It's pretty old (3+ years) but I did some sophomoric analysis on some HN data [0]. I just added a frequency-karma plot and it looks power law, which should be n

It's pretty old (3+ years) but I did some sophomoric analysis on some HN data [0]. I just added a frequency-karma plot and it looks power law, which should be no big surprise. Using a MLE from John Cook [1], the exponent looks to be about -1.1. [0] https://abetusk.github.io/yahnda/ https://abetusk.github.io/yahnda/ [1] https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2015/11/24/estimating-the-exponent-of-discrete-power-law-data/ https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2015/11/24/estimating-the-exp...