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Sometimes what is not said is as sneerworthy as what is said.

It is quite telling to me that HN's regulars and throwaway accounts have absolutely nothing to say about the analysis of cultural patterns.

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[–] gerikson@awful.systems 9 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

HN loves posting Wikipedia links, either as a social signalling tool, as a puppy-like wish to inform the world TIL, or a cynical karma-farming method.

From my dataset, here are the top 10 Wikipedia article submissions

  1. The Year 2038 Problem - 37
  2. Timeline of the far future - 29
  3. Lindy effect - 27
  4. Project Cybersyn - 27
  5. Hyper Text Coffee Pot Control Protocol - 26
  6. Dunning-Kruger effect - 25
  7. Jevons paradox - 25
  8. Peter principle - 25
  9. Wirth's law - 25
  10. Cobra effect - 24

EDIT here are the most commented Wikipedia submissions.

  1. Wikipedia user edits over 90k uses of “comprised of” - 695 comments
  2. 0.999 - 627 comments
  3. Wikimedia Foundation's runaway spending growth - 452 comments
  4. Georgism - 432 comments
  5. Men Without Work (2016) - 412 comments
  6. Wikimedia Foundation spending - 411 comments
  7. Wikipedia:Lamest edit wars - 408 comments
  8. The Great Vowel Shift (Wikipedia) - 386 comments
  9. Illegal Prime Numbers - 384 comments
  10. Severance payments at Wikimedia Foundation - 382 comments

EDIT EDIT the most commented submissions from Wikipedia on https://lobste.rs

  1. Today I discovered /dev/full. Let's talk about more not well-know Linux features - 55 comments
  2. Wikipedia removing support for old Android smartphones and "Web Security" software - 54 comments
  3. GNU Readline - 25 comments
  4. Lobsters Wikipedia article - 25 comments
  5. Illegal prime - 18 comments
  6. ncdu: NCurses-based disk usage tool - 18 comments
  7. TempleOS - 17 comments
  8. Srinivasa Ramanujan - 15 comments
  9. BioFabric - Wikipedia - 14 comments
  10. Fisher-Yates Shuffle - 13 comments