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otherentity · corroborated across sources

unix

for linux devs

Cooling

10

signal score

1

live items

Too early

trajectory — needs a few more snapshots

hackernews

Why this scored 10

every term, weighted
Velocity+0.0 / 40 max

Engagement per hour, normalized against the fastest item on its own source

Acceleration+0.0 / 25 max

Whether that velocity is itself speeding up, as a per-hour rate

Cross-source spread+0.0 / 25 max

How many independent communities are talking about the same entity

Recency+10.0 / 10 max

Decays to zero over 14 days

Saturation penalty0.0 / 30 max

Subtracted once something is big and old — we rank what's next, not what's peaked

Composite9.9

Weights are hand-tuned, not learned — we're calibrating them against realized trends as history accumulates. On a topic's first sighting there's no previous reading to compare against, so acceleration starts from a neutral prior rather than a measurement. Full methodology

Signal history

7-day window (free)

The evidence

The live items this entity's score aggregates — every community independently talking about it right now. This is the corroboration, shown, not claimed.

  1. 116

    Obfuscated bash script by Akamai being supplied to consumers via retail stores

    lobstersSteady21d ago
  2. 211

    How Unix spell ran in 64 kB of RAM (2025)

    Unix spell runs in 64kB RAM — for linux devs

    hackernewsotherCooling2d ago