Last Saturday, I edited and posted an “author unknown” piece about the cause of the Great Recession. It was funny and a good reminder of how the Big Business + Big Government cartel got us into this mess.

On a whim, I submitted the link to Hacker News. I’ve done that before. The HN community is a pretty awesome group. They vote up the posts they like, and you get some nice readership there.

But apparently this one struck a chord. And then it hit #1 on Hacker News.

I don’t write this blog for the stats, but I do check them once in a while to see what’s been popular with readers. This is what my Google Analytics graph normally looks like:

This is what it looks like after a post goes to #1 on Hacker News:

So thanks to all you HN people who subscribed, or followed me on Twitter, or became a new Riskalyze user! Hopefully, this blog will live up to your standards with interesting posts, though I can’t guarantee they will all discuss beer.