fwiw - study of traits of popular posts on hacker news

[Laeeth Isharc via Digitalmars-d-learn]

Of course it doesn't follow that merely aping the traits of 
popular posts will produce the same result as actually having the 
essence of whatever it is that truly makes a post popular.  But 
this was still quite interesting, and it's nice to see people 
exploring the data.

http://www.dkriesel.com/en/blog/2015/1025_a_data-driven_guide_to_creating_successful_hacker_news_posts