What's the most popular number in Hacker News titles?

I really wish the analysis didn't cut off at exactly 10 numbers. Rerunning the query with higher LIMIT, I noticed the following:

- The very next two numbers are 100 and 0. While 100 is consistent with the article's explanations, 0 still placing high despite fixing the query warrants further investigation. A quick glance at returned headlines shows the problem of phantom zeroes is not, in fact, fixed.

- The query doesn't group decimals and integers together. 2.0 is at #17 with 10k hits, while 1.0 is at #26 with 5k hits. So not only is the "version number" explanation for top numbers wrong - the claim that earlier version numbers are more common than later version numbers is wrong too.

Thanks for providing the query and a link to execute it (I didn't know about that one). Now I can play with it and find the most popular words...

"to", "the", "of". I don't know what I expected.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benford%27s_law

We're number 1!

benfords law strikes again. useful for fraud analysis too

Probably 42, but I could be mistaken...

You missed a great opportunity to title this "The 10 most popular numbers in Hacker News titles"!

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