Story Dynamics 200 stories tracked
Engagement patterns across evaluated stories. Peak score = maximum points reached. Score velocity = points per hour. Comment ratio = comments per point (high ratio = discussion-heavy). Slow burners = high peak score but below-average velocity.
sort: peak score | velocity | comments | comment ratio | score gain
Avg Score Velocity
41.9 pts/hr
first 2 hours
Avg Comment Velocity
21.4 cmt/hr
first 2 hours
Avg Comment Ratio
0.60 cmt/pt
Velocity Distribution
0-5
5-10
10-20
20-50
50-100
100-200
200+
Fastest Risers
Most Discussed
Biggest Gains
Microgpt +1815
Slow Burners
Engagement by Story Type
Type Stories Avg Score Avg Comments Cmt/Pt Avg HRCB Score Distribution
link 7271 129.7 72.7 0.56 +0.22
show 256 182.2 58.1 0.32 +0.25
ask 63 731.5 267.8 0.37 +0.22
calibration 30 0 0 — —
# Story Peak Cmts Gain Vel pt/h Vel cm/h C/Pt HRCB Trajectory
1 Statement from Dario Amodei on Our Discussions wit... (www.anthropic.com) 2899 1553 +2897 291.5 167 0.54 +0.36
2
2899
2 We Will Not Be Divided (notdivided.org) 2604 829 +2603 269.5 108 0.32 +0.51
1
2604
3 IDF killed Gaza aid workers at point blank range i... (www.dropsitenews.com) 2054 930 +8 3.6 4.7 0.45 +0.46
2046
2054
4 OpenAI – How to delete your account (help.openai.com) 1907 358 +1764 305 56.5 0.19 +0.03
143
1907
5 Microgpt (karpathy.github.io) 1816 303 +1815 89.3 10.7 0.17 +0.45
1
1816
6 OpenAI Executes Agreement with Dept of War for Cla... (twitter.com) 1387 644 +1386 114.1 70.2 0.46 —
1
1387
7 Department of War Designates Anthropic Supply Chai... (twitter.com) 1348 1066 +1343 369.2 304.6 0.79 —
5
1348
8 Google API Keys Weren't Secrets. But Then Gemini C... (trufflesecurity.com) 1260 302 +1253 25 3.5 0.24 +0.26
7
1260
9 Israel launches strike against Iran, declares stat... (www.cnn.com) 1180 2592 +1177 30.1 8.7 2.20 +0.10
3
1180
10 Not Found (www.anthropic.com) 1158 356 +1157 218.5 76.5 0.31 +0.45
1
1158
11 I'm helping my dog vibe code games (www.calebleak.com) 1098 369 +6 0.5 0 0.34 —
1092
1098
12 How do I cancel my ChatGPT subscription? (help.openai.com) 1056 249 +1053 244 53 0.24 0.00
3
1056
13 The whole thing was a scam (garymarcus.substack.com) 961 304 +955 71.6 19.8 0.32 +0.10
6
961
14 Layoffs at Block (twitter.com) 897 1059 +896 112.6 97 1.18 -0.46
1
897
15 Danish government agency to ditch Microsoft softwa... (therecord.media) 831 425 +169 18.5 9.5 0.51 +0.40
662
831
16 New California law requires age verification for a... (www.pcgamer.com) 801 697 +800 5.6 4.6 0.87 —
1
801
17 "We do not think Anthropic should be designated as... (twitter.com) 801 434 +799 11 1 0.54 —
2
801
18 Never buy a .online domain (www.0xsid.com) 773 485 +184 21.5 21 0.63 +0.02
589
773
19 Ghostty – Terminal Emulator (ghostty.org) 749 318 +747 9.1 0.5 0.42 0.00
2
749
20 New accounts on HN more likely to use em-dashes (www.marginalia.nu) 705 598 +229 37 33 0.85 +0.35
476
705
21 Anthropic Drops Flagship Safety Pledge (time.com) 700 660 +69 1.6 0 0.94 +0.03
631
700
22 Amazon accused of widespread scheme to inflate pri... (www.thebignewsletter.com) 683 277 +48 3 2 0.41 +0.55
635
683
23 Tell HN: YC companies scrape GitHub activity, send... 678 257 +671 51 20 0.38 +0.12
7
678
24 Jimi Hendrix was a systems engineer (spectrum.ieee.org) 668 244 +611 70 33.5 0.37 +0.10
57
668
25 OpenAI, the US government and Persona built an ide... (vmfunc.re) 645 197 +1 0 0 0.31 +0.43
644
645
26 The happiest I've ever been (ben-mini.com) 634 364 +631 51.5 18 0.57 +0.28
3
634
27 Mac mini will be made at a new facility in Houston (www.apple.com) 628 667 +12 1.3 2.7 1.06 +0.12
616
628
28 Tenth Circuit: 4th Amendment Doesn't Support Broad... (www.eff.org) 623 110 +622 68.2 6.6 0.18 +0.26
1
623
