I'd be interested to see what the top Show HN posts were, after adjusting for the growing size of the HN community. That is, posts from 10 years ago would not have garnered as many upvotes simply because the community was smaller, and presumably posts were upvoted less back then, in general.
I don't know the best way to measure this; it could be normed based on the median number of upvotes for the top story each week, bucketed by month. Probably someone has a better idea for this.
I'd be interested to see what the top Show HN posts were, after adjusting for the growing size of the HN community. That is, posts from 10 years ago would not have garnered as many upvotes simply because the community was smaller, and presumably posts were upvoted less back then, in general.
I don't know the best way to measure this; it could be normed based on the median number of upvotes for the top story each week, bucketed by month. Probably someone has a better idea for this.