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I'd also add that there's at least a couple of suddenly-prolific "green" commenters here today... which is interesting (but definitely not conclusive) as to wha
by lomnakkus 12y ago
I'd also add that there's at least a couple of suddenly-prolific "green" commenters here today... which is interesting (but definitely not conclusive) as to what exactly is going on.
Personally, I'd go from the assumption that suddenly-prolific "green" commenters have some special interest in the topic. These days -- since HN has become mainstream -- I'd lean towards astroturfing or some other monetary interest.
- walterbell 12y agoWe need a statistical analysis of HN userids, thread topics and posting times.
- jsprogrammer 12y agoDoes HN expose raw data? Or must one resort to scrapping?
- walterbell 12y agoThese are the APIs I've seen (not used): Official: http://blog.ycombinator.com/hacker-news-api http://blog.ycombinator.com/hacker-news-api Unofficial: https://hn.algolia.com/api https://hn.algolia.com/api & https://github.com/karan/HackerNewsAPI https://github.com/karan/HackerNewsAPI