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Re: Show HN: Visualize your Hacker News activity

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Post by kinkrtyavimoodh »

jannyfer wrote: post #29

About a year ago, I saw a Hacker News comment by someone claiming to sleep on average 0-2 hours a day. There were 20 replies to that comment but (he) never responded to any questions, and continued posting replies to other threads in the coming days. I pulled all of (his) comments and their post times via the Hacker News API and plotted it, which revealed an interesting lack of posts from midnight-6AM EST across ~150…

Nice job! I am very skeptical of people who claim to not need much sleep.

We know there have been some who really needed much less sleep but they are widely known to be geniuses or hyper-productive (Nikola Tesla, Elon Musk etc.)

Most people who claim to sleep only 2 hours a day or whatever are probably being a little dishonest or are miscounting.

Re: Show HN: Visualize your Hacker News activity

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Post by non-entity »

21stio wrote: post #10
non-entity wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I seem to get the same error for this account as well as one with only a handful of posts

yeah sorry about that, there's quite some traffic right now

No worries I ended up getting it to work for me

Re: Show HN: Visualize your Hacker News activity

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Post by motohagiography »

montenegrohugo wrote: post #28
motohagiography wrote: post #15

Very interesting data set. Appears the average number of people who reply to my comments is 1.03, which suggests a style of writing/thinking can contribute consistent net-growth. Of course I would promote that idea, but really I'd be willing to bet it looks something like a pareto distribution, and it would be interesting to see what puts a user on one side of that curve or the the other. patio11's 1.39 average reply…

Not sure I agree with your conclusions. A high amount of response could just mean a controversial/inflammatory comment or a comment of inquisitive nature that people want to respond to, instead of a high-value comment. I apparently have an avg reply rate of 1.8 and would not say that my comments are somehow better than patios.

Interesting what high-value might be though.

Popular claptrap might not be valuable. Engagement can be value, and a many-to-many thread is typically good, except when it becomes a 1:1 drill down match. I think a sincere controversy is exceptionally valuable because it frames something essential about the topic, at least when it isn't just the iteration of talking points. A bold provocation can also be useful because the quality of the responses may reveal unexamined assumptions.

Better? Meh, but indicative of a certain quality factor, I'd say no doubt.

Re: Show HN: Visualize your Hacker News activity

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Post by choma »

Nice! for my username it shows a single green dot in the center of the chart, the infamous "introverted person" distribution (also known as "insecure commenter" distribution.

EDIT: obviously, this comment broke the "curve". This distribution is known for being unstable.

Re: Show HN: Visualize your Hacker News activity

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Post by sswaner »

Nice work. I tested with user pg and noticed that the Y-axis on submissions starts at 31/12/1969 and the comments starts prior to 04/09/1982, compressing the actual data into the right of the graph.

Second, the username on your app is case sensitive, not sure if it is on HN (haven't tested).

Other than these, nice work.

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