When one post is on HN's front page it's common for there to be a rush of follow-up posts. Usually we downweight these since there's a power-law dropoff in how interesting they are. Some of the moderation principles relating to this:
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I'm wondering which of these S-1s are particularly interesting to discuss in their own right, vs. which are just follow-up/copycat-style threads? Unity is getting a specific discussion (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24261559) but the other ones seem pretty generic. Oh yeah, that's another relevant principle: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor....