On: Show HN: Spot hyped news at a glance on Hacker News and Reddit

[toomuchtodo]

Replace "hyped" with "trending". "Hyped", as others have mentioned, has a negative connotation.

[mmcwilliams → toomuchtodo]

This is true but there are generational differences with that connotation. To a subset of younger people "hyped" means something is good and popular.

EDIT: For reference https://twitter.com/search?q=hyped the self-referenced use of "hyped" to mean excited about something is pretty popular

[bcoates → mmcwilliams]

It is good for a person to be hyped about a thing, to hype something (≈ to trick other people into being hyped about it) is bad.

[mmcwilliams → bcoates]

I'm still not convinced there isn't a generational difference. I work part time with students and have heard "hype" as a positive adjective ie, "This thing is so hype". I also think the negative connotation people are mentioning comes from the term "over-hyped" which is closer to your second definition.

[bcoates → mmcwilliams]

Ah, there it is: https://twitter.com/search?q="so+hype"

Looks like that one can apply to both someone's emotional state in general and the thing they are hyped about without the negative connotation.