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Hacker News Insight

92 points by Hooopo 4y ago

taubek 4y ago
This is really nice.
jacooper 4y ago
Huh, what was the bump for web3 before 2012 for?
- fanso99 4y ago
  Semantic Web 3.0 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semantic_Web https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semantic_Web
- wildpeaks 4y ago
  Like the word "metaverse", it used to mean something else ("semantic web" in this instance) before it got co-opted.
arcturus17 4y ago
Cool! A couple of questions: 1. How did you gather the data? 2. What's the architecture / tech stack? Data store, data pipelines / back-end, front-end? The presentation layer looks really neat.
- samwillis 4y ago
  The code for the site is here: https://github.com/hooopo/hackernews-insight https://github.com/hooopo/hackernews-insight Sadly no in depth write up.
- gardenfelder 4y ago
  Data is available on the HN API. There are a number of OSS projects which use that.
- hughess 4y ago
  The home page of the Hacker News Insight site (https://hackernews-insight.vercel.app https://hackernews-insight.vercel.app) gives a bit of background about the stack: it's a TiDB Cloud database (https://www.pingcap.com/tidb-cloud/ https://www.pingcap.com/tidb-cloud/) and Evidence front-end (https://evidence.dev https://evidence.dev)
lifeisstillgood 4y ago
Whoa - people submit thirty thousand stories. I mean I can imagine drunk commenting a badly thought out phrase a few thousand times (that's basically my metier) but ... reading an article, being amazed, and submitting it ... that's a lot Edit: Just to point out this is not necessarily a criticism or some snide remark. I am pretty sure that back in the day I would have looked at similar Wikipedia stats and gone "whoa there are people who basically have a full time job trying to organise an online encyclopaedia." Then I would have assumed I could code it in a weekend. The point I think is not "these must be low effort submissions" but "HN has a more diverse ecosystem than a rando like me posting every so often" In short - who knows what the forums of the future will look like or be? HN does not look like the forums from ages back - it maybe something new.
- gnicholas 4y ago
  > reading an article, being amazed, and submitting it ... that's a lot I'm pretty sure they skip steps 1 and 2!
- Nowado 4y ago
  I'm almost sure those are points and not submissions, as the numbers are the same as in 'Users who got the most voted on hackernews'.
- JadeNB 4y ago
  > In short - who knows what the forums of the future will look like or be? HN does not look like the forums from ages back - it maybe something new. HN is the closest to the forums of yesteryear of anything I can find on today's internet, and that's definitely what I like best about it. (Not just the visual aesthetic, but also the tone and dedication to maintaining its original sense of community.)
  - lifeisstillgood 4y ago
    I may not be a good representative sample, but the forums I remember were fairly niche (transatlantic life advice) and consequently small. 4chan style meltdowns were avoided but HN is on a different scale. It might be an aberration, it might be a new way to moderate / build community. I am not sure but it is a very interesting question how we got here. And is it replicable? And if there are people who do the equivalent of full time work making it so - that's a clue to ... something
raphlinus 4y ago
I love how "ski" is such an outlier for highly upvoted TLDs. Either the Hacker News crowd really loves skiing, or ciechanow.ski is responsible. I bet there is a similar story for most of the other TLDs on the list, but don't recognize any of the others (except for home.cern which is pretty obvious).
- edgyquant 4y ago
  A lot of us are from California or the Seattle area. I could definitely see skiing being a common hobby for that demographic
- Veuxdo 4y ago
  Statistically, you'd expect the most successful (and least successful) TLDs by success rate to be low-volume. The high-volume domains will cluster around the middle.
jer0me 4y ago
Cool, 38.7k no-context Wikipedia articles.
- JadeNB 4y ago
  You can be the change you want to see by making the kind of comments you'd like to see—hopefully not this sort. I think one can't tell from these summary statistics which articles are posted without context; and there definitely have been numerous Wiki posts that just fall into the "huh, I didn't know that exists, but I'm glad I do now" category that didn't need any additional context to be beneficial, at least for me.
- dang 4y ago
  Wikipedia submissions are ok for HN if and only if something more specific isn't available. It's best to search for something else on the topic first, and if you can't find anything interesting, only then to post the Wikipedia page. https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&query=by%3Adang%20wikipedia%20submission&sort=byDate&type=comment https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
- moehm 4y ago
  I actually took care of that and combined (the best) Wikipedia articles with their discussions. Here you can see more: https://www.mostdiscussed.com/ https://www.mostdiscussed.com/
jmacd 4y ago
The "Users who got the most voted on hackernews" should exclude the 1 upvote you get for your actual submission (if it is being counted, which I think it is). If it is counted, the sheer volume of submissions by the top posters makes it seem like they are getting more votes from the community than they are.
samwillis 4y ago
This was a similar one from last year: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29778994 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29778994 https://whaly.io/posts/top-10k-commenters-of-hacker-news-in-2021 https://whaly.io/posts/top-10k-commenters-of-hacker-news-in-... https://whaly.io/posts/hacker-news-2021-retrospective https://whaly.io/posts/hacker-news-2021-retrospective
andreygrehov 4y ago
Very interesting. Why is there such a massive spike of text stories after 2021-11-01?
fogonthehorn 4y ago
Wow, some of these users seem to be quite addicted to this site. I would like to ask coldtea, DanBC, dragonwriter, dredmorbius, jacquesm, jonbaer, pjmlp, pseudolus, rayiner, TeMPOraL, Tomte, tosh, tptacek, and others in the top list — why?
- PenguinCoder 4y ago
  A few of those users are well known in their own right. Seems they value being a contributing member of this site. They often come by to comment when other users drop their name or link to their articles.
kureikain 4y ago
In the list of the top 10 users who got most upvote, one of the user is mooreds who runs an amazing newsletter call "Letter to a new developer" https://letterstoanewdeveloper.com/ https://letterstoanewdeveloper.com/ Highly recommend to follow mooreds and his newsletter. It's great that he spend his time to tailor and help the new developer. Not affiliate with mooreds in any mean just a happy audience.
noitpmeder 4y ago
Anyone have thoughts on why the number of text stories spiked over 4x at the start of this year? https://hackernews-insight.vercel.app/overview#How%20many%20text%20stories%20created%20per%20month%3F7 https://hackernews-insight.vercel.app/overview#How%20many%20...
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Krasnol 4y ago
I would love to see Android/Google vs. Apple/IPhone statistics.
gardenhedge 4y ago
Very cool. I think these stats show how hard it is for a web app to grow in terms of users. Less than 1m users even though it's a well known and "mainstream" site. For comparison, /r/programming has 5m+ users.
zone411 4y ago
I would like to see the top list of most upvoted users but only counting their comment scores, not submissions.
NKosmatos 4y ago
I remember there was something similar last year, where the top 5% or 10% of users (based on karma) were listed/ranked. Any bright mind with free time willing to do something like this and share it? (Yes I know the answer, I should do it :-))
- c22 4y ago
  Users with most karma are always available on the leaders list: https://news.ycombinator.com/leaders https://news.ycombinator.com/leaders
Veuxdo 4y ago
I'd love to know how many are reposts that are years old. It seems like fully 1/4 of posts on the front page have a year indicator after them.
albert_e 4y ago
[Keyword Analysis] 13 years ago ... there was buzz around Web3 !? [Overview] Text Stories created jumped from ~2000 to ~9000 in Jan 2022

