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Wow, I did not expect clickbait to make its way to the number 1 spot on HN. I would be curious to see if this was due to some someone gaming the algorithm or people carelessly upvoting the headline. Though it is a bit funny that the platform that clickbait is most prevalent on is part of the topic of discussion. Youtube subscribers in this case = Grandkids in the title.

>>dkroy+(OP)
Come on, they even put "grandkids" in quotes.

>>dkroy+(OP)
> Youtube subscribers in this case = Grandkids in the title.

Yeah, everyone got that. Immediately. In terms of inferential leaps I have to make every day that wasn't even a bunny hop. Why do you think it needs to be brought to trial at the Hague?

>>dkroy+(OP)
Old users have not upvoted this, I recommend sticking to Hacker News Classic: https://news.ycombinator.com/classic

>>iso885+11
Oh geez. This view is sure better, but the fact that it's needed indicates that hn is jumping the shark.

>>dkroy+(OP)
Looking at OP's history, he seems to like sharing clickbait titles on HN. I am assuming he really wants to gather internet points

>>dkroy+(OP)
900,000 followers on YouTube.

75,000 followers on Twitter.

7,000 followers on Instagram.

Bethesda is making her a character in the Skyrim sequel.

She's 84.

I thought this was interesting and charming and quite inspiring.

>>iso885+11
Thanks for that hidden feature. And there's no ads aswell! Do you know what is the difference in the algorithm? They just count "old users" votes? How long do you need to have an account for to be considered old?

>>tbrake+J
The fact the majority of the discussion is about that title, and not the content of the article has me thinking that not everyone got that immediately.

>>dkroy+(OP)
I did not expect clickbait to make its way to the number 1 spot on HN.

I upvoted the story because I found it interesting. Hearing about someone being successful at something is great, and for them to be successful at something you wouldn't necessarily expect is even better. The implication that I, or any of the other ~50 people who voted for this story, am being 'careless' by upvoting something I like is wholly unfair. I don't have to vote based on what you think should be at the top of the front page. HN is not a carefully curated list of stories that dkroy might like.

>>tbrake+J
I didn't get it immediately. It wasted my time while I read the comments to figure out the joke.

>>paulin+H1
I don't know the answer to any of your questions, but you could try asking in an issue on https://github.com/minimaxir/hacker-news-undocumented

>>paulin+H1
It's the same algorithm as the regular front page, with the difference that the votes are those by users before Feb 13, 2008. A long time ago! It wasn't such a distant past when pg created it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=607271.

>>everdr+91
HN has always been jumping the shark.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...