[HN Gopher] HN-Index
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       HN-Index
        
       Author : alexmolas
       Score  : 32 points
       Date   : 2024-03-10 19:22 UTC (3 hours ago)
        
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       | Waterluvian wrote:
       | _reads blog and sees own name_
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       | I wonder if you'd see a bimodal distribution of some sort for
       | posters and commenters. It feels about right that you'll have
       | people who post a lot and people who comment a lot and then mixes
       | of the two modes.
       | 
       | Or is it that people who post a lot also tend to comment a lot
       | too?
        
       | naitgacem wrote:
       | if OP is reading this, HN also exposes an Algolia search API.
       | Perhaps they could investigate if it would give them an easier
       | time with their analysis.
        
       | p4bl0 wrote:
       | The author says he's looking for blogs to follow. So why compute
       | this score based on submitted stories only?
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       | People most often submit stories not written by themselves, so it
       | does not really reflect what may be found on their blog (if they
       | have any).
       | 
       | If they have a blog, then my guess would be that their blog posts
       | are likely more similar to their comments than their submitted
       | stories, since it's written by them for sure in both cases.
        
       | montebicyclelo wrote:
       | The open Google Bigquery table of Hacker News might possibly be a
       | nice way to get this data. (Although last time I checked it was a
       | few years out of date, so maybe not... Hoping that someone reads
       | this and starts updating it again...)
        
         | zX41ZdbW wrote:
         | There is a constantly updated table in ClickHouse with no login
         | required for querying:
         | https://play.clickhouse.com/play?user=play#U0VMRUNUIGNvdW50K...
        
           | xnx wrote:
           | Does that still work? I'm getting "Code: 60. DB::Exception:
           | Table default.hackernews_history does not exist."
        
       | aaron695 wrote:
       | Because there is almost no cost to submitting a story, either on
       | HN or for the calculation of an h-index it doesn't work.
       | 
       | Comments are more interesting, but the data is hidden.
       | 
       | It's interesting to look at for insights.
       | 
       | A low h-index among top users is an imperfect way to see who adds
       | the most value. It works in the opposite way.
        
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