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SearchYC Presents: Best of Hacker News
- mixmax 19y agoGood stuff - thanks a lot. So is the search algorithm implemented in arc ? ;-)
- alaskamiller 19y agohttp://blog.searchyc.com/2008/02/searchyc-presents-best-of-hacker-news/ http://blog.searchyc.com/2008/02/searchyc-presents-best-of-h... Today we're launching another feature of SearchYC: Top Lists. Using our index of Hacker News threads and comments, we've compiled lists of the most interesting items to date. So what did we find? Sticking true to the Web 2.0 mentality, TechCrunch articles were the most submitted, by far. Other Silicon Valley favorites such as Valleywag, Mashable, and Wired also made it to the top. As for top users, nickb gets the honor with more than 1900 submissions while pg has more than 2000 comments. Go ahead and take a look for yourself, and see if you can find other trends in Hacker News activity.
- mixmax 19y agoA proposal for an experiment: Having read a bit about the research in networks and graph theory that has been done over the last few years I think that submissions, activity of users and karma points follow a powerlaw. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_law http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_law) Seems like you have the numbers to confirm whether this is true or not. It would be really interesting to see...
- chengmi 19y agoIf I understand the problem correctly, doesn't this list (http://searchyc.com/top/submitter http://searchyc.com/top/submitter) confirm that? Our data on users' karma is somewhat limited. Turns out that the sum of your points across submissions and comments does not equal karma (downmods have more weight).
- mixmax 19y agoI just tried runnning it through excel, and at first glance it does indeed look like it is a powerlav... Would be good with more data though. Are the next 200 submitters available ?
- aston 19y agoWhat's the basis for the claim "the sum of your points across submissions and comments does not equal karma"? Pretty sure karma = 1 + every point beyond 1 point for any comment or submission.
- rms 19y agoIt is for lower point stories and comments, but for 75 point stories you don't get exactly 74 karma. I'm not sure what the threshold and algorithm is.
- bayareaguy 19y agoIt would be nice to see two additional lists ranked by average karma/submission and average karma/comment. Being able to specify a time range qualification on the searches would be nice too.
- chengmi 19y agoWe gave that some consideration, but the queries weren't all that interesting. The vast majority of those lists (something like 80%) consist of people with only one post. To illustrate this, here are the top tens for those queries: Top Points per Submission +-------------+------+----+---------+ | username | pts | ct | avg | +-------------+------+----+---------+ | dwaters | 95 | 1 | 95.0000 | | keesj | 78 | 1 | 78.0000 | | brl | 122 | 2 | 61.0000 | | a-kill-ease | 60 | 1 | 60.0000 | | zombo | 58 | 1 | 58.0000 | | markovich | 58 | 1 | 58.0000 | | fresno | 55 | 1 | 55.0000 | | jdale27 | 53 | 1 | 53.0000 | | qwertyy | 48 | 1 | 48.0000 | | jsomers | 48 | 1 | 48.0000 | +-------------+------+----+---------+ Top Points per Comment +------------+------+----+---------+ | username | pts | ct | avg | +------------+------+----+---------+ | hazchem | 37 | 1 | 37.0000 | | capablanca | 36 | 1 | 36.0000 | | jdrake3 | 24 | 1 | 24.0000 | | juanjose | 24 | 1 | 24.0000 | | cetaganda | 41 | 2 | 20.5000 | | cysh | 19 | 1 | 19.0000 | | chime | 17 | 1 | 17.0000 | | zamfi | 17 | 1 | 17.0000 | | kilik | 17 | 1 | 17.0000 | | loumf | 15 | 1 | 15.0000 | +------------+------+----+---------+
- tlrobinson 19y agoIt might be interesting to see a scatter plot of number of submissions/comments vs. average points per submission/comment. What would be really cool is if you opened up a simple API or just the raw data so we could go wild with it :)
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- nostrademons 19y agoAdd a cutoff of, say, 10 comments or 10 posts...
- edw519 19y agoWell done. Thank you.
- pg 19y agoThe list of most commented threads is dominated by an artifact, because at the bottom of some essays I link to the News.YC thread as if it were for blog comments. E.g. "Microsoft is Dead" is not the most interesting story to News.YC readers. In fact, last time I looked, most of the recent comments were just people saying "fuck you" at various levels of articulateness.
- chengmi 19y agoI agree that the "most commented threads" isn't exactly a "best of" list--in fact, they're some of the more controversial/ugly threads to appear on YC, but that's why I found it interesting.
- kajecounterhack 19y agoI agree with Paul about that because a lot of "Ask YC" threads have tons of comments but aren't really what I'm looking for...but what is useful is the SEARCH. THANK YOU SO MUCH for that. I've always been afraid to contribute for fear that others have posted an article I encountered. Fear no more! Hello, new homepage.
- Xichekolas 19y agojust people saying "fuck you" at various levels of articulateness <cynicism>Isn't that what 99% of all comments on the web are?</cynicism> I think that is why I enjoy YC News so much, the rate is only like 30%.
- dfranke 19y agoCan we have a highest-modded comments scoreboard?
- rokhayakebe 19y agonow how many users does news.yc have?
- pg 19y agoAround 8000 unique ips per day lately.
- bfioca 19y agoYou just decimated my productivity. :p