This script is used to "measure the weather" on Hacker news. Just like in real life we don't simply look at the last temperature at 11:59 and say, "This is how

This script is used to "measure the weather" on Hacker news. Just like in real life we don't simply look at the last temperature at 11:59 and say, "This is how the day was." That would be wrong and inaccurate. We take multiple readings on multiple variables per day to get a more complete story. That is the idea with this little project. Here we measure the weather on Hacker News across a number of variables. My hope is that over time the collection and publication os this data would prove valuable, or at least interesting to some folks. The variable we capture are: - timestamp - number of comments - "karma score" - ranking (the link's position in the list) Next steps will be to add some simple visualizations using a flask app.