It's an eventful year when Alan Kay's AMA isn't even in the top 30 of submissions: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11939851

With the meme that 2016 was a particularly deadly year for celebrities, it'd be interesting to do a count of death posts that made it above a threshold of up votes -- maybe 30? Like other similar metrics, it's limited by a selection bias -- i.e. It consists of folks considered celebrities to the HN Crowd, which apparently doesn't include Debbie Reynolds, but does include lesser known pioneers in tech -- but it'd still be interesting to count. David Bowie was the most popular death post in 2016. His death might be the most prominent for folks who don't think Castro's death was bigger news.

I like to search Algolia for PDFs from time to time:

https://hn.algolia.com/?query=pdf&sort=byPopularity&prefix=f...

Not that it's surprising, but it is unfortunate the highest slots are dominated by politics and other emotionally charged topics, with intellectually challenging topics much further down.

This is a better link since it's only for 2016, instead of the past year:

https://hn.algolia.com/?%20%7B%20%7B%20%20settings.style%20=...

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