[raviisoccupied]

> This finding suggests that the key to a high score isn’t necessarily landing viral hits, but rather consistently sharing stories.

This is interesting. I find it's very difficult to predict which links do and don't perform on Hacker News, resulting in quite a diverse (to me at least) series of stories. Thanks for the analysis.

[osm3000]

It is a very good point, and it is the subject of part 2: I want to understand if the title / website / time of sharing has an impact on the score