Interest
Proportion of Hacker News items mentioning "idea" over time.
Mentions
Total number of Hacker News items mentioning "idea" over time.
In philosophy and in common usage, an idea is the result of thought. Also in philosophy, ideas can also be mental representational images of some object. Many philosophers have considered ideas to be a fundamental ontological category of being. The capacity to create and understand the meaning of ideas is considered to be an essential and defining feature of human beings. Read more on Wikipedia