Hacker News Insight

92 points by Hooopo 4y ago

taubek 4y ago

This is really nice.

jacooper 4y ago

Huh, what was the bump for web3 before 2012 for?

fanso99 4y ago
Semantic Web 3.0 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semantic_Web https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semantic_Web
wildpeaks 4y ago
Like the word "metaverse", it used to mean something else ("semantic web" in this instance) before it got co-opted.

arcturus17 4y ago

Cool! A couple of questions: 1. How did you gather the data? 2. What's the architecture / tech stack? Data store, data pipelines / back-end, front-end? The presentation layer looks really neat.

samwillis 4y ago
The code for the site is here: https://github.com/hooopo/hackernews-insight https://github.com/hooopo/hackernews-insight Sadly no in depth write up.
gardenfelder 4y ago
Data is available on the HN API. There are a number of OSS projects which use that.
hughess 4y ago
The home page of the Hacker News Insight site (https://hackernews-insight.vercel.app https://hackernews-insight.vercel.app) gives a bit of background about the stack: it's a TiDB Cloud database (https://www.pingcap.com/tidb-cloud/ https://www.pingcap.com/tidb-cloud/) and Evidence front-end (https://evidence.dev https://evidence.dev)

lifeisstillgood 4y ago

Whoa - people submit thirty thousand stories. I mean I can imagine drunk commenting a badly thought out phrase a few thousand times (that's basically my metier) but ... reading an article, being amazed, and submitting it ... that's a lot Edit: Just to point out this is not necessarily a criticism or some snide remark. I am pretty sure that back in the day I would have looked at similar Wikipedia stats and gone "whoa there are people who basically have a full time job trying to organise an online encyclopaedia." Then I would have assumed I could code it in a weekend. The point I think is not "these must be low effort submissions" but "HN has a more diverse ecosystem than a rando like me posting every so often" In short - who knows what the forums of the future will look like or be? HN does not look like the forums from ages back - it maybe something new.