29 Banned in California (www.bannedincalifornia.org) 618 711 +616 69.2 74.7 1.15 -0.24
2
618
30 Motorola announces a partnership with GrapheneOS F... (motorolanews.com) 604 216 +603 154.4 41 0.36 0.00
1
604
31 Nano Banana 2: Google's latest AI image generation... (blog.google) 600 573 +598 120.6 117.1 0.95 +0.10
2
600
32 What Claude Code Chooses (amplifying.ai) 599 227 +598 12.5 4.5 0.38 +0.15
1
599
33 Pi – A minimal terminal coding harness (pi.dev) 587 302 +25 1.3 1.3 0.51 +0.22
562
587
34 Obsidian Sync now has a headless client (help.obsidian.md) 572 209 +565 64 25.9 0.37 +0.04
7
572
35 Get free Claude max 20x for open-source maintainer... (claude.com) 561 233 +560 0 0 0.42 +0.16
1
561
36 Switch to Claude Without Starting Over (claude.com) 558 258 +557 50.8 28.9 0.46 —
1
558
37 OpenAI raises $110B on $730B pre-money valuation (techcrunch.com) 557 584 +556 29.2 29.7 1.05 +0.13
1
557
38 I pitched a roller coaster to Disneyland at age 10... (wordglyph.xyz) 555 197 +17 1 0 0.35 +0.21
538
555
39 Anthropic ditches its core safety promise (www.cnn.com) 549 311 +548 87.5 42 0.57 +0.20
1
549
40 Stop Burning Your Context Window – How We Cut MCP ... (mksg.lu) 549 102 +548 0 0 0.19 +0.17
1
549
41 I built a demo of what AI chat will look like when... (99helpers.com) 549 288 +548 56.9 26.9 0.52 0.00
1
549
42 The Hunt for Dark Breakfast – Can we derive breakf... (moultano.wordpress.com) 542 182 +541 42.5 16.5 0.34 +0.10
1
542
43 Claude Code Remote Control (code.claude.com) 538 317 +112 17 13 0.59 +0.24
426
538
44 US orders diplomats to fight data sovereignty init... (www.reuters.com) 537 481 +191 28 21.5 0.90 —
346
537
45 How we rebuilt Next.js with AI in one week (blog.cloudflare.com) 518 229 +6 1 0 0.44 +0.19
512
518
46 Croatia declared free of landmines after 31 years (glashrvatske.hrt.hr) 511 132 +509 12 0 0.26 +0.30
2
511
47 Tech Companies Shouldn't Be Bullied into Doing Sur... (www.eff.org) 499 157 +496 39 10.5 0.31 +0.71
3
499
48 Decision trees – the unreasonable power of nested ... (mlu-explain.github.io) 492 77 +491 28 1 0.16 0.00
1
492
49 Following 35% growth, solar has passed hydro on US... (arstechnica.com) 486 458 +214 38 48.5 0.94 +0.17
272
486
50 Cognitive Debt: When Velocity Exceeds Comprehensio... (www.rockoder.com) 486 211 +470 92.9 40.6 0.43 +0.30
16
486
51 How Will OpenAI Compete? (www.ben-evans.com) 474 656 +471 24.5 9 1.38 +0.30
3
474
52 Leaving Google has actively improved my life (pseudosingleton.com) 470 259 +469 61.5 40 0.55 +0.44
1
470
53 Dan Simmons, author of Hyperion, Song of Kali, dea... (en.wikipedia.org) 469 209 +468 100 38 0.45 +0.40
1
469
54 Iran's Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is killed in Israeli... (www.npr.org) 456 867 +455 111.4 125.7 1.90 —
1
456
55 How to talk to anyone, and why you should (www.theguardian.com) 451 232 +446 114.3 56.1 0.51 +0.10
5
451
56 Open Letter to Google on Mandatory Developer Regis... (keepandroidopen.org) 449 374 +5 1 0 0.83 +0.56
444
449
57 Qwen3.5 122B and 35B models offer Sonnet 4.5 perfo... (venturebeat.com) 449 261 +448 32.5 11 0.58 —
1
449
58 Discord cuts ties with identity verification softw... (fortune.com) 442 324 +0 0 0 0.73 +0.07
442
442
59 We deserve a better streams API for JavaScript (blog.cloudflare.com) 441 154 +440 50 20 0.35 +0.25
1
441
60 Nearby Glasses (github.com) 422 212 +4 1 0.5 0.50 +0.13
418
422
61 Bus stop balancing is fast, cheap, and effective (worksinprogress.co) 421 630 +192 15 23 1.50 -0.10
229
421
62 What does " 2>&1 " mean? (stackoverflow.com) 418 246 +417 12 0 0.59 +0.28
1
418
63 New AirSnitch attack breaks Wi-Fi encryption in ho... (arstechnica.com) 407 188 +406 80.9 35.2 0.46 +0.21
1
407
64 Will vibe coding end like the maker movement? (read.technically.dev) 399 424 +398 22.6 20.1 1.06 +0.15
