The Rise of the Em-Dash in Hacker News Comments

Gotta love starting the y-axis above 0

Did AI raise awareness of Em-dashes, causing more people to use them organically?

You can pry my em dash—short for "Emily's dash", after the poet—from my cold dead hands.

Now someone do "the rise of Hacker News meta-analysis blog posts".

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- A less spooky ghost