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Analysis of Hacker News Community Trends
- nubinetwork 2y agoHe's dead, Jim.
- behindai 2y agoit seems like it's back
- zurfer 2y ago502 :( I wonder if it's something similar to what I did some months ago: https://eu.getdot.ai/share/c80139c9-13f4-4db4-88f6-6e058ba31ad4?org_id=getdot.ai https://eu.getdot.ai/share/c80139c9-13f4-4db4-88f6-6e058ba31...
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- plastic3169 2y ago> Insights reveal that the period between 2 PM and 4 PM is the most effective time to share posts, based on recent user activity patterns. Which timezone though?
- behindai 2y agoCoordinated Universal Time (UTC)
- cf100clunk 2y agoThe host site appears to be in Sweden, currently on CEST (Central European Summer Time), which is UTC+1. So, when the author (LLM?) says 2pm to 4pm, I presume they mean 15:00 to 17:00 UTC?
- wizerno 2y agoBarring a bunch of tables, I don't see how this is helpful. There's no mention of how key metrics were calculated either. I suspect everything after "This comprehensive analysis offers insights..." is written with the help of an LLM too.
- camillomiller 2y agoIt is indeed an entire website built in a couple of hours with chatGPT or any other similar LLM. That it stands where it is rn on the home page is quite worrying.
- behindai 2y agoI believe that probably in the future that would be possible. However, today, nope. The website itself is a system of crawling, parsing, analysis, ML and LLM—months of work.
- PaulHoule 2y agoIt is not months of work. I wrote an HN crawler that got all the posts in less than two hours of coding. (There is the tricky question of polling schedules though: if you want to get every story the minute it comes out it will not have any votes or comments and you'll have to come back later if you want to get representative numbers. I think discussions close in 2 weeks so a double scan is good enough for some purposes but not the up-to-the-minute analysis they claim to be doing) The rest of the analysis is all straightforward except for the topic classification: If I was running on all cylinders for nights and weekend hacking I'd expect to spend a week or so on gathering training data for that (maybe suck down category assignments from Tildes) and probably a week coding up a classifier w/ a BERT-family embedding and classifiers from scikit-learn. You could attempt the same with prompt engineering in a day or two of work and get something expensive to run working pretty quickly that will probably not perform as well as my classifier. (Their classifier gives the empty string as a category which is a bad sign) If you want to improve on it you need the same training set I do.
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- beardyw 2y agoWhat's the point of this? If HN is a competition I must have missed the memo. Otherwise this is - how to win at posting interesting stuff and discussing it. Am I missing something?
- behindai 2y agoSuccess is always about a combination of value and good timing.
- xboxnolifes 2y agoNobody said competition, but let me ask this: why make submissions on HN at all if not for other people to see?
- krapp 2y agoThis isn't just a forum about posting interesting stuff and discussing it, it's a forum owned by a billion dollar Silicon Valley incubator. People post here hoping to be noticed by YC and the community at large, and gain "street cred" by virtue signaling themselves as intellectual, competent and innovative, and often to covertly pitch their startup ideas. People make getting noticed on HN and getting viral an integral part of their business strategy.