Well, it&#x27;s not like those levers don&#x27;t exist for HN readers, right?<p>HN Examples:<p>Python Quirks (hnclickba.it)<p>35 points by hnclickbait 4 hours ago | flag | 10 comments<p>&gt;python quirks...the last article a couple of months ago basically was like `a,b=[[]] * 2; a.append(1); print(b)&#x27; and other such things I&#x27;ve known since my mother&#x27;s knee, but may be there might be interesting nuggets this time, why not click.<p>Fusion (phys.org)<p>54 points by fusionnerd_plsgimmegrant 5 hours ago | flag | 20 comments<p>&gt;Fusion results! Yeah, for the last year, every fusion article was a rehash of the same scientific, layman description of fusion, and a paragraph summarizing the latest result which pushed us incrementally towards it, but may be there is something really new here!<p>I&#x27;d like to think that HN has much more intelligent articles and a much more intelligent viewership, but we&#x27;re driven by psychology too. Not to mention our biases, and while we endeavor to overcome them, they still drive us to an extent. I wager that decisions (like reading an article or not) is still a linear combination of interest, will, and yes, the psychology of anticipation and information gap as discussed in the article. The weights on subconcious driver &quot;terms&quot; in the linear combination might be lesser than the others but I&#x27;m pretty sure they still play a roll.