I think I read some days ago another stat, that the average rating of “Show HN” posts is going down. So the pessimistic take is that people feel the bar to present their product in a “Show HN” is lowering.
(edit: striked) <strike>Is it deliberate that this post appears as “Show HN” itself? I hope not to be too negative, but to qualify as such I would expect much more that a page with two graphs.</strike>
Would be nice to see some qualitative analyis to know if it's just slop, or actually more interesting projects. Not sure how to do that though. I think just looking at votes wouldn't work. I would guess more posts causes lower average visibility per post which should cause upvotes to slump naturally regardless of quality.
Edit: maybe you could:
- remove outliers (anything that made the front page)
- normalise vote count by expected time in the first 20 posts of shownew, based on the posting rate at the time
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This is an interesting post, but not a Show HN.
Edit: maybe you could:
- remove outliers (anything that made the front page)
- normalise vote count by expected time in the first 20 posts of shownew, based on the posting rate at the time
I assume the vast, vast majority never get any upvotes.
And there is also this https://dewmal.medium.com/hacker-news-is-a-living-time-capsu...
Original title: "Data on AI-related Show HN posts More than 1 in 5 Show HN posts are now AI-related, but get less than half the votes or comments."
6 months ago, 155 comments https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44463249