I think that some of HN people don't like this. The more popular it gets the less quality (or more mod work) will HN comments have.
But since the article is paywalled... maybe it's protecting HN :)
But since the article is paywalled... maybe it's protecting HN :)
Again I think for the most part the moderators are doing an amazing work but there is definitely a risk of just becoming another frontpage of the internet instead of sticking to the original ethos of submissions about 'anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity'.
From my perspective the baseline is pretty stable but the fluctuation around it has a fairly large amplitude. That makes for phases when certain types of story are more or less represented than others. If there were significantly more worldnews stories now than in years past, I'd be surprised. That's certainly not our intention.