HN Visibility Surprise

Users discuss their surprise at the visibility, popularity, duplication, or lack of attention a particular story has received on Hacker News, including references to RSS feeds, frontpage dynamics, and real-time reactions.

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Sample Comments

nre Sep 7, 2023 View on HN

Looks like someone there is reading HN as they just did it!

dllthomas Sep 23, 2017 View on HN

Or because you posted about it on HN...

bsaul Nov 7, 2014 View on HN

Have i missed something ? Is there any special reason for this to appear on hn ?

manojlds Jan 19, 2024 View on HN

I would have thought this would grab HN attention a lot more.

adzm Jan 25, 2025 View on HN

Despite chronically checking HN this is still the first I've seen of it!

xoneill Jan 6, 2025 View on HN

Looks like HN just pulled this post?

siasia May 18, 2012 View on HN

Hehe, somehow HN didn't detected that's already here.

generalpass May 17, 2020 View on HN

I saw this pop up in my HN RSS feed.

ddorian43 Nov 2, 2017 View on HN

Was there a HN post for this ? Only saw it on reddit.

LyndsySimon Aug 29, 2017 View on HN

I'm surprised this hasn't gotten more attention on HN. Is there another thread somewhere I missed?