sema4hacker

I spend too much time on HN posting comments. I can never predict which will be upvoted, so I tabulated them to see if there was any trend:

  68 points on 1 comment  about Musk vs. OpenAI
  39 points on 1 comment  about private equity
  26 points on 1 comment  about Teamshares
  24 points on 1 comment  about surveillance
  23 points on 1 comment  about project pitch
  19 points on 1 comment  about complicated web pages
  16 points on 1 comment  about fire truck efficiency
  15 points on 2 comments about SQLite, elevator cost
  13 points on 2 comments about AI coding errors, balancing cube
  12 points on 2 comments about domestic garbage, my salary history
  11 points on 4 comments about age of study subjects, Las Vegas Sphere, my tech history (2x)
  10 points on 4 comments about Waymo, pest contractors, YouTube Dewey decimal, burglars
  9 points on 11 comments about productivity, a bad comment, surveillance misuse, TLDR wind turbines, robot litter pick up, human memory, Satoshi, AI authorship, bad businesses, barcode security, my tech history, Windows Cortana
  8 points on  5 comments about SQL, POE Switches, writing quality, dieting, my tech education
  7 points on  5 comments about formatting, anthropomorphizing AI, AI bubble, tech employment vs. income, Pascal
  6 points on  7 comments about ability and available time, influence vs. manipulation, bad customer service, Lisa GUI, satisfaction, recommended books, my salary history
  5 points on  6 comments about network providers, accepting credit cards, web page code, old files, robot litter pick up, abandoning Macintosh
  4 points on 14 comments about: estimating projects, OOP, AI bubble, bad skyscrapers, debugging, UCSD Pascal, anthropomorphizing AI, cheap trucks, aspirin, Unix history, original article age, football centers, waiters, my tech history

 Comments with 3 or fewer points are too many to tabulate.

I see no discernible trend or correlation between subject matter, upvotes, writing quality, whatever.