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There's a lot of absurdity in this industry right now. I'm curious if anyone else who has the ability to do so is quitting this month. If so I'm curious: 1. What pushed you to do it? 2. What will you be doing? (Even if nothing!)

I scraped every Show HN from the last 12 months (41,301 posts) plus the full comment tree of every launch with 10+ comments, ~100k comment timestamps, all from the Algolia HN API. The median launch gets 2 points and 0 comments. For launches that do get traction, half the comments they'll ever get arrive within 7.2 hours and 90% within 26, and the top decile decays on the same clock as everyone else. Vote timestamps aren't public, so comment timing is the attention proxy; caveats are in the post.