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Hi! I built this! (Surprised to see it on the front page as I didn’t get much traction when i first submitted it :) Anyway, all of you have a lot of neat sugge

by memset 6y ago

Hi! I built this! (Surprised to see it on the front page as I didn’t get much traction when i first submitted it :) Anyway, all of you have a lot of neat suggestions! Please do take a look at the “contributing” section of the repo and let me know if you’d like to pitch in!

chillee 6y ago
Hackernews is quite random - stuff that gets no upvotes will sometimes get hundreds of upvotes the next time it's posted. That's why they explicitly allow some amount of reposting.
- danielbarla 6y ago
  From what I've observed on other sites (mostly StackOverflow and Reddit) I think there are a few major components to this, namely: timing of post, luck / randomness regarding early upvotes, and other posts during that day. The last one is a bit like when a film releases on the same weekend as some blockbuster, it is more likely to go under the radar. The middle condition is mostly luck, unless someone is prepared to manipulate the early upvotes somehow. But the first one is quite easy to time correctly - US-heavy sites tend to have a few time slots where a disproportionately large number of people check it. My guess would be morning, lunch and afternoon slots, and especially slots where different time zones overlap. E.g. an afternoon slot for Europe which overlaps with the Eastern seaboard doing a morning check of HN might work quite well, etc. This can help a fresh post break through the decaying, but highly upvoted older posts that are keeping it from more visibility.
  - julianlam 6y ago
    A couple years back, there was a hackernews post that analyzed hundreds of HN submissions and determined which times were best to post. Some days I wish I had bookmarked that link
    - tleb_ 6y ago
      This [0]? Or the linked article in it? [0]: https://chanind.github.io/2019/05/07/best-time-to-submit-to-hacker-news.html https://chanind.github.io/2019/05/07/best-time-to-submit-to-...
anubhavcodes 6y ago
Hi memset, your project made me create an account and comment for the first time on HN. :) Very nice to see your repo and happy to see it being so minimalistic. I use paprikapp[1] to manage my recipes and you can import recipes into paprika using yaml[2]. I used to be a customer of hellofresh (Germany) and had to manually copy paste into Paprika. I recently made a tool to just input a HelloFresh URL and output a yaml file which can be used to import the recipe into paprika into images. [3]. Maybe I can open a PR and add support for HelloFresh recipes. Good work btw. [1]https://www.paprikaapp.com https://www.paprikaapp.com [2]https://www.paprikaapp.com/help/mac/#importrecipes https://www.paprikaapp.com/help/mac/#importrecipes [3]https://github.com/anubhavcodes/pyrecipes https://github.com/anubhavcodes/pyrecipes
narrationbox 6y ago
This is great for machine learning, seems very useful for natural language processing. Congrats on shipping, it is brilliant!
Wistar 6y ago
A small thing: The title on the page says "Plan" rather than "Plain." Or, maybe that is intentional?

by memset 6y ago

chillee 6y ago

Hackernews is quite random - stuff that gets no upvotes will sometimes get hundreds of upvotes the next time it's posted. That's why they explicitly allow some amount of reposting.

danielbarla 6y ago
From what I've observed on other sites (mostly StackOverflow and Reddit) I think there are a few major components to this, namely: timing of post, luck / randomness regarding early upvotes, and other posts during that day. The last one is a bit like when a film releases on the same weekend as some blockbuster, it is more likely to go under the radar. The middle condition is mostly luck, unless someone is prepared to manipulate the early upvotes somehow. But the first one is quite easy to time correctly - US-heavy sites tend to have a few time slots where a disproportionately large number of people check it. My guess would be morning, lunch and afternoon slots, and especially slots where different time zones overlap. E.g. an afternoon slot for Europe which overlaps with the Eastern seaboard doing a morning check of HN might work quite well, etc. This can help a fresh post break through the decaying, but highly upvoted older posts that are keeping it from more visibility.
- julianlam 6y ago
  A couple years back, there was a hackernews post that analyzed hundreds of HN submissions and determined which times were best to post. Some days I wish I had bookmarked that link
  - tleb_ 6y ago
    This [0]? Or the linked article in it? [0]: https://chanind.github.io/2019/05/07/best-time-to-submit-to-hacker-news.html https://chanind.github.io/2019/05/07/best-time-to-submit-to-...

anubhavcodes 6y ago

Hi memset, your project made me create an account and comment for the first time on HN. :) Very nice to see your repo and happy to see it being so minimalistic. I use paprikapp[1] to manage my recipes and you can import recipes into paprika using yaml[2]. I used to be a customer of hellofresh (Germany) and had to manually copy paste into Paprika. I recently made a tool to just input a HelloFresh URL and output a yaml file which can be used to import the recipe into paprika into images. [3]. Maybe I can open a PR and add support for HelloFresh recipes. Good work btw. [1]https://www.paprikaapp.com https://www.paprikaapp.com [2]https://www.paprikaapp.com/help/mac/#importrecipes https://www.paprikaapp.com/help/mac/#importrecipes [3]https://github.com/anubhavcodes/pyrecipes https://github.com/anubhavcodes/pyrecipes

narrationbox 6y ago

This is great for machine learning, seems very useful for natural language processing. Congrats on shipping, it is brilliant!

Wistar 6y ago

A small thing: The title on the page says "Plan" rather than "Plain." Or, maybe that is intentional?