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by renewiltord 1912 days ago
HN has a strong bias in the same direction as Malcolm Gladwell and the "well ackchually"s of the Internet.

This constant search for a counterintuitive result or explanation means that most comments on things just end up with a massive contrarian bias.

This makes sense. After all, no one is writing "oh cool" and no one is upvoting that.