Interest
Proportion of Hacker News items mentioning "interesting" over time.
Mentions
Total number of Hacker News items mentioning "interesting" over time.
Interest is a feeling or emotion that causes attention to focus on an object, event, or process. In contemporary psychology of interest, the term is used as a general concept that may encompass other more specific psychological terms, such as curiosity and to a much lesser degree surprise. Read more on Wikipedia