Mpv – A free, open source, and cross-platform media player

Re:Mpv – A free, open source, and cross-platform media player by guessmyname on Monday July 18, 2022 @01:58PM (#32141230)

I have the impression that the “Ten Thousand” [1] effect has increased quite significantly in the last couple of months.

I have seen multiple submissions from different users pointing to homepages of software that is already very popular. I guess this is a sign that the current most active Hacker News users are also in the youngest age group, which makes all these programs look new.

Just the other day someone posted about the Vala programming language [2].

SpaceVIm [3], although, this was mostly a 2.0 release announcement.

I wonder if Hacker News administrators have considered creating a separate page for these submissions to keep the front page clean. Basically, put previously-submitted links into a “revival” page, and novelty links in the “new” page.

[1] https://xkcd.com/1053/

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32113825

[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31986851

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Re:Mpv – A free, open source, and cross-platform media player by yourad_io on Monday July 18, 2022 @10:15PM (#32146753)

Then again I always come into these threads for the comments, even (/especially) when I know the software bring discussed.

There is usually interesting discussion, info and tips - like in this thread.

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Re:Mpv – A free, open source, and cross-platform media player by badocr on Monday July 18, 2022 @03:37PM (#32142573)

It's the reddit effect. As reddit's popularity keep increasing for the past 5 years or so, HN links posted on the platform get that much more attention. Specially true for indians, pakistanis and chinese.

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