[PaulHoule]

When I look at Hacker News at different times I see a different balance of what gets to the home page. When I wrote this, for instance,

https://ontology2.com/essays/HackerNewsForHackers/

I was infuriated that the HN homepage was choked with articles about Apple products. I built an anti-Apple rule into this

https://ontology2.com/essays/ClassifyingHackerNewsArticles/

but it was really a mistake because (1) my classifier learned it anyway and (2) Apple articles fell out of favor. At that time Apple had done a round of product announcements that I was thought were underwhelming. Soon Apple articles fell back to a reasonable rate and I found later product announcements from Apple more interesting.

So it is the same thing with Rust, cryptocurrency, "cancel culture" and every other topic that gets popular for a while.