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Google definition for Hype: Promote or publicize (a product or idea) intensively, often exaggerating its importance or benefits.

In this case, "hyped news" could be: News intensively promoted (many points) or discussed (many comments).

The nuance about exaggeration is optional.

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Hype has almost universally negative connotations to me. Based on the name, I expected your extension would hide "hyped" stories (where hype is perhaps defined by a high comment-to-upvote ratio for a story), since hype is usually bad. You may wish to consider a new name.

There is an option (the only one, really) to boost more comments or points. That is up to you. Initially it's 50 / 50.

"intensively discussed" would for the most part indicate that the item is of some interest or importance to the people discussing.

I think it would only indicate hype if it were also true that most of the discussion was disingenuous in some way. The distinction underlying this thought is that discussion is not (usually) promotion or deliberate publicizing of the thing discussed. Usually, it's just plain, honest discussion.

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