This is the 4th article that people have submitted from my blog in the last hour, evidently hoping to score some points off the success of the other thing I have on the front page and thus be able to... well... there must be some benefit I'm not aware of.
But sure. It's fun to watch, and I'm happy for the traffic. Here's a link to the original discussion for this article, which actually turns out to be one of the first things that put Hacker News on to my radar:
>This is the 4th article that people have submitted from my blog in the last hour
I wouldn't be at all surprised if there are some people who run ml or simpler algorithms to suggest posts- I at one time experimented with this kind of stuff on Reddit (ShittyCommentBot sadly got banned for some reason, and now appears to be deleted (thankfully))
This is the 4th article that people have submitted from my blog in the last hour, evidently hoping to score some points off the success of the other thing I have on the front page and thus be able to... well... there must be some benefit I'm not aware of.
But sure. It's fun to watch, and I'm happy for the traffic. Here's a link to the original discussion for this article, which actually turns out to be one of the first things that put Hacker News on to my radar:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=184930
It's also one of my personal favorites, so it's nice to see it get some renewed love.