Comment by matsemann
1 year ago
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.