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" Best article: I'm nothing until the Hacker News community comments on me." Well, sometimes the article is better than the discussion. Sometimes the discussi
by rubidium 15y ago
" Best article: I'm nothing until the Hacker News community comments on me."
Well, sometimes the article is better than the discussion. Sometimes the discussion is better than the article. In my experience, the trivial articles sometimes have the best discussions, and the best articles seem to often have trivial discussions.
It'd be fun to get a list of best HN discussions (highest karma average per comment perhaps) ... anyone know how to do that?
- wallflower 15y ago> It'd be fun to get a list of best HN discussions (highest karma average per comment perhaps) The now-discontinued SearchYC database had top lists but not the particular metric you want. It doesn't show up in the Google cache or archive.org's Wayback Machine (http://top.searchyc.com http://top.searchyc.com) In my opinion, I think some of the best HN discussions have been/are the ones with hundreds of comments, with divergent threads and replies. They are usually sparked by a fairly controversial topic. I can't think of an example right now. However, this API to the HN corpus might be able to get you the data you want (not sure how current it is): http://api.ihackernews.com http://api.ihackernews.com