{"id":44575026,"user":"waterhouse","time":1752608412,"time_ago":"a year ago","type":"comment","content":"

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=512145

"We've had a huge spike in traffic lately, from roughly 24k daily uniques to 33k. This is a result of being mentioned on more mainstream sites [...] You can help the spike subside by making HN look extra boring. For the next couple days it would be better to have posts about the innards of Erlang [...]"

"Ok, ok, enough Erlang submissions. You guys are like the crowdsourced version of one of those troublesome overliteral genies. I meant more that it would be better not to submit and upvote the fluffier type of link. Without those we'll be fine."

Also some fun comments here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=512178","comments":[{"id":44576676,"user":"flakiness","time":1752619428,"time_ago":"a year ago","type":"comment","content":"

This is a great little anthropology work of you. Thanks for taking time to find this out!","comments":[{"id":44576999,"user":"yen223","time":1752622029,"time_ago":"a year ago","type":"comment","content":"

Here's what the frontpage looked like on the day of Erlang:

https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=2009-03-11","comments":[],"comments_count":0,"level":1,"url":"item?id=44576999"}],"comments_count":1,"level":0,"url":"item?id=44576676"},{"id":44576241,"user":"ModernMech","time":1752616642,"time_ago":"a year ago","type":"comment","content":"

lol ask a community of autists for more posts about the innards of Erlang, don't be surprised when you get posts about the innards of Erlang.","comments":[],"comments_count":0,"level":0,"url":"item?id=44576241"}],"comments_count":3,"url":"item?id=44575026"}

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