[HN Gopher] Hacker News Insight
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Hacker News Insight
Author : Hooopo
Score : 55 points
Date : 2022-12-23 20:36 UTC (2 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (hackernews-insight.vercel.app)
(TXT) w3m dump (hackernews-insight.vercel.app)
| jmacd wrote:
| The "Users who got the most voted on hackernews" should exclude
| the 1 upvote you get for your actual submission (if it is being
| counted, which I think it is). If it is counted, the sheer volume
| of submissions by the top posters makes it seem like they are
| getting more votes from the community than they are.
| samwillis wrote:
| This was a similar one from last year:
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| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29778994
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| https://whaly.io/posts/top-10k-commenters-of-hacker-news-in-...
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| https://whaly.io/posts/hacker-news-2021-retrospective
| zone411 wrote:
| I would like to see the top list of most upvoted users but only
| counting their comment scores, not submissions.
| taubek wrote:
| This is really nice.
| andreygrehov wrote:
| Very interesting. Why is there such a massive spike of text
| stories after 2021-11-01?
| jacooper wrote:
| Huh, what was the bump for web3 before 2012 for?
| wildpeaks wrote:
| Like the word "metaverse", it used to mean something else
| ("semantic web" in this instance) before it got co-opted.
| fanso99 wrote:
| Semantic Web 3.0 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semantic_Web
| fogonthehorn wrote:
| Wow, some of these users seem to be quite addicted to this site.
|
| I would like to ask coldtea, DanBC, dragonwriter, dredmorbius,
| jacquesm, jonbaer, pjmlp, pseudolus, rayiner, TeMPOraL, Tomte,
| tosh, tptacek, and others in the top list -- why?
| Krasnol wrote:
| I would love to see Android/Google vs. Apple/IPhone statistics.
| arcturus17 wrote:
| Cool!
|
| A couple of questions:
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| 1. How did you gather the data?
|
| 2. What's the architecture / tech stack? Data store, data
| pipelines / back-end, front-end? The presentation layer looks
| really neat.
| gardenfelder wrote:
| Data is available on the HN API. There are a number of OSS
| projects which use that.
| samwillis wrote:
| The code for the site is here:
| https://github.com/hooopo/hackernews-insight
|
| Sadly no in depth write up.
| kureikain wrote:
| In the list of the top 10 users who got most upvote, one of the
| user is mooreds who runs an amazing newsletter call "Letter to a
| new developer"
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| https://letterstoanewdeveloper.com/
|
| Highly recommend to follow mooreds and his newsletter. It's great
| that he spend his time to tailor and help the new developer.
|
| Not affiliate with mooreds in any mean just a happy audience.
| lifeisstillgood wrote:
| Whoa - people _submit_ thirty thousand stories. I mean I can
| imagine drunk commenting a badly thought out phrase a few
| thousand times (that 's basically my metier) but ... reading an
| article, being amazed, and submitting it ... that's a lot
|
| Edit: Just to point out this is not necessarily a criticism or
| some snide remark. I am pretty sure that back in the day I would
| have looked at similar Wikipedia stats and gone "whoa there are
| people who basically have a full time job trying to organise an
| online encyclopaedia." Then I would have assumed I could code it
| in a weekend. The point I think is not "these must be low effort
| submissions" but "HN has a more diverse ecosystem than a rando
| like me posting every so often"
|
| In short - who knows what the forums of the future will look like
| or be? HN does not look like the forums from ages back - it maybe
| something new.
| gnicholas wrote:
| > _reading an article, being amazed, and submitting it ... that
| 's a lot_
|
| I'm pretty sure they skip steps 1 and 2!
| Nowado wrote:
| I'm almost sure those are points and not submissions, as the
| numbers are the same as in 'Users who got the most voted on
| hackernews'.
| JadeNB wrote:
| > In short - who knows what the forums of the future will look
| like or be? HN does not look like the forums from ages back -
| it maybe something new.
|
| HN is the closest to the forums of yesteryear of anything I can
| find on today's internet, and that's definitely what I like
| best about it. (Not just the visual aesthetic, but also the
| tone and dedication to maintaining its original sense of
| community.)
| lifeisstillgood wrote:
| I may not be a good representative sample, but the forums I
| remember were fairly niche (transatlantic life advice) and
| consequently small. 4chan style meltdowns were avoided but HN
| is on a different scale. It might be an aberration, it might
| be a new way to moderate / build community. I am not sure but
| it is a very interesting question how we got here. And is it
| replicable?
|
| And if there are people who do the equivalent of full time
| work making it so - that's a clue to ... something
| JadeNB wrote:
| > And if there are people who do the equivalent of full
| time work making it so - that's a clue to ... something
|
| dang, who seems never to sleep, surely puts in even more
| than full time work, and is responsible as much as anyone
| else for HN being what it is.
| lifeisstillgood wrote:
| Absolutely. But it is his actual full time job. I think
| an interesting signal is when people who (#) are not paid
| still spend an enormous amount of time on a "thing".
| That's either you have found weirdos, or found some level
| of market fit - gold flakes in the river bed if you like.
|
| (#) I am assuming all the people with really high
| submission rates are not HN moderators or otherwise
| employed / encouraged.
| remote_phone wrote:
| Must be some sort of bot or marketing service. If you look at
| their posting history, they submit the same article over and
| over again. This should be filtered or flagged.
| melling wrote:
| People could at least recognize people who are farming karma
| and stop upvoting them.
| raphlinus wrote:
| I love how "ski" is such an outlier for highly upvoted TLDs.
| Either the Hacker News crowd really loves skiing, or
| ciechanow.ski is responsible. I bet there is a similar story for
| most of the other TLDs on the list, but don't recognize any of
| the others (except for home.cern which is pretty obvious).
| Veuxdo wrote:
| Statistically, you'd expect the most successful (and least
| successful) TLDs by success rate to be low-volume. The high-
| volume domains will cluster around the middle.
| edgyquant wrote:
| A lot of us are from California or the Seattle area. I could
| definitely see skiing being a common hobby for that demographic
| jer0me wrote:
| Cool, 38.7k no-context Wikipedia articles.
| JadeNB wrote:
| You can be the change you want to see by making the kind of
| comments you'd like to see--hopefully not this sort. I think
| one can't tell from these summary statistics which articles are
| posted without context; and there definitely have been numerous
| Wiki posts that just fall into the "huh, I didn't know that
| exists, but I'm glad I do now" category that didn't need any
| additional context to be beneficial, at least for me.
| dang wrote:
| Wikipedia submissions are ok for HN if and only if something
| more specific isn't available. It's best to search for
| something else on the topic first, and if you can't find
| anything interesting, only then to post the Wikipedia page.
|
| https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
| noitpmeder wrote:
| Anyone have thoughts on why the number of text stories spiked
| over 4x at the start of this year?
|
| https://hackernews-insight.vercel.app/overview#How%20many%20...
| downvotetruth wrote:
| Default changed to yes?
| gardenhedge wrote:
| Very cool. I think these stats show how hard it is for a web app
| to grow in terms of users. Less than 1m users even though it's a
| well known and "mainstream" site.
|
| For comparison, /r/programming has 5m+ users.
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