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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+(OP)
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.

>>Cyphas+(OP)
I’m struggling to figure out why anyone cares.

>>koolba+S6
or rely on HN's own algorithm, duration in which it stayed at the top of the chart?

>>dontla+g8
f"Board of {important_company_at_center_of_major_and_disruptive_global_trend} fires CEO suddenly and with prejudice. Company president stripped of board chairmanship, then resigns. Other senior staff also resign."

>>Cyphas+(OP)
Now at 5004.

>>Cyphas+(OP)
There isn't really any reason for this except Sam is a YC founder and OpenAI (whose name is a lie because they provide proptietary LLMs) is being hyped in the media.

He is already rich. Getting fired means an early retirement in Bahama.

>>shadow+Um
I think it's also the surprise of how sudden it unfolded before the public's eyes. And that, seemingly in an organisation that's figuratively on top of the world currently, and pushing through.

>>koolba+S6
You don’t want to measure the total number of users, but rather the number of active users. Otherwise agreed.

>>stingr+1s
Does YC publish active users count?

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

>>shadow+Um
I would be very surprised if Sam retired now. He is compulsively ambitious, for better or worse.

>>koolba+S6
Maybe also somehow divide by the size of monthly occurring topics like "Who is hiring"?

>>Cyphas+(OP)
5581 now. Looks set at #3, as other posts update the story. Aggregate would be #1.