What's the most popular number in Hacker News titles?
Summary
Max Glenister analyzes the most popular numbers appearing in Hacker News post titles using a public ClickHouse dataset. He starts with a simplistic digit extraction, reveals why small numbers like 2 dominate, and then refines the approach to capture more meaningful numeric tokens, discussing how listicles, software versions, and thresholds shape the results and how year tokens can distort the signal.