[waterhouse]

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=512145

"We've had a huge spike in traffic lately, from roughly 24k daily uniques to 33k. This is a result of being mentioned on more mainstream sites [...] You can help the spike subside by making HN look extra boring. For the next couple days it would be better to have posts about the innards of Erlang [...]"

"Ok, ok, enough Erlang submissions. You guys are like the crowdsourced version of one of those troublesome overliteral genies. I meant more that it would be better not to submit and upvote the fluffier type of link. Without those we'll be fine."

Also some fun comments here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=512178

[flakiness]

This is a great little anthropology work of you. Thanks for taking time to find this out!

[yen223]

Here's what the frontpage looked like on the day of Erlang:

https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=2009-03-11

[ModernMech]

lol ask a community of autists for more posts about the innards of Erlang, don't be surprised when you get posts about the innards of Erlang.