Steve Jobs is Still Alive and Well on Hacker News

If you are a frequent patron of Hacker News, you probably have noticed that for the last month the social news site was under a deluge of submission concerning the life and death of Steve Jobs. Thirty days after his death, this phenomenon may have subsided but is still present.

To see the effect the death had on Hacker News, I fetched all the submissions with "Jobs" in their title, filtered out those concerning real jobs (the kind of jobs that pays money), and graphed below some basic statistics.



















If you wonder what caused that crazy peak in the karma graph, it was "A Sister’s Eulogy for Steve Jobs", which I guess I really should read now.