Did the em dash spread on Hacker News?

A research pack: the question and definitions (README), the result tables, the per-item rows and the scripts that made them, as plain files. Everything here is also in the repository under research/hn-em-dash/. The write-up is in the journal.

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README.mdtext377 B
fetch.pyscript4 KB
monthly.csvtable7 KB
results.jsondata1 KB
rule.pyscript9 KB
run.pyscript1 KB

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