Interest
Proportion of Hacker News items mentioning "schadenfreude" over time.
Mentions
Total number of Hacker News items mentioning "schadenfreude" over time.
Schadenfreude is the experience of pleasure, joy, or self-satisfaction that comes from learning of the troubles, failures, pain, suffering, or humiliation of another. Schadenfreude is a loanword from German. A lesser known synonym in English is epicaricacy, derived from Ancient Greek. Schadenfreude has been detected in children as young as 2 years old and may be an important social emotion establishing "inequity aversion". Read more on Wikipedia