Maybe there is a small 'positive feedback loop' effect. I have some RSS feeds that I follow on topics that are interesting to me, which includes the ocaml.org

Maybe there is a small 'positive feedback loop' effect. I have some RSS feeds that I follow on topics that are interesting to me, which includes the ocaml.org RSS feed and the ocaml subreddit. When I see something interesting that I think might be interesting to other HN readers I use the HN bookmarklet which either submits it (if it wasn't submitted yet), or upvotes it and takes me to the comments. I don't know how many other people there are who follow those RSS feeds and post in a similar way, but it might explain the correlation between submissions and upvotes. In fact one of my (non-OCaml related) RSS-based submissions triggered the ring vote detector although there was no ring voting from my side: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8535171 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8535171 Indeed I noticed more OCaml related topic on the HN frontpage in the past year or so, so that makes me think these kinds of topics and the associated discussions are welcome, or that at least there are a number of people interested in these topics. Either the number of HN users interested in OCaml has grown lately, or they were always there and some of the recent popular OCaml topics on the frontpage has encouraged more people to post more OCaml related topics.