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As owner of a large HN dataset (~4M submissions, all the submissions since starting HNNotify.xyz), I've wanted to do some analysis on this. Currently I only co
by jermaustin1 7y ago
As owner of a large HN dataset (~4M submissions, all the submissions since starting HNNotify.xyz), I've wanted to do some analysis on this.
Currently I only collect submissions, but it isn't hard to also look at the users and their age/karma as well.
- runeb 7y agoHow can you own data that is submitted to a site you don't own? Or do users submit to hacker news through your site?
- jermaustin1 7y agoI do not own it in a legal/licensed sense, I own the bytes that are stored in my database. As it it is easily queryable by me, where it wouldn't normally be if only using the API.
- runeb 7y agoAh, thanks for the clarification! English isnt my first language.
- hombre_fatal 7y agoThey just mean they crawl HN and maintain/mirror their own database of its content.
- koolba 7y agoIts more than that. A notifier let’s you know who’s interested in what. Second level analysis of that is trends of interest over time or weighted interest vs influence (measured via user karma).