I’m not the only one to notice that some of the most interesting posts on Hacker News generate few comments - and, conversely, some of the least interesting posts generate the most comments (see here, or here). Of course, you can’t generalize too much, but it seems like an interesting metric.

I whipped up a quick GreaseMonkey script to display the ratio of votes to comments. I made a few arbitrary calls: only show a ratio for stories with more than 4 votes, and display the score differently for stories with a ratio less than 1, between 1 and 5, between 5 and 10, and over 10.

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This banner ad on some random site really made me do a double-take:

I really have to wonder: did someone goof, or is it an insidious plot to make people notice the ad? If the latter, it definitely worked, although it’s not compelling enough to make me click.

I love the #1stdraftmovielines trend, many are just hilarious.

I put together http://www.1stdraftmovielines.net/ pretty quickly - let’s see if it takes off, I would love to see which ones bubble up to the top!