Hacker News Reader

It would book interesting if HN tracked which upvotes come from people who actually clicked the link. Maybe that would be too intrusive or brittle to implement, but the data could be interesting and might improve the ranking algorithm.

> This link is in first position, was submitted 20 minutes ago and has 14 points, yet the host is unreachable.

I suspect that that sentence would have been just as accurate with "and so" replacing "yet"... The various errors (I got a 500 when I first tried to read it, but got through later; others have reported DB errors) are because the infrastructure can't handle the attention.

Would be nice to only allow upvotes from those who have visited the site, but that would be a privacy problem.

hahaha, it would seem the sort of people who immediately agree with an anti-intellectual title are the same people who don't read the articles!

It's working intermittently. The first time I clicked it, it worked, but not the second.

It seems to load again. Stability issues perhaps?