I'm a sucker for Cunningham's Law, but aren't we all:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11122973

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12134303

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11548951

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11017603

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12283041

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12473851

That's in the last year. Looks like there are 31 stories total with no (live) comments and > 89 points. But then there are all the ones where people posted about there being lots of points and no comments...

I meant "That's a first" as in it was a first for me. I've seen threads almost empty where the only comments are discussion why they are so empty, but that's usually within 5-6 hours of the thread creation. I've never personally seen a completely empty thread. This seems like an extreme anomaly personally, at least until you revealed the statistics.

Curious, how many threads were created last year?

360k threads and 1.89M comments.

/off-topic and probably a useless question how did you retrieve those links? you had them bookmarked :-) ?

I wrote a bit of code to find them.

It's a statistical anomaly

The thing about statistics is that while you have a statistical explanation on the population level you still have an individual explanation on the level of individuals.