I'm talking about why the 2022 data was so insanely different but things returned to apparently baseline by 2023, not why the 2026 data is slightly different.

The post attempts to compare to 2022 rates without asking if that has more to do with 2022 than now. Based on their graph https://raw.githubusercontent.com/santiagobasulto/hn-who-is-... it seems more to do with what was happening just prior to 2022.