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Re: by do_not_redeem on Thursday March 27, 2025 @11:34AM (#43494735)
I tried a lot of dates and I don't see any step change. I see a gradual decline.

  2006-present: 5th
  2010-present: 7th
  2015-present: 19th
  2020-present: 29th
Who knows why that is. Maybe HN's audience has changed over the decades. Maybe your writing has. Maybe the novelty factor for Apple content is gone. Maybe there's just more competition for the front page now that HN is more mainstream. I just think it's unlikely that PG woke up one day and decided to screw you in particular.

The Simpsons had far too many seasons, but Matt Groening eventually went on to create Futurama. I hope you figure things out.

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Re: by Smylers on Thursday March 27, 2025 @12:02PM (#43495015)
That “gradual decline” is an artifact of your maths, in which you're gradually changing the weight of recent years.

Consider a sequence with an extreme drop-off: 100, 100, 100, 100, 40. Taking averages of all the numbers, then all but the first, all but the first 2, and so on, yields: 88, 85, 80, 70, 40. That might look like it includes a gradual decline, but clearly there's nothing gradual in the underlying data.

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Re: by do_not_redeem on Thursday March 27, 2025 @12:15PM (#43495128)
Right you are, good catch. Here it is broken down by year then.

  year rank
  ---- ----
  2007   80
  2008   13
  2009    3
  2010    1
  2011    2
  2012    9
  2013   78
  2014   14
  2015  305
  2016  363
  2017    7
  2018   65
  2019   28
  2020    7
  2021  106
  2022  353
  2023   86
  2024   82
I still don't see a step change. 2022 was bad, but not as bad as that slump in 2015-2016.
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Re: by znpy on Thursday March 27, 2025 @12:01PM (#43495013)
> I see a gradual decline

It just seems the guy from DF can't accept that

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