1
399
65 RAM now represents 35 percent of bill of materials... (arstechnica.com) 388 339 +386 50.5 18.5 0.87 +0.14
2
388
66 MCP is dead. Long live the CLI (ejholmes.github.io) 384 246 +383 34.5 26.5 0.64 0.00
1
384
67 AI Made Writing Code Easier. It Made Being an Engi... (www.ivanturkovic.com) 383 301 +381 93 70 0.79 0.00
2
383
68 Goodbye InnerHTML, Hello SetHTML: Stronger XSS Pro... (hacks.mozilla.org) 366 157 +1 0 0 0.43 +0.30
365
366
69 Our Agreement with the Department of War (openai.com) 366 273 +365 68 61.5 0.75 -0.38
1
366
70 Windows 11 Notepad to support Markdown (blogs.windows.com) 350 525 +279 31 49 1.50 +0.14
71
350
71 The Windows 95 User Interface: A Case Study in Usa... (dl.acm.org) 344 263 +343 37 13 0.76 —
1
344
72 Mercury 2: Fast reasoning LLM powered by diffusion (www.inceptionlabs.ai) 343 125 +10 2.7 0 0.36 -0.20
333
343
73 Woxi: Wolfram Mathematica Reimplementation in Rust (github.com) 342 133 +332 32 5 0.39 +0.03
10
342
74 The First Fully General Computer Action Model (si.inc) 338 79 +302 33.9 7.3 0.23 -0.01
36
338
75 Don't trust AI agents (nanoclaw.dev) 336 191 +328 44.9 23.7 0.57 +0.23
8
336
76 Large-Scale Online Deanonymization with LLMs (simonlermen.substack.com) 335 233 +215 18.5 12 0.70 -0.34
120
335
77 President Trump bans Anthropic from use in governm... (www.npr.org) 328 213 +326 64 24 0.65 —
2
328
78 Hacking an old Kindle to display bus arrival times (www.mariannefeng.com) 327 89 +0 0 0 0.27 +0.13
327
327
79 What AI coding costs you (tomwojcik.com) 323 190 +319 51.5 41.5 0.59 0.00
4
323
80 Show HN: PgDog – Scale Postgres without changing t... (github.com) 322 61 +1 0 0 0.19 +0.15
321
322
81 Making MCP cheaper via CLI (kanyilmaz.me) 316 118 +305 25.5 19.5 0.37 +0.22
11
316
82 The Eternal Promise: A History of Attempts to Elim... (www.ivanturkovic.com) 315 214 +308 9.6 2.5 0.68 +0.14
7
315
83 Show HN: Terminal Phone – E2EE Walkie Talkie from ... (gitlab.com) 315 80 +313 35 9 0.25 0.00
2
315
84 Show HN: Moonshine Open-Weights STT models – highe... (github.com) 312 75 +4 0 1.3 0.24 +0.19
308
312
85 Block the "Upgrade to Tahoe" Alerts (robservatory.com) 311 177 +310 0.5 0 0.57 +0.34
1
311
86 First Website (info.cern.ch) 304 86 +302 31.3 7.1 0.28 +0.43
2
304
87 Can you reverse engineer our neural network? (blog.janestreet.com) 303 194 +299 39.7 8.5 0.64 +0.30
4
303
88 Techno‑Feudal Elite Are Attempting to Build a Twen... (collapseofindustrialcivilization.com) 302 92 +301 162.6 36.6 0.30 —
1
302
89 WebMCP is available for early preview (developer.chrome.com) 300 169 +299 32.5 19.5 0.56 0.00
1
300
90 The Om Programming Language (www.om-language.com) 296 110 +132 21 4 0.37 +0.20
164
296
91 New iron nanomaterial wipes out cancer cells witho... (www.sciencedaily.com) 296 98 +295 25.9 4.1 0.33 0.00
1
296
92 I baked a pie every day for a year and it changed ... (www.theguardian.com) 295 199 +292 43.5 26 0.67 +0.26
3
295
93 OpenAI Fires an Employee for Prediction Market Ins... (www.wired.com) 293 149 +289 24 10.5 0.51 +0.02
4
293
94 Show HN: Now I Get It – Translate scientific paper... (nowigetit.us) 291 128 +289 10 7 0.44 +0.33
2
291
95 The normalization of corruption in organizations (... (gwern.net) 289 159 +288 5 1 0.55 —
1
289
96 NASA announces major overhaul of Artemis program a... (www.cbsnews.com) 289 321 +287 29 27 1.11 +0.26
2
289
97 Google Workers Seek 'Red Lines' on Military A.I., ... (www.nytimes.com) 287 137 +286 76 29 0.48 —
1
287
98 Steel Bank Common Lisp (www.sbcl.org) 286 107 +0 0 0 0.37 +0.36
286
286
99 Red Dwarf creator Rob Grant has died (www.beyondthejoke.co.uk) 284 91 +283 67 17.5 0.32 +0.18
1
284
100 U.S. and Israel Conduct Strikes on Iran (www.nytimes.com) 281 276 +275 109 91 0.98 —
6
281