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Unfortunately their API doesn't seem to support the one feature I've wanted from any hackernews API: writing a query that only shows posts that got removed from the front page for being flagged.
It's very interesting to view the results for e.g. "coronavirus". A lone post back in November got no attention: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22019407 It wasn't until January that discussion started when the virus hit the US: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22110873 I wish there was an easy way to zoom in on a date range.
That would be amazing, but that story was Jan 10th. The next one was Jan 21st.
Also not the oldest, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22000761 is a day earlier, and refers to a BBC report dated Jan 9th
It's very interesting to view the results for e.g. "coronavirus". A lone post back in November got no attention: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22019407 It wasn't until January that discussion started when the virus hit the US: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22110873 I wish there was an easy way to zoom in on a date range.
> A lone post back in November That would be amazing, but that story was Jan 10th. The next one was Jan 21st. Also not the oldest, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22000761 is a day earlier, and refers to a BBC report dated Jan 9th
Unfortunately their API doesn't seem to support the one feature I've wanted from any hackernews API: writing a query that only shows posts that got removed from the front page for being flagged.
That would be a very interesting thing to know, I've noticed that certain topics seem to be considered (by some) to be not appropriate for discussion. It's quite interesting if you think about it, because the ability to notice any trends is affected by the very phenomenon itself .
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That would be a very interesting thing to know, I've noticed that certain topics seem to be considered (by some) to be not appropriate for discussion. It's quite interesting if you think about it, because the ability to notice any trends is affected by the very phenomenon itself .
Right, because certain things are off-topic and metadiscussion on the is also off topic.
Is there a list of these somewhere? If not, then how do people decide what is and is not "on-topic"?
> metadiscussion on the is also off topic
I see meta-discussion (and similar) on HN all the time.
Is this documented somewhere as well?
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> A lone post back in November That would be amazing, but that story was Jan 10th. The next one was Jan 21st. Also not the oldest, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22000761 is a day earlier, and refers to a BBC report dated Jan 9th
I see the problem: I read the date in American format (mm/dd/yyyy) and it's dd/mm/yyyy. That's a very confusing date format, yyyy/mm/dd is better as an international format.
That's yyyy-mm-dd. yyyy/mm/dd is ambiguous because the slash-separator is shared across all conflicting formats. Dashes are pretty much always ISO compliant formats. (Yes, it's a small difference, but it helps)
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Right, because certain things are off-topic and metadiscussion on the is also off topic.
> certain things are off-topic Is there a list of these somewhere? If not, then how do people decide what is and is not "on-topic"? > metadiscussion on the is also off topic I see meta-discussion (and similar) on HN all the time. Is this documented somewhere as well?
Unfortunately their API doesn't seem to support the one feature I've wanted from any hackernews API: writing a query that only shows posts that got removed from the front page for being flagged.
That would be a very interesting thing to know, I've noticed that certain topics seem to be considered (by some) to be not appropriate for discussion. It's quite interesting if you think about it, because the ability to notice any trends is affected by the very phenomenon itself .