Unfortunately this dynamic is unstable: the more it happens, the less it can continue. It's only because these threads are fairly rare that it works at all—if it does work at all. Having just had to post https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40418629 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40418627 in a thread from 2 weeks ago, I'm not so sure.

Since HN is an open system with respect to the rest of the internet, the sad truth is that there's a cap on how good it can ever get. https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...