Comment by dang
1 year ago
Here are the threads I could find with 20 or more comments. Smaller threads are listed in a collapsed reply. These are in chronological order for a change:
2048 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41623814 - Sept 2024 (80 comments)
This corroborate well with my memory of 2048 being absolutely all over HN for a while, heh. It was so fun with all the variants popping up, really a cultural phenomenon for a while.
But also made me think: what other "fads" have we seen?
Some that come to mind is a wave of "{x}, a {y} written in rust", or more recently the wave of things being thin wrappers/prompts on top of some llm/transformer. Was also a time it felt like it daily was a new js library on the front page. It would be cool with a history of hn of sorts, about what's been in vogue at times.
We've gotten a lot more aggressive (er, proactive) about downweighting follow-ups in the succeeding years: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que....
Makes me think we could maybe ease up on that when it comes to ongoing work.
Here are the threads I could find with fewer than 20 comments—again in chronological order:
Ask HN: Why is the 2048 post so popular? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36516496 - June 2023 (3 comments)