gnicholas 4y ago
> reading an article, being amazed, and submitting it ... that's a lot I'm pretty sure they skip steps 1 and 2!
Nowado 4y ago
I'm almost sure those are points and not submissions, as the numbers are the same as in 'Users who got the most voted on hackernews'.
JadeNB 4y ago
> In short - who knows what the forums of the future will look like or be? HN does not look like the forums from ages back - it maybe something new. HN is the closest to the forums of yesteryear of anything I can find on today's internet, and that's definitely what I like best about it. (Not just the visual aesthetic, but also the tone and dedication to maintaining its original sense of community.)
- lifeisstillgood 4y ago
  I may not be a good representative sample, but the forums I remember were fairly niche (transatlantic life advice) and consequently small. 4chan style meltdowns were avoided but HN is on a different scale. It might be an aberration, it might be a new way to moderate / build community. I am not sure but it is a very interesting question how we got here. And is it replicable? And if there are people who do the equivalent of full time work making it so - that's a clue to ... something

raphlinus 4y ago

I love how "ski" is such an outlier for highly upvoted TLDs. Either the Hacker News crowd really loves skiing, or ciechanow.ski is responsible. I bet there is a similar story for most of the other TLDs on the list, but don't recognize any of the others (except for home.cern which is pretty obvious).

edgyquant 4y ago
A lot of us are from California or the Seattle area. I could definitely see skiing being a common hobby for that demographic
Veuxdo 4y ago
Statistically, you'd expect the most successful (and least successful) TLDs by success rate to be low-volume. The high-volume domains will cluster around the middle.

jer0me 4y ago

Cool, 38.7k no-context Wikipedia articles.

JadeNB 4y ago
You can be the change you want to see by making the kind of comments you'd like to see—hopefully not this sort. I think one can't tell from these summary statistics which articles are posted without context; and there definitely have been numerous Wiki posts that just fall into the "huh, I didn't know that exists, but I'm glad I do now" category that didn't need any additional context to be beneficial, at least for me.
dang 4y ago
Wikipedia submissions are ok for HN if and only if something more specific isn't available. It's best to search for something else on the topic first, and if you can't find anything interesting, only then to post the Wikipedia page. https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&query=by%3Adang%20wikipedia%20submission&sort=byDate&type=comment https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
moehm 4y ago
I actually took care of that and combined (the best) Wikipedia articles with their discussions. Here you can see more: https://www.mostdiscussed.com/ https://www.mostdiscussed.com/

jmacd 4y ago

The "Users who got the most voted on hackernews" should exclude the 1 upvote you get for your actual submission (if it is being counted, which I think it is). If it is counted, the sheer volume of submissions by the top posters makes it seem like they are getting more votes from the community than they are.

samwillis 4y ago

This was a similar one from last year: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29778994 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29778994 https://whaly.io/posts/top-10k-commenters-of-hacker-news-in-2021 https://whaly.io/posts/top-10k-commenters-of-hacker-news-in-... https://whaly.io/posts/hacker-news-2021-retrospective https://whaly.io/posts/hacker-news-2021-retrospective

andreygrehov 4y ago

Very interesting. Why is there such a massive spike of text stories after 2021-11-01?

fogonthehorn 4y ago

Wow, some of these users seem to be quite addicted to this site. I would like to ask coldtea, DanBC, dragonwriter, dredmorbius, jacquesm, jonbaer, pjmlp, pseudolus, rayiner, TeMPOraL, Tomte, tosh, tptacek, and others in the top list — why?

PenguinCoder 4y ago
A few of those users are well known in their own right. Seems they value being a contributing member of this site. They often come by to comment when other users drop their name or link to their articles.

kureikain 4y ago

In the list of the top 10 users who got most upvote, one of the user is mooreds who runs an amazing newsletter call "Letter to a new developer" https://letterstoanewdeveloper.com/ https://letterstoanewdeveloper.com/ Highly recommend to follow mooreds and his newsletter. It's great that he spend his time to tailor and help the new developer. Not affiliate with mooreds in any mean just a happy audience.

noitpmeder 4y ago

Anyone have thoughts on why the number of text stories spiked over 4x at the start of this year? https://hackernews-insight.vercel.app/overview#How%20many%20text%20stories%20created%20per%20month%3F7 https://hackernews-insight.vercel.app/overview#How%20many%20...

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Krasnol 4y ago

I would love to see Android/Google vs. Apple/IPhone statistics.

gardenhedge 4y ago

Very cool. I think these stats show how hard it is for a web app to grow in terms of users. Less than 1m users even though it's a well known and "mainstream" site. For comparison, /r/programming has 5m+ users.

zone411 4y ago

I would like to see the top list of most upvoted users but only counting their comment scores, not submissions.

NKosmatos 4y ago

I remember there was something similar last year, where the top 5% or 10% of users (based on karma) were listed/ranked. Any bright mind with free time willing to do something like this and share it? (Yes I know the answer, I should do it :-))

c22 4y ago
Users with most karma are always available on the leaders list: https://news.ycombinator.com/leaders https://news.ycombinator.com/leaders

Veuxdo 4y ago

I'd love to know how many are reposts that are years old. It seems like fully 1/4 of posts on the front page have a year indicator after them.

albert_e 4y ago

[Keyword Analysis] 13 years ago ... there was buzz around Web3 !? [Overview] Text Stories created jumped from ~2000 to ~9000 in Jan 2022