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The number of Node.js related posts with few or no comments is growing. Are people just blindly upvoting Node.js posts regardless of how interesting they are?

(evidence: (a) this post is currently 2nd from the top, no comments before mine. (b) http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2455893 reached 62 upvotes, zero comments. (c) http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2457672 8 from the top, one comment)

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This phenomenon isn't specific to only Node.js submissions, it happens pretty often in tech- or programming-heavy submissions. I save mostly these types of submissions, and looking through my most recent saved history, Compiling With Continuations [1] received 94 upvotes with only 3 comments, and the Programming Language Zoo [2] reached 65 upvotes with the same number of comments. The trend continues (with some exceptions) throughout my saved history. There is definitely an demand for these types of posts on HN, but the lack of comments is open to interpretation.

[1] http://matt.might.net/articles/cps-conversion/ [2] http://www.andrej.com/plzoo/

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