A large amount of Show HNs are not startups; they are personal projects.<p>Relatedly, using &quot;the startup is not dead&quot; as a metric for <i>the startup alive</i> is a bad idea. People do not shut down everything when a  Hacker News submission does not get upvotes (<i>especially</i> in the case of Show HN, where many are hosted on GitHub pages and are free to host, although you account for that in the regression).<p>The regression has a few issues:<p>&gt; It&#x27;s a classification problem (alive or dead) so OLS doesn&#x27;t make sense.<p>&gt; Score and Comments are multicolinear and cannot both be in the same model.<p>&gt; You don&#x27;t answer or give statistics toward &quot;how well&quot; the model predicts.<p>&gt; Related to the comment earlier, you don&#x27;t comment on the magnitude of the on_GitHub coefficients, which are <i>huge</i> and skew the entire result of the regression!<p>While I always appreciate analyses of HN data, the conclusions raise more questions than answers.