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This is the first time I have wished Hacker News showed upvotes. They have got to be over 100 with that right?
by ghostbrainalpha 7y ago
This is the first time I have wished Hacker News showed upvotes. They have got to be over 100 with that right?
- echelon 7y agoYou can model it. - Get upvote snapshots of all top-level comments' authors in this thread. Take repeated measurements at relatively low time resolution. Also compare this to any other comments they may be making (have a model of the type of comment: follow-ups that are deeply nested probably have a lower upvote velocity) - Find archive.org snapshots of OP as well as the authors of all other upvoted comment threads. Find the delta from then to now. Some authors will have recent data. - For a better model, construct historical graphs of all authors using these methods and use it to iteratively adjust. - Make sure you understand the ranking algorithm and that it is reflected in your model. Nontrivial, but could be a fun exercise.
- simonebrunozzi 7y agoAnd of course you could store the results on Postgresql!!
- dredmorbius 7y agoThe comment currently tops the "best comments" list: https://news.ycombinator.com/bestcomments https://news.ycombinator.com/bestcomments Archived: http://web.archive.org/web/20191016003251/https://news.ycombinator.com/bestcomments http://web.archive.org/web/20191016003251/https://news.ycomb...