency increasing since he left, when I logged on to HN this morning.

petercooper 12y ago
Call me a cynic, but I suspect many people browse/monitor certain sites for things that might do well on HN.. and the recent outpouring of love for Anand might have put the site on their radars.
- jacquesm 12y ago
  Except Wesleys previous submission was 58 days ago so he's not exactly a mass submitter. That doesn't invalidate your theory, but I don't think it applies to this particular submission.
  - petercooper 12y ago
    Oh absolutely, I want to make it clear I didn't intend to insinuate on any particular person, more a trend I've seen on HN over the years. I've seen it a few times before when $wellKnownProgrammer has an article hit the top of HN, then their next several blog posts all seem to hit the front page before everyone fatigues of it. I'm guessing certain people and sites become "flavors of the month" for both submitters and upvoters, but maybe HN has the stats to figure it out.
    - gareim 12y ago
      Are you sure you're not the one that's experiencing the Baader-Meinhof phenomenon? I subscribe to Anandtech's RSS feeds and they had a slower period recently for technical articles.
    - seanp2k2 12y ago
      ...and with all these software people, I'm sure no one has bots submitting stories to game points :) Sometimes the meta-game is more fun than the actual game.

baq 12y ago

my guess: 1) anand left right before major planned product releases 2) anandtech usually delivers in-depth reviews that people around here like and/or need.

higherpurpose 12y ago

It's almost like HN has only discovered Anandtech with the news about Anand leaving the site.

seanp2k2 12y ago

FWIW I typically find Anandtech to have really comprehensive analyses of new products. I also appreciate that they tend to highlight the bad things in almost everything they review.