I was the one that linked the Harry Potter fanfic on HackerNews, I definitely wasn’t expecting over 120 upvotes for it. I have linked other things there before and never gotten more than a handful of votes for them.
Added: for example, I also posted a link to A Different Spin on Ambiguity , which I thought was a lot more interesting than Harry Potter, but got not a single upvote.
I’m not sure about “a lot”, but I do think the ambiguity article deserved more interest. ;)
I suspect the title may have had something to do with it, and have accordingly retitled it “This is your brain on ambiguity”, which is somewhat more catchy.
I was the one that linked the Harry Potter fanfic on HackerNews, I definitely wasn’t expecting over 120 upvotes for it. I have linked other things there before and never gotten more than a handful of votes for them.
Added: for example, I also posted a link to A Different Spin on Ambiguity , which I thought was a lot more interesting than Harry Potter, but got not a single upvote.
I’m not sure about “a lot”, but I do think the ambiguity article deserved more interest. ;)
I suspect the title may have had something to do with it, and have accordingly retitled it “This is your brain on ambiguity”, which is somewhat more catchy.