Everyone went against me on HN when I said it's dangerous of BBC to associate the Desantis event with Dabiri without evidence: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36082410#36082475
The more alarming aspect was the shrillness of replies, which seem to generally go unchallenged. I don’t like the idea that people think HN is for loudness. But thankfully that seems to be a minor fluctuation.
The sibling reply from Freedom2 is right too — your comment (other than the downvote complaints, which I know is hard to resist) generated some good discussion.
I hope it’s a measurement error, because the spike is literally a J.
It's still somewhat nascent, but with more high profile articles posted, you'll see more people coming over.
Fortunately, the UI here is not good enough to probably hold redditor interest in the long term.