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>>davidb+(OP)
At the moment this thread is the third most highly voted ever on HN.

1. (6015) Stephen Hawking dying

2. (5771) Apple's letter related to the San Bernardino case

3. (4629) Sam Altman getting fired from OpenAI (this thread)

4. (4338) Apple's page about Steve Jobs dying

5. (4310) Bram Moolenaar dying

https://hn.algolia.com/

>>Cyphas+ZS1
I’ve been pondering a more accurate metric for comparing stories over time. The raw point value doesn’t work as there’s inflation due to a larger user base.

The value needs to be adjusted to factor that in that change. Something like dividing by the sum of all upvotes in some preceding time period.

>>koolba+RZ1
You don’t want to measure the total number of users, but rather the number of active users. Otherwise agreed.

>>stingr+0l2
Does YC publish active users count?

In its absence one can use public metrics like active commenters count.