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Comment author: billswift 31 May 2010 12:33:55PM *  4 points [-]

I was the one that linked the Harry Potter fanfic on HackerNews, I definitely wasn't expecting over 120 upvotes for it. I have linked other things there before and never gotten more than a handful of votes for them.

Added: for example, I also posted a link to A Different Spin on Ambiguity , which I thought was a lot more interesting than Harry Potter, but got not a single upvote.

Comment author: Morendil 01 June 2010 01:20:02AM 0 points [-]

I'm not sure about "a lot", but I do think the ambiguity article deserved more interest. ;)

I suspect the title may have had something to do with it, and have accordingly retitled it "This is your brain on ambiguity", which is somewhat more catchy.