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This was the first time I have seen the entire front page consisting of articles on one topic. The snapshot is from 11pm PDT, and it is from a site that archives the Hacker News front page.

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well, there was the great erlang flood of '09 (though I can't find a screen grab): http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=512145

That happened again in response to the flood of posts about _why when he "died".

I was shocked last night when I counted 27 articles about Steve Jobs and three about other stuff.

For a while it was 30/30, and about 55 or 56 out of the 60 in the top two pages.

I saw 30/30. My first thought was that it's a special filter for the occasion. Amazing.

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