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I read a lot of hacker news, and I've noticed something: HN is a better judge of Substack quality than the Substack's subscriber count (even paid subscribers). To test this, I buil…

My favorite one so far: mantula: a small parasitic stinging insect that feeds on ants, flies, and other small insects, native to leafy lawns and shrubs. "mantulas are widely grown …

Good idea, cheers. I'll have to gather more data before I can do historical changes.

I made this a few days ago as a way to get some interesting data about the tech demand in different cities. There's a lot of changes I want to make, but I'm posting now to get real…

Uber is currently worth more than Stripe, Spotify and Dropbox combined. I'd easily rather own those 3 outright than Uber. Wonder what the market knows that I'm missing.

The products are ranked according to the "Popularity score" which uses # comments with distinct authors and positive karma. Amazon links in a comment usually = endorsement

I've made a site for reddit's opinion on various products, you can find keyboards here: https://redditfavorites.com/products?category_id=keyboards Any of the most popular ones ther…

Also the most recommended pressure cooker on reddit: https://redditfavorites.com/products/slow_cookers When I made that site I remember finding it surprising that it was the top sl…

Shameless plug (but related): https://isthestockmarketgoingtocrash.com/ Posted this here a while ago and people seemed to like it.

Hey yep I'm the developer. What's your use case for this feature? Is it just overwhelming with too many books?

Thanks for bringing this up - turns out that was a bug. I've fixed it now so they're the same.

Good point, I think I will go into a bit more detail as to how the risk factor is calculated. Yeah seems like I might need to go into a bit more depth explaining the rationale behi…

Good points, I might go into a bit more detail for how I calculate the risk for each factor. Thanks for the feedback

Yeah was trying to communicate "moderate risk", but it's kinda tongue in cheek.

As another commenter has said, student loan debt is included in household debt.

This is a good idea. I'm going to implement it as a timeline I think.

This is a great idea. Might implement some kind of timeline that you can scroll through.

Thanks for the kind words! I'm not an economist myself so I'm hoping others on HN might be able to correct any inaccuracies.