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There appears to be a pattern of posts where "I'm 16 / 17 etc" as a prefix gets the hits. And rightly so!

It's very good that young people are engaged. It's encouraging for us grey beards interested in the future of technology and a healthy action for us old people to encourage younger people.

As my beard gets greyer so my pattern recognition library of samples gets bigger and it has recognised a "I'm 16" prefix to popular HN submissions!

https://hn.algolia.com/?q=i%27m+16 https://hn.algolia.com/?q=i%27m+17



It is obviously a clickbait thing and it works.


It's obvious clickbait.




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