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Agreed - it's like watching the emergent complex behavior that an AI spits out after you give it something unique. You're curious - what on earth could the HN crowd have to say Yak Shaving? The input doesn't matter at that point to a degree, it's the unique/novel thing that was outputted.

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You could search Algolia for the last time it was discussed, but it's much for fun to bring up the topic again. Who knows maybe the emergent behaviour is different than the last time it was discussed.

Do you get different emergent behaviour depending on the time of day/week? Have demographics of the site altered such that the prevailing opinions are vastly different? What is the mean time to only tangentially related items being discussed?

I have written comments on articles that were posted before. In many cases the discussions and participants are quite different. And they complement the comments of the original post.

HN completely random, yes there are patterns, but if you looked at 1000 articles that have been posted 5 or more times on HN you would see it’s completely random to if a topic get attention or not. Same with an emerging new story, multiple users will post it and frequently only after it’s posted a few times over hours or days does it get traction; and even then, there’s obviously a lot of posts that never get attention, but do elsewhere, but were within the scope of what’s on topic on HN.

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