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@dang after things calm down I'd love to see some stats on whether this was the fastest upvoted story ever. Feels like it's breaking some records, along with t

@dang after things calm down I'd love to see some stats on whether this was the fastest upvoted story ever. Feels like it's breaking some records, along with the server.

dnissley 3y ago
https://hn.algolia.com/ https://hn.algolia.com/ by default lists the most upvoted stories
- SushiHippie 3y ago
  Max talks about *fastest* upvoted story not *most*.
dang 3y ago
Happy to answer that but how would we measure "fastest upvoted"?
- pvg 3y ago
  Votes after N hours for a few small N might do it although if not normalized somehow it's probably not going to tell you much beyond 'bigger site gets more activity on big news than smaller site'. Maybe divide by average daily votes at the time?
- Intralexical 3y ago
  This is very off-topic, but I just realized whenever I read your username I picture the janitor Dang from Mr. Young.
  - shrimpx 3y ago
    Also Dang the designer from the show "Silicon Valley" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qyLv1dQasaY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qyLv1dQasaY
- rpmisms 3y ago
  Most upvotes per hour for first, second, and third hours after posting?
- sillysaurusx 3y ago
  Publish the timestamps of all votes for the top 10 most upvoted stories. Then the community can create scatterplots showing the acceleration of each story's score: (def allstories () "All visible loaded stories" (keep cansee (vals items*))) (def mostvoted (n (o stories (allstories))) "N most upvoted stories" (bestn n (compare > len:!votes) stories)) (def votetimes (s) "The timestamp of each vote, in ascending order" (sort < (map car s!votes))) ; save vote timestamps for top 10 most upvoted stories ; each line contains the story id followed by a list of timestamps (w/outfile o "storyvotes.txt" (w/stdout o (each s (mostvoted 10) (apply prs s!id (votetimes s)) (prn)))) ; paste storyvotes.txt to https://gist.github.com/ and post the url here Note that this prints the timestamp of all votes, whereas each story's score is vote count minus sockpuppet votes. If you don't want to reveal the timestamps of every vote, you could randomly drop K timestamps for each story, where K is the vote count minus the score. (E.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3078128 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3078128 has 4338 points, and you'll only reveal 4338 timestamps.) Since there are thousands of votes, this won't skew the scatterplot much.
ryzvonusef 3y ago
I think the Jack Dorsey twitter step down story was more bonkers, came at a time when stock markets were just about to open, but @dang can compare the two events playing out on HN better.

@dang after things calm down I'd love to see some stats on whether this was the fastest upvoted story ever. Feels like it's breaking some records, along with the server.

dnissley 3y ago

https://hn.algolia.com/ https://hn.algolia.com/ by default lists the most upvoted stories

SushiHippie 3y ago
Max talks about *fastest* upvoted story not *most*.

dang 3y ago

Happy to answer that but how would we measure "fastest upvoted"?

pvg 3y ago
Votes after N hours for a few small N might do it although if not normalized somehow it's probably not going to tell you much beyond 'bigger site gets more activity on big news than smaller site'. Maybe divide by average daily votes at the time?
Intralexical 3y ago
This is very off-topic, but I just realized whenever I read your username I picture the janitor Dang from Mr. Young.
- shrimpx 3y ago
  Also Dang the designer from the show "Silicon Valley" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qyLv1dQasaY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qyLv1dQasaY
rpmisms 3y ago
Most upvotes per hour for first, second, and third hours after posting?
sillysaurusx 3y ago
Publish the timestamps of all votes for the top 10 most upvoted stories. Then the community can create scatterplots showing the acceleration of each story's score: (def allstories () "All visible loaded stories" (keep cansee (vals items*))) (def mostvoted (n (o stories (allstories))) "N most upvoted stories" (bestn n (compare > len:!votes) stories)) (def votetimes (s) "The timestamp of each vote, in ascending order" (sort < (map car s!votes))) ; save vote timestamps for top 10 most upvoted stories ; each line contains the story id followed by a list of timestamps (w/outfile o "storyvotes.txt" (w/stdout o (each s (mostvoted 10) (apply prs s!id (votetimes s)) (prn)))) ; paste storyvotes.txt to https://gist.github.com/ and post the url here Note that this prints the timestamp of all votes, whereas each story's score is vote count minus sockpuppet votes. If you don't want to reveal the timestamps of every vote, you could randomly drop K timestamps for each story, where K is the vote count minus the score. (E.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3078128 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3078128 has 4338 points, and you'll only reveal 4338 timestamps.) Since there are thousands of votes, this won't skew the scatterplot much.

ryzvonusef 3y ago

I think the Jack Dorsey twitter step down story was more bonkers, came at a time when stock markets were just about to open, but @dang can compare the two events playing out on HN better.